kathrin becker

 

 

Selected Exhibitions & Projects

2009
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit. 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Art and Publicity. 40 Years n.b.k.), NBK, Berlin (Curator with Sophie Goltz) (Publication)
(Participating artists: Nevin Aladag, Bettina Allamoda, Ursula Arnold, Gerd Arntz, Marc Aschenbrenner, Ulrich Baehr, Cornelia Balcerowiak/K.H. Hödicke/Helmut Wietz, Matthias Beckmann, Akbar Behkalem, Rainer Bellenbaum, Joseph Beuys, Christian Boltanski, Angela Bravo/Sergio Roger, KP Brehmer, Michaela Buescher/Gerd Conradt, John Cage, Olga Chernysheva, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Lutz Dammbeck, Calin Dan, Anna Daucikova, Tom di Roes, Margarete Dreher, Shahram Entekhabi, Annika Eriksson, Janine Escher, Harun Farocki, Nadine Fecht, Nina Fischer/Maron El Sani, Elise Florenty, Thomas Frydetzki, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Patrycja German, Jochen Gerz, Arwed Gorella, Peter Sebastian Gramlich, Johannes Grützke, Vincent Grunwald, Gino Hahnemann, Richard Hamilton, Helmut Herbst/Friedrich Heubach, David Hockney, Anna Hoetjes/Julia Mensch/Paran Pour, Judith Hopf, Rebecca Horn, Dorothy Iannone, Wolf Kahlen, Allan Kaprow, Kain Karawahn, André Kirchner, Cornelia Klauß, Imi Knoebel, Matthias Koeppel, Ramona Köppel-Welsh, Betina Kuntzsch, Thomas Kutschker, Via Lewandowsky, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Llurex Video (Egon Bunne), Claus Löser, Martina Lunzer, Antal Lux, Ulrike Majewski, Bjørn Melhus, Olaf Metzel, Heiner Mühlenbrock, Zoran Naskovski, Piotr Nathan, Olaf Nicolai, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Yeliz Palak, Stefan Panhans, Eduardo Paolozzi, Rotraut Pape, A.R. Penck, Johannes Paul Raether, Joanna Rajkowska, Robert Rauschenberg, Ariel Reichman, Reynold Reynolds/Patrick Jolley, Raffael Rheinsberg, Gerhard Richter, Cornelia Schleime, Les Schliesser, Erik Schmidt, Tomas Schmit, Ira Schneider, Maria Serebriakova, Peter Sorge, Lea Søvsø, Haim Steinbach, Mathilde ter Heijne, Frank Thiel, Dmitry Vilensky, Bettina von Arnim, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Thomas Werner, Katrin Willim, Silke Wittig, Artur Zmijewski, Ayca Nina Zuch/Will Kempkes)

Excuse me, are you famous?
A site specific project for WL project, Invaliden1, Berlin (Curator)
(Participating artists: Yuri Albert, Andrej Barov, Sergio Belinchón, Manuel Bonik / Undine Goldberg, Ernst Burkel, Ramesch Daha, Barbara Davi, D. David, Alyssa DeLuccia, Shahram Entekhabi, Claudia Hart, Anton Henning, Leung Chi Wo, Jin Lie, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, Rémy Markowitsch, Alfred Müller, Nils Nova, Timur Novikov, Pirate Television/PTV, Maya Roos, Aidan Salakhova, Anatoly Shuravlev, Joulia Strauss, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann, Christel Sverre, Santiago Ydáñez, Sula Zimmerberger)

2008
Conceptual Art From California, NBK, Berlin (Curator)
(Participating artists: Max Almy, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Aristarkh Chernyshov/Vladislav Efimov, Timothy Collins, Lowell Darling, Christoph Draeger/Martin Frei, Terry Fox, Ingo Gerken, Lucy Gunning, Doug Hall, Mel Henderson, Gary Hill, David Irelands House, Joanne Kelly, Ned Khan, Marlene Kos, Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Paula Levine, Chip Lord, Mary Lucier, Tom Marioni, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Nicole Raufeisen/Ryan Witt, John Roloff, Darryl Sapien, Ira Schneider, Corinna Schnitt, Ilene Segalove, Richard Serra/Nancy Holt, Bonnie Sherk, Survival Research Laboratories, Mark Thompson, Bill Viola)

checkpoint berlin, villa du parc, cente dárt contemporain, Annemasse (F) (Curator with Karine Vonna) (Publication)
(Participating artists: Marc Aschenbrenner, Rui Calçada Bastos, Annika Eriksson, Patrycja German, Sofia Hultén, Christian Jankowksi, Bjørn Melhus, Reynold Reynolds / Patrick Jolley, Corinna Schnitt, Hague Yang)

