Bettina Sellmann – Biography
1971 in Munich
lives in Berlin
Studies
1992-1997
Städelschule Frankfurt am Main bei Jörg Immendorff, Christa Näher und Thomas Bayrle
1995
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1997
Meisterschülerin bei Thomas Bayrle
1997
Skowhegan Summer Residency Program, Maine, USA
1999-2002
Hunter College, New York City, USA (Master of Fine Arts)
1998-2009
New York City and Brooklyn, NY, USA
Solo Shows and 2 Person Shows
2024
Guiltlessness, Galerie Schindler, Potsdam, Germany
EASYMAGIC123, (with Julia Jansen, poetry reading by Julia Mantel), Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus, Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany
EASYMAGIC123, (with Julia Jansen, poetry reading by Julia Mantel), Kunstverein Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
2021
EASYMAGIC123 (with Julia Jansen, poetry reading by Julia Mantel), Kunstverein Offenbach, Germany
2020
EASYMAGIC123 (with Julia Jansen), Baustelle Schaustelle Essen, Germany
EASYMAGIC123 (with Julia Jansen), Baustelle Schaustelle Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
Glam magic manufactoray (with René Luckhardt), Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (Catalogue)
2018
Dia-Ikone (with René Luckhardt), Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2017
Punktlandung (with Damien Hirst), Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Hello Color, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
2016
It´s already there, One-single-artwork-show, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, German
2015
US Paintings, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Location 1, Berlin, Germany
US Paintings, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Location 2, Berlin, Germany
Spiral, Square and Dickie-Bow, Wolfstädter Galerie, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Group Shows
2024
Titel folgt, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Dec.)
Touchée, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
2023
All Together Now, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, Germany
PORTRAIT I, Galerie Tammen, Berlin, Germany
FOYOU 7, FOYOU-Space, Marienburg, Berlin, Germany
MISSTORY, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
Alptraum at Polarraum, Polarraum, Hamburg
2022
Essence of Color – Blue, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Musea of the City of Regensburg, Germany (Catalogue)
WAN(N) DA, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
außer sich – inner ich, Inselgalerie Berlin, Germany
Kickline, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig, Germany
North Oversee, Kunsthalle Wilhemshaven, Germany
100 unter 1000, Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
Hypnopomp, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
2021
Popup Pickup, Works by 180 international artists on magnets, Lübeck, Germany
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Cologne, Germany
100 unter 1000, Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
2020
Sweet Nothing Sweet, Kunstverein KISS, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Germany (Catalogue)
(No)body is perfect, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Alptraum, TAM Torrance Art Museum, California, USA
2019
Voix, Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK), Leipzig, Germany (Catalogue)
Paint: The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, UK
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Köln, Germany
Alptraum, La Estacion Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico
Alptraum, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, Arizona, USA
2018
Das Schöne Zimmer, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin, Germany
Painting XXL, Ausstellungshalle 1A, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Painting XXL, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Zündung, Turps Gallery, London, UK
8 Frauen, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Die Jahrhundert-Bar, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin, Germany
AIM I Project, Parallel Art Fair Vienna, Austria
2017
Farbauftrag, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
Painting XX, Kunsthalle der Sparkassenstiftung, Lüneburg, Germany (Catalogue)
Berlin–Klondyke, UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia
Berlin–Klondyke, SOEHT 7, Berlin, Germany
Under Influence, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany
2016
Animalism, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Alptraum, RAE space for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
Blanke Teile, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
2015
1. Berlin Edition, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Into the Neon Light, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin
Works in White, Schaufenster, Berlin
Navigare necesse est, Schaufenster, Berlin
Kasablanka, Rumbalotte, Berlin
Collections
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art),New York City, USA
Deutsche Bank Collection
Olbricht Collection
Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt am Main
International private collections
Awards
2022
Kunstfonds Neustart-Stipendium (New Start Grant by the Kunstfonds Bonn)
2020
Sonderstipendium des Berliner Senats (Special Grant by the Senate of Berlin)
1999
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) – Year Grant for New York City
1997
Skowhegan Summer Residency Program, Maine, USA (full scholarship)
1995
Erasmus Grant for Paris