https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/things daily 0.75 2024-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7bd71579-d4b9-4a87-b7e0-a6a623303411/THING_13572025.jpg Things Thing Seventeen, 2025; https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0a1d7eca-f65b-46bd-9bb6-453609c227d6/10.Thing+Ten_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Ten, 2023; Things reflects my ongoing fascination with the 17th-century Cabinet of Curiosity—early collections where science, art, and mystery came together in unpredictable ways. Like those cabinets, my work gathers objects into new constellations, where meaning emerges through arrangement, intuition, and material presence. Each image begins with a physical process: I place everyday items on a sheet of glass, light them from above, and photograph them from below, lying on the studio floor. This reversed perspective transforms simple materials—chicken bones, onion skins, feathers—into sculptural, almost alchemical forms. Some objects come from personal collections, some are found by chance, and others are gifts. Each carries a trace of lived time. Influenced by philosopher Byung-Chul Han’s Non-things, this series responds to the growing disappearance of tangible objects in our digital age. Where today’s world is often dominated by data and disembodied images, Things reclaims the physical: textures, weight, fragility, and decay. These are not just still lifes—they are meditations on material presence. Often, a composition begins with a single object—a dead young rat found on the street, for instance—around which others are arranged ritually, like items washed together after a flood. Guided by the fragmented logic of curiosity cabinets, I combine natural and man-made elements, old and new, precious and discarded. Whether translucent or opaque, each object contributes to the creation of another form—something in between sculpture, photograph, and momento mori. Something that asks to be looked at slowly. Something that insists on being a thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/df56b665-c89f-4fe8-8cdc-1ca4dd46a1c0/4.Thing+Four_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Four, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ad76937a-6bbd-4c94-9caa-0b6bca459a70/1.Thing+One_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing One, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/060ffa9a-7330-405b-8df2-b157442efdf4/5.Thing+Five_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Five, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3eb39a18-bb10-4586-a9f3-da7e261f94ad/6.Thing+Six_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Six, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5ee0b019-3cc8-4fc2-9cfa-c24c55584cc2/7.Thing+Seven_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size+57x43cm.jpg Things Thing Seven, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0edd5680-b669-4593-92f1-4328a32d0d46/11.Thing+Eleven_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Eleven, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/bf15adfe-54db-4973-b53d-79a8acf16a4a/8.Thing+Eight_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size+57x43cm.jpg Things Thing Eight, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/56104d51-72cd-4881-9fe1-30eaaa3ebf66/2.Thing+Two_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Two, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/14fd4c02-edba-4b78-a515-2a0fc2d50599/9.Thing+Nine_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Nine, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1726504747481-XPJ3IFSM30KR9NOR5YXT/3.ThingThree_2023_Archival%2BPigment%2BPrint_image%2Bsize_76x57cm.jpg Things Thing Three, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/dde4195e-5b6c-4546-a09d-407449db7818/13.Thing+Thirteen_2024_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_41x41cm.jpg Things Thing Thirteen, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1727529673987-N5S0N2AS28O6LCI8SHYY/14.Thing%252BFourteen_2024X_Archival%252BPigment%252BPrint_image%252Bsize_41x41cm.jpg Things Thing Fourteen, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c24efa25-3d11-4fe7-a1da-9fec0ab1f957/15.Thing+Fifteen_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_41x41cm+copy.jpg Things Thing Fifteen, 2024 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/about daily 0.75 2025-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/93fd09ff-7de2-4c33-9516-c9b01793e290/Photo+by+Ruby+Robinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ca4e25c8-c99f-4b94-bd62-f8c4fed6a174/BVZ_Studio_25+June+2024.jpg https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/sea-of-troubles daily 0.75 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/66d45395-2f8e-4a9e-a924-19b6c0d1909d/48.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica+I%2C+2023.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica I, 2023 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/fa5742b8-110c-44db-b3af-18609dd9575c/Tea+Composite+sml+copy+2.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. sinensis III (Collage), 2024 // Sea of Troubles series "Sea of Troubles" is a series of photographs, developed during my year-long residency at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford, drawing inspiration from the 17th century—a period defined by civil wars, colonial expansion, and the rise of tea as a cultural and social phenomenon in England. My research into magical thinking in relation to Wunderkammer collections from the early modern period led me to explore tasseography, or tea leaf reading, a practice that flourished when tea was introduced from China to Europe. Reimagining tea as a symbol of novelty and exclusivity, I was intrigued by the idea of tea readings amidst the turbulent backdrop of 17th century England—a time when the Tradescants were curating their botanical collections for England’s first public museum, the Ark, which later became the Ashmolean’s founding collection. The photographs were created through a slow process of ironing, painting and arranging teabags on sheets of glass, allowing light to filter through creased fabric and scattered tea leaves. The result is a series of abstract, shadowed landscapes where light struggles to break through. These images were then printed on delicate rice paper, which I manually creased and crinkled, adding a sculptural quality to the work. "Sea of Troubles" is an ongoing exploration of tea’s complex history and its colonial associations, reimagined through the lens of the Tradescants' botanical collections. Using teabags as a medium, each image becomes a miniature landscape of turmoil—winds howl, floods rage, and horizons darken, evoking the unsettled spirit of the era. This work reflects both the rituals of the past and the unconscious drives of the creative process, bridging the analog and digital worlds while connecting the everyday object to its broader historical context. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c22221b8-d81d-42b3-85d7-e47685b9b4bb/BVZ_Camellia+sinensis+var+sinensis+II+2023.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. sinensis II, 2023 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b81ad1ce-5ade-4b86-b2bd-87d488c746eb/54.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica+V_2024.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica V, 2024 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/358764d6-5f46-4476-bfb6-b68aa675a70d/55.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica+VI_2024.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica VI, 2024 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ad65dd67-6af5-4d42-be5a-b030b1c99df6/49.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica+II_2023.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica II, 2023 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5d92352a-3053-44a3-8ca6-ca08c375605b/Camelia_XR_.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. sinensis VII (Collage), 2025 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/751bc6f0-15a8-47be-8563-e0a2f41738d4/Double_Tea+2025+copy.