Bettina Semmer

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Bettina Semmer (born February 15, 1955 in Düsseldorf ) is a German visual artist .

Life

Bettina Semmer originally studied German and social sciences. From 1975 she studied art, first in Münster, then from 1976 at the HfBK Hamburg (class Polke / Walther / film class Neumann) with a guest semester at the Düsseldorf Art Academy (class Gerhard Richter ). 1992 MA in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths College , London. During the 1980s she belonged to the inner circle of artist friends of the “Hetzler Boys” - especially Martin Kippenberger and Albert Oehlen - and appeared in group exhibitions and collaborations with Rosemarie Trockel and Jutta Koether . Since 2009 she has been active through Artifariti in the Western Sahara with art projects, films and a human rights symposium for dOCUMENTA (13) . In 2010 she founded “Semmer-Berlin, Project Space and Gallery”. Bettina Semmer has a daughter and lives and works in Berlin .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions:

  • Mural. Book story world. Hamburg, 1982
  • Artist House Hamburg. Hamburg, 1983
  • Forum fair. Zurich, 1984
  • Four pictures. Ascan Crone Gallery. Hamburg, 1985
  • Josh Baer Gallery. New York, 1985
  • Interim Art. Maureen O. Paley. London, 1986
  • Forum fair. Hamburg, 1988
  • Seville. Gallery Bleich-Rossi. Graz, 1988
  • La Maquina Española. Seville, 1990
  • Swiss Bank Corporation. Baden-Baden, 1997
  • Assisted Painting Series. Spacex Gallery. Exeter, 2000
  • UBS. Baden-Baden, 2000
  • Hollow and Empty. The Fish House Gallery. London, 2002
  • Straw to gold. Gallery 33. Berlin, 2006
  • quiet. Club of Berlin. Berlin, 2007
  • Portrait painting. Cornhouses. Aschaffenburg, 2008
  • A stunning Left Hook Semmer-Berlin, 2014
  • The middle is the Rand Dat-Galerie, Berlin 2014

Group exhibitions:

  • Women's art. (with Johanna Kandl). Fettstrasse 7A. Hamburg, 1982
  • Prefer ... (with Rosemarie Trockel ). Art week Bonn. Bonn, 1984
  • La femme et l'art. Triennial. Le Landeron, 1984
  • Peinture Allemande. (with Jutta Koether and Rosemarie Trockel ). La Grande Serre. Rouen, 1985
  • Koether, Semmer, Trockel. La Maquina Española. Seville, 1985
  • Women's art. Showroom Rainer Fichel. Hamburg, 1986
  • Balcony. Künstlerhaus Munich. Munich, 1987
  • Diedrich Diederichsen. Forum city park. Graz, 1987
  • Broken neon. Forum city park. Graz, 1988
  • Hamburg Abroad. EVAC. Ipswich, 1991
  • What about having our meanings back. Goldsmiths' Gallery. London, 1992
  • Art jail. Society of Friends of Young Art. Baden-Baden, 2000
  • Public joker action. Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. Baden-Baden, 2001
  • Fluent - Painting and Words. Camberwell College. London, 2002
  • Double bind. Künstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin, 2003
  • Double bind. Kunsthalle Bremen. Bremen, 2004
  • Arbitrariness with contrast. Transient showroom. Berlin, 2010
  • Show pieces , Sacrow Palace, 2012
  • The Africa Triangle Potsdam, 2012
  • Ende , Kunstverein Schwerin, 2013
  • Fascination and facade. Moments of Artistic Interference , 2014
  • THE 80S , Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main, 2015
  • The Invention of the New Wild - Painting and Subculture around 1980 , Ludwig Forum , Aachen, 2018/19

Publications

  • Four pictures. (Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen ). Hamburg: Ascan Crone Gallery, 1985
  • Balcony. (with Johanna Hess, Ika Huber, Johanna Kandl, Jutta Koether , Michaela Melián, Rosemarie Trockel ). Munich: Künstlerhaus Munich, 1987
  • Seville. Graz: Galerie Bleich-Rossi, 1988
  • Assisted Painting Series. Exeter: Spacex Gallery, 2000
  • Schlachtensee. Berlin, 2004
  • Portraits 1995-2005. Berlin, 2006

Filmography

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Semmer, Bettina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, filmmaker, artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf