ART IN CONTEXT

Bettina Pelz is a curator, writer, and researcher. Over the last twenty-five years, her curatorial work is dedicated to art-in-context projects. Her transdisciplinary projects are hosted at art institutions and in public space, in natural and cultural heritage environments. She has been the founding curators of sustainable art projects in Europe and Africa. Internationally she has been involved in projects in Austria, Belgium, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Mali, Mexico, The Netherlands, North-Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Tunisia.

CURATING LIGHT AND LIGHT-BASED MEDIA IN FINE ARTS

Since 2000, the focus of her curatorial research and practice is on light in fine arts. From 2015 to 2017, she was a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts Saarbrucken and founded the academic network “Light In Fine Arts (LIFA)“ in tandem with Prof. Daniel Hausig. In 2015, she founded the transdisciplinary format LICHTCAMPUS at the University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, in tandem with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roland Greule. The following editions took place at the Unversity of Applied Science and Art in Hildesheim (2017) and at the University of Applied Sciences Wismnar (2019). From 2019 to 2022, she headed the transnational study program TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS in Tunis. Since 2025, she directs the MOMENTUM CURATORIAL PROGRAM in tandem with Aymen Gharbi int Tunis.