Boris Becker (photographer)
Boris Becker (* 1961 in Cologne ) is a German photographer , filmmaker and former publisher. The motifs of his work are mostly constructions and details from architecture and landscapes.
Life
Becker, son of the writer Jürgen Becker , studied from 1982 to 1984 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Wolfgang Ramsbott and from 1984 to 1990 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Bernd Becher , most recently as a master class student . Becker is counted with his work at the Düsseldorf Photo School . For 1997/98 he was awarded a scholarship at the Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2010/11 he took on a substitute professorship at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne . Together with his wife, he founded his own diving tower gallery in downtown Cologne . space for art fashion book design film . In 2019 Becker received the artists' art prize for “Die Grosse” , which will take place in June at the Kunstpalast . Becker lives and works in Cologne .
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2019: Marburger Kunstverein : Boris Becker - Photography
- 2016: LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn : Boris Becker - Staged Confusion
- 2014: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne: The cathedral
- 2010: Fotomuseum, Antwerp: Boris Becker Photographien 1984 - 2009 (solo exhibition)
- 2009: SK Foundation Culture , Cologne: Boris Becker (solo exhibition)
- 2009: Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen , Cologne: Noble guests - masterpieces of the Kunsthalle Bremen
- 2008: Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne: New Buildings (solo exhibition)
- 2008: Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne: Positions in Photography Today II
- 2008: New Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop: The thing in space
- 2007: Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Bonn : Silent Escape (solo exhibition)
- 2007: Lehmbruck Museum , Duisburg : Empty spaces of storytelling
- 2006: Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne: Artifacts (solo exhibition)
- 2006: Kunsthalle Recklinghausen : Positions in contemporary photography
- 2006: Ferenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe: Slices of Life
- 2006: Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen: Option 4 - Where are we actually going?
- 2005: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen : architecture mobile
- 2004: European Kunsthalle, Cologne: For the construction of the impossible
- 2004: Kunsthalle Nürnberg : Yet Untitled
- 2004: Det Nationale Fotomuseum , Copenhagen: Yet Untitled
- 2003: ftc. fiedler taubert contemporary, Berlin: New Order
- 2002: Städtische Galerie Erlangen : Staged: Architecture in contemporary photography
- 2002: Kunsthalle in Emden : Between beauty and objectivity
- 2001: Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg : Claims and Constructions (solo exhibition)
- 2001: Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche , Osnabrück: Zeitgeist on four wheels
- 2001: Fotomuseum Winterthur : Trade - Goods, ways and values in world trade today
- 2000: Kunsthalle Vierseithof, Luckenwalde: areas (solo exhibition)
- 2000: Kunsthalle Bremen : Times are changing - On the way! From the 20th century!
- 1999: fiedler contemporary, Cologne: Exhibition on Architecture - New Seeing / New Building
- 1999: Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg : Positions of the 90s
- 1999: Kunstraum Innsbruck: Insight Out - Landscape and Interior as Subjects of Contemporary Photography
- 1998: Kunstmuseum Bonn : Territories (solo exhibition)
- 1998: Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne: Cologne Art 5
- 1997: Kunsthalle Bremerhaven : Boris Becker (solo exhibition)
- 1991: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf : Thirteen Commandments 1-4
- 1990: Victoria Miro Gallery, London: Local Detail
Publications
- Jürgen Becker New York 1972 photographs. Sprungturm Verlag, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-9815061-2-9 .
- Ferdinand Ullrich, Boris Becker: Artifacts. Kunsthalle Recklinghausen 2006, ISBN 978-3-939753-05-6 .
- Achim Sommer, Boris Becker: Between beauty and objectivity. Ed. Braus Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-89904-005-8 .
- Britta E. Buhlmann , Boris Becker: Claims and constructions. Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern 2000, ISBN 3-89422-107-0 .
DVDs
- baddoginapark.com , written and directed by Christoph Gottwald ; Sound, assistant director and camera Boris Becker, Sprungturm Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978-3-9815061-3-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Boris Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the photographer Boris Becker
- Entry about Boris Becker at Kunstaspekte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Villa Massimo | Boris Becker. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ http://www.sprungturm.info/ , accessed on October 3, 2012.
- ↑ Boris Becker will receive the Art Prize of Artists on June 29th in the Kunstpalast , press release of the Association for the Organization of Art Exhibitions, dated February 21st, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Becker, Boris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |