Bettina Sellmann – Biography

1971  in Munich
lives in Berlin

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1997 – 1999

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

Images of the exhibition Transforming Identity, 2024

Images of the exhibition Wan(n)da, 2023