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...The controversy-seeking Christoph Büchel quickly got on the wrong side of the local indigenous peoples with his DNA-testing kit for Aboriginality....
...On Monday it arrived in Venice’s commercial port, crossed the Giudecca canal and entered the former Arsenale shipyard to become an art installation: Christoph Büchel’s project “Barca Nostra”, silent, ghostly...
...The London exhibition coincides with the showing of a fishing boat on which hundreds of migrants died in 2015, brought to this year’s Venice Biennale by the Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel as “Barca...
...Here, alongside peers such as Theaster Gates, Mark Bradford and Christoph Büchel, Eliasson is forging a new model of the artist-activist as a potent global force....
...He stands fascinatingly between today’s postmodern deadly serious jokers — Paul McCarthy, Christoph Büchel — whose extravagant installations collapsing fictional/real boundaries Hauser & Wirth also promotes...
...He divided it into two halves — one red, one green, inspired by Freud’s house in Vienna, and representing the conscious and unconscious — and included Christoph Büchel’s “Sleeping Guard” (2009), a real person...
...For Iceland, Christoph Büchel transforms the disused church Santa Maria della Misericordia into a simulated yet actual environment, “The Mosque” — Venice has never had one — welcomed by the city’s Muslim...
...Büchel (€80,000)....
...Buchel, Phyllida Barlow, Isa Genzken, among others – helped by the erudite imprimatur of Schimmel....
...But even then things can go horribly wrong: one extreme case was the open warfare between Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in the US and the Swiss artist Christoph Büchel in 2007....
...Among them all, though, perhaps the most intriguing was that of Swiss artist Christoph Buchel, who has turned Hauser & Wirth’s elegant Piccadilly gallery (formerly a bank with an unscathed turn-of-the-last-century...
...Its low profile is partly due to the preponderance of monumental installations, the most spectacular of which is probably Christoph Büchel’s 450-square metre “Unplugged (Simply Botifol)” (2006-07)....
...Add to that spaces in New York and Zurich and a stellar roster that includes Paul McCarthy, Christoph Büchel, Martin Creed and some lucrative estates....
...H&W will use the 12,500 sq ft space for larger shows, much as it did in Coppermill, the Shoreditch building where it exhibited Christoph Büchel and Martin Creed....
...He then expanded into Shoreditch in the east end of London with a project space, Coppermill, which hosted keynote shows by Paul McCarthy, Martin Creed and Christoph Büchel; he moved out of Coppermill in...
...Swiss artist Christoph Büchel went even further with his latest piece, Home, on show at the recent Art Basel fair....
...The museum spent much of 2007 in legal battles with the Swiss artist Christoph Büchel, who abandoned his plan for a found-object installation, leaving the mega-gallery crammed with a smashed police car,...
...Earlier this year, the German artist Christoph Büchel tore up chunks of the concrete floor at Hauser & Wirth’s industrial East End gallery....
...“The Guantanamo Initiative”, co-created with artist Christoph Buchel, is a record of an attempt to provide the Cuban government with alternative tenants (Motti and Buchel) for the Guantanamo Bay area....
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