In 1969 Bettina Hohls graduated as Designer at Werkkunstschule Hannover (today Fachhochschule Hannover) and attended Hochschule der Künste in Berlin (today Berlin University of the Arts) until 1975.
In the 1980s and 1990s Bettina Hohls worked as a teacher for arts and took part in various exhibitions and art symposiums in Germany as well as in Korea and Japan.