Daniele Buetti

 

The Swiss artist Daniele Buetti explores fashion world, media codes, and our society’s obsession with beauty through a range of different media including photography, light-box installation, performance, and sculpture.

After working for fashion editorials during the 90s, Buetti turned to fine arts. In his best-known series Looking for Love (1997-2000), Buetti modifies pictures of supermodels found in magazines or on the Internet by drawing brand symbols and ornaments just like scars or tattoos on the printed skin. Suddenly, the illusion we have of perfect beauty breaks down. More recently, Buetti’s work emphasizes on the obsession for fame as well as the relationship with the celebrity world, for example when he replaces famous people’s faces with mirrors to allow viewers to confront with their self-image.

Daniele Buetti is one of the most important artists in recent years to explore the topic of lifestyle and media codes. The artist, born in 1955 in Switzerland, has become known to a wider audience through his working-over of fashion advertisements, the re-formulation of beauty embodied by supermodels such as Claudia and Naomi, Giselle and Kate: he brutally scrawled "Never enough of you" onto the models' bodies, bringing the phantasmatic effect of mass communications precisely to a point. In other works the models are branded with Nike logos-the trademarks of the products they advertise-which become tumor-like growths on their skin.

Due to such forceful subjects, Buetti has been called the "new king of pop"-a designation much too shallow in the light of Buetti´s extensive oeuvre of the last ten years, in which he explores the topic of our product- and consumer-crazy society in a much larger context.
 

EXHIBITIONS

2016 Medicine in Art, MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow, 04.22. - 10/02/2016 cat.

          Allure, C/O Berlin, Berlin, 28.05 - 04.09.2016 cat.

          Press Art, MASILugano, Museo d'Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 05.28. - 08.14.2016 cat.

          Mapping the Body, Gallery im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, 06/11/2016 - 08.28.2016 cat.

 

2015 The Remarkable Lightness of Being, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Bruxelles,

          Myth Beauty, Schlossmuseum Linz, 05.06. - 11.29.2015 cat.

          Photography: International, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart, 11/24/2014 - 31.10.2015

          AAA, Art in public space, Zurich, 06/13 - 09/13/2015 cat.

          Pas de Deux, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna, 06/11 - 08.27.2015

          Condensed Times and Imploding Worlds Curated by Vienna, Galerie Hilger, 09/11/17/10/2015 cat.

          Society 4.0 Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, 11/22/2015 to 03/20/2016 cat.

          Gallery FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin (solo)

          Gallery Hilger Next, Vienna (solo)

          Tableau Zurich - No. 4 (solo)

          Gallery FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin (solo)

          Gallery Hilger Next, Vienna (solo)

          Tableau Zurich - No. 4 (solo)

          Gallery FeldbuschWiesner, Berlin (solo)

          Gallery Hilger Next, Vienna (solo)

          Tableau Zurich - No. 4 (solo)

 

2014 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

          Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

          Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

          Underground, Schoenenbourg Fortress, La Ligne Maginot, Alsace, May-October 2014 cat.

          Full House, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Bruxelles

          Photography: International, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart,

 

2013 Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, GASK Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

          NOVECENTO MAI VISTO - Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection from Albers to Warhol to (now), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy

          Razting Sharp - The Tattoo in Art, MUSEUM VILLA RED, Burgrieden - Red, Germany

          From head to toe. Human Images in the Focus of the Würth Collection, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

          c ́est la vie - The whole life - Man in painting and photography, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany

          ON 'ALIENATION/ ESTRANGEMENT,'Proje 4L | Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey

          Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, GASK Kutná Hora, Czech Republic

          NOVECENTO MAI VISTO - Highlights from the Daimler Art Collection from Albers to Warhol to (now), Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy

          Razting Sharp - The Tattoo in Art, MUSEUM VILLA RED, Burgrieden - Red, Germany

          From head to toe. Human Images in the Focus of the Würth Collection, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

          c ́est la vie - The whole life - Man in painting and photography, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany

          ON 'ALIENATION/ ESTRANGEMENT,'Proje 4L | Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey

          Oh Boy Oh Boy, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)

 

2012 Take My Soul, EXPRMNTL Gallery, Toulouse, France

          Oh boy! Oh Boy!, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

          Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

          Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

          Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (solo)

          Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt (solo)

 

2010 Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

          Press Art, Museum der Moderne (MdM), Salzburg, Austria

 

2009 Mythologies, Haunch of Venison at the Royal Academy, London, UK, cat.

          Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

          Beautiful. Beauty cult in contemporary art, Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe, Germany

          Hey! Mom! Mom!, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

          Globalized- Perspectives on Consumer Society, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

          7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

          PRINTED MATTER; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

          Swiss Made, Gallery Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany (group)

          Chinese, Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland

 

2008 Hannover Goes Fashion, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (group)

          In the photographic image - The Columns, Seoul (group)

          Biennale di Alessandria - Shapes of Time - Biennale di Alessandria, Alessandria

          ALLES - Columbus Art Foundation, Ravensburg, Germany (group)

          Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art, New York (solo)

          Snowflakes over Burning House, Haunch of Venison, Zurich (solo)

          The Columns, Center for Contemporary & Performative Arts, Seoul, Korea, cat. (solo)

          SI Swiss Institute, New York, cat. (solo)

          tell me - Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam (group)

          Radical Advertising, NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany

          Dressing the message, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany

          Replay, House of Art Uri, Switzerland

          Balls & Brains, Helmhaus Zurich, Switzerland

          Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany, cat. (solo)

          Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, cat. (solo)

          Speaking of physical attributes, Swiss Institute New York

          Sprengelmuseum, Hannover

 

2007 Wolfsberg Art Forum, Wolfsberg, Switzerland (solo)

          Gallery of the city of Wels, Austria (solo)

          Collection, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland

          Faccia a Faccia, FORMA, International Photography Center, Milano, Italy, cat.

          Blue Chips, Gallery ClaireFontaine, Luxembourg

          On the edge of language, Centre Dürrenmatt, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, cat.

          Arte and Omosessuality, Palazzo della Ragione, Milano, Italy

          CeSAC, Center for Contemporary Art of Caraglio, Piedmont, Italy

          Acceleration, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

          Private Corporate IV - Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (group)

          Gallery Bernhard Knaus, Frankfurt, Germany

          Flashback. The photo collection of the Neue Galerie Graz (group)

          Existencias, MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Leon, Spain

          Photographies - Gallery Sandrine Mons, Nice, France (group)

          Art Protects - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris (group)

          Selection 2007 - Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul (group)

          Da Bauhaus (Agora!) - Museum of Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo (group)

          The presence producers, Columbus Art Foundation, Kunsthalle Ravensburg, Germany

 

2006 Sweet Ecstasy, Nicola von Senger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

          Birthdayparty - 20 years gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria

          Body, face and soul, women's pictures from 16th - 21st Century, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

          What does art do, Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland

          Artists for Tichy - Tichy for Artists, Museum Modern Art, Passau, Germany

          Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, cat.

          Read Me, Gallery Martin Krebs, Bern, Switzerland

          Designing Truth, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, cat.

          Blessed are the Merciful, Feigen Contemporary, New York

          For all publics, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, cat.

          Branding, Kunstmuseum Biel, Switzerland, cat.

          Paradise now, Instituto Svizzero, Rome, cat.

          Conversations = Hadith, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut, Lebanon

          The oggetto, Miti and metamorfosi at the 1900-2005 Femminile, Cavallerizza del Castello, Vigevano

          The 7 capita péchés, Biennial of Nancy, France, cat.

          Gallery Ernst Hilger, Vienna (solo)

          Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney (solo)

          Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels (solo)

          Conversation with Art, on Art. DaimlerChrysler Collection, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo

          Tell about the horse, Kunsthalle Göppingen, cat.

          La Bellezza, Museo della Permanente, Milan, cat.

          Lifestyle, Art Museum St. Gallen, Switzerland cat.

 

2005 Les grands spectacles, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, cat.

          The dream of the me, the dream of the world, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland

          Just do it! Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria, cat.

          Coolhunters, ZKM, Museum of New Art, Karlsruhe

          Emergencies, MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y Leòn, Spain, cat.

          Between door and fishing rod, Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster, cat.

          Gallery Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (solo)

          Gallery Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)

          Art space, Innsbruck (solo)

          Galeria Distrito 4, Madrid (solo)

          Boost in the Shell, Cultuurcentrum, Bruges

          Light, space of thought and staging, Gallery of the City of Remscheid, Germany, cat.

          Swissmade, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria

          Round leather worlds, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, cat.

          Heros à jamais, Centre d'Art, Bienne, Switzerland, cat.

          Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Melbourne, with Geoff Kleem

          Baroque and Neobaroque, Contemporary Art Center, Salamanca, cat.

 

2004 FRAC, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, cat. (solo)

          Museum Henie Onstad, Hovikodden, Oslo, cat. (solo)

          EACC, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, cat. (solo)

          Gallery arsFutura, Zurich (solo)

          Espai Lucas, Valencia (solo)

          Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz (solo)

          Comment rester Zen, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (group)

          Kunstmuseum Baselland, Basel (group)

          Antico Monastero delle Agostiniane, Bellinzona (group)

          SPAM - Art and Advertising, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, cat. (group)

          Brilliant(s), Art Merano, Merano, cat. (group)

          Against the grain, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, cat. (group)

          The Laboratory, Gallery im Kornhauskeller, Ulm, cat. (group)

          I don't think of the disparition of the portrait, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

          Flirts, Art and Advertising, Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy, cat.

          I feel good, Antico Monastero delle Agostiniane, Bellinzona, Switzerland

          OK America!, Apex Art Gallery, New York, United States of America

          About Face, Photography and the Death of the Portrait, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, cat.

