Name: |
Ove Büttner |
Born: |
21 February 1959 in Tallinn, Estonia |
Residence: |
Tallinn, Estonia |
EDUCATION |
1983-1989 |
Estonian State Art Institute; specialised in panel painting |
EMPLOYMENT |
Since 1989 |
a freelance artist |
1981-1983 |
a restorer of paintings at the Art Museum of Estonia |
AFFILIATION WITH ARTISTS ORGANISATIONS |
Member of the Estonian Artists Association since 1990 |
Vice-chairman of the International Association of Art / Association Internationale des Arts Plastiques (IAA/AIAP) Estonian Committee from 1994 up to 1997 |
SELECTED EXHIBITS |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
2007 |
Viimsi St James James Chruch, Viimsi commune, Estonia |
2007 |
"Life is a Halo" in the Gallery of the Castellans House, Tallinn, Estonia |
2005 |
Art & Design Gallery at Viru Centre, Tallinn, Estonia |
2005 |
Foyer Gallery of the National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia |
2005 |
Gallery of the Castellan's House, Tallinn, Estonia |
1998 |
"Red and green" in the Sammas Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
1997 |
"Parnassus and Calvary" in the Sammas Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
1997 |
"Pointillism" in Anton Hansen Tammsaare Memorial Museum, Tallinn, Estonia |
1995 |
Participation in an international art fair in Sundsvall, Sweden |
1994 |
Sigtuna Stiftelsen, Sweden |
1994 |
St Olaf's Hall of the Brotherhood of Blackheads House in Tallinn, Estonia |
1993 |
Brinkkala Art Gallery of Turku Cultural Centre, Finland |
1993 |
"Time tunnel" in Tallinn Town Prison Museum, Estonia |
1992 |
Kristina Konferens Hotel in Sigtuna, Sweden |
1991 |
Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Estonia |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
2008 |
"Awakening" in the Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia |
2008 |
"Enter/Inter" in Tartu Public Library, Estonia |
2008 |
"Tondo" in Art-Depoo Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia |
2008 |
"Crossing Borders" in Narva Art Museum, Estonia |
2007 |
"It Speaks to me... It Does not Speak to me" in Jôhvi, Estonia |
2007 |
"Insipid Paintings" in Haapsalu Town Gallery and Evald Okas Museum, Estonia |
2007 |
"The Zoo" in Tartu Public Library, Estonia |
2007 |
"The Zoo" in the National Library of Estonia |
2006 |
"Deepness and Space" in the Gallery of Viinistu Art Museum, Estonia |
2006 |
"Grandfathers" in Viljandi Town Gallery, Estonia |
2006 |
Pärnu Art Summer, Estonia |
2006 |
"Free Willy", an annual exhibition of Estonian Painters Association, in Vaal Gallery, Estonia |
2006 |
"Beautiful People" in Aaspere manor house, Estonia |
2006 |
"Beautiful Paintings" in Aaspere manor house, Estonia |
2006 |
"Grandfathers" in Tartu Public Library, Estonia |
2006 |
"Grandfathers" in the Foyer Gallery of the National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia |
2005 |
"Self-portrait", an annual exhibition of Estonian Painters Association, in Tartu Art Hall, Estonia |
2004 |
"Ich bin ein Maler", an annual exhibition of Estonian Painters Association, in Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia |
1997 |
Exhibition of Estonian art in Toronto, Canada |
1997 |
Workshop "Ullappa" in Turku, Finland |
1997 |
Exhibition of Estonian art in Varkaus Art Museum, Finland |
1995 |
Exhibition of Estonian art in Krefeld, Germany |
1994 |
Annual Prize exhibition in Tallinn, Estonia |
1993 |
Estonian-Finnish joint project "Contrasts" in Tallinn, Estonia |
1992 |
"Mytological and allegorical", an exhibition of paintings, in Tallinn, Estonia |
1990 |
All-Estonian autumn exhibition in Tallinn, Estonia |
1989 |
All-Estonian spring exhibition in Tallinn, Estonia |
1988 |
Exhibition of the Group T |
1988 |
Exhibition of young Soviet artists in Manege, Moscow, Russia |
1988 |
Baltic Art Triennial in Vilnius, Lithuania |
1988 |
All-Estonian autumn exhibition |
1988 |
All-Estonian spring exhibition |
1987 |
All-Estonian autumn exhibition |
GRANTS |
1992 |
Privatbrauerei DR. F. G. Hoepfner GmbH &Co, KG's grant related to the European Days of Culture, focusing on Estonia, at Karlsruhe, Germany |
1992 |
A grant of the Estonian-Finnish Viro-Säätiö Fellowship |
SOLO RESTORATION PROJECT |
1992 |
Oil frescos in the building of Goldener Reichsapfel, Heidelberg, Germany |