Bettina von Zwehl
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​Born 1971, Munich

1994 BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Printing.
1997 MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, London.
Lives and works in London.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS :
2020 
Wunderkammer, BTV Stadtforum Innsbruck, Austria.
           Meditations in an Emergency, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2019  The Followers, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
2018  Meditations in an Emergency, New-York Historical Society Museum, NYC, USA.
           Queens House, National Maritime Museum, London (commission).

2017  Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, USA.
           The Sessions, UCIPC NPC, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA.
2016  The Sessions, The Freud Museum, London. 
2015  Fotogaleriet, Oslo, Norway, Album 31, (collaboration with Sophy Rickett), touring to The Library of Birmingham, UK.  
2014  Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
           Ruby’s Room and other works in Miniature, Barber Institute of fine Arts, Birmingham. 
2013  Ruby’s Room, Holburne Museum, Bath.
2012  Made up Love Song, Cultural Centre, Poznan.
2011   Made up Love Song, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
2009  Profiles III, Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood, London. 
2005  Alina, Photographers’ Gallery, London.
2004  Rain, Lombard - Freid Fine Arts, New York.
2002  Victoria Miro Gallery, The Project Space, London.     
2001  Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan.
2000  An Anatomy of Control, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York.
            An Anatomy of Control, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS :
2020
 In Profile: A look at Silhouettes, New York Historical-Society-Museum, NYC, USA.
2019 Too Cute! : Sweet is about to get Sinister, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK.
2018 Circle/Squared, Lisa Sette Gallery,  Phoenix, Arizona.
2017 Revival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA. 
          Small, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London.
2016  Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna (2 person exhibition).
           Beauty and the Beast: The Animal in Photography, San Diego Museum of Photographic Art, USA. 
2015  Facing Histories, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 
           Face Value: Portraiture from the Arts Council Collection, Abbothall Art Gallery, UK.
2013  3am: Wonder and Paranoia and the restless Night, The Bluecoat Liverpool. 
2012  Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London.  
            - touring to Fundacio La Caixa, Madrid, Spain, (catalogue).
2011   Another Face: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne.
2010  Road to 2012, Setting Out, Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London.  
           The Gathering, Building the Arts Council Collection 1973 – 2009 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park.       
2009  Baby, Picturing the Ideal Human, National Media Museum, Bradford.
2008  In Repose, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia.
            El Cuerpo (con) sentido: una (re)presentación visual, Centro de Historia, Zaragosa.
2007  Top Twenty, 39 Gallery, London (curated by Alan Miller).
            150th Anniversary Display, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
2006  The Wonderful Fund on Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Place Ben Youssef, Medina, Marrakech.
            The Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London. 
2005  ‘iD’, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
            Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
            Faltering Flames: Aspects of the Human Condition in Contemporary Art, curated by David Thorpe, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield. 
2004  Fiction, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.
            Taking in Water, Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, UK.
2003  Parameter of Life, Museum of Modern Art, Stiftung Worlen, Passau.  
            Imperfect Innocence, Contemporary Museum Baltimore and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
2002  Reality Check, touring group exhibition jointly organised by the British..
            Council and the Photographers’ Gallery, 14 Wharf Road, London (Other venues include Moderna Galleria in Ljubljana Slovenia;
            The House of Artists, Zagreb, Croatia; Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Poland Bunkier Gallery, Cracow; Latvia Arsenals, Riga).
            Geometers, Nylon, London (Curated by Simon Morrissey). 
2001   Chelsea Rising, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans.
            Fair Play, Danielle Arnaud, London.
2000  Identities, Galerie Rodolph Jansson, Brussels.
            Psycho/Soma, Lombard - Freid Fine Arts, New York.
            Breathless! Photography and Time, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 
1999    Modern Times I, Hasselblad Center, Goteborg.
            Grosse Kunstausstellung, Haus Der Kunst, Munich.
1998    John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London;
            Midland Art Centre, Birmingham; Royal Photographic Society, Bath.
            Les Anglais vus par les Anglais, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles.
            Inventories and Plastic Metropolis, Shoreditch Biennale 1998, London, Various venues.

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS
2011   Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Artist in Residence. 
2014  The Freud Museum London, Artist in Residence.
2015  Bohuslan Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden, Artist in Residence.
2016   Arts Council Grant for the Arts.
2017   Pollock-Krasner Award.
2018   New-York Historical Society Museum, NYC, Artist in Residence.
2019   INN-SITU. Innsbruck, Austria.

MONOGRAPHS:
  • Bettina von Zwehl, Göttingen: Steidl / Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. With an essay by Darian Leader and interview with Charlotte Cotton. 
  • Made Up Love Song, London: V&A Publishing, 2014. With an essay by David Chandler.
  • Lament, Bettina von Zwehl & Josh Cohen, London, Art/Books, 2016.
Selected anthologies and group exhibition catalogues:
  • The Photograph as Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2004.
  • The Portrait Now. Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography. Phaidon, 2006.
  • The Body in Contemporary Art. Thames & Hudson, 2009.
  • Road to 2012. National Portrait Gallery, 2012.
  • 21st Century Portraits. National Portrait Gallery, 2013.

COLLECTIONS:
Arts Council, London
British Council, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wonderful Fund Collection, London
Sammlung Spallart, Salzburg, Austria
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Hull Museums and Art Gallery, UK 
Imperial College Art Collection, London
21C Museum Hotel Louisville, Kentucky
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Martin M. Margulies Collection, Miami
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Perez Art Museum, Miami
The National Museum of Women for the Arts, Washington DC
The National Portrait Gallery Collection, London
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York













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