Ove Büttner
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