Bettina John is a freelance designer and artist active in Germany and Great Britain. She works regularly with and for other artists, musicians, choreographers and dancers, theatre makers and photographers. She has worked with various choreographers and companies like Tony Adigun and his Avant-garde Dance, James Cousins, Mimbre Theatre, Ben Duke, Arthur Pita and Tom Roden to name a few. Whilst being most active in contemporary dance she also designs regularly for musicals and opera.

Bettina John studied fashion design in Germany, then did her masters degree in new media art at Goldsmiths University in London, later studied design for performance at Central Saint Martins. She assisted fashion designers and worked in photography studios before she started to shift her focus on designing for the performing arts. This varied background makes her approach to design and art uniquely interdisciplinary and boundary-pushing.

With funding from the german arts council she went on an art residency in 2012 to stay and work at the ISCP in New York and in 2013 in Rio De Janeiro. That allowed her to develop and further her own art practice which can be placed mainly within the performing art scene as a performance- and installation artist herself. This has led to several exhibitions and scholarships in London, New York, Rio De Janeiro, Berlin and her hometown Halle.