My favourite pastime | Vienna, Kunsthalle Vienna (ursula blickle videolounge), Vienna (Curator) 
(Participating artists: Nevin Aladag, Marc Aschenbrenner, Discoteca Flaming Star, Shahram Entekhabi, Annika Eriksson, Patrycja German, Oleg Kulik, Bjørn Melhus, Moser & Schwinger, Larissa Sansour, Reynold Reynolds / Patrick Jolley)

Christiane Möbus. Chausseestrasse, NBK, Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)

2007
Artur Zmijewski. Selected works, NBK, Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)

2006
Ira Schneider. Mysteries in realities (Hannah-Höch award 2006), NBK, Berlin (Curator with Matthias Harder) (Catalogue)

Maryam Jafri. Costume Party. Colony & Native, NBK (Curator) (Catalogue)

2005
Masculinities, NBK, Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Loulou Cherinet, Lu Chunsheng, Cinema Suitcase, Bjørn Melhus, Chloe Piene, Mike Sale, Rommelo Yu, Akram Zaatari)

Videoartweek, NBK (Conception and realisation)
(Participants: tank.tv, Iris Dressler, Euridice Arratia, Pipilotti Rist, Anne Maier)

Anatolij Shuravlev: Infrathin, Special project of the "1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art", Foundation Contemporary City, Moscow (Curator) (Catalogue)

displaced. Interventions/ interactions in public space. A project of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein in collaboration with De/construction of Monument, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and relations, Berlin (Curator)
(Participating artists: Maria Thereza Alves, Edgar Arceneaux, Danica Dakic, Sejla Kameric, Stih & Schnock)

2004
Matthias Müller: Album. Film - Video - Photography, NBK (Curator) (Catalogue)

Schizorama, NCCA/ Polenov Building, Moscow (Conception: Antje Weitzel, Curators: Antje Weitzel, Kathrin Becker)
(Participating artists: Shahram Entekhabi, Lise Harlev, Judith Hopf, Katrin Lock, Marisa Maza, Bjørn Melhus, Robin Rhode, Jan Rohlf)

2003/2004
Illuminating Video. Series of discussions on international video art, NBK (Conception and realisation)
(Participants: Destiny Deacon/ Dr. Britta Schmitz; Christian Jankowski/ Dr. Alfred Biolek; Yang Fudong/ Hou Hanru and Andreas Schmidt; Maria Marshall/ Christoph Doswald; Shirin Neshat/ Dr. Anja Osswald and Maryam (Nuschin) Mameghanian-Prenzlow)

Berlinskaja Lazur. Young Photo Art from Berlin, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin; Moscow House of Photography, Moscow; Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris (Curator with Alexander Tolnay) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani, Petra Karadimas, Christoph Keller, Andreas Koch, Suzanna Lauterbach, Albrecht Schäfer, Maria Sewcz, Heidi Specker, Wolfgang Stahr)

2003
Louise Bourgeois. Intimate Abstractions, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Head of project with Beatrice Stammer) (Catalogue)

Urban Collisions. Civilisational Conflicts in the Medium of Video, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Pash Buzari, Maria Marshall, Zoran Naskovski, Maria Serebriakova & Rudi Molacek, Uri Tzaig, Dmitry Vilensky)

2002
Stardust Deluxe. Art-ventions on pop-culture, September 7th & 8th, 2002, LisaLounge and Villa Elisabeth, Berlin (Curator with Antje Weitzel)
(Participating artists: Dave Allen, Carlos Amorales, Rosa Barba, Tobias Bernstrup, Olaf Breuning, Laura Bruce, Diego Castro, Raphael + Tobias Danke, Discoteca Flaming Star, Dominique, Shahram Entekhabi , Assaf (Safy) Etiel, Sonja Feldmeier, FLAP, Undine Goldberg, Anton Henning, Christian Hoischen, Karl Holmqvist, Husain/ Richter/ Jensen, Stefanie Kloss, Pil & Galia Kollektiv, Zilla Leutenegger, Ninon Liotet, Wolfgang Mayer, Sascha Nikolic, Maya Roos, Egill Saebjörnsson, Pietro Sanguineti, Deborah Schamoni, Andreas Schlaegel, Erik Schmidt, Amelia Seymour, Ross Sinclair, Annika Ström, The Art of PingPong Country, Corinna Weidner)

