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Christoph Bucher

Dusseldorf/CH | Website

The Swiss artist studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Alfonso Hüppi and Helmut Federle. Transparency, layering and compression appear again and again in his work. After years of monochrome, he has returned to color.

Biography

1973 born in Lucern (CH), Christoph Bucher lives and works in Dusseldorf (GER) since 1995, where he studied at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf under Alfonso Hüppi and Helmut Federle. He was Meisterschüler of Alfonso Hüppi and he received his Akademiebrief under Helmut Federle.

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solo shows (selection since 2011)

group shows (selection since 2011)

Exhibitions

Past
  • goes
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2017

14.06.2017 – 16.06.2017

The second collaboration between the Weltraum (Basel/CH) and the ESSZIMMER during the ART Basel.

Past
  • goes
  • Adam Knight (London/UK)
  • Alfredo Ramoz Fernandez (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Anne Hody (Basel/CH)
  • Camenisch / Vetsch (Basel/CH)
  • Christine de la Garenne (Berlin/GER)
  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)
  • Christoph Dahlhausen (Bonn/DE + Melbourne/AUS)
  • Copa & Sordes (Basel/CH)
  • Doris Schmid (Berlin/GER)
  • Dorothee von Rechenberg (Basel/CH)
  • Eric Cruikshank (Edinburgh/UK)
  • Felix Baudenbacher (London/UK)
  • Ingrid Roscheck (Cologne/DE)
  • Katarzyna Badach (Berlin/GER + Havanna/CUB)
  • Magdalena Gerber (Geneva/CH)
  • Maria Magdalena Z`Graggen (Basel/CH)
  • Marianne Eigenheer (Basel/CH + London/UK)
  • Marianne Halter (Zurich/CH)
  • Monika Rechsteiner (Basel/CH + Berlin/GER)
  • Petra Egg (Vienna/AT)
  • Rainer Barzen (Cologne / GER)
  • Selma Weber (Basel/CH)
  • Sibylle Feucht (Bonn/GER)
  • stöckerselig (Basel/CH)
  • Celina Jure (Buenos Aires/ARG)

DAS ESSZIMMER goes Weltraum – during Art Basel 2016

15.06.2016 – 17.06.2016

Gesamtkunstwerk of 49 artist’s opens up the discussion on authorship and genius.

Past
Eine an der Wand hängende Holdplate, die mit roter und blauer Farbe bemalt ist. Das Werk hat eine Art geometrische Struktur.
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  • Christoph Bucher (Dusseldorf/CH)

Wann ist genug genug? (engl.: When is enough enough?)

04.11.2017 – 22.12.2017

For Christoph Bucher (Düsseldorf), the classic wooden painting underground in the form of untreated plywood panels is not just an image carrier, but becomes part of the image object built up in layers with watercolors.