Bettina Niedt

Bettina Niedt (* 1957 in Berlin ) is a German painter . She had her artistic breakthrough in the 1980s with the “ young and wild ” group in West Berlin.

Life

After graduating from high school, Bettina Niedt first studied art history and theater studies at the Free University of Berlin . During this time she started working on various video film projects with Michael Klier . It was created u. a. the film Der Riese (collaboration: script, editing, sound). In 1979 she began studying painting at the University of the Arts with Wolfgang Petrick , which she completed in 1984 as a master class student .

As early as 1981 she moved into a studio in Kulmer Straße 20A, where she ran the producer's gallery “Galerie Kulmer Straße” with other students from the “Petrick class”. From 1982 to 1987 she was a scholarship holder of the “ Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes ”, from 1986 to 1988 the Karl Hofer Foundation . In 1987 she showed her work Das Riesengemüse (1985, 190 × 140 cm) on the occasion of the ceremony for the foundation of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

In 1987 Niedt moved the center of her life from Berlin to Sylt and turned away from the figure in her work. Influenced by their surroundings, the series of images "The Sea" and "Monument to the Sea" were created. At the same time, however, figurative sculptures were created from unprocessed driftwood. In 1990 she made several trips to the Baltic Sea , Fischland , Darß and Zingst . In the untouched landscapes in the restricted areas that still exist there, she found innumerable "driftwood sculptures" which formed the basis for a photo documentation and the series of images "Safari" and "Cat". From 1991 their travels took them again and again to the Baltic Sea; an extensive collection of flint stones was created. This also served as the basis for groups of works in painting.

After the early death of her parents and the birth of her daughter in 1992, Sylt became the center of her life. She made her living as a financial trader. About 300 small figural clay sculptures were created. From 1996 onwards, smaller works on paper were made again.

From 2005 photography moved into the center of her artistic activity. With her Yorkshire terrier as the protagonist, an artistic photo documentation of the city of Berlin was created, which made her the winner of the 2009 photo competition “Berlin - Heimat - Metropole” at the Metropolitan Congress of the SPD . In 2009 she began to work up unfinished pictures or “at most mediocre works” from before 1992 with the help of scraps of fabric. This marked the beginning of a work phase of the "UP cycle". She later applied this principle to her works on paper. From 2012 Bettina Niedt returned to classical painting. The result "Lamps and Lights" was created. In 2014 several picture series were created on tapestry fabric, which again tie in with the abstraction of the earlier pictures.

Bettina Niedt lives and works in Berlin.

First purchases were made in 1984 for the Berlinische Galerie ( Bube Dame , 1981, acrylic, 240 × 180 cm; The street comes into the house , 1984, mixed media, 230 × 280 cm); graphic self-portraits of her are in the holdings of the HAUM Braunschweig .

Exhibitions

E = solo exhibition, G = group exhibition, M = fair

• 1982: Paintings , Belziger Strasse, Berlin
• 1982: Self-portraits , Anderes Ufer, Berlin
• 1983: Gallery Kulmer Straße, Berlin, Text: Heinz Ohff (E)
• 1984: Large Art Exhibition Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf (G)
• 1984: Berlin / Brussels, Atelier Rue Sainte Anne, Brussels (together with Heike Ruschmeyer )
• 1985: Chicago Art Fair, Chicago (M)
• 1985: Report 85. 3 years of acquisitions by the Senate , Staatliche Kunsthalle , Berlin (G)
• 1985/86: Drawings from Berlin , Bette Stoler Gallery, New York (G)
• 1986: Back light , State Art Gallery, Berlin (G)
• 1986: Large art exhibition Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (G)
• 1987: Exhibition on the occasion of the founding of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, Reichstag, Berlin (G)
• 1987: The everyday festivals , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin (G)
• 1988: Scholarship holders of the Karl Hofer Society, Galerie Haus am Lützowplatz (G)
• 1989: Eberhard Roters in honor , Berlinische Galerie , Berlin, (G)
• 1989: Works by young artists , Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Berlin (G)
• 1989: Art Basel , Basel with Galerie Jörg Stummer (M)
• 1989: Pictures and drawings, Jörg Stummer Gallery, Zurich (E)
• 2015: Wilder Kiez West Berlin , Westphal-Berlin, Berlin (G), together with works by Martin Heinig , Barbara Quandt , Walter Stöhrer (from private collection)

Catalogs

• Report 85. 3 years of Senate purchases. Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin 1985, p. 141, 185 (with illustration p. 141: The street comes into the house , 1984) (exhibition catalog).
• The everyday celebrations. Susanne Ahner, Walter vom Hove, Bettina Niedt, Eva Paul, Jan-Michael Sobottka, scholarship holders of the Karl Hofer Society. On the occasion of the exhibition at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, October 24th - December 5th 1987. ( Berlin contemporary artists. 77). NBK, Berlin 1987. Foreword: Lucie Schauer . (Exhibition catalog).
• Bettina Niedt. Berlin [no year]. [20] countless pages, illustrated

literature

• Heinz Ohff: Bettina Niedt. Kulmer Strasse Gallery (May 1983). In: The work of art . 36.1983, 3/4, p. 152.
• Peter Gorsen : artist group Kulmer Strasse 20a, Berlin (part 2). In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , Kulturmagazin section, issue A 82nd volume, issue 48 of November 27, 1985 (67), pp. 3629–3630. With illustration Die Infante I (1985, 190 × 140 cm). (PDF; 800 kB).
• Bettina Niedt, artificiality / transformation / fragmentation. In: Inge Huber, Karoline Müller (eds.): On the physiology of the fine arts, artists, multipliers, art historians Berlin 1985–1987. Portraits, materials, registers. Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926460-00-8 , pp. 356-359, 856. (Portrait photography: Christiane Hartmann-Ohff).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Two thousand and one: Film Lexicon . Retrieved January 10, 2015.
2. ^ Peter Gorsen : artist group Kulmer Strasse 20a, Berlin (part 2). In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt , Kulturmagazin section, issue A 82 (1985) 48, pp. 3629-3630.
3. ↑ Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin: Jahrbuch 1987. de Gruyter, Berlin 1988, p. 169 and illustration panel I. ( limited preview in the Google book search).
4. ↑ Report 85. 3 years of acquisitions by the Senate. Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin 1985, pp. 141, 185.
5. ↑ Artists see themselves - graphic self-portraits of the 20th century . Inventory of the collection co-owned by the Braunschweig United Monastery and Study Fund. Herzog-Anton-Ulrich-Museum, 2000 (p. 396)
6. ↑ 6408: Bettina Niedt: exhibition catalog . Berlin 1983. 12 pp., Ill. In: Berlin Bibliography (1978 to 1984) in the Berlin Senate Library, Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter, 1987. ISBN 978-3-11-011348-8 (p. 370)
7. ↑ Number 212.131 in the catalog, page V.