USTER.- Andrea Büttner presents her new exhibition Andrea Büttner Works, which explores the many facets and social meanings of labour from different perspectives. A central motif in her work, Büttner frequently situates labour in art historical and socio-political contexts.


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The exhibition title Andrea Büttner Works can be read on different levels: everyday work, artistic practice and the concept of work, which has been scrutinised in particular by Western conceptual artists, such as Walter De Maria. The works selected for Büttner’s exhibition address all of these facets. They deal with the visibility and invisibility of labour, social hierarchies and the connection between art production and economic conditions.

Visitors can expect an impressive compilation of new and existing works by the artist. Thematically, the works range from depictions of physical labour and questions of precarity and value creation to reflections on manual and artistic activities.

Andrea Büttner has been exploring themes such as labour, poverty, shame and community since the early 2000s. In doing so, she examines the deep social imprints created by religious and secular belief systems.

The exhibition is curated by Maja Wismer, Head of Art after 1960 / Contemporary Art at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

The entrepreneur Walter A. Bechtler (1905-1994) established his eponymous foundation in 1955. Throughout his life, he had a profound interest in contemporary art: a collector himself, he was also active in various bodies of the Kunsthaus Zürich. Among other things, he set up the Alberto Giacometti Foundation with his brother Hans Bechtler. It houses the world's largest collection of Alberto Giacometti's works.

Promoting art in public spaces was a special interest of his, including the exhibition of works of international importance. In the name of his foundation, Bechtler donated one of the first works it had acquired - a sculpture by Henry Moore - to the municipality of Zollikon, where he had spent most of his life.

As its president and as a member of its board of trustees respectively, Ruedi Bechtler and Thomas Bechtler continued to develop the foundation after Walter A. Bechtler's death. Various museums now also have some of the larger and more complex of the foundation's works in their collections as long-term loans. Today, the foundation collaborates closely with a range of museums, including the Kunsthaus Zürich, the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Aargauer Kunsthaus and the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. Works from the foundation's collection are also accessible to the public on the Zellweger Park estate in Uster, and around the Hotel Castell - of which Ruedi Bechtler is the owner - in the Engadin valley.


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