Christoph Büchel

Swiss | 1950

Christoph Büchel is a Swiss Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1950. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art have featured Christoph Büchel's work in the past.Christoph Büchel's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 221 USD to 8,781 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 8,781 USD for Made in Afghanistan, sold at Christie's Geneva in 2010. Christoph Büchel has been featured in articles for ARTnews, Artist Profile and New York Magazine. The most recent article is Christoph Büchel: Fear and Loathing in Venice written for Art Review in April 2024.

Voting Booth, 2007

Aluminum, plastic, paper, and electrical fittings.

60 x 24 x 21 in.(152.4 x 61 x 53.3 cm) open; 4 x 24 x 21 in. (10.2 x 61 x 53.3 cm) closed.

AC-130 GUNSHIP TARGETING VIDEO (AFGHANISTAN 12/6/2002) - Christoph Büchel

AC-130 GUNSHIP TARGETING VIDEO (AFGHANISTAN 12/6/2002), 2004

DVD

duration: 9 min 46 sec

Voting Booth, 2007

Aluminum, plastic, paper and electrical fittings

Open 60 x 24 x 21 in.; Closed 4 x 24 x 21 in.

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America We Stand As One

By Christoph Büchel

Phillips New York

AC-130 GUNSHIP TARGETING VIDEO (AFGHANISTAN 12/6/2002)

By Christoph Büchel

-94%

below mid-estimate

Sotheby's London

Voting Booth

By Christoph Büchel

-50%

below mid-estimate

Phillips New York, Chelsea

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Current Exhibitions

Christoph Buchel: Monte Di Pieta

Fondazione Prada, Venice

Venice | Italy

Apr 20,2024 - Nov 24,2024

Past Exhibitions

Church for Sale: Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum of Contemporary Art

Berlin | Germany

Nov 28,2021 - Sep 18,2022

Out of Joint. Moments of Disruption: Chapter 2

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

Zürich | Switzerland

May 21,2022 - Sep 11,2022

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Articles

Four of the Very Best Exhibitions to See at the Venice Biennale 2024

AnOther 29/04/2024

From John Akomfrah’s hypnotic British Pavilion to an exhibition by Christoph Büchel at the Fondazione Prada, here are four shows not to miss at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale.

The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward

ArtDaily 26/04/2024

There is a sour tendency in cultural politics today — a growing gap between speaking about the world and acting in it.

Top 5 Exhibitions to See During The Venice Biennale.

FAD Magazine 25/04/2024

As the Art World flocks to see the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale, cultural institutions around town put their best show forward. Here are my Top 5 exhibitions to see in Venice right now.

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Coverage

“ ..Büchel focuses on elaborately realistic detail in order to create psychologically unsettling environments which are often explicit political commentaries or investigations into an era mediated war... ”
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Tramway

“ ..The artist, who is known for his intricate drawings of riots, protests and social upheavals, refers to the subject of his work as instances of people for whom the experience of a failure of language subsequently... ”
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Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul

Christoph Büchel

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