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica VIII, 2025 // Photographs printed on Japanese Rice Paper, creased, 80cm x 38cm, Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c7b4df39-eae7-4840-9c24-b9df4ae3a9cd/Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+Ampersand+Fellowship+Submission+15+images+_Page_09_Image_0001.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. sinensis V, 2025 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/766e9ca0-5e19-448a-8564-be9a1a90ccf8/50.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+assamica+III%2C+2024.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. assamica III, 2024 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4eb8e8d8-1fd8-4d5c-ba8a-054e06399941/53.Sea_of_Troubles_Camellia+sinensis+var.+sinensis+IV+2023.jpg Sea of Troubles Camellia sinensis var. sinensis IV, 2023 // Sea of Troubles series https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/wunderkammer-material daily 0.75 2025-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/2e9eedcf-19dc-427e-9431-5872e4015291/SOSPIRI+2014%3A2025.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Sospiri 2014/2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/10366241-a9e8-4d13-a8dc-18e92a977467/43.Feather+%28Test+Strip+V%29+2023%2C++Archival+pigment+print%2Cca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Feather (Test Strip V) 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ca053d76-8b52-474a-b4f0-354e98b027af/Ruby%2C+2023.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Ruby, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f7e0e030-ff94-424b-833d-225fbbf84c63/She+who+walks%2C+II+%28cut-out%29+150dpi_2021.jpg Wunderkammer Material I She Who Walks II (cut-out), 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/faaa5f94-d2d7-4e60-b3a6-4e51c480cd67/Dr+Christina+Lovey%2C+2023.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Christina, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/85248034-60d2-40a5-9422-00ce42835cd3/Camelia_XR_.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Camellia sinensis var. sinensis VII (Collage), 2025 // Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0c0094cf-da3a-420d-9f99-dd9fc63f42a8/The+Symptoms+%28Collage%29+%2338%2C+2021.jpg Wunderkammer Material I The Symptoms (Collage) #38, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3e63df5d-d44a-49b9-9c81-bbd4d8d07212/30.+Argonauta_1.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo) Eggcase, Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-2019-013), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/23f8c5ca-bfef-4f9c-93e4-bee5063741d8/2.BVZ%2C+Laments%2C+Part4%2C+2014.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Laments, Part 4, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f84d481f-52ee-44e8-8404-cd0dd2f3154c/12.Thing+Twelve%21_2024_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Thing Twelve! 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d3099cd3-e6ce-4134-953e-8c805fc41e72/29.+Argonauta+R.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo) Eggcase, Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-2019-013), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/6cf7973a-e8f0-46f0-8b55-f9ee7957fcee/32.Bird.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Cattle Egret (Bubulcus Ibis) Taxidermy, Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-B/8939), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/25bf0303-de6b-4fce-883e-5e9da54ddaf3/31.Bird+L.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Cattle Egret (Bubulcus Ibis) Taxidermy, Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-B/8939), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0bbb4649-a479-48b0-bddd-1d4f1694146f/FRANZISCA+%286%29.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Franzisca, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/6a5760a3-cd47-4e96-b0ca-261a7bbaa8bb/22.Elephant+tooth.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus) molar tooth. Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-17480), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/37100b31-3237-493b-8199-5fe660bf8ca9/Ruby_2022.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Ruby, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/04e443a1-6c28-400a-ac93-269dcfaebeb6/21.Elephant+R.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus) molar tooth. Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-17480), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b7b5e541-ee1d-4fe3-9e76-4e319297f091/40.Feather+%28Test+strip+IV%29%2C+2023%2C+Archival+pigment+print%2C+ca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Feather (Test strip IV), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7a0e79d9-e0f2-4f8d-be2d-761d13ea5122/THING_13572025.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Thing Seventeen, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f9e06d81-4d18-4508-9242-d141ca187282/Spider.jpg Wunderkammer Material I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f9e06d81-4d18-4508-9242-d141ca187282/Spider.jpg Wunderkammer Material I 2 x Spider (Unknown sp.). Lauren Holden.  Source: Wellcome Collection. 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/067b291e-a7c0-42e1-8d29-8ac36195350c/4.Sari+%28Lampropeltis+Triangulum+Nelsoni%29+2016.jpg Wunderkammer Material I Sari (Lampropeltis Triangulum Nelsoni), Bloodlines series 2016 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-05-31 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2024-09-14 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/publications daily 0.75 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/99a81e1c-6de3-45b8-92c2-f1443628ade4/Bettina-von-Zwehl_cover.jpg Books Exhibition Catalogue: Ashmolean NOW, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford (2024/25) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c23d34fd-f749-4470-9398-3c19364c04f2/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_01.jpg Books Exhibition Catalogue: Wunderkammer, INN SITU, Austria, (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/66ada3d5-6825-44f8-a56f-f3d53f533eff/Lament+cover_cream_back_Page_1.jpg Books Lament: Bettina von Zwehl & Josh Cohen, London, (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/891ab401-af45-4589-a560-f2972db1059d/Lament+cover_cream_back_Page_2.jpg Books (Reverse) Lament: Bettina von Zwehl & Josh Cohen, London (2016) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9caefdec-840a-4858-b45e-4442f3b72e9d/Made+up+love+song_Scan.jpg Books Exhibition Catalogue: Made Up Love Song, V&A Museum, London (2011) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/2dbf7632-089f-406a-803c-b91a3dadcd4b/Ruby%27s+room.jpg Books Exhibition Catalogue: Ruby's Room, Photographic Miniatures by Bettina von Zwehl, Holburne Museum, Bath (2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/20c88645-cbae-4585-96dc-daea82d10aec/Monograph.jpg Books Monograph: Bettina von Zwehl, Photoworks/Steidl, UK (2007) https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/press daily 0.75 2025-01-25 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/victoria-albert-museum daily 0.75 2024-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1726500231739-RLFYZWNZECME3TNRZ6M9/BVZ_STUDIO_V%2526A_JUNE_2011.jpg V&A London Work in progress view (2011) Artist in Residence Studio, V&A, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f38839d6-bba3-40d7-b3c8-6b02cee980ae/2006BG4674.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1726501086089-TFSZW7DIAV2XHY7NV3I9/IMG_0068.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1ae94dcb-167f-4d4a-bf3d-962ad2a53022/Sophia+with+window_09_9.jpg V&A London "...Made Up Love Song is set quite consciously by the artist at the centre of a number of intersecting histories. In her chosen style and means of production, and in the delicate paring down of information in the images that might disclose a sense of time and place, Von Zwehl has created a photographic form that appears to exist outside time. And here, in this indeterminate portrait space, the jewelled miniature’s associations with the aristocracy and with the private economies of a social elite are intertwined with photography’s nineteenth century role in quasi-scientific modes of anthropological study . The pictures of Sophia cast an arc over these social connections, one than takes in the colonial past as well as the post-colonial present, and enfolds the V&A, too, both its Victorian heritage and the current institution, in a complex narrative that makes us think about about race, representation and power. Von Zwehl’s strategy over her thirty-four-image work is to conflate and amplify these echoes, but also to scramble them, to reform that history into a powerful contemporary statement". From the V&A publication: Made up Love Song, 2011 - extract from the introduction essay by David Chandler. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8a954a38-7b5f-428d-892a-1ab58e8f9863/BVZ_V%26A+STUDIO_JUNE_11+copy.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/6a651e02-994e-4e29-b5af-800cabee335d/Sophia+II+2011.jpg V&A London "It has been argued that the invention of photography killed the portrait miniature. Many miniaturists were forced to replace their fine brushes and pieces of ivory with a camera, backdrop and head-stand so as to keep their clientele. However, as Bettina von Zwehl's work so aptly demonstrates, photography did not kill miniature art. Portraiture's essence - its watchfulness and its concern - lives on, and continues to draw us in..." - Dr Hanneke Grootenboer, extract from the essay 'Private View' from the catalogue 'Ruby's Room: Photographic Miniatures by Bettina von Zwehl' (Holburne Museum, 2013) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/205b7bcb-240f-4299-a6bc-21a9c24f6b3c/ContactSheet_Sophia_12_05_11-001.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/6721993c-d47d-4672-9218-66e8895d322e/EDIE_2011_C-TYPE+PRINT_+DIAMETER+5.8CM_EDITION+OF+5%2BAP.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e61c1ee4-aa80-4a79-bcfa-330741ff48b5/Zaza_2015+2.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/dc194ff0-3696-44c1-8cae-651bc30cbb36/FRAME_CROP_JANA2.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/74b49947-e035-4a2c-b676-09bd035d9860/Tallulah+and+Jasmine_2015_edited-1.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9f9c8551-8e1a-4a07-86ee-8e4e979796d5/Tallulah+w+skull_02_2.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4bc8e19c-ab0a-4ebf-9403-efb73bdb7b78/Vita+2017.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e6ba73e0-f25d-45e9-8f04-94b6be6fdc13/Zero+2017.jpg V&A London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e3006608-1455-4e80-a738-ba3973b217f0/Mickal+III+2015.jpg V&A London https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/new-york-historical-society-and-museum daily 0.75 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4302ec30-328a-478f-8e2e-bb5df5a7f8bd/1.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+Laws+Not+Prayers_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency Meditations in an Emergency 2018-2023 The twelve young people featured in Meditations in an Emergency are symbolic of the thousands killed every year by what has become the leading cause of death for American kids: gun violence. The images have been selected from an extensive series of portraits that I made during a residency at the New-York Historical Society Museum in 2018, which represented teen activists staging ‘die-in protests’, calling for stronger gun control laws in the US. These protests - where participants lie on the ground to simulate being dead - are often employed by protest groups on a range of issues including: animal rights, anti-war, anti-trafficking, human rights, racism and environmental issues. After the Parkland, Florida shooting in 2018 students all over the country united in protest under the banner ‘March for Our Lives’. This grew into one of the biggest teen movements in American history since the Vietnam War - and served as inspiration for the series Meditations in an Emergency, in which I recruited teenagers from across New York City, asking them to mirror the protesters pose, in “a trenchant tribute to the victims of the school shooting on Valentine’s Day 2018, as well as a testament to endurance and the practice of protest and teen activism.” The first iteration of the project was exhibited at the New-York Historical Society Museum, and was inspired by the Museum’s collection of American portrait miniatures; however, in subsequent years, I have revisited the project on a number of occasions - perhaps by way of expanding the expressive range of the original negatives, but also a way of honouring the subjects, and acknowledging that the protests are still very much alive, ongoing and more urgent than ever. The latest presentation of the project features 12 individual portraits, each one handprinted twice and presented vertically, one above the other, in reference to Warhol’s ‘Ambulance Disaster’ series and Jasper John’s ‘Two Flags’. Each piece has been titled to reflect the creativity, passion and articulacy of the young protestors, who held hand-made placards that read, for example: “Laws Not Prayers”; “Make Murder More Difficult” or “I WANT TO READ BOOKS NOT EULOGIES”. The doubling of the portraits encourages the viewer to look more closely – to literally think twice. Moreover, it suggests the relentless multiplicity of issues that young people are faced with and care about, where one crisis is part of the other, and all social ills are interconnected. Doubling in the context of gun violence and youth activism reflects the dilemma of a singular narrative and a singular image. There is more than one emergency. Meditations in an Emergency extends an invitation to reflect on human vulnerability and the growing power of youth-led movements who are fighting for a better world. It also highlights the role that artists and museums play in keeping the momentum going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7c6fcc77-2306-4021-bb69-9c715827bcf8/2.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+AM+I+NEXT%3F_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/fcdb83ad-454c-4279-ae9e-dc3e8a6bbf12/3.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+I+WANT+TO+READ+BOOKS+NOT+EULOGIES_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/05807418-fe44-4a5d-9ce3-53c2c2e6e81d/4.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+OUR+VOICES+ARE+LOUDER+THAN+guns_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/af0fb9dc-c00c-40d6-8ac7-7e458ac24735/5.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+my+dress+code+is+stricter+than+our+gun+laws_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/bb1513d3-233e-4b3a-8429-da24d22ee078/6.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+graduate+NOT+GRAVE_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/06620a00-09c8-4c72-b6e3-598b669b81c5/7.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+I+STILL+LIVE+IN+FEAR_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5ffaba8a-93fc-4cc9-9ecf-2ae5c4602227/8.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+Make+murder+more+difficult_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022+copy.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9dd4aac4-6a40-4a8f-83eb-dfb5e7b9da46/9.+Bettina+von+Zwehl+-+LET+YOUR+BALLOT+BE+YOUR+BULLET_collage+of+two+gelatin+silver+prints_42+x+25.5cm+%2816+x+10+in.%29%2C+each+print+21cm+x+25.5+%288+x+10+in.%29_2022.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e8d7175c-d751-4bbf-acf4-81ac6bc44c85/10.+In+1st+grade+I+Mourned+for+Sandy+Hook.+In+6th+grade+I+Marched+for+Parkland.+In+11th+grade+here+I+am+again.+When+Will+It+End%3F.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4182cb2c-e953-4c1a-8da7-5240699c5042/G%28UN%29SAFE.jpg Meditations in an Emergency https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8bb1370e-1818-43ea-8056-978ba6465f99/NR Meditations in an Emergency https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/insbruck-insitu-schloss-ambras daily 0.75 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9b7670ac-d820-421e-ad8d-94274d38711b/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_01.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Exhibition Catalogue: Wunderkammer, INN SITU, Austria, (2020) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/62678f28-6e8f-4d0c-9283-52160391a300/Installation_shot_09_20+copy.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation (detail): Wunderkammer, Bettina von Zwehl, Innsitu, BTV Innsbruck, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1729516015151-1SVSZUE3KF5FHA1SOT3E/IMG_3652.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Studio (detail), Work in progress for Wunderkammer 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a079ef62-dc26-4cc9-bcfc-aa8cfb67d367/Installation+view+Wunderkammer+2020_23+copy.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation (detail): Wunderkammer, Bettina von Zwehl, Innsitu, BTV Innsbruck, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/780e0a95-10cc-4cde-b4b4-2fe016aed32b/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_05.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria "Comprised largely of photographic works, von Zwehl’s exhibition is both an analysis and celebration of Ambras’ encyclopaedic holdings as well as the Wunderkammer form itself. In keeping with the diverse nature of its collection, von Zwehl has included multiple bodies of her own work, which, although relating to specific collections, sites and time periods, function as coherent strands within this conceptual framework." From the Exhibition Catalogue essay - Polysemy, Hybridity and Scale in Bettina von Zwehl’s Wunderkammer by Ciara Ennis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d769e33c-87f8-478f-9cc9-49d3655d619e/IMG_5147.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Vitrine installation of 'The Followers' (2018) for the exhibition Wunderkammer 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b2bd695f-c795-4d4d-87fa-e9b2b5da2b67/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_06.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation (detail): Wunderkammer, Bettina von Zwehl, Innsitu, BTV Innsbruck, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ea1e5964-802d-4bd1-9447-8e9a657b9bcd/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_29.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/2529573f-f628-4466-9969-408ba109c3e9/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_38.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1e33fede-42ac-4175-abd9-b7858900f6b7/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_27.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e852aa8f-21b5-4a45-9318-877fcf67fe22/IMG_5137.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation of The Symptoms (2020) for the exhibition Wunderkammer 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/53066e6d-a89d-4662-8435-61d467657f34/IMG_5104.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation of The Sessions (2016) for the exhibition Wunderkammer 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/998f1980-9b6a-4c8a-8390-634cc12cef7f/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_40.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/434f3eda-118d-41f6-a22a-df14d1412f36/IMG_5186+copy.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Vitrine (detail) for Wunderkammer, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/22332c59-a6e6-4eaa-b6e7-8e2c97f022ea/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_63.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d6924f50-f3ab-4242-93d3-11c05e770cc1/Installation+view_26_20.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d8d756b4-6989-490d-a56c-4636e8f59fc4/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_57.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a9a1400a-994d-40c6-b51b-e0c8d9c2a31e/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_48.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7fa1df01-596b-4dc4-a921-160ccde6b2e0/Installation+view+Wunderkammer+202_24.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Installation (detail): Wunderkammer, Bettina von Zwehl, Innsitu, BTV Innsbruck, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0154e29c-d6b1-4058-b8fe-975c66b5dfed/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_50.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0716bc70-e9c5-40e5-9f5f-7654e0bf05e1/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_51.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3864a834-fb62-4d9c-a76c-48cb38841785/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_39.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a6d5c2c4-bcce-4921-a92b-d924d84ae875/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_30.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/44c29d27-8bfb-46b1-ae5e-7de91ac703af/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_54.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f0cc548c-e0e6-489b-9471-caa3a6067693/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_32.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f1f09cf0-f684-4750-9131-9b1e114c79e6/_IS_InnSitu_2020_05_Katalog_Ansicht+Archiv_Page_56.jpg Castle Ambras & Innsitu Austria Catalogue detail: Wunderkammer - Bettina von Zwehl, 2020 https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/ashmolean-museum-oxford daily 0.75 2024-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4fdfab71-c770-47c9-bfb8-7103718cb354/Bettina+von+Zwehl+proof+v16_Page_09_Image_0001.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford View of the 'Ashmolean Story' Gallery, lower ground floor of the Ashmolean Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/61b9bcd3-e35a-43d5-a005-e2bd5345be25/12.Thing+Twelve%21_2024_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Thing Twelve, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/78b63e4d-0492-4c3d-bf24-f1882179d379/RS1142115_Bettina_von_Zwehl_TheFlood-61_pow.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation view (detail): The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. Collaboration with David Robinson: Fungi Island, 2024, Shemeji, plywood, acrylic paint, gold-leaf, glue; Dimensions variable © David Robinson & Bettina von Zwehl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4d24a733-d689-4e42-944e-31bcc330122e/Jasmine+and+Tallulah_2015.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Tallulah and Jasmin, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b31953ec-fc37-48a6-83f1-61a219dc9cf3/IMG_6251.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. Fungi Island, 2024, Shemeji, plywood, acrylic paint, gold-leaf, glue; Dimensions variable © David Robinson & Bettina von Zwehl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5ffe5755-bc11-45ac-96f6-d76c7a44ec28/IMG_6269.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. Loan: Extinction Rebellion Arts Group, London © Goldfrog ESP Extinction symbol woodblock, Badge, 'REGENERATIVE CULTURE' (two seahorses), Badge, 'WE ARE NATURE' (three mushrooms) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1730711730292-LT4DMAH7080YBRXHD1DF/RS1142078_Bettina_von_Zwehl_TheFlood-34_pow.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1728505332020-7CSD9RCGLQ9KU6FTPNWO/30.%2BArgonauta_1.