Bettina van Haaren

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Bettina van Haaren (born November 24, 1961 in Krefeld ) is a German painter , draftsman , graphic artist and university professor .

Life

Bettina van Haaren studied fine arts from 1981 to 1987 at the University of Mainz (Academy of Fine Arts) with Dieter Brembs and Bernd Schwering . In 1999 she received a teaching position at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . Since 2000 she has been teaching as a professor for drawing and printmaking at the Technical University of Dortmund and is currently the director of the institute for art and art studies there. She lives and works in Witten and Dortmund . Bettina van Haaren is married to the artist and university professor Volker Lehnert .

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Bettina van Haaren works as a painter with egg tempera and oil on canvas and with watercolor on paper, as well as a draftsman with pencil on paper and as a printmaker. Important art historical points of reference for Bettina van Haaren are Matthias Grünewald , Hieronymus Bosch and mannerists such as Jacopo da Pontormo .

Bettina van Haaren's multi-perspective paintings are composed of different image sources and motifs and resemble painted collages on a white background. The central motif is usually herself, her face and parts of her body, combined with depictions of different animals, art historical quotations and everyday objects, such as. B. Plastic bags. In her relentless introspection she shows age and transience decades beyond her actual age and appearance. The also fragmentarily painted horses, pigs, foxes, sheep, rabbits or birds are partly intimately interwoven with the woman's body, partly they cavort on other parts of the large canvases. It is the same with painted body parts of the artist, e.g. B. her legs appearing several times without legs. Your body does not appear as one, but fragmentary, dissected, put together differently. The fragmentary motifs that are intertwined with one another like a net and spanning the canvas are each painted extremely precisely, finely and true to detail. This creates a strange tension between realism and the "impossibility" of the disparate combinations. The relationships between the motifs become effective on a psychological level and in that viewers relate them to their own body sensations. The latter aspect is also reminiscent of Maria Lassnig's body perception pictures . In spite of depictions of vulnerability and decay, the images have surreal humor and (self-) irony.

In her linear drawings, which sometimes loosely take on the structure of baroque ceiling paintings and thus baroque skies, current or historical political issues sometimes appear, such as right-wing radicalism or the RAF .

The bright watercolors, painted with brightly colored lines, indicate the artist's face and body, in which countless small creatures seem to nestle. Life, the world, events and living beings invade your own body.

Works in public collections

Solo exhibitions

  • 1997 Tissue samples , Saarbrücken City Gallery, DE. (Catalog)
  • 1999 Keep line , Kunstverein Speyer (catalog); Kunstverein, Krefeld, DE.
  • 2001 Slight Shifts , Galerie Albstadt , Städtische Kunstsammlungen, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2005 Orderly installations , Alte Post art museum, Mülheim, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2005 pieces of thread , Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2006 Opencast mines , Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, and Morat Institute, Freiburg, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2006 Fadenstück , Kunstverein Dortmund and galerie parterre, Berlin, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2006 The fourth song , Gallery of the City of Backnang, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2008 Particles and Membranes , Ludwig Museum Koblenz, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2010 Bettina van Haaren - Skinning , DASA, Dortmund (catalog); Particles and membranes , Kunsthalle Erfurt, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2014 Greenhouse with Turkish pool (with Anna Arnskötter), Tobias Schrade Gallery, Ulm, DE.
  • 2014 Mighty canned. Bettina van Haaren and Veronika Veit , Essenheimer Kunstverein, DE.
  • 2015 Bettina van Haaren and Frauke Wilken , Kunstmuseum Bochum, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2016 Waldwasen riddled with holes , Kunsthalle Schweinfurt, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2017 Bettina van Haaren - Waldwasen riddled with holes , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, DE. (Catalog)
  • 2018 Bettina van Haaren. Stone cutting - relief prints and drawings , Association for Original Etching eV, Munich, DE.
  • 2019 Bettina van Haaren - Reflections , CODA Apeldoorn, NL. (Catalog)
  • 2020 Bettina van Haaren - Reflections , Bentlage Monastery, Rheine, DE. (Catalog)

