Bettina Sellmann

Bettina Sellmann (born 1971) is a German artist.

From 1992 to 1997 Sellmann studied and graduated as Meisterschülerin (Master) at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 1999 she was awarded a DAAD grant for New York City, where she lived and worked until 2009. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sellmann also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, NYC.

In her paintings Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas technique in "candy colored acrylic tones (bonbonbunte Acryltöne)" and “multi-layers of translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and acidic yellows and greens“. Works of her have been described as “see-through versions of Old Master paintings ... gone translucent and ethereal“, "particular reverie-inducers“, exploring “the other side of pink“.

Recent paintings deal with kidult and fairy tale "romanticism“ (Cassandra Neyenesch) as well as kawaii imagery and influences of Far Eastern spirituality.

At Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin in 2011 she performed a space clearing, which could be considered either an empty room or "a purely transcendent exhibition“.

She has works in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Grant

Skowhegan Summer Residency Program

New American Paintings, #74, Volume 13, Issue 1, The Open Studio Press, USA, February/March 2008 ISSN 1066-2235

Remastered, Sebastien Agneessens (Ed.), Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin 2006 ISBN 

Bettina Sellmann, Galerie Kollmeier Essen (Werden), 2003 ISBN 

Susan M. Canning, Tales of Wonder and Woe, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA, December 2008

Roberta Smith, Girls Gone Wild, The New York Times, Art in Review, NYC, USA, July 4, 2003, page B-29

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