Christoph Büchel

Born in 1966 in Basel (Switzerland), he lives there.

Christoph Büchel is one of the major representatives of a new political and subversive art tendency that has been developing in Switzerland for some years now. His work, which featured in particular in the exhibition "Dionysiac" at the Pompidou Centre, usually takes the form of reconstructions of chaotic interiors. Apartments conceived as survival bunkers, a shop offering homeless people all the absolutely essential equipment, and vestiges of a rock concert held in a cold room... all these hyperrealist settings conjure up the threat of an imminent apocalypse. War and the corrupting power of money are two of the artist's favourite targets, and he doesn't think twice about introducing a certain violence into his relation to with the viewer. Imbued with a dramatic quality, Büchel's works/situations are actually conceived to be felt rather than contemplated.

In les Jacobins, Büchel will be showing a novel sculpture on the theme of order and disorder, related to what is currently going on in Iraq.