Bettina Schülke
Artist
Recent Projects / Works
Cut Out 2D
TRANSACTION 3
Aura Aurora
Painting
Upcoming
AI – Threats and Promises. Artistic Positions on Post-Digital Futures
Since late 2022, the rapid rise of generative AI systems has reshaped artistic, societal and political debates. Massive investments in data centres, new technological infrastructures and shifting global power dynamics mark this transformation. At the same time, questions of energy consumption, regulation, digital ethics and democratic oversight have become increasingly urgent.
This exhibition approaches AI from an artistic perspective. It understands art as a critical practice with a postautonomous stance and positions it as a framework, mirror and testing ground for examining technological change. Rather than treating AI merely as a tool, the exhibition explores it as a social, aesthetic and political phenomenon.
In this context, the exhibition invites visitors not only to observe technological change, but to reflect on their own position within the infrastructures of our digital culture that increasingly shape perception, decision-making and imagination. What forms of agency remain possible — and how might they be redefined?
PLEATS!
Bettina Schülke bildende Künstlerin aus Wien, und Sabine Kaipainen, Fashion Designerin präsentieren das Projekt “Pleats!” Fasziniert von Falten, Plissees, Farben, Licht und Bewegung kreieren sie zusammen eine Ausstellung mit Bildern, Mode (tragbaren Kunstwerken) und Skulpturen.
Sa, 28. März, 17 Uhr Vernissage mit Fashion Show
KKThun (CH)
About me
Bettina Schülke is an Austrian artist working on the intersection of art, science and technology. She has exhibited widely, for example at the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, GR; De Winkelhaak Design Museum, Antwerp, BE; Kemi Art Museum; Lume Mediakeskus, Helsinki; Galeria Valo at the Arktikum Museum and Arctic Science Centre, Rovaniemi, FI; the MAK-nite (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemorary Art), Vienna, AT; and textile works at the Austrian Pavilion at the 8.th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, IT. Schülke has worked on international collaborative projects, participated in conferences, workshops, festivals, events and has recurrently been teaching in Finland and Austria. 2017 she completed her practice based doctoral research TRANSACTION as INTERACTION: Art as an Extended Sense of Space, at the University of Lapland, FI. The research is published by the Acta Universitatis Lapponiensis Press. Currently Schülke is pushing her research and artworks further by developing new series of her interdisciplinary artistic concept of TRANSACTION.