Bettina Meyer

Two Forms sculpture at the Drachenfels with artist.

Bettina Meyer (* 1968 in Hameln ) is a German sculptor and illustrator. She lives and works in Düsseldorf .

Live and act

Gate for Brühl on the city's south roundabout.

Bettina Meyer studied painting with Reinhard Voigt and HP Zimmer in Braunschweig from 1989 to 1991 . This was followed by studying sculpture with Klaus Rinke at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . After graduating in 1995, she was a master class student with Rinke until 1997 and received the academy letter from the Düsseldorf Art Academy.

In 1998 she received a scholarship from the artist village of Schöppingen . An annual scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) supported her stay in Saint Petersburg in 2000, during which Meyer completed her Master of Media with Timur Novikov .

In 2014 Meyer won the sculpture competition 'Schöne aussichten' of the cultural office No. 5, whereupon the work on the Drachenfels near Königswinter was realized.

In 2016 she was awarded a contract by the city of Brühl to use a sculpture to stage the 'Südkreisel' roundabout as the central location and thus design a new entrance gate to the city center. The 2.60 meter high work combines abstract and figurative elements and was inaugurated on December 6th by Vice Mayor Poschmann.

Working in public space

Gate for Brühl (GFK) Südkreisel Brühl; since December 2016
Two Forms (GFK) Drachenfels-Plateau; since March 2015
Form 4 - runner (bronze) Schlosspark Köln-Stammheim ; until May 2011
Ursula (bronze) for Ursula of Cologne , Ursula-Gartenstrasse, Cologne; since 2004
Form 1 , wax, St. Mary's Birth , pilgrimage church in Eggerode, 1999

Solo exhibitions

2017 Bettina Meyer and Dragan Vojvodic: Reformation , Goethe-Institut, Belgrade
- I smash the shell of history , Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne
2016 The Moment when order is disrupted , Gallery from the Faculty of fine Arts, Belgrade (K)
2015 Beautiful prospects , Drachenfels, Königswinter
2012 Drift , with Rolf Schanko, Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne
2010 The Idiocy of the Real , Kunstverein Krefeld (K)
- Gestalt & Form , Galerie Pamme-Vogelsang, Cologne
2008 Form & Figur , GAG inner city, Cologne old town (K)
2009 State and attitude , Galerie ARTAe, Leipzig
- Sculpture 09 , Studio Holterhoff, Cologne
2000 Bettina Meyer , Galerie 21, St. Petersburg
1999 Snapdragons , Galerie Geviert, Berlin

Exhibitions (selection)

2018 exercise with stones , Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz, Dresden
2017 Eduard Bargheer with Bettina Meyer , Galerie d \ d contemporary, Düsseldorf
2016 Migrants of mental space , Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
2015 The Blue Rider and her Circle of Friends , Women's Museum Bonn
- Pneuma, the air is not nothing , cloister of the basilica, St. Margareta, Düsseldorf
2012 Body - Corpus , Dortmund depot
2008 The Mars project , Kolbhalle, Cologne-Ehrenfeld
- Rheinblicke Insights , Cologne-Stammheim Castle Park
- Nature - Space , Lindbeck Gallery, Hanover
- German Early Autumn, ARTAe Gallery, Leipzig
- Tangents , Kandinsky Masters' House, Dessau
2007 light in the bunker , Bonn
- Vierwändekunst , Düsseldorf
2006 Figural positions , Gloriahalle, Düsseldorf
- Miniature exhibition , Fürstenwalde (K)
2004 Claudia Simon Gallery, Düsseldorf
2002 Zoll , Zollhof, Düsseldorf
2003 Burgau Castle, Düren, (K)
2001 all day / every day , WestLB Istanbul
- optorama , Kunstverein Oberhausen,
- Mediaartfestival , Manege, St.Petersburg
1999 Base , Museum Insel Hombrioch, rocket station (K)
- The hard core , Institute for Contemporary Art, Nuremberg,
- Shift change , Ahlen Art Museum
- balance , Simultanhalle, Cologne
1997 gallery in the artwork Cologne
- Balance , Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor, (K)
1996 Rinke Class , Brühlsche Terrasse Gallery, Dresden
- International Exhibition of art colleges , Hiroshima (K)
1994 Dröscher Meyer Gallery, Düsseldorf
1992 Scene Hanover , Art Association Hanover (K)

Bibliography (selection)

Sanja Kojic Mladenov, in Kat: Migrants of mental space , Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina (Serbia)
Bettina Meyer, The Moment when order is disrupted , in: Folder, Faculty of fine arts Belgrad (Serbia), 2016
Marietta Franke, From abroad. On new works by Bettina Meyer / From foreign Parts. On Bettina Meyer's recent works , in: Cat. Transformations, Kettler Verlag, 2016, pp. 21–58. ISBN 978-3-86206-599-8
Jens Hinrichsen, Better than a stop sign , in: Monopol, March 1, 2015, p. 25.
Anna & Bernhard Blume: de-constructive. Pictures from real life , cat. For the exhibition Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund / Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, 2006/2007, photos in the exhibition, pp. 134/135 ISBN 978-3-86678-029-3
Marietta Franke, Inner Movement and Questioning. About the artistic work of Bettina Meyer / Inner movement and questioning. Approach to the Artistic Work of Bettina Meyer, in: Kat.Bettina Meyer . Ed. Kunstverein Krefeld, 2010, Snoeck, pp. 6–22., ISBN 3-940953-71-7 .
Stephan Wiese, Ursula Eisenbach in Kat: SALDO, 23 years Rinke class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. ISBN 978-3-932189-93-7 .