Christoph Büchel

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Christoph Büchel (born 1966) is a Swiss artist known for provocative contemporary installations.^[1] He received international attention for constructing a mosque in a Venice church and suggesting that prototypes for Donald Trump's wall should be considered land art.^[2]

Early life and education[]

Christoph Büchel was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1966.^[3]

Selected works[]

The Abbazia della Misericordia transformed into mosquee

For the 2015 Venice Biennale, Christoph Büchel contributed Iceland's national pavilion which consisted of a conceptual work of art which transformed the 10th-century old Church of the Abbey of Misericordia into a generic mosque.^[4] Labeled The Mosque: The First Mosque in the Historic City of Venice, it was partly inspired by disputes in Iceland over building the first purpose-built Reykjavík Mosque.^[3][5] After a complaint presented by a member of the neo-fascist party New Force, the Venetian authorities closed the installation, citing permit violations.^[6][3]

Büchel encouraged artistic recognition of eight prototypes of the border wall erected near the US-Mexico border. Büchel mobilized support through an online petition. ^[2]

For the 2019 Venice Biennale, Büchel displayed Barca Nostra, a shipwreck that had sunk with hundreds of migrants aboard.^[7]

References[]

External links[]

• Christoph Büchel on Artfacts
• Hauser & Wirth

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