A thematic exhibition pairing two significant contemporary artists. Andrea Büttner (b. 1972, Stuttgart) is known for works exploring ethics, shame, politics of craft, and religion across printmaking, sculpture, and installation, using pre-modernist media including woodcut, reverse glass painting, weaving, and moss cultivation. Dieter Roth (1930–1998, German-Swiss) was a Conceptual art pioneer creating across artist's books, drawings, sculptures, assemblages, and installations incorporating sound, music, and video. Roth famously used biodegradable foodstuffs (cheese, chocolate, sugar) to explore time, decay, and metamorphosis. Both artists reject commodification of art, emphasizing intellectual and emotional possibilities of alternative aesthetic modes.