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford For my exhibition The Flood, I am reimagining the lost and dispersed zoological specimens that were once part of the Ashmolean's founding collections. Through this exploration, I aim to spark conversations around our complex relationships with animals, conservation, extinction, climate grief, and activism. As an artist working in collaboration with museums, I bring my vision, imagination, and personal history into the dialogue. My practice is intuitive, challenging the expectations and display conventions of the institution. In contrast to traditional museum practices, I strive to create an experience where objects are not confined by labels, but are instead seen in a new, unfamiliar light. It’s a space where things collide—sparking a sense of wonder and opening new pathways for interpretation. In engaging with museum spaces, especially with young audiences, I focus on creating a nonlinear flow of questions, rather than linear narratives. Through these unexpected encounters, I seek to blur boundaries—across categories, cultures, and time—merging science and art with the unknown. It’s about strategically mixing objects and ideas to generate fresh conversations between historical artifacts and contemporary concerns. My time at the Ashmolean has deepened my appreciation for the power of Wunderkammer (or 'cabinet of wonders') display strategies, which I incorporate into my own work. Through close collaboration with curators and technicians and other artist, I’ve adapted this radical historical model to create an installation that is both associative and interdisciplinary—encouraging viewers to connect dots in unexpected ways. Museum objects have their own energy and stories to tell. Unlocking this potential requires time, patience, and a willingness to explore the undefined space between them. I feel a deep responsibility to amplify voices and stories that have been silenced or overlooked, challenging the conventional narratives and ensuring that the dust does not settle around the stories we’ve been told. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f7c9c77d-bfca-4450-a402-c54f59285019/Museum+Exhibit+with+Diverse+Artworks.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8b19576f-86b6-4f39-835a-119aafb22e46/IMG_1953.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology display, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4aec4b38-4a9f-4e83-b48c-db1bd4feb26b/IMG_2381.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology, Storage Area, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9bc2bded-8f23-497d-8a17-702a4b67c71d/IMG_5653.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Studio - work in progress, Fungi Island, Collaboration with David Robinson, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/89543e54-8e52-475c-87a5-eca8f330b682/41.Feather+%28Test+strip+II_BW%29%2C+2023%2C+Archival+pigment+print%2C+ca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Feather (Test Strip II) 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/fe5b71bb-c92a-4304-8c8c-f9c97e13e694/IMG_1955.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Zoology Collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c454e87c-9e2a-42db-b9d5-0570a6f6759f/IMG_2655.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Work in progress: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Zoology Collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/54b88666-763b-4932-9f63-1b534eede432/Spider.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Spider (Unknown sp.). © Lauren Holden. Wellcome Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/36629a80-73fe-4a9d-974b-bddfa83a7388/42.Feather+%28Test+Strip+I%29+2023%2C+Archival+pigment+print%2C+ca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Feather (Test Strip V) 2023, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1728910022298-5PYTWEHJR1HI5XEE1Q6O/IMG_1638.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Huxley Room, Entomology collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7426c31f-8fc1-4f1e-916b-efbb96372102/Bettina+von+Zwehl+proof+v16_Page_16_Image_0001.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Attributed to Pieter Holsteyn II (c.1614-73/83) Studies of a Blue Beetle and Insects, c.1650-60 © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/76aced42-d532-4338-9c77-dd076eb66177/IMG_6246.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. Aspalathus Linearis (double), 2024. Sea of Troubles series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/43ec44dc-44f9-4d21-9d71-2229c644d0ab/1.Thing+One_2023_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_76x57cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Thing One, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8658b45c-724d-4c32-b736-88c7beb227b8/IMG_4708.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford German Shew Stones [Sehsteine] (to communicate with spirits), 2024 Stones, acrylic eyelashes, glue. © Bettina von Zwehl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b0837683-e6ff-40a5-bf34-f5fe2b279749/IMG_6263.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/df7b20be-98f3-4595-be61-0c3b6cdcbb67/RS1142133_Bettina_von_Zwehl_TheFlood-11_pow.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/54b88b11-0ad7-49f6-b9bb-47f04ebf06ee/14.Thing+Fourteen_2024X_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_41x41cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Thing Fourteen, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8cecaf34-1a77-4328-bb17-b18a0fb0ee11/IMG_4298.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford In progress drawing for Remember Me. Remember Me!, 2024, 1:25 scale model box (wood, card, acrylic paint; set elements (glass, photographic print, sand, brass); 65 x 62 x 40 cm Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Text by Sophy Rickett © Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a98667f5-67bc-49b5-8ac3-9f6fbf030670/18.THEATRE_2.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Remember Me. Remember Me!, 2024, 1:25 scale model box (wood, card, acrylic paint; set elements (glass, photographic print, sand, brass); 65 x 62 x 40 cm Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Text by Sophy Rickett © Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e70942e8-a2a9-4896-aca0-a18d2029717f/19.THEATRE_3.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Detail: Remember Me. Remember Me!, 2024, 1:25 scale model box (wood, card, acrylic paint; set elements (glass, photographic print, sand, brass); 65 x 62 x 40 cm Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Text by Sophy Rickett © Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/22e5836d-83ef-45f5-893b-4558512900a9/IMG_1645.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/aa93a4d9-b124-4169-8761-6a07121f7dae/17.THEATRE_1.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Remember Me. Remember Me!, 2024, 1:25 scale model box (wood, card, acrylic paint; set elements (glass, photographic print, sand, brass); 65 x 62 x 40 cm Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Text by Sophy Rickett © Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1f021d26-44ba-45f6-98f0-45303f2050cd/Dr+Christina+Lovey%2C+2023.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Detail: Remember Me. Remember Me!, 2024, 1:25 scale model box (wood, card, acrylic paint; set elements (glass, photographic print, sand, brass); 65 x 62 x 40 cm Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Text by Sophy Rickett © Robert Innes Hopkins and Bettina von Zwehl. Courtesy the artists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a2103aa5-fdf3-4e02-81e8-77e7ce07e56e/IMG_6135.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/353a3d53-0a56-488f-a022-7df2af1943a1/IMG_5832.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/13b6169c-dd85-4c02-9513-1dd132c32fbd/Momento+Mori+Ash.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Ivory Memento Mori pendant with a dead man's face and a decaying skull with worms and other creatures. c. 1510-30. Elephant-ivory, silver; carved, 6.5cm. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford WA2013.1.30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ebaf5b8e-ad00-47f2-ac32-b86c8c5ff300/Screenshot+2024-09-16+at+09.05.43.png Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Musaeum Tradescantianum, or, A collection of rarities preserved at South-Lambeth near London, 1656. Catalogue (detail) of a collection made by John Tradescant and his son (also named John) and left by the latter to Elias Ashmole, who presented it to Oxford University in 1683, where it formed the nucleus of the old Ashmolean Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/99c948fc-2ec4-4221-9870-7224f01d8488/IMG_1964.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Spirit collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1728299382180-NEUMITUKKVKNVA17OU3U/IMG_6266.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f2e6dcd4-07e6-4e33-b49c-b75cd6c9c2b6/IMG_6198.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail), Exhibition: The Flood, Gallery 8, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7cca6ab1-1d03-4b15-9e08-cb882e03edf6/IMG_1640+2.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology collections (label), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1730711793440-VF6Y8JGNKUWDHRU2Z2K0/RS1142067_Bettina_von_Zwehl_TheFlood-30_pow.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b9e5dd2b-cf82-4010-8089-e5a5784b756c/IMG_5833.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/dbe8dff7-3e2d-41f2-a66f-d59a798b8a6c/IMG_1975.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Elliott collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/02a2590a-2c59-49c5-9f49-5ba1205cc124/IMG_1947.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Mergus albellus, Linnaeus, 1758, Smew (wing) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b2fc4d44-0e82-4ddc-b243-3a2ab0a21b11/IMG_1633.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Huxley Room, Entomology collections, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1728936489522-I005OS1P2831M59Z70NZ/IMG_5555.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Jacob nach Georg Hoefnagel Archetypa Studiaque Patris, 1592. Teil 2, Blatt 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/caa94064-e80d-4994-b4dd-d508b89210d1/IMG_1971.JPG Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Shell collection, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c236e0b7-e490-4fe9-8f39-ddffb6e7b46d/28.+Nautilus.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Bellybutton nautilus (Nautilus macromphalus) Broken and Partially-Polished shell, Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH-ZC-M001505), 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c2f48183-28f7-47f5-b5e5-c6c8a258a894/15.Thing+Fifteen_Archival+Pigment+Print_image+size_41x41cm+copy.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Thing Fifteen, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/53d1980f-09f0-4810-8794-b74c12616a36/Bettina+von+Zwehl+proof+v16_Page_06_Image_0001.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Drawing of an Illustration in the 'Herbal of Benedetto Rin', showing a 'Porus' Plant. From the John Ruskin Collection. © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (WA.RS.RUD.264) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3bd92984-d51e-4ce6-89f2-5b0ba8c1aed2/39.Feather+%28Test+strip+III_BW%29%2C+2023%2C+Archival+pigment+print%2C+ca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Feather (Test Strip III) 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8b08652d-ce83-4647-9099-f4e6679a0b8b/40.Feather+%28Test+strip+IV%29%2C+2023%2C+Archival+pigment+print%2C+ca.101+x+25.5cm.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Feather (Test Strip IV) 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f8674ec3-80d4-4cb2-b1a2-d80227349eec/Bettina+von+Zwehl+proof+v16_Page_13_Image_0001.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626-79) A Cockchafer, Beetle, Woodlice and other Insects, with a Sprig of Auricula, c.1650-3 © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (WA1940.241) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/88e4c4e6-97d9-42cd-9187-afaf0d81e650/IMG_5831.jpeg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Research: Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Entomology display, 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8f9f04f3-6280-47db-a70a-368d71d80e85/Bettina-von-Zwehl_cover.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Ashmolean NOW. 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Exhibition Catalogue, 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1730711762512-GJGZIWZ8BOO7WP3OQV0S/RS1142134_Bettina_von_Zwehl_TheFlood-20_pow.jpg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford Installation View (Detail); The Flood, Ashmolean Museum, 2024/25. https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/ftmagazine daily 0.75 2025-01-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ed5fa81f-0e2f-4803-a572-3f8402a8c04e/VonZwehl_Financial+Times+Mag.jpg FT MAGAZINE https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/meditations-in-an-emergency daily 0.75 2024-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f805e50c-3c13-46b8-a9a6-1d6299495dfe/BVZ_Z_2423R.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library The New-York Historical Society’s first artist-in-residence, Bettina von Zwehl, presents new works inspired by the Museum’s collection of American portrait miniatures—particularly the profile drawings by Benjamin Tappan (1773 – 1857)—and by news coverage of a teen die-in staged shortly after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Von Zwehl has created 17 portraits of New York City teenagers in the historical form of the silhouetted profile, describing them as death masks sculpted from life. The conflation forms a trenchant tribute to the victims of the school shooting on Valentine’s Day, 2018, as well as a testament to endurance and the practice of protest and teen activism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9cad8429-1e94-45e9-a982-4497331a299d/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%231.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #1, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/fa72a55c-574e-435c-ac5e-29435dda234b/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%232.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #2, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/af33e5d4-fc39-4bcd-947c-4f0e4558239f/IMG_0780.jpeg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Installation view: Meditations in an Emergency, 2018; New-York Historical Society Museum and Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/83b2529c-b5f2-4fac-80fc-be3e7a356db4/BVZ_Z_2427V.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Profile drawing by Benjamin Tappan (1773 – 1857) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e261973c-bc3f-412c-b11a-1e3906747df8/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%233.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #3, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5820bfac-8eed-4f65-9e93-d338efb08f4e/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%234.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #4, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3ff0993f-e1dd-4ba4-bd63-961de3423328/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%235.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #5, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1ef257c1-58e4-4ea4-ae36-64390d13083f/IMG_0692.jpeg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Installation view (Screen detail): Meditations in an Emergency, 2018; New-York Historical Society Museum and Library. As the New-York Historical Society’s first artist-in-residence, the London-based photographer Bettina von Zwehl gathered 17 students from New York City High Schools to pose for anonymous silhouettes. The series, titled Meditations in an Emergency, loosely represent the victims of the 14 February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas School in Parkland, Florida. Yet the positions of the students’ bodies in the photos also recall the “die-in” protests held by student activists calling for stronger gun control laws in the US. To reinforce this, outside of the exhibition on the museum’s second floor, there is a slideshow of activists holding signs with phrases such as: “Enough is Enough”. “It was really important to balance the idea of a memorial with the force of that teen movement,” von Zwehl says. “And to leave the view of some sense of hope at the end.” While the form is inspired by portraits of anonymous Americans in the New-York Historical Society’s archives by the 19th-century artist Benjamin Tappan, the series largely came out of von Zwehl’s disillusionment with the zealous culture surrounding gun ownership. The series title is taken from reports by teachers in America declaring a state of emergency after the Parkland shooting as well as a book of poetry by Frank O’Hara. THE ART NEWSPAPER by Amanda Svachula 13 February 2019 (excerpt) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/494c9ca2-35eb-4c51-8911-a5eb45c236b4/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%236.