• Source: Bettina Sellmann
  • Bettina Sellmann (born 1971) is a German artist.
    From 1992 to 1997 Sellmann studied and graduated as Meisterschülerin (Master) at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 1999 she was awarded a DAAD grant for New York City, where she lived and worked until 2009. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sellmann also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, NYC.
    In her paintings Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas technique in "candy colored acrylic tones (bonbonbunte Acryltöne)" and “multi-layers of translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and acidic yellows and greens“.
    Works of her have been described as “see-through versions of Old Master paintings ... gone translucent and ethereal“, "particular reverie-inducers“, exploring “the other side of pink“.
    Recent paintings deal with kidult and fairy tale "romanticism“ (Cassandra Neyenesch) as well as kawaii imagery and influences of Far Eastern spirituality.
    At Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin in 2011 she performed a space clearing, which could be considered either an empty room or "a purely transcendent exhibition“.
    She has works in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which holds her drawing The Saints in This World Are Watching (2003).


    Awards


    DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Grant
    Skowhegan Summer Residency Program


    Exhibitions




    = Solo exhibitions

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    2021 Easymagic123 (with Julia Jansen, poetry reading by Julia Mantel), Kunstverein Offenbach, Germany
    2020 Easymagic123 (with Julia Jansen), Baustelle Schaustelle Düsseldorf and Essen, Germany
    2019 Glam magic manufactoray (with René Luckhardt), Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    2018 Dia-Ikone (with René Luckhardt), Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt/Main, 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

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    2023 PORTRAIT I, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, Germany
    2023 FOYOU 7, Marienburg, Berlin, Germany
    2023 MISSTORY, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    2023 Alptraum at Polarraum, Hamburg, Germany
    2022 Hypnopomp, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
    2022 außer sich, inner ich, Inselgalerie Berlin, Germany
    2022 WAN(N) DA, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    2022 Essence of Color – Blue, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg, Germany
    2022 Kick Line, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig, Germany
    2022 North Oversee, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
    2021 100 unter 1000, Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
    2021 Popup Pickup, Works by 180 international artists on magnets, Lübeck, Germany
    2021 Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Cologne, Germany
    2020 Sweet Nothing Sweet, Kunstverein KISS, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Germany
    2020 (No)body is perfect, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
    2020 Alptraum, TAM Torrance Art Museum, California, USA
    2019 Voix, Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK), Leipzig, Germany
    2019 Paint: The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, UK
    2019 Alptraum, La Estacion Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico
    2018 AIM Project, Parallel Art Fair Vienna, Austria
    2018 Die Jahrhundert-Bar, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin, Germany
    2018 8 Frauen, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
    2018 Zündung, Turps Gallery, London, UK
    2018 Das Schöne Zimmer, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin, Germany
    2018 Painting XXL, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
    2018 Diaikone, Weißfrauenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
    2016 Animalism, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
    2016 Blanke Teile, Malerinnennetzwerk Berlin-Leipzig, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
    2015 1. Berlin Edition, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin, Germany
    2014 Die Leipziger Edition, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
    2014 Painting Was A Lady, Wonderloch Kellerland, New York City, USA
    2013 Berlin–Klondyke, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
    2012 Everywhere and Nowhere, Works from the Collection Reydan Weiss - Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
    2012 Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Project, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila, Philippines
    2012 Painting Was A Lady, Vienna Art Foundation, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
    2011 Soiree Matinee, Wonderloch Kellerland, Los Angeles, 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, 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


    References


    Museum of Modern Art / New York
    Skowhegan Art Registry
    MassArt Massachusetts College of Art and Design
    Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin


    Further reading


    New American Paintings, #74, Volume 13, Issue 1, The Open Studio Press, USA, February/March 2008
    ISSN 1066-2235
    Remastered, Sebastien Agneessens (Ed.), Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2006
    ISBN 978-389955164-8
    Bettina Sellmann, Galerie Kollmeier Essen (Werden), 2003 ISBN 3-00-012691-0
    Susan M. Canning, Tales of Wonder and Woe, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA, December 2008
    Roberta Smith, Girls Gone Wild, The New York Times, Art in Review, NYC, USA, July 4, 2003, page B-29


    Notes




    External links


    Artist's website
    ArtFacts.net information on Bettina Sellmann

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