editions/catalogues & writing

exhibitions

Group shows unless indicated as solo.

2021
· In the Pupil of the Panther, Lundskonsthall, Lund

· LOOK AT THIS! Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

2020
· You can’t walk unless the word runs. GAK, Bremen (solo)

· protolexiconin collaboration with Robert Logan, online project

· tongue-FMin collaboration with Robert Logan, online project

2019
· Grand Hans Purrmann Award, and nominee exhibition, Kulturhof Flachsgasse, Speyer

2018
· The Playground Project – Outdoor, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
· Welcome to the Jungle, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

2017
· Dixit: RRO, ArteBA, Buenos Aires
· MALBA, Buenos Aires, activation of permanent collection (June)
·Urban Lights Ruhr, Marl

2016
·The Armory Show, NYC
·BAU Art&Nature, Merano
·EXECUTION SEMANTICS for a necessary criminal, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (solo)
·The Animal Mirror, ISCP Gallery, NYC
·Gastmahl, Museum der Brotkultur, Ulm

2015
·14th Istanbul Biennial
·Jungs, hier kommt der Masterplan. Regionale, Kunsthalle Basel
·Painting in Time, The Tetley, Leeds

2014
·Kolibri, Kolibri Ballhaus Berlin, Berlin
·This is not Detroit (PDF), Urbane Künste Ruhr/Schauspielhaus Bochum, Bochum
·Outside, Index The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation and Moderna Museet Stockholm
·untitled (holes), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (solo in the series Austragen/Vortragen)

2013
·Jahresgabenausstellung Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
·later, Goliath. And then started humming, at changing unannounced international collections of modern painting
·Sole Marie Sits, Temporary Gallery, Cologne (solo)
·Two Monks and A Rabbit, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (solo)

2012
·“One of the things that baffles me about you is that you remain unmurdered.” (1), rue du ruisseau 5, Paris (solo)
·dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel
·Manifesta9, Parallel Events, Kasteel Oud Rekem, Belgium
·Art by Animals, The Grant Museum, London

2011
·Waiting For Suicidal Hares, International video festival, Moon Event Space Organ Haus, Chongquing, China
·BYOB, Institute of Art History, Bonn
·Artists Help Japan – Jacobi Haus, Malkasten, Düsseldorf
·Deepdigdug, Art-Report Showroom, Munich
·Contribution to ‘Radical Criticism for Radical Future’ by Gia Edzgveradze, Stux Gallery, NYC
·Making being here enough (after Roni Horn), emptied living room, Zurich (solo)

2010
·New German Art / Neue Deutsche Kunst, German Embassy London
·SR10 / Düsseldorf Open
·Diving for Pearls, Lothringer13, Städtische Kunsthalle München
·You can leave your hat on, Gallery Hasen at Schmela Haus (Kunstsammlung NRW), Düsseldorf

2009
·SHOW 1, Royal College of Art, London
·Impromptu, FRED Gallery, London
·Come dear art, come. Hockney Gallery, RCA, London (solo)

2008
·RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
·Hopeless, The Beznadziejna, Warsaw
·Spectrum, St. Mary’s Old Church, London

2004
·Blyth Gallery, London

press

2022
· Braun, Adrienne: “Mit Gummistiefeln in die Ausstellung“, ART Magazin, July
2021
· Akademie der Künste: “Berlin Fellowship”, July
· Buch, Kristina: “beuys 2021”, May
·Buch, Kristina: “DIGITAL ART SALON IV: Richtig oder falsch? Von der Bürde der Freiheit”, chaired by Prof. Dr. Bernhart Schwenk, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, March3

2020
· Dreyer, Nike: “Tiere in der Kunst – Eine Ästhetik des Lebendigen”, Edition Metzel
· Walleston, Aimee: “Kristina Buch You can’t walk unless the word runs. at Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen”, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, June
· Hirsch, Thomas: “Sprache, Natur und das Unaussprechliche: Kristina Buch”, Biograph, March

2019
· Dreyer, Nike: “Begegnungen mit Kunst und Schmetterlingen: The Lover von Kristina Buch”, Cultural Animal Studies, December
· Hans Purrmann Foundation “Kristina Buch wins Germany’s Grand Hans Purrmann Award”, e-flux, March
· Grand Hans Purrmann Award “Kristina Buch wins Germany’s Grand Hans Purrmann Award”, ARTFORUM, February
· Grand Hans Purrmann Award “Großer Hans Purrmann-Preis für Düsseldorfer Künstlerin”, Monopol, February

2018
· Walleston, Aimee: “Playing Forward In Reverse (the infinite game): Kristina Buch”, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, October
· Kothenschulte, Daniel: “Dschungel der Dilemmata”, Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, April
· Buch, Kristina, Carte Blanche, MOFF #16, April
· Walleston, Aimee: “The Curve of Fate, the Beginning of A Smile: Kristina Buch”, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, January

