Bettina
Bettina (1927–2021), a conceptual artist born in Brooklyn, lived and worked in the Chelsea Hotel from the 1970s until her death, creating a substantial body of work over several decades. She took a systematic approach to her prolific and rigorous body of work, rejecting the logic of the singular art object. “Each work is but an element in a process to be woven into a vast world of interrelational hidden meanings,” she writes, “whereby each is relative to the other, incidental to each other, interdependent upon each other, unified and shaped according to each other, materialized according to each other into a greater whole.” Bettina’s work becomes interconnected through repetition and coincidence within and across her many interdisciplinary projects, which span painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, drawing, photography, text, book making, and more. “Using strategies of documentation, accumulation, and organization, she seeks out pattern in everyday life in order to reveal hidden structures that shape the world around us,” writes Marina Caron.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Ulrik, New York (2024), Césure, Festival d’Automne, Paris (2023); The Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2023); and Les Recontres d’Arles (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2023), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2023), GREATER NEW YORK, MoMA PS1, New York (2021), and A RAFT, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021). The monograph Bettina was published in 2022 by Aperture, New York, and Atelier EXB, Paris. This book was developed by Yto Barrada and designer Gregor Huber in collaboration with Bettina up until her death in November 2021.
CV
Selected Press
NEW YORK: 1965–86
Works
Bettina (1927–2021), a conceptual artist born in Brooklyn, lived and worked in the Chelsea Hotel from the 1970s until her death, creating a substantial body of work over several decades. She took a systematic approach to her prolific and rigorous body of work, rejecting the logic of the singular art object. “Each work is but an element in a process to be woven into a vast world of interrelational hidden meanings,” she writes, “whereby each is relative to the other, incidental to each other, interdependent upon each other, unified and shaped according to each other, materialized according to each other into a greater whole.” Bettina’s work becomes interconnected through repetition and coincidence within and across her many interdisciplinary projects, which span painting, printmaking, sculpture, film, drawing, photography, text, book making, and more. “Using strategies of documentation, accumulation, and organization, she seeks out pattern in everyday life in order to reveal hidden structures that shape the world around us,” writes Marina Caron.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Ulrik, New York (2024), Césure, Festival d’Automne, Paris (2023); The Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson (2023); and Les Recontres d’Arles (2022). Recent group exhibitions include Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2023), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2023), GREATER NEW YORK, MoMA PS1, New York (2021), and A RAFT, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021). The monograph Bettina was published in 2022 by Aperture, New York, and Atelier EXB, Paris. This book was developed by Yto Barrada and designer Gregor Huber in collaboration with Bettina up until her death in November 2021.
CV
Selected Press
NEW YORK: 1965–86
Works