Awards

literature

  • Bettina van Haaren - Spiegelungen , with contributions by Roosmarij Deenik and Uwe Haupenthal, Ed. Jan-Christoph Tonigs, Verlag and Edition Kloster Bentlage, Rheine 2019. ISBN 978-3-939812-57-9
  • Kai Hohenfeld: Bettina van Haaren (* 1961) - experiments on humans , in: The dark side of the moon. Shadows from art and literature (publications by the Art Museum Albstadt, No. 181/2019), text by Kai Hohenfeld, exhib.-cat. Kunstmuseum Albstadt 2019/20, pp. 58–61
  • Bettina van Haaren: Waldwasen perforated , ed. Barbara Auer, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Andrea Brandl, Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and Anna-Maria Ehrmann-Schindlbeck, Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld / Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-7356- 0279-4 With texts by Barbara Auer, Anna-Maria Ehrmann-Schindlbeck and Erich Schneider, in German and English.
  • Bettina van Haaren: Senkblei , Kunstmuseum Bochum and Richard-Haizmann-Museum Niebüll, ed. Hans Günter Golinski and Uwe Haupenthal, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8093-0304-6 With texts by Hans Günter Golinski, Alfred Gulden, Bettina van Haaren and Uwe Haupenthal.
  • Bettina van Haaren: Skinning , painting and drawing, Eds. Gerhard Kilger and Bettina van Haaren Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-361-4 , with texts by Michael Freitag, Marcus Starzinger, Philipp Horst and Bernhard Waldenfels
  • Beate Reifenscheid (text), Kai Uwe Schierz (text), Clemens Ottnad (text), Bettina van Haaren (illustrations): Particles and membranes . Ed .: Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus, exhibition Bettina van Haaren - Particles and Membranes {2008 - 2010: Koblenz u. a.}. modo Verlag, Freiburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86833-003-8 .
  • Bettina van Haaren: The fourth song , with texts by Martin Schick and Gunnar Schmidt. Edited by Martin Schick, Wolfgang Zemter, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-88423-274-3
  • Christoph Wagner : Birth attempts - The body pictures of Bettina van Haaren , in: Bettina van Haaren. Woodcuts 1993 - 1996 (exhibition cat. Stiftung Demokratie Saarland), Saarbrücken: Stiftung Demokratie Saarland 1997. pp. 7–11. ISBN 978-3-9237-5552-3 . Available online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Bettina van Haaren. Technical University Dortmund , Seminar for Art and Art History, accessed on February 10, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Roosmarij Deenik and Uwe Haupenthal in the catalog: Bettina van Haaren, Spiegelungen, Ed. Jan-Christoph Tonigs, Verlag und Edition Kloster Bentlage, 2019, ISBN 978-3-939812-57-9
  3. ↑ Introductory speech by Christoph Kivelitz to the exhibition Bettina van Haaren - Skins , DASA, Dortmund, 2010.
  4. ^ Gallery Tobias Schrade, Ulm: Bettina van Haaren
  5. ↑ Essenheimer Kunstverein, Bettina van Haaren, Veronika Veit, 2014, video on YouTube.
  6. ↑ Bettina van Haaren and Frauke Wilken. Painting. Sculpture. Drawing. Art Museum Bochum, 2015
  7. ↑ Bettina van Haaren - Forest Wasen holes , Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, DE, 2017th
  8. ↑ Bettina van Haaren: Waldwasen durchlöstert , artmetropoltv, video on Vimeo, 2017
  9. ↑ Bettina van Haaren. Stone cutting - relief prints and drawings , Verein für Originalradierung eV, Munich, DE, 2018.
  10. ↑ Bettina van Haaren - Spiegelungen , solo exhibition at Bentlage Monastery, Rheine, DE, 2019.
  11. ↑ Catalog Bettina van Haaren: Waldwasen durchlöchert , Kerber Verlag, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hair, Bettina van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, graphic artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld