Willi Bucher
Willi Bucher (*1948 in Bühl near Günzburg) has been working as a painter and video artist since 1980. He is one of those artists who “are not willing to compromise” and he is one of those “rare contemporaries who answer questions of tomorrow and not those of yesterday” (Dieter Ronte). With his finger on the pulse of time, he captures and works on themes whose relevance points to the future. Color and canvas play just as important a role as digitally controlled technology, which he discovered for himself at the age of over 50 and uses to create an interplay of the analog and the digital, of flow and pixel. His paintings and drawings are both abstract and figurative, often large format and printed with a digitally controlled grid. As a painter and video artist he looks back on numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad including New York, Washington or Shanghai.
Works
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Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt a.M. (1974–1977)
Hochschule für Gestaltung, Darmstadt (1970–1974)
Werkkunstschule, Augsburg (1969–1970)
Der Blick ins Unbekannte, Galerie 3AP, Frankfurt, air shelter (S)
Rauschen, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
Metamorphosis, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (S)
Wohnung Lauxtermann Vol. 7, Galerie 3AP, Düsseldorf (GS)
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Gegen die Alten?!, Galerie 3AP Düsseldorf (Duo)
MOB-Art studio, Luxemburg (Duo)
Be**pART, Galerie Montez, Rom (GS)
Luminale Frankfurt, Lichtkunst im Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt a.M. (GS)
Stiftung Zollverein, Container-Installation: „Zivilisationsrest“ und „Mea Culpa“, Essen (public sculpture)
Alp Galleries und Digital & Video Art Fair: The Streets, New York (GS)
Alp Galleries, Digital & Video Art Fair, New York (GS)
Luminale, light installation „Hochmuth“, Frankfurt a.M. (GS)
Alp Galleries, Digital & Video Art Fair, New York (GS)
EKHN (Evangelische Kirche Hessen-Nassau), Frankfurt a.M.
Alp Galleries, Spring Art Salon, Shanghai, China (GS)
Ira Pinto Gallery, Washington D.C. (S)
AICGS (American Institute for Contemporary German Studies), Washington D.C. (GS)
Unity Canvas, Alp Galleries, New York (S)
Unity Canvas, Williamsburg Art & historical Center, New York (GS)
Amarillo – Gelb, Galerie Blau, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (S)
Galerie Blau, Düsseldorf (S)
Exhibitions
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Metamorphosis
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WOHNUNG
LAUXTERMANN
Vol. 7
Joschua Yesni Arnaut, Roberto Barbosa, Joseph Beuys, Willi Bucher, Felix Anatol Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, Sonja Heim, Steffen Jopp, Nadine Karl, Max Klinger, Helga Kneidl, Carolin Liebl & Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler, Ulrike Markus, Toni Meyer, Julie Mia, Philipp Naujoks, Miriam Schenkirz, Robert Schittko, Wayne Thiebaud, Catharina Szonn, Ellen Wagner, Lara Werth, Sonja Yakovleva
with further objects and contributions by Alex Leo Freier, Monster Mansion, Aleksandra Mir & Tim Griffin
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News
now open: air shelter
We are delighted to announce the second exhibition in the air-raid shelter, an extension of our new gallery space in Frankfurt am Main. In Der Blick ins Unbekannte (A Glimpse into the Unknown), Willi Bucher presents a site-specific projection that intertwines visual, material, and existential dimensions. At the center is a high-definition video projected onto fine stainless steel mesh – a precise, semi-transparent industrial material whose structure evokes neural networks through its 250-micron weave.
now open: Willi Bucher, Felix Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, and Frank Weidenbach „Rauschen“
We are excited to announce the upcoming group exhibition Rauschen at our Düsseldorf location, featuring works by Willi Bucher, Felix Findeiß, Jacqueline Hen, and Frank Weidenbach. We invite you to join us for the opening on April 12th, from 6 to 9 PM at Fürstenwall 74, Düsseldorf.
upcoming: Willi Bucher – Metamorphosis, 15.12.2024 –12.01.2025
The exhibition is illuminated throughout the winter break and can be viewed from outside. Personal visits on request: mail@galerie-3ap.de
„Subverting norms constructing narrative scenarios“
Wohnung Lauxtermann
The fluid exhibition is open for visitors for the fifth and last time this year until December 15th.
Open Studio Willi Bucher
DECEMBER 10th, 2-6 pm
Visits to the open studio require prior notification.
Please contact us directly.
Projects
Luftschutzraum (FFM)
opening 04.04.2025, save the date
Wohnung Lauxtermann (D)
The exhibition and residency project WOHNUNG LAUXTERMANN, conceived and curated by Aileen Treusch, enables artists to use the premises at Fürstenwall 74 for their work to bring this historic address back into the active life of the city. Since the beginning in February 2023, various program strands have focused on the social role of art and design and their potential for participation.