ROLE
Bettina Pelz is web co-editor for this year’s SEE DJERBA edition, jointly with Aymen Gharbi. She is the co-founder of the INTERFERENCE project in Tunis and the SEE DJERBA project in Houmt Souk, jointly with Aymen Gharbi. Since 2015, she has been developing the projects’ online presence jointly with local teams.
BACKGROUND
Since 1996, she has been an internationally active curator with a focus on art-in-context. Her curatorial research and practice are dedicated to light and light-based media as artistic material and medium.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Houmt Souk/Guellala (tn), SEE DJERBA, Artistic Director
2025 Bremen (de), MEDIA ART LAB, Artistic Director
2025 Luedenscheid (de), LICHTROUTEN, Artistic Director
2024 Innsbruck (at), BERGSILVESTER 3D Mappings, Artistic Director
2024 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTUECKE, Artistic Director
2024 Brixen (it), WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL Neustift, Artistic Director
2023 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS, Artistic Director
2023 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA, Artistic Director
2023 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE, Artistic Director
2023 Brixen (it), WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL Neustift, Artistic Director
2023 Essen (de), 150 JAHRE HUEGEL Public Art Project, Artistic Director
2022 Tunis (tn), MISE EN LUMIERE Public Art Project, Artistic Director
2022 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTUECKE, Artistic Director
COLLECTION
Since 2024 Vahrn-Neustift (it), KUNST IM PACHERS
TEACHING
2025–2026 Tunis (tn), MOMENTUM CUTATORIAL PROGRAM, Head of Program
2019–2022 Tunis (tn), TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS, Head of Program
2015–2017 Saarbrucken (de), UNIVERSITY OF FINE ARTS, Visiting Professor
Since 2004 Bremen (de), UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, Lecturer with Special Assignment
FORMATION
1985–1988 Muenster (de), MUENSTER UNIVERSITY, Studies of Philosophy and Social-Pedagogics, Degree: Diploma
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