Bettina Pousttchi

Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971 in Mainz ) is a German - Iranian artist. She lives and works in Berlin.

Life

Bettina Pousttchi spent her childhood in Germany and occasionally in Iran. She studied art from 1990 to 1992 at the University of Paris VIII, 1992-1997 philosophy, art history and film theory at the universities of Cologne and Bochum. 1995 to 1999 she was a student of Prof. Rosemarie Trockel and Prof. Gerhard Merz at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. 1999/2000 she graduated from the renowned Whitney Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Mary Kelly, Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh among their teachers. After they had assisted some time for other artists ( among others Nam June Paik ) it since 1997 represents itself in national and international art institutions. She was twice at the Venice Biennale (2003, 2009). Her works are in numerous private and public collections, including the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 2014, she received the Wolfsburg Art Prize.

Work

Bettina Pousttchi works in the media of photography, video and sculpture.

Facades

Since 2009, Bettina realized Pousttchi photographic interventions in public space. Her most extensive work is the monumental photo installation Echo on the Schlossplatz in Berlin, which covered the entire exterior facade of the Temporary Kunsthalle for a period of six months. The nearly 2,000 m² large photo installation consisted of 970 individual posters made ​​of paper and formed a revolving motif, reminiscent of the there just demolished Palast der Republik and let him rise again for half a year from September 2009 to March 2010 quasi again. During Art Basel 2010, she pointed at the facade of the Hall 2 300 m² photo installation Basel Time referring to the impending demolition of the hall as part of a redesign of the Basel trade fair venue. The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt showed April-June 2012 in the rotunda and on the east facade site-specific photo installation framework, the starting point is the historical and urban context of the Schirn Kunsthalle. In May 2013, it realized the photo installation " Windows Piccadilly " on the building of the gallery Hauser & Wirth in London.

Photography

Her most important photographic works include not only the architectural interventions such as echo (2009/ 10) and Framework ( 2012), the photo series World Time Clock ( 2008-2014 ) Parachutes (2007 ) Take Off (2005) and Strong State ( 2003). Typical of her photographs are in the post pasted blurring, often visible as a horizontal black and white lines. The use of this visual code opens up the question of the documentary value of photography for Bettina Pousttchi. To this end, the artist himself says: " The blur in my photos open up a realm of possibilities of the imagination. For me this includes the question of what reality is, whether and how they can be mapped and how we perceive reality. "

Video

Became known Bettina Pousttchi with the video works on Good Neighbors (1999) and The Catherine - Show ( 2000). In the created by her hybrid genre of documentary clips she excels in the form of a video clip portraits of people in their everyday lives and also questioned the reality of this right of the genre documentary. Since 2003, her video works have been increasingly ground covering. To use the video sculpture Landing 2006 ten monitors and safety gate 25 to create an atmosphere of enigmatic uncertainty, in which the observer poles must situate freedom and security itself.

Sculpture

A common element in the sculptures of the artist are Barriers and street posts from the public space, which they transformed into the tradition of the art object. 2009 formed Bettina Pousttchi two bent Barrier completely in transparent glass by the sculpture Cleared ( 2009), which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in the exhibition glass stress. The working group Double Monuments for Flavin and Tatlin was the first of five rooms in their comprehensive solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel 2011 dedicated, curated by Adam Szymczyk. The Barrier address the question of borders, the forces acting there and the transformative power that lies in their resolution. Again, the claim of the artist continues on an interdisciplinary artistic practice in a transnational perspective.

Collaborations

Bettina Pousttchi is a member of the Brutally Early Club, which was founded by Hans -Ulrich Obrist and Markus Miessen in London in 2006. This salon is in the form of spontaneous meetings in public cafes in London, Berlin, Paris or New York. Current issues on art, literature and science are discussed in the morning at 6:30 clock there. Moreover, they realized installations with architect Markus Miessen and the artist Rosemarie Trockel and starred in a film by Lawrence Weiner ( How Far is There, 1999). With Daniel Buren in 2010, she realized a video interview for artistic practice in public space Conversations in the Studio # 3

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2014 Nasher Sculpture Center ( solo)
• Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg ( solo)

• KölnSkulptur # 6, Cologne Sculpture Park
• Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden -Baden

• Palm Springs Art Museum, The Galen, Palm Springs

• Kunsthalle Detroit
• Bold Tendencies, Peckham Carpark, London
• Georg -Kolbe- Museum, Berlin

• Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Western China International Art Biennale, Yinchuan Arts Center, Yinchuan
• Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem

• Kunstmuseum Thun
• TENT, Center for Visual Arts, Rotterdam
• 53th Biennale di Venezia
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Kunstverein Hannover
• Kunsthalle Mainz

• Martin -Gropius -Bau, Berlin
• Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem

• Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
• Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
• Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury

• Collection Falkenberg, Hamburg
• Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• The Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik

• Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund ( solo)

• Haus der Kunst, Munich

• 50th Biennale di Venezia

• Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen

• Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany (solo )
• Fridericianum, Kassel

Awards and Scholarships

• 2014 Wolfsburg Art "Young City sees Young Art "
• 2008 Train Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, Balmoral Residency, University of the Arts, London
• 2007 BBAX - Berlin Buenos Aires Art Exchange, Buenos Aires
• 2005 Provincial funding project
• 2000 Arts Foundation NRW