Bettina Speckner (born spring of 1962 in Offenburg, Germany) is a jewelry designer, widely known for her use of photography in brooch assemblages, using nineteenth century ferrotype (tintype) portraits as one may use raw materials for jewelry.
[1] Today, she creates her own tintypes with a handmade camera obscura and a portable makeshift darkroom.
In 1985 she was a guest student with the Fluxus artist Daniel Spoerri (with whom she had an exhibition at Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim in 2014).
Otto Künzli's Automatenfotos series(1976) that took place in a Munich photo booth was a crucial reason she began making jewelry.
Danner Foundation, Munich, GER Jewellery Museum, Pforzheim, GER Royal college of Kind of Collection, London, GB Musée de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie, Geneva, CH Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB Mint Museum of Art and Design, North Carolina, USA The National Gallery, Canberra, AUST Design museum, Helsinki, FI Röhsska museum of Decorative Arts, Gothenburg Museum of Art and Design, NYC, USA Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, N Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the USA[7] 2017 Kitchen Gods (two person exhibition with Priya Kambli) 2014 Bettina Speckner + Daniel Spoerri @ Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, GER 2014 Multiple Exposures, Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA 1998 Brooching it diplomatically: a tribute to Madeleine K. Albright, Gallery Helen Drutt, USA [8] 2015 Things of This World Keeping Their Difficult Balance 2010 A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, Gallery Sienna, Lenox, USA 2006 The Everyday and Faraway, Gallery Spectrum, Munich, GER [9]