          Dress codes, Kunstverein Neuhausen, Germany

          Pretty World, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium

          Twinkle, twinkle, Gallery Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

          On the Edge, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA

          The DaimlerChrysler Art Collection, Pretoria Art Museum, South Africa

          Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, with Elizabeth Day

 

2003 Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal

          Isabel, Madrid, Spain / Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA, cat.

          Cold Play Set 1, Fotomuseum Winterthur (group)

          The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum of New Art, Karlsruhe (group)

          Comment rester Zen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (group)

          Bellissima, Gallery of the University of Fine Arts, Leipzig (group)

          Fuckin' Trendy, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, cat. (group)

          Contemporary photo art from Switzerland, Sala de Exposiciones del Canal de Isabel, Madrid / Grey Art Gallery, New York, cat. (group)

          Shopping, Passersby Foundation, Tilburg (group)

          Draft, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, cat. (group)

          Talking Pieces, Municipal Museum Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, cat. (group)

          Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br., cat. (solo)

          Helmhaus, Zurich, cat. (solo)

          Gallery Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim (solo)

 

2002 Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, cat. (solo)

          Gallery Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany, cat. (solo)

          Gallery Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany, cat. (solo)

          the day after, Gallery Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam, Netherlands

          Contemporary photo art from Switzerland, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin / Hallescher Kunstverein, Halle / Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany

          Fe-Male, Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Bellinzona, Switzerland

          Wild Thing, Gallery Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg, Belgium

          Icons - Art and cult, Coninx Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

          reModel, Jay Villa's condo, Arizona State University Art Museum, Scottsdale, USA

          Smax, Villa de Bank, Enschede, Netherlands, cat.

          Self/In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto (Guareno), Turin, Italy

          Art Unlimited, Art Basel (Galerie arsFutura, Zurich), Basel, Switzerland

          Skin talks, Musée de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada

 

2001 Project Room at Espai Lucas, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

          Close Up, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany, cat.

          F 2001, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, cat.

          Art Prize of Böttcherstrasse, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, cat.

          24th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, cat.

          Tempo, KISS - Art in Untergröningen Castle, Germany, cat.

          The Autonomous Poster, Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland, cat.

          Pay attention Please, Museo di Arte Moderna, Nuoro, Italy, cat.

          Long live sport, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, Switzerland

          Flesh & Blood, Witte Zaal, Ghent, Belgium

          Face Off, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium

          Missing Link, Kunst Haus, Dresden, Germany, cat.

          Gallery arsFutura, Zurich (solo)

          B & D Studio di Arte Contemporanea, Mailand (solo)

          Galeria Ad Hoc, Vigo (solo)

 

2000 Happiness, Gallery Helga de Alvear Madrid

          Festival Observation, Valencia

          The collection, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Zurich

          Bodies, envelopes, surfaces, Museum of Art and Commerce Hamburg

          Cross Female, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin

          The Siècle du Corps, Musée de l'Elysé, Lausanne

          Reality Bytes - the mediated view, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg

          EX25, Museum of Design Zurich

          Behind the Look, Portfolio Art Vienna, Vienna

          A person with qualities, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen

          Close Up, Kunstverein Freiburg and Kunsthaus Baselland

 

1999 The Body of Desire, Centro de Belem Lisbon

          Palazzo delle Papesse Siena

          Percezione 3000, B&D Studio Milan

          BAD BAD - That's a good excuse, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden

          Disidentico-Meshile femminile and other, Museo di Castelnuovo, Naples

          Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain

          How can drops of water know themselves as a river?, B&D Studio Milan

          National Museum of Reina Art Sofia Madrid

          Will I ask for help, arsFutura Galerie Zurich

          Gallery arsFutura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

          Galleria B&D, Studio di Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy (solo)

          Museum Academy, Berlin, Germany (solo)

 

1998 Kunstverein Ulm, Germany, cat. (solo)

          Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (solo)

          Gallery Damasquine, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

          Swiss Contemporary Art, Sung-Gok Art Museum Seoul

          Nonchalance, Academy of Art Berlin

          Fétisches & Fétischismes, Passage de Retz Paris, Paris, Framce

          Gallery Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (solo)

 

1997 Disaster and Recovery, Swiss Institute New York

          Recto-Verso, Damasquine Bruxelles

          ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)

          Centre d'Art Contemporain, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (solo)

          Espai Lucas, Valencia, Spain, cat. (solo)

          Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)

          Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (solo)

          Gallery Bartok 32, Budapest, Hungary (solo)

 

1996 Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, cat. (solo)

          Museum Academy, Berlin, Germany, cat. (solo)

          Gallery arsFutura, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)

          Gallery Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany (solo)

 

1995 Gallery Ultimate Academy, Cologne, Germany (solo)

 

1994 Quotex, production of contemporary art, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)

          Kleines Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland, cat. (solo)

          Gallery Weber, Münster, Germany (solo)

 

1992 Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, cat. (solo)

 

1990 Gallery Harbord & Wiensowski, Berlin, Germany, cat. (solo)