* Munich, Germany
1992-1997 Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany with Jörg Immendorff, Christa Näher, Thomas Bayrle
1995 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1997 Master Student of Thomas Bayrle (Meisterschülerin)
1997 Skowhegan Summer Residency Program, Maine, USA
1999-2002 Hunter College, New York City, USA (Master of Fine Arts)
1998-2009 New York City and Brooklyn, New York, USA
since 2010 lives and works in Berlin
Collections
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art),New York City, USA Bettina Sellmann @ MoMA Collection
Deutsche Bank Collection
Olbricht Collection
Oberfinanzdirektion Frankfurt am Main
International private collections
Grants
1995 Erasmus Grant for Paris
1997 Skowhegan Summer Residency Program, Maine, USA (full scholarship)
1999 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) – Year Grant
2020 Sonderstipendium des Berliner Senats (Special Grant by the Senate of Berlin)
2022 Kunstfonds Stipendium Neustart Kultur
Solo Shows
2021
Easymagic123 (with Julia Jansen, poetry reading by Julia Mantel), Kunstverein Offenbach, Germany
2020
Easymagic123 (with Julia Jansen), Baustelle Schaustelle Essen, Germany
Easymagic123 (with Julia Jansen), Baustelle Schaustelle Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
Glam magic manufactoray (with René Luckhardt), Oberfinanzdirektion, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (Catalogue)
2018
Dia-Ikone (with René Luckhardt), Weißfrauen Diakoniekirche, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2017
Punktlandung (with Damien Hirst), Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Hello Color, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
2016
It´s already there, One-single-artwork-show, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, German
2015
US Paintings, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Location 1, Berlin, Germany
US Paintings, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Location 2, Berlin, Germany
Spiral, Square and Dickie-Bow, Wolfstädter Galerie, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2013
Magic Every Day, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
To Queen Luise & Young-Wilhelm, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
2012
Chocanaub (with Eva Schwab), Phoenix BB, Berlin, Germany
2011
Bettina Sellmann @ Kaisersaal, ISI/Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany
Templeloch Space Clearing, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
2009
Taina, cosmogeny, make your own paper dragon, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
Galerie Frank Schlag, Essen, Germany
2006
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
Armor & Etiquette, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Drawings, Derek Eller Gallery, Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2003
Catalogue Presentation, Micky Schubert presents @ bureau outernational, Berlin, Germany
How Do You Like: The World Is Dreaming You, Galerie Beate Kollmeier, Essen, Germany (Catalogue)
2001
LULU, Galerie Beate Kollmeier, Essen, Germany
2000
Galerie Beate Kollmeier, Essen, Germany
1996
Sleeping Beauty, Looking at the Stars, Praying for Protection, Galerie Fruchtig, Frankfurt, Germany
Group Shows
2023
PORTRAIT I, Galerie Tammen, Berlin
MISSTORY, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main
Alptraum at Polarraum, Hamburg
2022
100 unter 1000, Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
Hypnopomp, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
außer sich, inner ich, Inselgalerie Berlin, Germany
WAN(N) DA, Galerie Greulich, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Essence of Color – Blue, Städtische Galerie im Leeren Beutel, Regensburg, Germany
Kick Line, Thaler Originalgrafik, Leipzig, Germany
North Oversee, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
2021
100 unter 1000, Schindler LAB, Potsdam, Germany
Popup Pickup, Works by 180 international artists on magnets, Lübeck, Germany
Stubenausstellung, Kunstraum Dietz, Cologne, Germany
2020
Sweet Nothing Sweet, Kunstverein KISS, Abtsgmünd-Untergröningen, Germany (Catalogue)
(No)body is perfect, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Alptraum, TAM Torrance Art Museum, California, USA
2019
Voix, Museum of Fine Arts (MdbK), Leipzig, Germany (Catalogue)
Paint: The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, UK
Alptraum, La Estacion Gallery, Chihuahua, Mexico
2018
AIM Project, Parallel Art Fair Vienna, Austria
Die Jahrhundert-Bar, Projektraum Ventilator, Berlin, Germany
8 Frauen, Galerie 21.06, Ravensburg, Germany
Zündung, Turps Gallery, London, UK
Das Schöne Zimmer, Alexander Ochs Private, Berlin, Germany
Painting XXL, Ausstellungshalle 1A, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Painting XXL, Galerie Leuenroth, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2017
Farbauftrag, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany (Catalogue)
Painting XX, Kunsthalle der Sparkassenstiftung, Lüneburg, Germany (Catalogue)
