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Wolfgang Betke

Biography

born 1958 in Düsseldorf,
painter, poet and performance artist in Berlin

Studies

1982–1987 Fine Arts, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg with Franz Erhard Walther
1977–1985 Universität Hamburg, Philosophy and Art History, M. A. phil.

Grants

1987 Scholarship from the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
1988 Scholarship from the Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn
1989 Scholarship from the DAAD at Chelsea School of Art, London

Selected Exhibitions 2005–2010

2010 Solo show at the Armory Show New York, Aurel Scheibler
2009 Flugversuch mit Spurenkammer, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin (group show curated by Gabi and Wilhelm Schürmann)
fern von treibjagd und position, fließend unter den dingen, mit, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf (solo)

2008 Unbehaust, after the butcher, Ausstellungsraum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (group show with Andreas Fischer, Knut Klaßen, Britta Lumer, Isa Melsheimer)
Beach Party: Peter Fend and Friends, GMÜR, Berlin
Art is not mute, Erste Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden

2007Schwarzweiss 2, magazine release with exhibition and reading, Parkhaus am Malkasten, Düsseldorf
non zyni Ut opium, Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf, (solo)
Laube, Triebe, Öffnung, Galerie K4, München (solo)

2006 Glück Auf: artists' library of favorite books, Schickeria, Berlin
betonwurst und andere teamgeister, after the butcher, Berlin
Schwarzwaldinstitut, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, exhibition and reading collaboration with Martin G. Schmid

2005 deren bart um den tisch herum wächst und wächst, dreimal, siebenmal, neunmal, Manoir de Cologny, Genf (solo)
Zeichnungen, Center, Berlin
Selbstbildnis, Schickeria, Berlin
Viewing Club 2, Berlin
Das Opfer, sacrifice of a painting to nature in a cave in the Black Forest, in context of 'Schwarzwaldinstitut', organised by Knut Klaßen and Martin G. Schmid
Viewing Club 3, Berlin
Uxbridge Arms, Viewing Club, London
re)))))))escape, Hamburg
SOS-Kunststück, Hamburg

Performances

2009 Garden Songs, music about a text by Wolfgang Betke for flute, electric guitar and drums) composer: Marc Sabat for Saarländischen Rundfunks
catalogue release and text performance, with M.G. Schmid, Bar Kottbusser Damm 9, Berlin

2007–9 DER ROTE SOHN UND DIE WEISSE FRAU Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin; Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin; Galerie duvekleemann, Berlin, spoken piece

2008 Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, reading,
UM 08, Festival of Music, Art and Literature, Sternhagen Gut, reading
500 Jahre Ocean Club, live broadcast for Radio Eins, RBB from Kantine/ Berghain, Berlin

2007 Die wirkliche Sophie pflegt den Gesichtsverlust, reading at Parkhaus am Malkasten, Düsseldorf and the BKMA, Berlin
Hortus Conclusus, Schwarzwaldinstitut at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, text performance

2006–7 Trend Mensch Performance text performance series, organized by Martin G. Schmid and Wolfgang Betke, including my text performance
'Archimedes', Städtische Kunsthalle München; Theater Fleetstreet, Hamburg; with the music label 'scape-music' at the club M12, Berlin

2006–7 Positionen junger internationaler Performancekunst, Glaspavillon Karl-Marx-Allee, Berlin Performance festival initiated by Gabriel Loebell,
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin; Galerie Thomas Flor, Düsseldorf

2000–2 monthly readings with the Ocean Club at WMF, Berlin

2001 poem der umfasser released on Ocean Club CD for WMF-Records

1998 reading of poems at Ocean Club Radio, live radio broadcast from Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn for Radio Eins, RBB

1998–9 Ocean Club Radio, weekly text performance broadcast for Radio Eins, RBB with Gudrun Gut and Thomas Fehlmann (ca. 400 poems and other texts)