Bettina Pousttchi is "The City" art award winner of the city of Wolfsburg "Young City sees Young Art" 2014.

The City of Wolfsburg's art prize "Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst" (Young City sees Young Art) was established in 1959 and is awarded every three years to artists "who have achieved national attention with their previous work and who are to be supported in their artistic work with this prize". According to these criteria, the jury awarded the prize for 2014 to the German-Iranian artist Bettina Pousttchi (*1971). The jury was convinced by the diversity and the multi-layered content of the works and was decisive for this year's decision.
Bettina Pousttchi works equally in the media of photography, video and sculpture and deals primarily with themes such as the perception of time and the drawing of boundaries.

On 2,150 m² Bettina Pousttchi has mounted a photo installation on a tarpaulin that covers the north wing of the castle and the side flanks. "The City" refers to Wolfsburg's history as a planned city in the early 20th century. The artist has constructed a cohesive motif of ten buildings, all related to the history of the skyscraper, the architectural icon of modernism.

In dialogue with the outdoor work, the Städtische Galerie will display a wall relief that references her 2012 work "Framework." In addition, examples from her series "Squeezer" will be presented: street bollards that, taken out of their original context, speak their own aesthetic language in their bent form. They have lost their meaning, but even now they refer to demarcation and public space. In addition, sculptures made of glazed ceramics will be on display for the first time. The video "Double Empire" from in 2000 dissolves the static structure of New York's Empire State Building in the fragmentary camera perspective. The cinematic approach to the legendary building begins with a shot of the upper floors, glides down the facade a bit further, and then plunges into the depths in a seemingly endless journey along the serial facade grid.