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Max Becher (* 1964 in Düsseldorf ) is a German photographer living in New York . He is the only son of the photographer couple Bernd and Hilla Becher . He completed his studies at the Cooper Union in Lower Manhattan , New York, among others with Martha Rosler and Hans Haacke , with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), and at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University , with a Masters of Fine Arts (MFA).

Becher's work has been exhibited in numerous museums alone and together with those of his wife, the photographer Andrea Robbins , since the mid-1990s. Most recently, the Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin exhibited the “Nativist Americans” photo series he had created together with Andrea Robbins: from April 27 to August 10, 2019.

The works of the artist couple are in the artistic tradition of the New Objectivity and are linked in content with the socially critical approach of artists such as Dan Graham , Allan Sekula , Hans Haacke and Martha Rosler . Her photographs incorporate the documentary as well as the artistic-conceptual.

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions by the artist couple
  • Museo ICO, Madrid (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen (2016);
  • School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba (2014);
  • The Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore College, Baltimore (2008);
  • Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2005);
  • Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (2005);
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2003);
  • Kunstverein Hamburg (1994); de Vleeshal, Middelburg (1994);
  • Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk (1994).

Books

  • Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: Black Cowboys . Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen 2016.
  • Portraits . With essays by Maurice Berger, and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, 2008, Publisher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County , MA. ISBN 978-1-890761-11-0
  • The Transportation of Place . With essays by Lucy Lippard and Maurice Berger, 2006. Publisher: Aperture Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-59711-010-5
  • Brooklyn Abroad . With essays by Nora Alter and Rupert Pfab , May 2006. Publisher Sonnabend Gallery and Museum Kunstpalast .
  • Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law . With essays by Gary Hesse and Jolene Rickard, 1998. Publisher: Light Work, Syracuse, NY. ISSN 1064-640X
  • Andrea Robbins and Max Becher . With essays by Benjamin Buchloh , Catherine de Zegher , Everlyn Nicodemus, and Luc Lang , 1994. Publisher: Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk and de Vleeshal, Middleburg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sprüth Magers Gallery: Nativist Americans
  2. ^ Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne: Andrea Robbins & Max Becher.
  3. ^ University of Maryland Baltimore County, "Portraits" Accessed July 4, 2011.
  4. ^ Aperture Press, "The Transportation of Place"
  5. ↑ Light Work, "Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law"
  6. ↑ Kanaal Art Foundation and de Vleeshal, "Andrea Robbins and Max Becher"
personal data
SURNAME Mug, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf