I only need the black strokes to sight through the world, to order it and to transfer it into a pictorial logic. The drawings reproduce the confused image of a reality that is animated by the heterogeneous, the contradictory, the unreasonable, the funny and the trivial. Therefore, extremely different levels of content slide into each other. In a certain way, the graphics testify to a stuttering: World appears torn or frayed, accordingly the works are characterized by lability and jumps.
Bettina van Haaren (*1961) is a painter, draftswoman and printmaker. Her figurative art explores inner and outer realities in a conceptual way. The work has been shown in nearly 90 solo and over 130 group exhibitions in Europe, USA, New Zealand, Japan and China. There are 27 monographic publications about her; she has received numerous awards and grants. Since 2000 she has been professor of drawing and printmaking at the TU Dortmund University.