Andrea Büttner is an artist and art historian based in both London and Frankfurt. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art, London. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at Hollybush Gardens London,(Feb 2012),  and a solo show at MMK Zollamt Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (Feb 2013). She is the 2010 Max Mara Prize winner culminating in The Poverty of Riches at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (March 2011). A selection of this show will be on view at the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia, Italy from November 2011. She has recently been included in Há sempre um copo de mar
para um homem navegar (There is always a cup of sea to sail in), 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil and Unto This Last, Raven Row, London both 2010.