Buchmann Galerie

About the Gallery
The Buchmann Galerie is a contemporary art gallery with a focus on painting, sculpture, drawing and photography. Representing international mid-career and established artists creates a context for the gallery programme and an own specificity of the exhibitions in collaboration with the artists.

Founded in Switzerland in 1975, the gallery opened in Germany in 1995; since 2005, the gallery has had two adjacent exhibition spaces located in Berlin.

Being an active part of the Berlin art community, Buchmann Galerie has been among the galleries inviting for the Gallery Weekend Berlin since 2007 and in recent years placed many of the gallery artists in exhibitions and projects at art institutions in Berlin and abroad.

Several of the gallery’s artists have been recognized with prestigious international art prizes; such as, the Turner Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, which has been awarded to three of the gallery’s artists.

Offering a broad range of artists, the Buchmann Galerie has many years’ experience in realizing first-class commissioned projects including large scale sculptures with its artists in public spaces and in the context of interior and corporate spaces, conducting the projects from conception to completion.

About the Presentation
Bettina Pousttchi will make her New York debut in a solo presentation with Buchmann Galerie, a first-time exhibitor at Independent. Pousttchi examines photography, sculpture, and architecture through the lens of urban space and collective memory. In Pousttchi’s recent works on canvas, titled Horizons, she continues her conceptual exploration of an expanded notion of photography, combining photographic processes with painterly techniques on monochrome, screen-printed canvases. The works draw on her landmark installation Echo Berlin, translating weathered details of this work into layered images that register time and memory. Complementing the canvases are new glazed ceramic sculptures and works from her Vertical Highways series, which transform guardrails into vertical sculptural forms, reconfiguring familiar objects into markers of change and abstraction.