Bettina Elmpt

Bettina Elmpt (* 1956 in Düsseldorf ) is a German sculptor and object artist .

biography

Elmpt studied sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1979 to 1986 . She dedicated her work to “architectural garments”, the “three skins of man” (architecture, clothing and skin), as well as the perception of time and space and of things. On these topics she created performances, installations, projections and exhibitions,

In 1983 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia for a stay in Paris . In 1986 she received a grant from the Project Civitella d'Agliano. In 1990 she received a working grant from the Berlin Senate for cultural affairs. In 1991 she was the winner of the "Art and Order" competition organized by ELBA . 1992 ASS. In 1992 she was also awarded the Kahnweiler Foundation Prize. In 1997 she received a scholarship from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen eV This was followed by further exhibitions in Germany as well as in Brussels and Seoul . From 2007 Elmpt created in particular "Architectural garments for furniture".

Exhibitions (selection)

• Art Association Region Heinsberg 1992
• New Aachen Art Association 1992
• Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart 1993
• Akademie Schloss Solitude 1993
• State Art Weeks Baden-Württemberg 1993
• Festival de toutes les cultures, Paris 1995
• Belleville Milieu du Monde, Paris 1995
• “Right at the bottom”, Schöppingen 1997
• "Hohlwege", Schöppingen 1998
• "Das Fest", MKV, Düsseldorf 1998
• "Inside-Outside", Kunstverein Aalen 1998
• "Des femmes (...), des artistes (...), des reseaux", Brussels, 2002
• “Han River Rhine”, Seoul-Düsseldorf, Ssamziespace, Seoul 2003
• Arteversum, Düsseldorf 2008
• Onomato, Düsseldorf 2010
• Hat factory Luckenwalde, the things 6 2014
• exada, Düsseldorf, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bettina Elmpt on the website of the art points
2. ↑ Bettina Elmpt on the website of the Akademie Schloss Solitude