Bettina – bettina semmer

Blut und Wasser

mit Maria Semmer, Galerie im Burggarten, Rothenburg o. d. Tauber, 2019

Common Ground

An exhibition of 20 artists, at Kühnemannstr. 51 for Berlin Art Week, Sept. 11-15 2019 by curator Almut Hüfler. Pictures by Klaus Mellenthin

Indrani Ashe (USA), Kris Douglas (USA), Ulrike Gerst (D), Tetiana Kashkarova (UA), Shannon Lewis (GB), Gaia Vittoria Marturano (IT), Tayoh Mori (Japan), Amalia Mourad (USA), Kuisoon Park (Südkorea), Kolja Amanda Richard (D), Nikola Richard (D), Nicola Rubinstein (D), Bettina Semmer (D), Diana Sprenger & Euan Williams (D/UK), Christina Tantsekidou (RUS/GR), Kiomi + Tetsuhiro Uozumi (Japan), Mana Urakami (Japan), Florian Wolf (D).

View from the entrance: Nikola Richard, Florian Wolf, Nicola Rubinstein, Sprenger & Williams

Amalia Mourad, Bettina Semmer, Shannon Lewis

Taiyoh Mori. Nikola Richard, Diana Sprenger & Euan Williams

Mana Urakami, Bettina Semmer, Gaia Marturano

Nikola Richard, Tayoh Mori, Ulrike Gerst

Kolja Amanda Richard, Kris Douglass, Bettina Semmer

Nicola Rubinstein, Amalia Mourad, Shannon Lewis

Sinnlich – Übersinnlich

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Monika Funke Stern und Bettina Semmer

zeigen Gemälde, Filme, Installationen
ERÖFFNUNG Donnerstag, 06. Juni 2019, 19:00 Uhr

BEGRÜSSUNG Jutta Pelz, Vorsitzende des BVBK e.V.

AUSSTELLUNGSDAUER 07. Juni – 07. Juli 2019

„Hexen – weibliche Selbstbestimmung“ von Bettina Semmer
27. Juni 2019, 17:00 – 18.30 Uhr Vortrag mit Diskussion

ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN Mi. – Fr. 11 – 17 Uhr, Sa. / So. 12 – 16 Uhr

“Sensual – Hypersensual”
Monika Funke Stern and Bettina Semmer are showing
Paintings, films, installations
OPENING Thursday, 06 June 2019, 19:00
WELCOME SPEECH Jutta Pelz, Chairman of BVBK e.V.

EXHIBITION DATE 07th June – 07th July 2019

“Witches – female self-determination”
June 27, 2019, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – a lecture by Bettina Semmerwith discussion

OPENING HOURS Wed – Fri 11am – 5pm, Sat./Saturday 12am – 4pm

PNN – Artikel von Sarah Kugler

https://m.pnn.de/kultur/erotik-und-hexen-in-der-potsdamer-galerie-m-lustvolle-weiblichkeit/24437442.html#layer

THE WITCH

A series of works based on old masters, feminist texts and body prints

What’s wrong with her now, 2019, 150 x 120 cm, acrylics on canvas

They call it love, we call it unpaid work, 2019, acrylics on canvas, 170 x 155

Feminism is class war, 2019, 40 x 38 cm, acrylics on canvas

Hell has no Fury, 2019, 170 x 150, acrylics on canvas

The Witches after Dürer, 2019, 200 x 150 cm, acrylics on canvas

Patriarchy is boring, 2019, 200 x 150 cm, acrylics on canvas

Stop being poor, 2019, 150 x 90cm, acrylics on canvas

Good wombs have born bad sons, 2019, 150 x 130 cm, acrylic on canvas

No god, no state, no patriarchy, 2019, 150 x 90 cm, acrylics on canvas

Old witch, young witch, 2019, 50 x 40 cm, oil on canvas

Dürer-Witch, 2019, 85 x 60, oil on canvas

THE WHITE GODDESS

Images and iconography in funerary contexts, and the ubiquity of her Phrygian name Matar (“Mother”), suggest that she was a mediator between the “boundaries of the known and unknown”: the civilized and the wild, the worlds of the living and the dead. Her association with hawks, lions, and the stone of the mountainous landscape of the Anatolian wilderness, seem to characterize her as mother of the land in its untrammeled natural state, with power to rule, moderate or soften its latent ferocity, and to control its potential threats to a settled, civilized life.

Draft, The White Goddess (Photoshop from previous paintings) 2018-19

preliminary work for The White Goddes, 2018, 160 x 400 each

Detail -White Goddess, work in prgress, egg tempera on canvas

The ruins of people's houses were caused by the heavy rainfalls of 2015, where adobe brick crumbled like sugar cubes under water. Not only the housing but food and medicine were destroyed, in some cases up to 95%.
The mural of Mariem Hassan made by me in 2015 on the outside of the women's union (UNMS) in the center of Boujdour, Tindouf, Algeria, was altered with the same stencils.