Berlin–Klondyke, UGM Studio, Maribor, Slovenia
Under Influence, Galerie Dukan, Leipzig, Germany
2016
Animalism, Galerie Bernd Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria
Alptraum, RAE space for contemporary art, Berlin, Germany
Blanke Teile, Schaufenster, Berlin, Germany
2015
1. Berlin Edition, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Into the Neon Light, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin
Works in White, Schaufenster, Berlin
Navigare necesse est, Schaufenster, Berlin
Kasablanka, Rumbalotte, Berlin
2014
Berlin–Klondyke – Die Leipziger Edition, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, Germany
Alptraum, Salon de Lirio, Goa, India
Helloween, The Idling Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Painting Was A Lady, Wonderloch Kellerland, New York City, USA
Romantica, Emotional Rescue Shows, Berlin, Germany
Alte Sachlichkeit, Emotional Rescue Shows, Berlin, Germany
Video Screening, Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Artists and Merchandising, Das Kunstbüro, Aarhus, Denmark
Alptraum, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, Slovenia
Unknown Masterpieces, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
2013
Pophits & Alptraum, Artspace RheinMain, Offenbach
Heike Kelter, René Luckhardt, Bettina Sellmann, Galerie Kollmeier, Essen, Germany
Imaginäre Lösungen – In diesem Sinne III, Munikat, München, Germany
Imaginäre Lösungen – In diesem Sinne I, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, Germany
Berlin–Klondyke, Hipphalle, Gmunden, Österreich
The Fantastic Painting Show, 547 W 27th St, New York, NY, USA
Berlin–Klondyke, Spinnerei Leipzig, Germany
Gegenwart, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Alptraum, Projektraum Balken, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012
Everywhere and Nowhere, Works from the Collection Reydan Weiss – Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany
Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Project, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manila
Painting Was A Lady, Vienna Art Foundation, Kunstraum am Schauplatz, Vienna, Austria
Painting Was A Lady, Kreuzbergpavillion, Kassel, Germany
Painting Was A Lady, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
Artists Merchandising Art, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany
Artists Merchandising Art, Atelier Reflexe, Paris, France
Miniature, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin, Germany
Artists Merchandising Art, What The Shop, Vienna, Austria
Artists Merchandising Art, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
2011
Gästezimmer, Atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Grandmother Bodhisattva, Galerie Seiler, Munich, Germany
Soiree Matinee, Wonderloch Kellerland, Los Angeles, USA
The Magic Sexy Templeloch of Wonderspirit, Wonderloch Kellerland, Berlin, Germany
2010
Dirty Light, Forgotten Bar, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Talk Show, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009
Glam Shackle & Spice, SATORI Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Golden Record, g39 Gallery, Cardiff, UK
The Golden Record, The Collection, The Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
Drawn, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Figuratively Seeing, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, USA
Tales of Wonder and Woe, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA
2008
Nada Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
My Generation, Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Jahrgang Rausch, atelierfrankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Golden Record, The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Forms of Figuration, cur. by Dinaburg Arts, Clifford Chance, New York, NY, USA
2007
Betonwurst und andere Teamgeister, After the Butcher, Berlin, Germany
2006
Nada Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Flicker, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, USA
2005
Hello Sunday, Sixtyseven Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Honeymoon with Romeo, Groeflin Maag Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Lolita, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Hope Auction, Gavin Brown Passerby, New York, NY, USA
2004
Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003
Drawings, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Girls Gone Wild, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002
Summer 2002, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001
Groupshow, American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
2000
Bi-Virtue, Star 67, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1996
Klubhaus, curated by Kasper König, Allianz-Versicherung, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Teaching
2010–present kinderKUNSTmagistrale e.V. Berlin
2014–2017 Schwabenakademie Irsee
2003 State University of New York at Osweg
