Sandra Becker

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Sandra Becker (2017)

Sandra Becker (* 1967 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German video artist living in Berlin who also exhibits under the artist name sandrabecker01 .

Live and act

Sandra Becker is the daughter of the diplomat Volkmar Becker and the judge Gisela Maria Becker. In Königswinter she first attended elementary school and after a time in Turkey , where her father worked at the German embassy in Ankara , the grammar school on Petersberg . In 1979 she moved to South America with her family and attended the Colegio Alexander von Humboldt in Lima . In 1982 she moved to the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Bad Godesberg and passed her Abitur there in 1986. During her stays abroad she learned Turkish and Spanish.

In 1987 Becker worked in New York as Assistant Lighting Designer for Giles Hogya at the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater on Bowery Street . Between 1987 and 1989, followed by studies at the University of Hamburg and the University of Stuttgart in philosophy and architecture , as well as at the University of Design in Offenbach am Main . At the invitation of Central St. Martins College London , she went to London in 1989 and completed her studies there in 1991 as a Theater Designer (Three Dimensional Design) at the Faculty of Fine Arts with a Bachelor of Arts (hons).

She then went back to Germany and worked as a designer at the Mainz State Theater . In 1992 she continued her studies in visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts with Valie Export . In 1993 the Russian Art Academy invited her to Saint Petersburg , where she worked at the Repin Institute . In the same year she wrote her diploma thesis, in which she dealt with the subject of “arrival and departure”. This was followed by a master's degree in experimental film design with Heinz Emigholz , which she completed in 1995 with the 16 mm film "Waiting Room". She received a scholarship to promote young talent from the Berlin Senate for Culture and the DAAD scholarship to New York.

Becker then worked as a lecturer and from 2007 to 2009 was visiting professor for artistic transformation processes at the Berlin University of the Arts . There she was part of a team of eleven professors who worked together to transfer the artistic project “Silent Mail” to university teaching. It is still taught in didactics today. She has been the co-director of the media workshop in the BBK Berlin's cultural center since 2013 .

In 2015 she was visiting professor in Brazil at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She also teaches at the Free University of Berlin and has been a lecturer in media informatics at the Lette-Verein since summer 2019 .

Becker's work is represented in the collection of the State Museum Majdanek in Lublin (Poland), in the Euro Theater Central Bonn and in the international collection of the New Berlin Art Association.

Exhibitions (selection)

Exhibition Social dissolve
Exhibition Social dissolve
Exhibition Social dissolve
analog + digital book with RFID

Solo exhibitions

  • 1996: Interstices , photo and video works, Kunstverein Würzburg
  • 1997: Architecture of Time , Dogenhaus Gallery Leipzig / Berlin
  • 2002: the digital body, Galerie Adlergasse, Dresden
  • 2002: janeinneinja , MAE Gallery Irene Eikmeier, Berlin
  • 2005: Video presentation in the studio, Museum Centro Cultural Andratx , Spain
  • 2005: Interface , MAE Gallery Irene Eikmeier, Berlin
  • 2005: 11th Edition, netfilmmakers , Copenhagen
  • 2011: Phenomena of Temporality , Hamburg Photo Triennial, Galerie Kammer
  • 2011: heights +++ depths , video works, Art and Media Center Adlershof
  • 2014: Social Dissolve , Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre , Brazil

Group exhibitions

  • 1996: Forum Berlin , exhibition Kulturforum and Stiftung Starke, Berlin, group exhibition
  • 1997: 3rd International Exhibition of Women ́s Art , SOHO 20 Gallery, New York, group exhibition
  • 1998: Body of the message , with Daniel Pflumm, Joachim Blank and Karl Heinz Jeron , Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
  • 2001: New Video from Berlin , Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
  • 2001: Urban nomads , with Christine Hill , Daniel Pflumm , Pia Greschner and others, SLG South London Gallery in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut
  • 2002: utopian traffic , art in public. Room, Symposium Citybrache Dresden
  • 2003: Performance Body City , Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
  • 2005: circa Berlin , Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
  • 2006: Stille Post , gallery of the Karl Hofer Society
  • 2006: panta rhei , bridge installation, 48 hours Neukölln
  • 2007: Clips , Galerie Nord, Kunstverein Tiergarten and Galerie HO Marseille
  • 2007: Strictly Berlin 007 , Galerie der Künste Berlin
  • 2008: red , Festival Traverse Video Toulouse
  • 2008: hello neighbor , Brooklyn Gallery, New York
  • 2008: Women at the Olympics , Women's Museum Bonn
  • 2008: prototyping , fair for art and theory Bremen
  • 2009. Artist books from Berlin , exhibition rooms on the Lyss, Basel
  • 2011: Poor but sexy, Atelierhaus Aachen, with a greeting from Klaus Wowereit
  • 2012: “Artists of the Strong Foundation”, Löwenpalais , Berlin
  • 2013: “see and be seen”, media facade HTW
  • 2013: "Muster-Patterns", Haus Schwarzenberg Berlin
  • 2017: “Fragmented Tales: Berlin-Sofia”, Museum of History and Goethe-Institut Sofia
  • 2018: "Time Difference - Posun v čase", Building Academy Prague
  • 2019: "Techne", Paço Municipal, Porto Alegre, BR (Board of Trustees)

