The social dynamics of the urban space and systems of time and space in a transnational perspective is at the heart of the multi-facetted work of German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi.

Her large-scale site-specific interventions in public space covering entire facades of buildings with photographic images are re-contextualizing the historical and architectural meaning of a place. In her sculptural work Pousttchi bends and distorts street furniture like crowd barriers and street bollards into elegant and wildly comic sculptures which deal with the history of sculpture as much as they analyze the privatization of the public realm.

Bettina Pousttchi has exhibited widely in Europe and the United States, most recently she held solo shows at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunsthalle Mainz, The Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. and The Phillips Collection Washington D.C. In 2019 she will have a solo show in the Berlinische Galerie - Museum of Modern Art Berlin.

Bettina Pousttchi is represented in the permanent collections of a large number of museums and public galleries, including The Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas, Kadist Collection Paris, Von-der-Heydt Museum Wuppertal, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Sammlung Essl Klosterneuburg/AT, Wemhöner Collection Herford/DE, Hall Collection New York amongst others. Bettina Pousttchi participated twice in the Venice Biennale (2003, 2009). In 2014 the artist received the Wolfsburg Art Prize.