Over the Moon – Great Emotions between staging and authenticit, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (Curator with Stéphane Bauer and Laura Bruce)
(Participating artists: Bigert & Bergström, Birgit Brenner, Laura Bruce, Piotr Dluzniewski, Kerstin Drechsel, Martin Eder, Valérie Favre, Ulrike Feser, Undine Goldberg, Oliver Harrison, Gerd Holzwarth, MK Kähne, David Krippendorff, Bjørn Melhus, Maya Roos, Diego Castro-Schindler, Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek)

The Misfits (Neprilagodeni). Conceptual Strategies in Croatian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Art Moscow/ Expo Park, Moscow; Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien, Berlin (Coordinator for Berlin venue) (Catalogue)

2000/2001
Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Switzerland; NBK and daadgalerie, Berlin; Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles/France (Curator with Urs Stahel) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Clegg & Guttmann, Astrid Klein, Rémy Markowitsch, Boris Mikhailov, Frank Thiel, Juergen Teller, Céline van Balen, Stephen Wilks)

1999/2001
Can you hear me? 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel/ Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock/ Germany; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius/ Lithuania; Kunst Haus Dresden/ Germany, Bergens Kunstforening Bergen/Norway; Galleria Otso, Espoo/ Finland (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Academic Training Group, Arnis Balcus, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Jens Haaning & Peter Land, Annika von Hausswolff, Pertti Kekarainen, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, Mariola Przyjemska, Mark Raidpere, Heli Rekula, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Torbjorn Rodland, Miron Schmückle, Anatolij Shuravlev, Peter Skovgaard, Vibeke Tandberg, Wolfgang Tillmans, Artur Zmijewski)

1999/2000
New Moscow. Art from St. Petersburg and Moscow, ifa-Galerie Berlin, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, ifa-Galerie Bonn (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Andrej Chlobystin, Inspection Medical Hermeneutics, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro, Timur Novikov, Yevgeniy Yufit)

1999
Pink for Boys - Blue for Girls, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (Member of curatorial team) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Janine Antoni, Ellen Cantor, Manfred Erjautz, Peter Friedl, Yu Hirai, Mike Kelley/Paul McCarthy, Inez Van Laamswerde, Zbigniew Libera, Ma Liuming, Sally Mann, Tracey Moffat, Trudie Reiss, Heli Rekula, Ugo Rondinone, Aura Rosenberg, Mike Sale, Anne Schneider, Annika Ström u.a.)

crossLinks -an intermedia exhibition project, Galerie im Marstall, Berlin (Realisation with Beatrice Stammer) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Annette Begerow; Kirsten Geisler, Bettina Hoffmann, Christin Lahr, Dörte Meyer, Ellen Nonnenmacher, Cristina Perincioli, Cornelia Sollfrank, Station Rose, Gabriele Stellbaum, Andrea Sunder-Plassmann)

1998
art club berlin, an international video forum, on the occasion of Berlin á Barcelona, Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona (Curator with Klara Wallner)

last house on the left, in the context of "ARKIPELAG" in the framework of "Stockholm - Cultural Capital of Europe 1998", Ferdinand Boberg´s elverk, Skansen, Stockholm (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Joachim Grommek, Henrik Hakannson, Via Lewandowsky, Simone Mangos, Carsten Nicolai, Markus Wirthmann)

Exhibition Trilogy Condominium, VOXXX.Galerie, Chemnitz/Germany (Curator):
i- Assaf (Safy) Etiel: My Little Pony
ii- Maya Roos: SWING
iii- Jan Svenungsson: Separationsspiel

In the Year of the Tiger: Korea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Coordinator) (Catalogue)

1997
art club berlin, an international video forum in the framework of the international art fair "art forum berlin" (Curator with Klara Wallner)
(More than 100 international participants, including: Kai Althoff, Alex Bag, Bigert & Bergström, Cosima von Bonin, Angela Bulloch, Stephan Dillemuth, Mark Dion, Sylvie Fleury, Michel Francois, