Bettina Sellmann

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Bettina Sellmann (* 1971 in Munich ) is a German artist and painter.

Life and career

From 1992 to 1997 Sellmann studied at the Städelschule, the state university for fine arts in Frankfurt am Main with Jörg Immendorff and Christa Näher , where she completed her studies as a master student of Thomas Bayrle . In 1995 she spent a semester at the École Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1999 she received a DAAD annual scholarship for New York City, where she lived until the end of 2009. She graduated from Hunter College New York City with a Master of Fine Arts. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2010.

In her pictures Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas technique in “candy-colored acrylic tones” and “many layers of translucent pigments in soft pink, powdery blue and screeching yellow and green”. Her works are described as "transparent versions of old masters ... who have become transparent and ethereal (see-through versions of old master paintings ... gone translucent and ethereal)", as "particular reverie-inducers", "which Explore the other side of pink. More recent pictures deal with kidult and fairytale “romanticism” (Cassandra Neyenesch) as well as kawaii image material in a painting that “is glamorous and magical and adds an uncanny facet” to an ostensibly carefree girlish palette. In such a "field of tension, the artist develops the elegant resolution of her own representationality."

In 2011 she carried out a space clearing in Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin - an empty space as a purely transcendent exhibition.

She is a member of the MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig .

Her work is in private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art , New York, which houses her large-format drawing The Saints in This World Are Watching (2003).

Solo exhibitions

  • 2018 Diaikone , (Two-Person-Show with René Luckhardt), Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
  • 2017 precision landing , (two-person show with Damien Hirst) gallery 21.06 Ravensburg, Germany
  • 2017 Hello Color , Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  • 2016 It's already there , Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 US Paintings , Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 Spiral, Square and Dickie-Bow , Wolfstädter Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2013 To Queen Luise & Young-Wilhelm , Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 Magic Every Day , Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011 Bettina Sellmann @ Kaisersaal, ISI / Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
  • 2011 Templeloch Space Clearing , Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 Taina, cosmogeny, make your own paper dragon , Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2007 Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany
  • 2006 Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2004 Armor & Etiquette , Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2004 Drawings , Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Group exhibitions

  • 2018 Das Schöne Zimmer , Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin, Germany
  • 2018 Ignition , Turps Gallery, London, UK
  • 2018 Painting XXL , Exhibition Hall 1A, Frankfurt / Main, Germany
  • 2018 8 women , gallery 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
  • 2018 AIM I Project , Parallel Art Fair Vienna, Austria
  • 2017 Paint application, Haus am Lützowplatz , Berlin, Germany
  • 2017 Painting XX , Kunsthalle der Sparkassenstiftung, Lüneburg, Germany
  • 2016 Animalism , Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
  • 2016 Bare parts , MalerinnenNetzWerk Berlin-Leipzig , shop window, Berlin, Germany
  • 2015 1st Berlin Edition , Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Nightmare , Salon de Lirio, Goa, India
  • 2014 The Leipziger Edition , Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
  • 2014 Painting Was A Lady , Wonderloch Kellerland, New York, NY, USA
  • 2013 Berlin – Klondyke , Leipzig spinning mill, Germany
  • 2012 Everywhere and Nowhere , Works from the Collection Reydan Weiss - Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
  • 2012 Nightmare , Green Papaya Art Project, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila
  • 2012 Painting Was A Lady , Vienna Art Foundation, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
  • 2011 Soiree Matinee , Wonderloch Kellerland, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2010 Talk Show , Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2009 Drawn , Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • 2009 Figuratively Seeing , Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA
  • 2009 Tales of Wonder and Woe , Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA
  • 2008 The Golden Record , The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • 2006 Flicker , University Art Museum at University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA
  • 2005 Hello Sunday , Sixtyseven / Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2004 Under the Sun , Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • 2003 Girls Gone Wild , Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2002 Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY, USA
  • 2001 Groupshow , American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

Awards

Catalog publications (selection)

  • Hello Color, Bettina Sellmann; with a text by Helioglobal, Berlin 2017
  • The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Christian Rattemeyer (ed.), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA, 2009
  • New American Paintings, # 74, Volume 13, Issue 1, The Open Studio Press, USA, February / March 2008, pp. 128-131
  • Remastered, Sebastien Agneessens (ed.), Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2006, pp. 62–63 and 141–142
  • November (January-March 2004), The Literary Review. Cover by Bettina Sellmann, Madison, NJ, USA
  • Bettina Sellmann, Beate Kollmeier Gallery (ed.); with a text by Zoran Terzic, Essen 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darei Hanna / Chloe Zaug (eds.), Figuratively Seeing, Editors Darei Hanna and Chloe Zaug, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2009, pp. 58–61.
  2. ↑ Magdalena Kröner, Mädchen, Mädchen, in: Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 185, page 11, Germany, August 12, 2002.
  3. ^ University Art Museum (Albany): Press Release .
  4. ^ Kris Wilton: Bettina Sellmann in New York . In: artinfo, December 18, 2008 .
  5. ^ Andrew M. Goldstein: The Clearing .
  6. ↑ Cassandra Neyenesch: Bettina Sellmann: Taina. Cosmogony. Make your own paper dragon . In: Brooklyn Rail, artseen, December 2008 .
  7. ^ Andreas Schlaegel, in: Magic Every Day, Bettina Sellmann, Galerie Gilla Lörcher (ed.), 2013 (catalog)
  8. ↑ René Luckhardt, in: Jacqueline Krickl (ed.), Paint application, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 2017 (catalog)
  9. ^ Bettina Sellmann: The Saints in This World Are Watching . 2003.
personal data
SURNAME Sellmann, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich