Bettina Pousttchi

Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971) is a German artist. She has worked in photography, sculpture, video and site-specific installation.[1][2]

Bettina Pousttchi
Pousttchi with one of her works at Art Basel 2012
Born1971
NationalityGerman
Occupationartist
Websitepousttchi.com

Life

She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Rosemarie Trockel and Gerhard Merz. In the 1990s, she followed the Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.[2] She had work in the Venice Biennale in 2003 and again in 2009.[2] In 2014, she received the Kunstpreis der Stadt Wolfsburg of the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony.[3]

Work

In 2016–2017 her photographic series World Time Clock was shown at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; it consisted of twenty-four photographs of clock-faces, one from each of the major time zones of the world, and all taken at five minutes to two.[4]

Façades in public space

Since 2009, Bettina Pousttchi has been realizing photographic interventions on public buildings, which are related to the urban and historic context of each particular place. Her monumental photo installation Echo on Schlossplatz in Berlin covered the entire exterior façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle for half a year. Extending nearly 2,000 square meters, the installation consisted of 970 different paper posters, and formed a continuous motif that recalled the Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic), the building which had just been demolished on that very site.[5]

In 2014, the artist transformed the Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas into a Drive-Thru Museum, referencing the site's history and the architecture of the Renzo Piano building.[6] Her up to now largest photo installation to this point is The City (2014), which covered three sides of the Wolfsburg castle with a 2,150 square meter photographic print. The photomontage shows ten skyscrapers that have been the world's highest buildings, grouping them together into an imaginary single transnational skyline.[3]

On the occasion of her survey exhibition In Recent Years 2019-2020 at Berlinische Galerie, she transformed the entire glass facade of the museum with the photo installation Berlin Window.[7]

Konzerthaus Berlin commissioned the artist 2021 on the occasion of their bicentennial with the work, Amplifier transforming the historical building by Karl Friedrich Schinkel on Gendarmenmarkt.[8]

Collections

Examples of her work are held in various public collections, among them the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,[9][10] the Arts Club of Chicago,[11] the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas,[12] the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin,[13] the Albertina in Vienna, the Von-der-Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, as well as in the collection of the Federal Republic of Germany.[14] Another public collections of her work will be on Nasher Sculpture Center[6] for everyone to look at.

Exhibitions

References
  1. Bettina Pousttchi: In Recent Years. Berlin: Berlinische Galerie. Accessed October 2021.
  2. Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi. Dallas, Texas: Nasher Sculpture Center. Accessed October 2021.
  3. "Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg". english.staedtische-galerie-wolfsburg.de. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  4. Bettina Pousttchi: World Time Clock. Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Archived 17 January 2021.
  5. "VernissageTV Art TV - Bettina Pousttchi: Echo / Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin / Interview". Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  6. "Sightings: Bettina Pousttchi April 12, 2014 - August 17, 2014 | Exhibition - Nasher Sculpture Center". www.nashersculpturecenter.org. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  7. "Identity, Time and Space: Bettina Pousttchi — Mousse Magazine and Publishing". www.moussemagazine.it. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  8. "Bettina Pousttchi: Unveiling Amplifier, a Monumental Site-Specific Installation at Berlin's Konzerthaus". Artland Magazine. 11 June 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  9. "Bettina Pousttchi: World Time Clock". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  10. "Bettina Pousttchi: Double Monuments". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  11. "The Arts Club of Chicago » Exhibition Opening | Bettina Pousttchi: Suspended Mies". Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  12. Bettina Pousttchi: Double Monument For Flavin And Tatlin X, 2013. Dallas, Texas: Nasher Sculpture Center. Accessed October 2021.
  13. "Bettina Pousttchi". berlinischegalerie.de. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  14. Zeitblick: Ankäufe der Sammlung Zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1998–2008, Dumont 2008
  15. Intersections: Bettina Pousttchi. Washington, DC: The Phillips Collection. Accessed October 2021.
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