Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions
2014/15 Bettina Reiber - A Residency, Brantwood, Coniston, Lake District.
2004 Minotaur, SOAS, London.
2004 Commemoration, Christ Church College, Canterbury.
2003 Definite Traces, IrregularArtBeat, London.
2002 Drawing Power, Central Club, London.
2001 Open @ ArtSpace, ArtSpace, London.
2000 Painting is Life, Artwall Projects, London.
Group Exhibitions
2016 Spring 2016, Free Painters and Sculptors, Fitzrovia Gallery, London.
2015 Members Exhibition, Free Painters and Sculptors, Menier Gallery, London.
2014 Open, Members Exhibition, Free Painters and Sculptors, Menier Gallery, London.
2014 Missing Narrative, Members Exhibition, Free Painters and Sculptors, Menier Gallery, London.
2014 Breathe, Whitepeaks Fine Art, The Elecricians Warehouse, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.
2013 Without Boundaries, Free Painters and Sculptors, Menier Gallery, London.
2012 Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London.
2012 Ruskin Prize Exhibition, A New Look at Nature, Brantwood, Coniston, Lake District.
2010 Being-in-the-World and Drawing, University of Brighton.
2010 Cross Current 03.6, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London.
2010 Bodies, Newington Green Unitarian Church, London.
2010 The Beginning of Something, drawing collaboration, Siobhan Davies Studios, London.
2009 Joined Up, Contemporary Collaborative Drawing, Vault Gallery, Lancaster.
2009 Pictures @ Open House London, Newington Green Unitarian Church, London.
2009 On CDOs and Double Club, AUGUST art, London.
2006 Psyche and Imagination, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London.
2005 May Fete, Cecil Sharp House, London.
2004 Querschnitt 17, Berlin, Germany.
2004 Forms - Nature, Architecture and Mind, Banbury, Oxford.
2004 direct / indirect, a rhizomeculture project, Chefchaouen, Morocco.
2003 The Derelict Sensation, a Pangaea project, Midland Grand Hotel, London.
2003 The Big Draw, Natural History Museum, London.
2003 Drawing Power, Business Design Centre, London.
2003 Day-Mer Festival for Peace, Clissold Park, London.
2003 The Unmentionables, Boulevard, London.
2003 Stokefest 2003, Clissold Park, London.
2003 The Derelict Sensation, film night, 291, London.
2003 Fabric of the Feminine 2, Poetry Cafe, London.
2003 Mutiny, Lost Property Arts, Barge House, London.
2003 Grand, Midland Grand Hotel, London.
2002 Unlock the Red Door, St. Pancras Parish Church, London.
2002 Mindscape, Stoke Newington Festival, London.
2002 Fabric of the Feminine, Poetry Cafe, London.
2002 Springboard @ ArtSpace, ArtSpace, London.
2001 The Big Grid, Stoke Newington Festival, London.
2001 Challenge the Nail, Salon des Arts, Kensington, London.
2001 Witness, Stoke Newington Festival, London.
2001 360°, Lost Property Arts, The Roundhouse, Camden, London.
1999 Grand Opening Exhibition, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art & Craft Gallery.
1999 Nanostate Reading Room, The Golders Green Club, London.
1998 Winter Auction, Proud Galleries, London.
1998 Digital Images, Proud Galleries, Edinburgh Festival, and The Only Place for Pictures, London.
1998 Summerexposure, Proud Galleries, London.
1998 Beachside Bazaar, Islington International Festival, London.
1997 Wintershow, Sackville Gallery, London.
1997 Erotica, Olympia, London.
1997 Paintings and Drawings, Wolfson College, Oxford.
1997 Pure Thoughts, Sackville Gallery, London.
1997 Galerie Makart Gasse, Vienna, Austria.
1996 Publication of drawings in: Her Mind’s Eye, Pyramid Press, London.
1996 Rebound, The Modern Print Gallery, Wirksworth, UK.
1996 À Suivre, The Tannery, London; L’H de Siège, Valenciennes, France; Castello di Bruni, Italy;
curated by Acte de Naissance.
1996 Rebound, Site Gallery, Sheffield.
1995 Cyberstamps: Artistamps in Cyberspace, ArtistampGallery.
1995 The Way We Live Now, Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton.
1995 Publication of drawings in Body:Image, Artists’ Cooperative, Stoke-on-Trent.
1995 Sex, Health and Education, Cooltan Arts, London.
1995 ’95 Sorak Internationale Biennale, Sorak, Korea.
1995 Outpost Venice, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
1995 The 227th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
1995 Bodies, Bedales Gallery, London.
1994 First International Biennale of Female Artists’ Art, Stockholm, Sweden.
1994 The Art Show, Alexandra Palace, London.
1994 Phoebe Llewellyn Smith Award, Lethaby Gallery, Central St. Martins College, London.
Publications about Exhibitions and Exhibition Catalogues
Bettina Reiber - A Residency, The Brantwood Trust, book publication, 2014.
Exhibition catalogue: Joined Up, Contemporary Collaborative Drawing, The VAULT Gallery, Lancaster, 2009.
