Taking as its starting point a new site-specific installation being developed by Michael Beutler for his exhibition at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, this publication is an up-to-date compilation of recent works by the artist. His drawings and models are also presented here for the first time, providing us with a more detailed sense of the complex process by which his works come into being. Taking a perspective derived from New Materialism, the texts focus on the way materiality manifests in Beutler’s work, informing a conceptual approach that links together themes like sustainability, utopian models of life and work, improvisation, and random chance.
Michael Beutler (born in 1976 in Oldenburg) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and at the Glasgow School of Art. Since 2019 he has been a professor at the HfBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg. His works have been presented in numerous international exhibitions and biennials (including the 2017 Venice Biennale), as well as in a solo show at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, in 2015.
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Stardust, Michael Beutler
Stardust, Michael Beutler
Astrid Ihle/René Zechlin
152 pp.
numerous black and white and color illustrations
open thread-sewn brochure with glued-on dust jacket
perforated folded sheets
Leipzig February, 2024
ISBN: 9783959054676
Width: 23 cm
Length: 33 cm
Language(s): English, German
Editor
Astrid Ihle, René Zechlin
Text
Susanne Witzgall, Matthew van der Ploeg, Verena Kuni
Publisher
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum