TRUCK Gallery

815 1 Street SW

Calgary

May 16, 2008, Friday 8:00 PM
Opening Reception - Artist in attendance
Exhibition: May 16 - June 21, 2008

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BETTINA HOFFMAN: PARALLAX

Bettina Hoffmann grew up in West Berlin. She studied fine arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and at the California Institute of the Arts. She got several grants and took part in residency programs in Istanbul and Weimar. She lives and works in Berlin and Montréal. Some of her most recent exhibitions in1999 included Ego Alter Ego - The self portrait in contemporary photography, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Private Eye - crimes & cases, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, CrossLinks, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin, space place, Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria. Her work was shown in Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin (1998), Holländisches Bad, Kunsthaus Hamburg (1996), Cherchez la femme, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Urbane Legenden - Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, (1995).

"In my photo- and videographic work I am exploring the underlying mechanisms of social relations. I am re-staging and subtly intensifying everyday situations to show hierarchies, interdependences, refusal of communication, conventions and constraints. The specific character of the enactment implies however at the same time the possibility of a shift within the social structure." - Bettina Hoffman (Excerpt from Artist Statement)