Bettina HOFFMANN

Bettina HOFFMANN

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Born in 1964. Graduated from Master of fine arts, Hochschule der Künste (University of the Arts) in 1992.
Her work was exhibited in group and solo shows in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, United Kingdom, Rumania, South Korea, the USA and Canada.
Solo exhibitions include Touch at gallery Occurrence, Montreal, 2016, Drain, gallery Oboro, Montreal, 2014; Émile, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2009; Décalage at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Kristi Engel gallery, Los Angeles in 2008 and at Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, gallery Dazibao, 2007.
Group exhibitions include In Between Frames, Muzeul National de Arta Contemporana, Bucharest, Romania, 2011, PHOTODIMENSIONAL, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA, 2009, The Quebec Triennial. Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada and Intrus/Intruder, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2008.
Her performance Isolation was shown at Tangente in Montreal in 2014 and she participated in the 2015 New York Fringe Festival with a collaborative theatre piece Curing the Void.
She received numerous grants and her photo and video work is part of several public collections in the USA, Canada and Germany.

About works / performance

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Parked 2011
Series of 8 photographs, each print 56 cm x 75 cm, Lambdaflex, facemounted on acrylic
Right: Parked - Honda Civic, Left: Parked - Jeep Cherokee Sport

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Drain video stills, 2012
Video, HD, NTSC, 9 min, looped

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Exhibition Drain at Oboro, Montreal, 2014
Videos Drain and Exit

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Close at Hand/Touchvideo stills, 2014
HDV, NTSC, 4 min, looped


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Videos Hold and Suicidewarp
Exhibition at Occurence, Montreal, 2016

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Hold video stills, 2015
HDV, NTSC, 5:23 min, looped

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Freitod - Interference with happy memories
Performance and video installation, 2016, HD, 9 min, looped


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Freitod - Interference with happy memories
Video stills, HD

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Suicidewarp
3 video stills 2016, HD, 6 min, looped

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