 He began exhibiting in 1968, participating in Harald Szeeman’s landmark exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern the year after.Some of his most notable works during this time consisted of paintings made by cutting into the fabric and exposing the stretcher bars.In the 1970s, Buthe began to travel extensively to Africa and the Middle East, most notably to Morocco where he took up extended residences in the cities of Essaouira and Marrakesh.