Trade fair participation

  • 1999: Ameryshow New York art fair
  • 1999: Art fair Junge Liste Basel , Galerie Paula Böttcher
  • 2013: Innovative art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr
  • 2014/15: Media art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr
  • 2014–2017: Berlin List Art Fair
  • 2017: Media art fair Contemporary Art Ruhr

Working in collections (selection)

  • “Survival”, photography, Majdanek State Museum, Lublin, Poland
  • “Cluster L8 and e1”, video photography, Starke Foundation, Berlin
  • “Moonlight”, DVD, Museum Centro Cultural Andratx, Spain
  • “Cluster”, video photography, Baunetz-Online Berlin

Prices

Scholarships (selection)

  • 1993: Scholarship holder of the Academy of Arts of the USSR in Leningrad
  • 1997: DAAD scholarship in New York
  • 2002: Atelier program point B , Williamsbourgh, New York
  • 2004: Studio grant, Museum Centro Cultural Andratx , Spain
  • 2005: Scholarship from the Käthe Dorsch and Agnes Straub Foundation
  • 2005: Artist in Residence, Association Saint Henri, France
  • 2010–2012: German Artist Aid Scholarship from the Federal President
  • 2014: Scholarship holder of the Goethe-Institut Porto Alegre, Brazil

Project funding

  • 1994 Funded by the artist program of the Berlin Senate for Culture
  • 2004 Project funding from the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Kunst eV
  • 2003–2004 sponsored by the collecting society Bild-Kunst
  • 2006 EU funding (local social capital) for the documentary "Lift01"
  • 2008 EU project funding for the "muetter-work-from-home-from" web portal
  • from 2013 studio funding from the Berlin Senate

Memberships (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Sandra Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jessica Zeller: Uniformity is more beautiful. In: taz.de. September 26, 2006, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Homepage sandrabecker01. In: sandrabecker01.de. Sandra Becker, accessed June 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c d interface: to the biography of Sandra Becker. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Gundel Mattenklott: From children's games to practical artistic lessons. In: zaeb.net. Aesthetic Education Journal, accessed June 1, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Medienwerkstatt Berlin: Team. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ Instituto de Informática UFRGS: Palestra com a Profa. Sandra Becker - Berlim. Accessed June 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ SoSe 19: Object-Oriented Programming - Course 2.1. In: Course catalog. Free University of Berlin, accessed on June 2, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Media Informatics. In: letteverein.berlin. Retrieved June 5, 2020 .
  9. ↑ The work itself is an interactive media installation that can be accessed via the following link on the Internet. Sandra Becker 01: “social dissolve” by Sandra Becker 01. A project of visual research in the area of ​​nonverbal and digital communication between people. In: socialdissolve.tumblr.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Harald Fricke: Wall and Floor: Tomographically grisseliges monotony in pink. In: taz.de. July 18, 1998, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  11. ^ Body of the message
  12. ^ South London Gallery
  13. ↑ udk-berlin.de , catalog for the exhibition project Stille Post
  14. ↑ lift01.net: Silent Mail ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ sandrabecker011 , panta rhei
  16. ↑ sandrabecker01 , women at the Olympics
  17. ↑ Isabell Burger: Life at Leffers am Brill. In: taz.de. March 29, 2008, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  18. ↑ prototyping. A fair for art and theory. Projects. In: thealit.de. thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor., accessed on June 4, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Lea Streisand: Always the same, constantly varied. In: taz.de. October 25, 2013, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  20. ↑ haus-schwarzenberg.org , sandrabecker01
  21. ↑ Goethe Institute
  22. ↑ time difference. Retrieved June 15, 2018 .
  23. ^ Techne. Porto Alegre Town Hall, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Ana Bambic Kostov: The appropriate infrastructure for media art. An interview with Sandra Becker from the Medienwerkstatt. In: discoveryartfair.com. The Working Smarter Group, September 14, 2016, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  25. ^ Heike Franziska Bartsch: Berlin List. Medienwerkstatt, Berlin 2016. In: bartsch-art.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Animations by the Medienwerkstatt in the Kulturwerk des bbk berlin at CAR Video Lounge. In: Directors Lounge - directorslounge.tumblr.com. A & O-gallery, October 15, 2017, accessed on June 4, 2020 (English).
  27. ^ Artworks - Entries: Becker 01, Sandra. In: graphothek-berlin.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  28. ↑ Berlin studio program
  29. ↑ Imprint webgrrls.de - legal representation. In: webgrrls.de. Retrieved June 4, 2020 .
  30. ^ Renate Hermanns: Sandra Becker elected to the board of the German Women's Council. In: webgrrls.de. November 9, 2013, accessed June 4, 2020 .
  31. ^ Website of the artist group Netzwerkvirus
personal data
SURNAME Becker, Sandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES sandra becker01 (artist name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German video artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau