{"id":14512,"count":0,"description":"Bettina Semmer\nBorn on February 15, 1955 in D\u00fcsseldorf\n\nBettina Semmer is a German visual artist who originally studied German and social sciences. She began her artistic training in M\u00fcnster in 1975 and continued it in 1976 at the Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende Kunst (HfBK) in Hamburg, in the class of Sigmar Polke, Walter and Neumann, with a guest semester at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf in the class of Gerhard Richter. In 1992 she obtained her Master of Fine Arts (MA) at Goldsmiths College in London. Semmer is one of the Neue Wilde artists of the 1980s and has appeared in group exhibitions and collaborations with artists such as Rosemarie Trockel and Jutta Koether. Since 2009, she has been involved in art projects, films and a human rights symposium in the Western Sahara for dOCUMENTA (13) via Artifariti. In 2010 she founded \u201cSemmer-Berlin, project space and gallery\u201d. Bettina Semmer has a daughter and lives and works in Berlin.\n\nSolo exhibitions:\n\n1982: Mural. Buch-Handlung Welt, Hamburg\n1983: K\u00fcnstlerhaus Hamburg, Hamburg\n1984: Forum-Messe, Zurich\n1985: Four pictures. Gallery Ascan Crone, Hamburg\n1985: Josh Baer Gallery, New York\n1986: Interim Art, Maureen O. Paley, London\n1988: Forum Fair, Hamburg\n1988: Sevilla, Gallery Bleich-Rossi, Graz\n1990: La Maquina Espa\u00f1ola, Seville\n1997: Swiss Bank Corporation, Baden-Baden\n2000: Assisted Painting Series, Spacex Gallery, Exeter\n2000: UBS, Baden-Baden\n2002: Hollow and Empty, The Fish House Gallery, London\n2006: Straw to Gold, Gallery 33, Berlin\n2007: still., Club von Berlin, Berlin\n2008: Portrait painting, Kornh\u00e4uschen, Aschaffenburg\n2014: A stunning Left Hook, Semmer-Berlin, Berlin\n2014: The center is the edge, Dat-Galerie, Berlin\nGroup exhibitions:\n\n1982: Frauenkunst. (with Johanna Kandl), Fettstra\u00dfe 7A, Hamburg\n1984: Ziehe Vor.... (with Rosemarie Trockel), Kunstwoche Bonn, Bonn\n1984: La femme et l'art., Triennale, Le Landeron\n1985: Peinture Allemande. (with Jutta Koether and Rosemarie Trockel), La Grande Serre, Rouen\n1985: Koether, Semmer, Trockel, La Maquina Espa\u00f1ola, Seville\n1986: Women's Art, exhibition space Rainer Fichel, Hamburg\n1987: Balcony, K\u00fcnstlerhaus Munich\n1987: Diedrich Diederichsen, Forum Stadtpark, Graz\n1988: Broken Neon, Forum Stadtpark, Graz\n1991: Hamburg Abroad, EVAC, Ipswich\n1992: What about having our meanings back, Goldsmiths' Gallery, London\n2000: Kunst Knast, Society of Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden\n2001: Action Audience Joker, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden\n2002: Fluent - Painting and Words, Camberwell College, London\n2003: Double Bind., K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin\n2004: Double Bind., Kunsthalle Bremen\n2010: Arbitrariness with contrast, exhibition space Transient, Berlin\n2012: Parade Pieces, Sacrow Castle\n2012: The Africa Triangle, Potsdam\n2013: End, Kunstverein Schwerin\n2014: Fascination and Facade, Moments of Artistic Intervention\n2015: THE 80S., St\u00e4del Museum, Frankfurt am Main\n2018\/19: The Invention of the New Wild Ones - Painting and Subculture around 1980, Ludwig Forum, Aachen\nPublications\n1985: Four pictures. (Foreword by Diedrich Diederichsen), Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg\n1987: Balcony. (with Johanna Hess, Ika Huber, Johanna Kandl, Jutta Koether, Michaela Meli\u00e1n, Rosemarie Trockel), K\u00fcnstlerhaus Munich\n1988: Sevilla, Graz: Galerie Bleich-Rossi\n2000: Assisted Painting Series, Exeter: Spacex Gallery\n2004: Schlachtensee, Berlin\n2006: Portraits 1995-2005., Berlin\n2023: Monograph Bettina Semmer, VFMK Verlag f\u00fcr moderne Kunst GmbH, Vienna\nFilmography\n1979: The Grave of Walter Benjamin, Super 8 on video\n1980: Gesagt Getan, 16 mm\n1981: River of No Return, 16 mm\n2010: The Weeping Girl, digital video\n2017: And doesn't have to be like this... Gerd Semmer's rebuttals, documentary","link":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/c\/artist-en-2\/bettina-semmer-en\/","name":"Bettina SEMMER","slug":"bettina-semmer-en","taxonomy":"product_cat","parent":1857,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/14512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/product_cat"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat\/1857"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/collection.galerie-gerdes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?product_cat=14512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}