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #6, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8a1b8f2e-5d37-4263-a314-22192c9c903d/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%237.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #7, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/8d9a0a32-a855-47c5-bb87-0528026fe956/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%238.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #8, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/27005cbd-1008-4ff5-8b02-7dd053f1330f/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%239.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #9, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a0374b1c-8b56-4610-b5a4-53a23f534810/Screen+Shot+2018-03-14+at+4.47.06+PM.png New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Press image, March for our lives, USA, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/2d5851ea-32cb-4b7f-a41e-9ade3dbc6067/Meditations+in+an+Emergency_2018_%2310.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Meditations in an Emergency, #10, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ffc42640-1cf1-418f-be7a-e42fc085c9e0/BVZ_Installation+shot_+Meditations_in+an+Emergency_2018.jpg New-York Historical Society Museum and Library Installation view: Meditations in an Emergency, 2018; 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Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History. OUMNH-ZC-19614 © Bettina von Zwehl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1728757827908-5YFL05QNGNNLB72WNI41/25.Pufferfish%2BB.jpg Wunderkammer Material II Long-spine Porcupinefish (Diodon holocanthus) dry inflated specimen. Courtesy of Oxford University Museum of Natural History. 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Individually tearing and shaping each piece of photographic paper, I exposed and developed the images on the fragments to both reveal and obscure partial views of her subject. 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Museum London Made during a 2014 residency at the Freud Museum, London, ‘Make a note of anything’ is a permanent site-specific installation. Made in collaboration with pupils at Holy Trinity Primary School in Hampstead to realise the work, which was created specially for the Anna Freud Room at the Freud Museum. A frieze in 268 parts, Von Zwehl photographed over 100 children’s eyes, which were installed in the formation of a frieze that runs unbroken around the room, just below the ceiling. The eyes are punctuated by more abstracted images; sections of blurred green foliage; glimpses beyond the room and out into the garden. 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No doubt the flowing contours of the sculpted head, exposed neck and curved bust, caressed by a nocturnal light that seems to emanate imperceptibly from within, amplify the erotic charge of these pictures. But this charge feels to me to have more to do with the desire they arouse and even, impossibly, gratify – to see the other not in her presence but in her absence. You might have expected the darkness to drain the blood from these figures, to render them abstract, thin, insubstantial. Instead it endows them with a fleshly reality more palpable and more present than any flashgun or ceiling light could hope to achieve. These Laments are exposures, to be sure. They reveal the human as a lamenting being, destined to live with loss and absence ... 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https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/072a7e0c-ee5f-4216-b39d-7e7d71096938/BVZ_FM_INSTALLATION+SHOT_g_THE+SESSIONS+2016..jpg Freud Museum London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/fee46a05-59e7-4d93-a0c5-d0166931ab38/FML+6+%281%29.jpg Freud Museum London https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/early-work-1 daily 0.75 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7fbc3407-104b-4270-8ff8-1d45af7ebeb1/MOC+INSTALLATION+SHOT+A.jpg Early work Installation view: Young V&A, London, 2009, Profiles III, 2006 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1731705659070-VKR4A1M7M7CRAOQ5JI61/Profiles%2BIII%2Bno6.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 6, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1d94ad13-7746-48ba-a9f3-429af48bc5ef/Revival-Exhibition_10.png Early work “For over a decade I have been researching the human profile and the hierarchic approach to portraiture that was applied during the Italian Renaissance. There is an uncanny quality to viewing a person in profile, related to what remains invisible and untold. This method of representation may have a cold, rigid aspect, with no indication of the subject’s true character or emotion. To me it is one of the most powerful ways of representing a person.”—Bettina von Zwehl Left to right: Revival, Group Show, NMWA, Washington DC, 2017 Installation of Bettina von Zwehl’s Profiles III  and Bettina von Zwehl’s The Sessions;  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1730980478133-WOURA1OMK016ZTUKHVO2/Profiles%2BIII%2Bno3.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 3, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9faf6930-f2cb-4858-ba0c-e84347301ca2/Birth_Centre_von_Zwehl_image_2.jpg Early work "Profiles III, 2005-2006 are reminiscent of Italian Renaissance portrait paintings and focus on the minute detail of the faces of six boys and girls all approximately 1 year old. These monumental profiles were displayed at St Mary’s as part of the Art in Focus exhibition programme to coincide with the launch of Imperial Health Charity’s Birth Centre Appeal and have now found their permanent home in the Birth Centre at Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea Hospital." @Imperial Health Charity https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5c2f68ad-d3cb-480f-8b31-8256207a77a2/Profiles+III+no4.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 4, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/346d3df2-405a-49b8-802e-85e9fa2d49eb/Profiles+III+no2.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 2, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/79c3669c-b819-4635-b18c-494a2b214651/Profiles+III+no5.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 5, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/90496059-174c-45e1-8399-38ac45026785/Profiles+III+no1.jpg Early work Profiles III, No 1, 2005 (Series of 6) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/6296b75a-0cbd-4e6b-85cc-1889ff85a6bd/Alina+No11.jpg Early work Alina, No 11, 2004 (Series of 12) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/94c1e7b2-80f3-49a2-9e24-7b281b3c1ede/Alina+No9.jpg Early work Alina, No 12, 2004 (Series of 12) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/87d25c73-a9a0-4af2-93fc-d555de7be822/Alina+No8.jpg Early work Alina, No 8, 2004 (Series of 12) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/51d0c81b-5017-4598-831e-f2a0d0bb510c/Profiles+II+no1.jpg Early work Profiles II, No1, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/82a0ceba-89b9-48cc-8a99-2cf24e7917d1/Profiles+II+no2.jpg Early work Profiles II, No2, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e8fdeef3-ece6-49f0-bf96-1c4e59384560/Profiles+II+no3.jpg Early work Profiles II, No3, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0e39847d-78e2-414a-a8bc-d884d04e3f9f/Profiles+II+no4.jpg Early work Profiles II, No4, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/17200212-ef42-4fe5-a1f6-0021415f75db/Profiles+II+no5.jpg Early work Profiles II, No5, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/be534dcf-b30e-480c-adb7-0917086af1b9/Profiles+II+no6.jpg Early work Profiles II, No6, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/57acd708-9ee5-4101-96da-5d88cf31f4c0/Profiles+II+no7.jpg