After a two-day workshop with the Society of joint responsibility, which in the first phase of the project deals with reflections on the institutions of the future, Bettina Mayer, an artist from Düsseldorf, reflects on a different and new form of the Museum institution and its role in artistic mediation:
Museum für die überkommene Kunstvermittlung is being established, for which a working concept must first be established that will call into question the hierarchical institution of the museum, whose task is to establish, by us as artistic mediators, art historians and artists will become a museum, and we will, adjusting to the specific situation, without power and space, release artistic mediation from them, abolish the fashions prescribed by the state and make visible and available the real effectiveness of art. We work on the focal points of artistic freedom.
Bettina Meyer (b. 1968) studied in Braunschweig and Düsseldorf and was a master student of Klaus Rinke. She is a conceptually thinking artist whose work clearly demonstrates an intensive examination of the content of "old art" classics. Nevertheless, she manages to develop a completely independent visual language, creating something new and unfamiliar within the realm of the supposedly familiar. Bettina Meyer studied free painting from 1989 to 1991 with Reinhardt Voigt and HP Zimmer in Braunschweig. Subsequently, she pursued sculpture studies under Klaus Rinke at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. After receiving her diploma in 1995, she continued as Rinke's master student until 1997 and received the academy letter from the Düsseldorf Art Academy. In 1998, she received a grant from the artists' village of Schöppingen. In 2000, Meyer completed her Master of Media with Timur Novikov while being supported by a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) during her stay in St. Petersburg. In 2014, Meyer won the sculpture competition "beautiful views" organized by Kulturbüro No. 5, leading to the realization of a project on the Drachenfels near Königswinter. In 2016, she was awarded the contract for a competition by the city of Brühl to use a sculpture to stage the "Südkreisel" roundabout, transforming it into a central location and designing a new entrance gate to the city centre. Parallel to her freelance work as an artist, Bettina Meyer has been working in art education since 2003. She serves as a lecturer in adult education, schools, and various museums such as the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop, and the art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia. She has also collaborated with organizations like the Jehudi Menuhin Foundation.
Betina Majer je slobodna umetnica koja je od 2003. godine angažovana i kao predavačica u oblasti umetnosti, u obrazovanju odraslih i u u školama, npr. za Fondaciju Jehudi Menjuhin i u brojnim muzejima poput Bundeskunsthale u Bonu, Muzeja Jozefa Albersa u Botropu i Umetničke zbirke Severne Rajne-Vestfalije.
