About the work

This drawing is from 2013. It is a sketch of a detail of the roof of a micro house, built in a bell tower in Frankfurt that people can stay in for free. (A public art commission for Weißfrauenkirche in the Bahnhofsviertel).

Date and country of birth

1972, DE>

About the artist

Andrea Büttner (b.1972, Stuttgart) lives and works in London and Berlin. Graduated from Royal College of Art, London (2010); Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin (2003); and Meisterschülerin, Berlin (2000). Awards include the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in Collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010); and the British Institution Award, London (2005). Select solo exhibitions include Shepherds and Kings, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2018); Andrea Büttner «Gesamtzusammenhang», Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2017); Andrea Büttner, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2016); Beggars and IPhones, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Andrea Büttner. 2, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2014); and Andrea Büttner – Little Sisters: Lunapark Ostia, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). Select group exhibitions include REFLECTION about – about REFLECTION, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz (2018); La Vie simple — Simplement la vie, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles (2017); Life of Forms, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2016); British Art Show 8, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2016); THE PROBLEM OF GOD, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2015); Before Normal: Concept after Concept, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (2014). Her works are held in public and private collections including Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Tate, London; and The Museum of Modern Art; New York.