Betty Rieckmann

Born 1986 in Palo Alto, USA, lives and works in Frankfurt.

Rieckmann is an interdisciplinary artist, combining classical artistic techniques with technological methods and working with sculpture, space, and media art as well as theatre. Her interest lies in perception and how it is transformed by technology, and how light can open new spaces.

The artwork discussed was A morphing Frank Stella, seen at Brilliant Works exhibition in Ritter Museum. It is a traditional light-color study box of exceptionally many layers. What makes it unique is the deliberately composed colour scheme, not shying away from rarely seen muted and diluted colours, combined with saturated ones.

EDUCATION

2025 Postgraduate Studies in Electronic Media, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
2011  MA Diploma, Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
2014  BA, Lighting-Design at HAWK Hildesheim

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Der “harte” Glanzpunkt als Stoerung, HfG Offenbach, Germany
2023 Drifting off into Space, Stream Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2023 LICHTräume, Kunstverein Ladenburg, Germany
2022 Waiting for My Tea to Get Cold, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany
2021 I Came from Space, AUTOMAT Artspace, Saarbrücken, Germany
2019 Farbräume, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg, Germany
2019 Diffuser Schein, Schloss Agathenburg, Germany
2017 Lucid Dreams, DA Kloster Gravenhorst, Hoerstel, Germany
2015 Taming the Light – Light Installations, KunstHaus Potsdam, Germany
2015 Ateliereinblicke, EnBW Karlsruhe, Germany
2014 Chromatic works, Fettschmelze, Karlsruhe, Germany