Background
Bettina Pousttchi was born in 1971, in Mainz, Germany.
2018
Berlin, Germany
From left to right: Kimberly Emerson, John B. Emerson and Bettina Pousttchi at Gallery Weekend closing dinner at Postbahnhof.
University of Paris, Paris, France
During the period from 1990 till 1992, Bettina did her Studies in Fine Art at the University of Paris, which is also known as Sorbonne.
Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Between 1992 and 1997, Bettina did her Studies in Philosophy, Art and Film History at the University of Cologne
Universitätsstraße 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany
Between 1992 and 1997, Pousttchi did her Studies in Philosophy, Art and Film History, attending Ruhr University Bochum.
Eiskellerstraße 1, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
From 1995 till 1999, Bettina attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Bettina Pousttchi in her studio.
Bettina Pousttchi with one of her works at Art Basel 2012.
Berlin, Germany
Bettina Pousttchi in her Berlin studio with a study for her "World Time Clock" series, as well as other works in progress. Photo by Dawin Meckel.
Bettina Pousttchi was born in 1971, in Mainz, Germany.
During the period from 1990 till 1992, Bettina did her Studies in Fine Art at the University of Paris, which is also known as Sorbonne. Later, between 1992 and 1997, she did her Studies in Philosophy, Art and Film History, attending both the University of Cologne and Ruhr University Bochum.
In 1995, Bettina entered Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she studied under Professor Gerhard Merz and Professor Rosemarie Trockel until 1999. During the period from 1999 till 2000, Pousttchi also attended Whitney Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
Pousttchi has been exhibiting internationally since 2001 and had solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the Kunsthalle Basel and the Temporäre Kusthalle, Berlin. In 2003, she took part in Venice Biennale.
In 2008, she began one of her major projects, titled "World Time Clock", to accomplish which Bettina had traveled for eight years in the world's various time zones. "World Time Clock" covers all 24 full-hour time zones. The project took Pousttchi everywhere from Portugal to Brazil and even Siberia. In every city, that she visited, she photographed public clocks always at the same time — 1:55 pm. In 2016, Pousttchi completed the project.
Pousttchi made a name for herself, taking over art institutions, with architectural interventions like "Echo", a project, that covered the exterior of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin with 970 paper posters. Altogether, they formed a trompe l'oeil alternate facade, that of the former Palace of the Republic, which resided in that very location until it was torn down after the fall of East Germany. The project became a symbol of the reunified Germany, but in the eyes of many politicians, it was a symbol of the enemy, so it had to disappear and was torn down.
In 2016, Bettina was an artist in residence at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. The following year, in 2017, she realized the photo installation "Suspended Mies" at the Arts Club of Chicago.
Also, Bettina creates installations and sculptures with the use of everyday objects of urban space, like crowd barriers, street bollards and bicycle racks. For example, her sculpture series, titled "Double Monuments for Flavin and Tatlin", consists of deformed crowd barriers and neon tubes.
Currently, the artist lives and works in Berlin.
Bettina is a member of the Brutally Early Club (London).