ALL TOGETHER NOW III

Ariane Boss, Dietmar Brixy, Marion Eichmann, Persis Eisenbeis, Matthias Garff, Harald Gnade, Sue Hayward, Johannes Hepp, Heike Jeschonnek, Michael Lauterjung, Volker März, Ellen Mäder-Gutz, Sabine Ostermann, Bettina Sellmann, Rubica von Streng, Armin Völckers, Sador Weinsclucker, Uwe Wohlmacher Nov 21, 2025 – Jan 17, 2026 Opening: December 4, 2025 7 pm Galerie Tammen Hedemannstr. 14 10969 […]
JENSEITS VON EDEN

Opening: November 9, 2024 6 pm Duration of show: November 9 – November 30, 2024 Neurotitan Gallery c/o Haus Schwarzenberg Rosenthaler Str. 39, 2. HH, 10178 Berlin Mo–Sat 12–8 pm Click here: Neurotitan Gallery
5 YEARS GALERIE SCHINDLER

Opening: October 16, 2024 7 pm Duration of show: October 17 – November 23, 2024 Galerie Schindler Charlottenstr. 86 14467 Potsdam Wed 12–4 pm Thur/Fri 12–6 pm Sat 12–4 pm Click here: Galerie Schindler
Susan M. Canning, in: Tales of Wonder and Woe, exhibition catalogue, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA, December 2008

Bettina Sellmann’s paintings Snow White and The Clearing Snow White with her “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair black as the wood on the window frame,” presents women with a typography of beauty defined by contemplation and purity. The narrative of this tale revolves around a conflict in the […]
Corinna Ripps Schaming, in: Flicker, exhibition brochure, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, 2006

Bettina Sellmann’s paintings evoke the conventions of Old Master portraits, conveying a sense of both mourning and desire articulated through familiar painterly conceits. Using multi-layered, translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and Day-Glo yellows and greens, Sellmann renders delicate watercolors on canvas in which solidity and form immediately break into fluid distortions. By peeling […]
Ann Wilson Lloyd, in: Figuratively Seeing, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2009

Inspired by art historical imagery, Bettina Sellmann creates what she calls “see-through versions” of Old Master paintings. Using watercolor, Sellmann soaks the canvas with pigments to build up veil-like matte layers, punctuated with a few deftly drawn lines. Her minimalist approach belies a Baroque influence, in the drenched and deep colors that accent her sinuous […]
Bettina Sellmann. Taina. Cosmogeny. make your own paper dragon, in: NYAB Event, Nov. 2008
Bettina Sellmann. Taina. Cosmogeny. make your own paper dragon. In: NYAB Event, Nov. 2008