Early work Profiles II, No7, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d6a61072-6cfc-42d5-951f-02b3b5caef64/Profiles+II+no8.jpg Early work Profiles II, No8, 2002 (Series of 10) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/c7d70161-7dab-4397-94a2-8e5b25a910d9/Profiles+II+no9.jpg Early work Profiles II, No9, 2002 (Series of 10) https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/commissions daily 0.75 2026-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/671f89ec-0e49-4cc1-b95a-21180f3f93b2/Bettina+von+Zwehl_Amran+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Amran, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5f21cb0f-a609-41a2-8cea-955f2cc8e0d3/RUBY_8.3.2025.jpg Portrait commissions Ruby, 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0623b761-c68b-4f61-91a1-180c9610b9fa/Bettina_von_Zwehl_Esme%2C+London+2018_commissioned+by+The+London+Maritime+Museum.jpg Portrait commissions Esme, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/72431b3a-8d91-4dff-9687-e4d8d46423c3/ZAZA+JABRE_08.jpg Portrait commissions Zaza, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2013 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9cacff6f-c6b8-47ae-98e5-cd68250da95e/Hannah+2012.jpg Portrait commissions Hannah, V&A, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9859355d-40c5-4fdb-8ff0-f22ea260651a/2.SG_3004_V2.jpg Portrait commissions Stephen Grosz, London, 2025. Author's portrait for Love's Labour, published 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d4224c42-da80-4569-87a4-11af00462ca0/Dr+Claire+Graig_copy.jpg Portrait commissions Dr Claire Craig - The Provost, 2025. Commissioned by The Queen's College, Oxford University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1748897164303-TK6NDTF29LK7PH4DFZ75/IMG_7842.jpg Portrait commissions Installation view: Dr Claire Craig - The Provost, 2025. Commissioned by The Queen's College, Oxford University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a83d9c2b-1fbe-49a3-ac41-c160b07e1090/000063170008_%23%23%23+copy.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/2f434951-975b-41c9-9a40-86b836593785/000063240004_%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ac017659-4eb0-4a52-ad32-ee6e1c9e07af/Wallpaper__%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/56b24d1b-2947-4428-b659-298420d6cf3d/Jimmy06_6.jpg Portrait commissions Jimmy, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2013 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b609280f-a682-4974-bbfb-77c6ced3aa7f/1.1.1.Bettina_von_Zwehl_Alexandra_New+York%2C+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Alexandra, New York, 2017 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1c39802e-a15e-4b2c-86a7-34203a785047/BVZ_Abyan+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Abyan, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f6e14fb3-1324-4c02-928d-4c468ebd13e7/BVZ_EVIE+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Evie, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/5bd22a58-a83b-48df-b124-9f22db09797d/BVZ_ESME+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Esme, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/af577162-22c2-4c40-95dc-fc6b18d83f64/BVZ_RANIA+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Rania, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/7b249b81-03d3-4f61-8b97-326e6c729086/1.ALEXANDRA_Roll+3_01+copy.jpg Portrait commissions Alexandra, New York, 2017 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/3e6f3570-f51e-49a2-96bb-fe975f1d624f/BVZ_Amran+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Amran, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1732546736706-ASOQILQK62IT00W3HEAW/Gabrielle_-1.jpg Portrait commissions Gabrielle, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2013 (Private Commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e21e74df-b3f2-4b89-b4fe-df679a563e9e/BVZ_Tiernan+2018.jpg Portrait commissions Tiernan, 2018. Commissioned by The National Maritime Museum, London. A series of 7 photographic portrait miniatures of young women from the Thomas Tallis School by Bettina Von Zwehl as part of the 'Armada Project’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d9a90a82-07bf-40de-aa7d-e73ad34d64dc/Leyla+2012.jpg Portrait commissions Leyla, V&A, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f58472ff-d9aa-4d2a-9ab9-053a2009e185/Zaza_2015+2.jpg Portrait commissions Zaza, Victoria & Albert Museum London, 2014 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/ed57f2b2-b5a9-403b-88b4-f88743da07dc/Jax_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Jax, New York, 2017 (Private Commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/bb977a7c-8cf5-410e-abe2-769c657a905c/Maddy.jpg Portrait commissions Maddy, New York, 2018 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/56f470b1-a458-4cdd-9576-364e5145f5ff/Marcia+%28Nicolas%29_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Nicolas, New York, 2017 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1ff1c774-00ac-49a4-89be-fe33bdc6c441/Ellie.jpg Portrait commissions Ellie, New York, 2018 (Private commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9094f5f6-419f-4d9e-9718-5c34053e800e/Lucy_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Lucy, New York, 2017 (Private Commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/a00152e8-3d0d-4f27-b214-56c17187a121/Jenson+%231_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Jenson, London, 2016, Private Commission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/62b081d1-2259-4e12-b3e6-a8d0aeba5d83/Jenson+%232_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Jenson, London, 2016, Private Commission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/361fd1e9-8e92-4e73-9d3f-9d9cb288d3d4/Jenson+%233_2017.jpg Portrait commissions Jenson, London, 2016, Private Commission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/b2bdd7a0-cf21-4973-88db-734551e3c473/BvZ_2010_05_20_ennis.jpg Portrait commissions Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, 20 May 2010, commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery, London. (This portrait was taken as part of the National Portrait Gallery's major photographic commission Road to 2012. Ennis-Hill was captured by von Zwehl at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield, her home town, where she trained in preparation for London 2012.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/f6729bc2-b46f-4888-a64d-8dfae7b73a2d/BvZ_2010_06_06_daley.jpg Portrait commissions Tom Daley, Devon, England, 10 June 2010, commissioned by The National Portrait Gallery, London; (This portrait was taken as part of the National Portrait Gallery's major photographic commission Road to 2012.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/20d709f0-77f9-4f84-839f-44ca3003b876/Photo_roll4_05.jpg Portrait commissions Stephen Grosz, London, 2012. Author's portrait for The Examined Life - How We Lose and Find Ourselves, originally published 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/9f148721-6b68-454b-a262-4963ac3456f1/HELENE_2016_06_6_work.jpg Portrait commissions Helene, London, 2016 (Private Commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/e65b3a2d-e68b-4c5e-8ccc-7bd69a17877b/000063300006_%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/d6209c30-3470-43a1-b231-ae6fcbab8437/ella10_10.jpg Portrait commissions Ella, East London, 2016 (Private Commission) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/0479cbea-11b2-474b-8b61-3855d6e06fa8/000063210001_%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/4092be39-da04-49d1-a963-8d1c18ff0197/000063230005_%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/643d6f12-89c6-4f55-9fcb-d0807fcd939b/000063190009_%23%23%23.jpg Portrait commissions Commissioned by Wallpaper* Art Issue, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66804116cd9d9a2db483f360/1732704912251-5EO6XE51ZR8A7BXMXXUX/BLUE%2BFRAME_JORGE_25.jpg Portrait commissions Jorge, Miami, 2022 (Private Commission) https://www.bettinavonzwehl.com/store daily 0.75 57723-04-25