2017
· Demeuse, Sarah & Villa, Javier: later Goliath. And then started humming, MALBA Diario, June 21

2016
· Hessler, Stefanie: “If meaning is a construct, a zero can turn into a one can turn into a two”, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, August
· Buesing, Nicole; Klaas, Heiko: Sinn und Sinnlichkeit unter Palmen, Dare Magazine, May

2015
· Lorch, Catrin; Walrim, Eva; Buch, Kristina: Großformat, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton, Nr. 281,5. / December 6
· Lorch, Cartin: Salzwasser und Tränen, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton, Nr. 206, September 8
· Bell, Kirsty, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Frieze, October 21
· Volk, Gregory: Matter That Really Matters: Charolyn Christov-Bakargiev’s Istanbul Biennial, September 28

2014
· Gallus, Henriette: “Some at times cast light” about Kristina Buch’s work in Bochum, Theater der Zeit, Das Detroit Projekt, Changing Shifts, A Handbook for Changing Cities, p.76-77
· Edzgveradze, Gia: Kristina Buch „untitled (holes)“ at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, May 19
· Hattrick, Alice: “HOLES”, The White Review, July 7

2013
· Ricciardi, Nicola: Iconoclash by tongue, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine, July 6
· Schlüter, Ralf: Zuckerschock für Museumsbesucher, Art – Das Kunstmagazin, July 5
· Heymer, Kay: Leck mich! Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben
· Edzgveradze, Gia: The poetics of invisible, Emily Harvey Foundation, March

2012
· Stadel, Stefanie: Wenn die Software Liebesbriefe schreibt, Welt am Sonntag, June 17
· Holtermann, Hannes: Hypernatürlich, art Das Kunstmagazin, July 07
· Walleston, Aimee: Kristina Buch’s Constant Garden, Art in America, July 01
· Stadel, Stefanie: Tierisch Technisch, K.West, July/August
· Sommer, Ulrike: Das Biotop dOCUMENTA (13), Deutsche Welle, August 04
· Büsing, Nicole & Klass, Heiko: Documenta Endspurt, DARE, Magazin für Kunst und Überdies, September 02
· Die Kunst kann nun weg, Monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, September 19
· Demos, T.J.: Gardens Beyond Eden: Bio-aesthetics, Eco-Futurism, and Dystopia at dOCUMENTA (13), The Brooklyn Rail, October 4
· Stallabrass, Julien: Radical Camouflage at Documenta 13, scurvey tunes, October 24

2009
· Jury, Louise: Chimps run the show after aping artist’s work, London Evening Standard, June 02

SELECTED CATALOGUES/ BOOK ENTRIES

2018
· Merz, Jasmina; Seiser, Anna Lena; Jansen, Gregor: Welcome to the Jungle, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, pp.15–23 and pp.172–182

2018
· Wolfs, Rein; Kleine, Susanne & Gabriel, Markus: The Playground Project, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, pp.24–27

2017
· Conte, Kari, The Animal Mirror, The Animal that therefore I am (more to follow) by Jacques Derrida, ISCP New York, pp.40–43

2016
· Meister, Helga, Neue Düsseldorfer Kunstszene in 70 Porträts, Kristina Buch / Grenzgängerin der Wirklichkeit, Wienand Verlag, pp.36–42

2016
· Demos, T.J., Decolonising Nature, Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology, Sternberg Press, Chapter 7, p. 230, 241

2015
· Istanbul Biennial, Catalogue, p.213 and p.378
· Istanbul Biennial, Guidebook, p.34

2014
· Das Detroit Projekt / This is not Detroit, Schauspielhaus Bochum und Urbane Künste Ruhr, festival programme, pp.60–61

2012
· Das Begleitbuch / The Guidebook, dOCUMENTA (13), Catalogue 3/3, Hatje Cantz, pp. 50–51

SELECTED AUDIO

2017
· Batarilo, Patrick: Junge Leute im Gespräch, Gast im Studio: Kristina Buch, SWR2 Tandem, March 29 (German)
2012
· Batarilo, Patrick: Junge Leute im Gespräch, Gast im Studio: Kristina Buch, Teilnehmerin der Documenta 13 in Kassel, SWR2 Tandem, July 11 (German)
· Kaufmann, Susanne: Documenta-Künstler im Portrait – Die Düsseldorfer Kunststudentin Kristina Buch, WDR 3 Das Mosaik, June 12
· Tilmanns, Julika: Ein Garten Eden für Schmetterlinge, Radiofeuilleton: Profil Deutschlandradio Kultur, July 23

SELECTED VIDEO

2016
· ISCP, NYC Lecture, Kristina Buch
· It’s normal that reality happens. Interview about work in Merano