Banbury Guardian, 7 October, 2004.
The Independent, September 25, 2004.
Exhibition catalogue: Querschnitt 17, Verein für Kunst und Kultur, Berlin, 2004.
Time Out London, October 29 - November 4, 2003.
Time Out London, June 4 -10, 2003.
Time Out London, January 15 -21, 2003.
Time Out London, November 13 -20, 2002.
Highbury & Islington Express, 4 October, 2002.
Artists & Illustrators, September, 2002.
Rowan Newsletter, Spring/Summer, 2002.
Time Out London, April 24 - May 1, 2002.
a-n Magazine for Artists, November, 2001.
Art Monthly, November, 2001.
Angel magazine, November, 2001.
Briefing, November, 2001.
BBC World Service, interview, June, 2001.
Exhibition catalogue: Exposition À Suivre, Acte de Naissance, Valenciennes, France, 1995.
Collections
Public, corporate and private collections in Britain, Germany, Portugal and Switzerland.
Commissions
Unilever, London, UK and Berlin, Germany. Medical practice, Freiburg, Germany.
Private clients: Freiburg, Munich, Stuttgart, Germany; Lisbon, Portugal; Zurich, Switzerland.
Residencies
2013 Bettina Reiber - A Residency, Brantwood, Coniston, Lake District.
2010 Contemplating van Gogh, residency at the Royal Academy, London, during The Real Van Gogh,
the Artist and His Letters exhibition.
2007 Constructing Constructions, residency at St. Mary Magdalene Academy, Islington, London.
Membership Artists' Group
2014 Free Painters and Sculptors.
Online Presence
Artist's talk Malerische Vorgehensweise, YouTube.
Conference presentation Theorising Painting: Modernism, Hegel, Heidegger, YouTube, Part 1, Part 2.
Conference presentation Art Theory's Legitimation – Whence Come We? Where Are We? Whither Do We Go? Abstract, Paper.
Radio Broadcast
2010 Jung’s Red Book, in: Twenty Minutes, arts programme, BBC Radio 3.
Academic Publications
2009 “The Sublime and the Possibility of Meaning”, in: The Sublime Now, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2008 “Psyche, Imagination and Art”, in: Psyche and the Arts, Routledge.
2007 “Introduction to ‘Experiencing the Sublime'”, Tate, podcast.
2007 “Art Theory's Legitimation – Whence Come We? Where Are We? Whither Do We Go?”,
Duncan of Jordanstone College, online publication.
2005 “Where does that Leave the Introverts? - a Critique of Modernist Art Theory from a Jungian
Perspective”, Harvest, International Journal for Jungian Studies, Vol. 51.
Academic Papers
2012 Malerische Vorgehensweise, GEDOK Freiburg.
2010 Being-in-the-World and Drawing, University of Brighton.
2010 Theorising Painting: Modernism, Hegel, Heidegger, the London Consortium, Tate Modern and
University of the Arts London.
2008 Phoenix from the Ashes: Breakdown and Emergence of Meaning, University of Swansea.
2008 Belief and Reason: Kant and Heidegger, Collegium Phenomenologicum – "Belief after Reason"
Città di Castello, Italy.
2007 Introduction to ‘Experiencing the Sublime’, Tate Britain.
2006 Psyche and Imagination - How far is it from Here to Thinking about Art?, University of Greenwich.
2005 What Does Art Theory Do?, University of Dundee.
2005 Aspects of Kant’s Philosophy on the Sublime, Middlesex University.
2004 C.G. Jung and Modernist Aesthetics, University of Greenwich.
2004 Reason and the “Absolute” - A Critique of Hegel’s Concept of the “Absolute Spirit”,
Canterbury Christ Church University College.
2004 Where does that Leave the Introverts? - a Critique of Modernist Art Theory from a Jungian
Perspective, SOAS, London.
Academic Recognition
2007 Inclusion in the RAE 2008 submission, University of the Arts London.
2004 The Chancellor's Scholarship for Academic Achievement, Middlesex University.
1980 Empfehlung der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Bonn, Germany.
Academic Membership
British Society for Phenomenology.
Drawing Research Network.
The German Philosophy Reading Group, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Hegel Society of Great Britain.
Paintclub, University of the Arts London.
UK Kant Society.
Professional Experience
1998 – Associate Lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London.
1998 – Visiting Lecturer for art and design at the City Lit, London.
2007 Member of project team organising the symposium The Sublime Now, Tate Britain.
1995 Exhibition assistant, Smith’s Gallery, London.
1993 Placement, ICA, London.
Education
2016 Dark Ecology, Schumacher College, Dartmoor, UK.
2015 Foundation Course in Perennial Philosophy, Temenos Academy, London.
2008 Belief after Reason – Hegel, Heidegger, Derrida, Collegium Phenomenologicum,
Città di Castello, Italy.
2007 MA Aesthetics and Art Theory, Middlesex University.
1994 BA (Hons) Fine Art, painting, Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London.
1991 Foundation Course in Art and Design, The City Lit, London.
1988 Law degree, University of Freiburg, Germany.
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