Born in Cologne in 1974, Bettina Buck studied at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne before completing an MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.  

Working with assemblage, collage and reconfigurations of existing, mundane, often found materials; Buck’s work regularly reclaims industrial or industrially produced components. Materials and objects with traces of an alternative history and existence - carpet, found posters, foam, latex, plastic - are selected, re-imagined and recontextualised to explore the limits of form, question notions of perception and re-interpret sculptural techniques and their art historical lineage. An active presence in much of the work are questions of duration and collapse, chance and transformation.

Bettina Buck was a participant in the first round of the Art360 programme (2016-2019) supported by Arts Council England, the Henry Moore Foundation, Art Fund and others. Buck sadly passed away in 2018. In the artists’ absence the estate, Martin Eberle and John Reardon, have established the Bureau Bettina Buck to continue the artists’ legacies: bettinabuck.de/_bureau-bettina-buck/.