source: tanyaleighton
Pavel Büchler is a Czech-born, UK-based artist, influential teacher and occasional writer. Büchler belongs to a generation of artists directly influenced by the discoveries of 1970s conceptual art – or, as he insists, by the creative misunderstandings that conceptual art suffered in translation to the Eastern European cultural and political context. Summing up his own practice as “making nothing happen”, he is committed to the catalytic nature of art – its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange.
He is the winner of the 2009 Northern Art Prize.
Recent solo exhibitions include Max Wigram, London (2010), Kunstparterre, Munich (2010), DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2010), annex14, Bern, Switzerland (2009), Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow (2009), ‘L’imitation’, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2009), Max Wigram, London (2009), Stephane Simoens, Knokke, Belgium (2009), Sleeper, Edinburgh (2008), annex14, Bern (2007), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2007), objectif_exhibitions/MuHKA, Antwerp, (2007), Kunsthalle Bern (2006), Goethe Institut, Dublin (2006).
He has recently participated in ‘After Silence’ (curated by Pedro Porellano), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2011), ‘Image to be projected until it vanishes’ (curated by Mihnea Mircan), Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2011), ‘Luc Tuymans: A Vision of Central Europe; The Reality of the Lowest Rank’ (curated by Luc Tuymans), Aurentshuis, Bruges (2010), ‘Under Destruction’ (curated by Gianni Jetzer), Tinguely Museum, Basel (2010), ‘No New Thing Under the Sun’, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010), ‘The History of Art, The Curator’s Series 3’ (curated by Mihnea Mircan), David Roberts Foundation, London (2010), ‘Modern Dialect’ (curated by Wim van den Abbeele), Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen (2010), ‘FischGrätenMelkStand’ (curated by John Bock), Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010), ‘Distance and Sensibility’ (curated by David Thorp), Calvert 22, London (2010), ‘The Art of Design’ (curated by Tereza Kotyk), Freiraum / Museumsquartier, Vienna (2010), ‘The Way We Do Art Now’ (selected by Pavel Büchler), Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (2010), Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2009), ‘The Black Page’, Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, United Kingdom (2009), ‘The Human Stain’ (curated by Ellen Blumenstein), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (catalogue), ‘Afterwards’ (curated by Sharon Kivland), Mean Gallery, Coventy, United Kingdom (2009), Frieze projects (new commission, 2008), ‘Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?’ (co-curated with Charles Esche, Rooseum, Malmö, 2005), ‘Off-Key’, Kunsthalle Bern (2005), the 9th Istanbul Biennial (2005), ‘The Grand Promenade’, National Museum of Modern Art, Athens (2006), ‘Involved’, Shangart Gallery, Shanghai (2008), and other group exhibitions in the UK and Europe.
A new monograph on his work, ‘Absentmindedwindowgazing’, was published in Summer 2007 (Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam).
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source: ikon-galleryorg

Pavel Büchler is a Czech-born, UK-based artist, influential teacher and occasional writer. Büchler belongs to a generation of artists directly influenced by the discoveries of 1970s conceptual art – or, as he insists, by the creative misunderstandings that conceptual art suffered in translation to the Eastern European cultural and political context. Summing up his own practice as “making nothing happen”, he is committed to the catalytic nature of art – its potential to draw attention to the obvious and revealing it as ultimately strange.

Awarded the Northern Art Prize 2009 and The Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists 2012, Büchler has recently exhibited at, among others, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (2014); Broad Art Museum, Michigan (2014); Power Plant, Toronto (2013); The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2012); Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (2012); Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (2011); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneve (2011); Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (2011); Museion, Bolzano (2011); DOX, Prague (2010), Tinguely Museum, Basel (2010); and MuHKA, Antwerp (2010).