Pavel Büchler

Pavel Büchler is an artist, lecturer and writer. Summarizing his art as ‘making nothing happen’, Büchler is a master of the unexpected, considering art as a catalyst to reveal the everyday and the obvious as ultimately bizarre. His works are often subtle interventions exposing surprising perspectives through absence and disappearance, rather than presence, and playing on the dialectic between visible and invisible. His research preoccupations include theories of photography and film, creative use of obsolete technologies, and experimental pedagogies in art education.
His works often reference modern art, literature and critical thought. These references are never direct quotations, nor does the work rely solely on them. As observations on the conditions of culture and its inevitable dependence on the possibilities opened up by history, they try to offer new starting points from which imagination may proceed towards uncertain destinations. By manipulating the most disparate sources and media - literature, found objects, audio recordings, photographs etc. – Büchler seems to come down to a simple question: ‘How can I reconfigure this work so that it works right here and right now, in our world?’.

Pavel Büchler (b. Prague, 1952) lives and works in Manchester. He is the winner of the 2009 Northern Art Prize. Last year he had solo shows at Max Wigram Gallery, Tanya Leighton (Berlin) and annex14 (Bern). Forthcoming projects include a large retrospective at DOX in Prague (2010) and solo exhibitions at Kunstparterre (Munich, Germany) and across Bruges (Belgium); he also showed in ’The Human Stain’ at Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2008 he participated in Frieze Projects, curated by Neville Wakefield. He also had solo shows at Sleeper (Edinburgh) and Max Wigram Gallery. Previous solo shows include Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2007), Kunsthalle Bern (2006) and objectif_exhibitions/ MuHKA, Antwerp (2007).

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