Exhibition
Michael Beutler: Solo Exhibition

Studio Weaving (2012) Frankfurt Main and Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin / Cologne
©Michael Beutler

Spike Island

For his first solo exhibition in a British institution, German artist Michael Beutler conceives a site-specific installation which draws upon Spike Island’s architecture and broader social context, responding to the building’s current use as a gallery and artists’ studio complex, and to its historic use as a tea packing factory.

As with two of his most recent exhibitions, Haus Beutler at Bielefelder Kunstverein (2014) and La Loge, Brussels (2014–2015), and Moby Dick, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015), Beutler’s installation at Spike Island includes models, material studies, photo and video documentations as well as fragments of earlier projects.
 

  • MMK Family Workshop (2011) MMK Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany | Foto (detail): Courtesy MMK Museum for Modern Art ©Courtesy MMK Museum for Modern Art

    MMK Family Workshop

  • Haus Beutler (2014) Installation view (detail), La Loge, Brussels. Courtesy La Loge ©Michael Beutler

    Haus Beutler

  • Zustand mit Loops und Kringeln (detail) (2012). Installation documentation, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne ©Michael Beutler

    Zustand mit Loops und Kringeln

  • La Cacahuète (Workbenches) (detail) (2011) | Artwork: Michael Beutler ©Michael Beutler

    La Cacahuète

  • Moby Dick (detail) (2015) | Artwork: Michael Beutler © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Thomas Bruns

    Moby Dick

Family Workshop: Production Playground

Join Michael Beutler for an afternoon of fun and collective effort. Use and operate hand-built tools with the artist and fellow producers. Please note that Michael Beutler will not be present on 2nd May.

Date and Time

Sat, 30th April, 12-4pm
Sun, 1st May, 12-4pm
Mon, 2nd May, 12-4pm
 
Michael Beutler, born 1976 in Oldenburg (Germany), lives and works in Berlin. From 1997 to 2003 he studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Since 1998 he has exhibited in multiple group exhibitions internationally and had major solo shows later. 

 

Details

Spike Island

133 Cumberland Road
BS1 6UX Bristol

Price: free

+44 117 9292266 admin@spikeisland.org.uk