Wolfgang Betke

(German, born 1958)

untitled (man from left) by wolfgang betke

Wolfgang Betke

Untitled (Man from Left), 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1958
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany
1977 - 1985
M.A. phil. / Magister Artium in Philosophy, Universität Hamburg, Germany
1982 - 1987
Studies in Fine Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Germany under Franz Erhard Walther
1985 - 2002
Beiträge über Kunst auf Radio NDR Hamburg und RBB, Berlin / Potsdam, Germany
1987
Work scholarship of Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Germany
1988
Scholarship of Kunstfond e.V. Bonn, Germany
1989
Scholarship of DAAD, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
1994 - 1998
Mitherausgeber von Nummer, Zeitschrift über Kunst, Literatur und Theorie, Cologne, Germnay
1998 - 2009
wöchentlicher Beitrag zur Radiosendung Ocean Club Radio auf Radio Eins (mit Gudrun Gut und Thomas Fehlmann)
Lives and works as painter, poet and performance artist in Berlin

Exhibitions

2022
und plötzlich: DER SÜßE KÜHLE DUFT VON MORGENWALD, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Der Seh-Apparat, BARK LAB, Berlin, Germany (solo)
elective affinities, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020
Art Cologne at the Gallery: From Minimal to Expressionism, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, Germany
ambig, curated by Michael Lukas, Galerie der Künstler, München, Germany
Wolfgang Betke, Apparition in the silent woods of Schüller, Schüller, Germany (solo)
2019
NOTEBOOK, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York City, USA
2018
Wolfgang Betke. Schweigezone, SETAREH, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
2017
Wolfgang Betke and Gregor Gleiwitz. Beyond the Fringe, SETAREH X, Düsseldorf, Germany
IN DEN TIEFEN DER OBERFLÄCHE, Kunstverein KISS, Kunst im Schloß Untergrönigen e.V., Germany

Literature

2018
Wolfgang Betke. Schweigezone/silence zone, (exhibition catalogue), essay by Ludwig Seyfarth, SETAREH, Düsseldorf 2018
2012
Nedo, Kito/Keiper, Elke: Wolfgang Betke. “... with an uncertainty verging on abstraction the state of the human now“, ed. by Elke Keiper, Städtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, (exhibition catalogue), Waldkraiburg 2012
2009
Betke, Wolfgang: Versuchsanordnungen und Flugversuche jeglicher Art, Galerie Thomas Flor, (exhibition catalogue), Düsseldorf 2009