| 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 |