Bettina Pousttchi

Bettina Pousttchi (born 1971 in Mainz, lives in Berlin) has been realizing monumental site-specific installations for building facades and large­ scale sculptures in public space over the last 15 years that reference the architectural, social and cultural implications of their respective settings. For several years now, in her sculptures, Bettina Pousttchi has used objects that structure the physical experience of the urban space, such as guardrails, crowd barriers and street bollards. By applying techniques such as bending or pressing, and reconceiving their coloring, Pousttchi relieves these everyday objects of their regulatory function and detaches them from their context of meaning, turning them into signs of change, fluid structures and dissolving boundaries. Equally, with her extensive photo project World Time Clock Pousttchi presents a philosophical image of synchronicity and a globalized reality. She has been traveling since several years to different time zones around the world. In each place she takes a photograph of a public clock always at the same time to build this planetary piece about the political and social organization of time and space in a poetic and performative, lifelong endeavor. Her sculptures, installations and photographic works have been exhibited in art institutions worldwide, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington D.C., the Nasher Sculpture Center Dallas, Museum Haus Konstruktiv Zurich, Aurora Museum Shanghai, the Arts Club of Chicago, the Berlinische Galerie Berlin, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Kunsthalle Basel. Her works are included in numerous international private and public collections. She lives in Berlin.