Kathrin Becker (curator)

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Kathrin Becker (* 1967 ) is a German curator and has been the director of the video forum since 2001 and managing director of the New Berlin Art Association (NBK) in Berlin since 2003 .

Life

After studying art history and Slavic studies in Bochum, Moscow and St. Petersburg and a two-year stay in the former Soviet Union and Russia from 1989 to 1991, Becker began working as a freelance curator.

While early exhibition projects focused on cultural exchange with the former Soviet Union and Russia (including "Dellbrügge / de Moll: Art Consumer Profiles", CAC Moscow 1994; "Stalin's Choice - Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956", PS 1 Museum / The Institute of Contemporary Art , New York 1993; “New Moscow”, ifa galleries Berlin, Stuttgart, Bonn 1999/2000;), developed presentations such as the exhibition series “The Institute of Theore (c) tical Painting” ( Kunst-Werke Berlin 1994–1995) and a whole series of exhibitions on the interference of high and mass culture in art of the early 1990s (e.g. "art club berlin", Art Forum Berlin 1997; "Can you hear me? 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art", CAC Vilnius, Kunst Haus Dresden and other places 1999-2001) an increasingly international claim.

In 2001 Becker took over the management of the video forum in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, a video archive that now includes over 1000 titles from the beginnings of video art to the present day. In addition to digitizing the holdings, she was responsible for numerous exhibition projects and collaborations with institutions in Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and Mexico.

In the last few years Becker has increasingly dealt with questions of societal conditions and the political dimensions of art. More interesting to her than documentary or anti-representative strategies are the possibilities of interlinking visuality and ideological mood, as it is e.g. B. in projects like "Masculinities" or "displaced. Interventions / Interactions in Public Space ”(both Berlin 2005) become visible.

On February 1, 2020, Becker took over the artistic direction of the Berlin exhibition center at the Kindl-Zentrum (succeeding founding director Andreas Fiedler).

Exhibitions and projects (selection)

  • 2012 III. Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow, Russia, July
  • 2007 Artur Żmijewski . Selected works, NBK, Berlin (curator) (catalog)
  • 2006 Ira Schneider . Mysteries in realities (Hannah Höch Prize 2006), NBK, Berlin (curator with Dr. Matthias Harder) (catalog)
    • Maryam Jafri. Costume party. Colony & Native, NBK (curator) (catalog)
  • 2005 Masculinities. An exhibition by the Video-Forum, NBK, Berlin (curator) (catalog) (participants: Loulou Cherinet, Lu Chunsheng, Cinema Suitcase, Bjørn Melhus, Chloe Piene, Mike Sale, Rommelo Yu, Akram Zaatari )
    • Video art week, NBK (concept and realization) (participants: tank.tv, Iris Dressler, Euridice Arratia, Pipilotti Rist , Anne Maier)
    • Anatoly Shuravlev. Infrathin, Special project of the "1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art", Foundation Contemporary City, Moscow (curator) (catalog)

Publications (selection)

  • Kathrin Becker (Ed.): Self-identification. Positions in St. Petersburg art from 1970 to today . City gallery in the Sophienhof [u. a.], Kiel 1994, ISBN 3-931012-00-X
  • Kathrin Becker (Ed.): Flight - Distance - Disappearance. Conceptual Moscow art . Cantz, Ostfildern 1995, ISBN 3-89322-802-0
  • Kathrin Becker: Mystical correct . Salon-Verlag, [Cologne] 1997, ISBN 3-932189-76-0
  • Barbara Barsch, Kathrin Becker, Ev Fischer and Andrej Chlobystin: New Moscow. Art from Moscow and St. Petersburg . Ifa Gallery, Berlin 1999
  • Stephan Kunz (ed.), Kathrin Becker (text): Beton liquide. Eric Hattan Video . Müller, Baden / Switzerland 2000, ISBN 3-907078-29-2
  • Kathrin Becker (Ed.): Masculinities . Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-86588-187-4
  • Kathrin Becker: Introduction . In: Lisa Ackermann; Uwe Dehler: Interview with Shirin Neshat . Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-932809-54-8
  • Kathrin Becker: Art and television, art against television. Aspects of contemporary video production in Germany . In: Gerhard Johann Lischka (Ed.): Zapping Zone . Benteli, Wabern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7165-1423-8
  • Kathrin Becker: Mathilde ter Heijne . In: Dorothee Bienert (Ed.): Urban Creatures . Porin Taidemuseo, Pori 2006, ISBN 951-9355-97-9
  • Katja Albers and Kathrin Becker: How to watch a videotape / How to judge a videotape. Small guide to the quality of video art . In: Wolfram Völcker (Ed.): What is good art? . Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern near Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-7757-1976-6
  • Kathrin Becker: Foreign shadow. About Artur Zmijewski's Selected Works . In. Kathrin Becker (Ed.): Artur Zmijewski. Selected works . Revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86588-389-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben from November 5, 2019: Change of leadership at the Berlin exhibition center. Kathrin Becker becomes artistic director at the Kindl-Zentrum , accessed on November 5, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Kathrin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1967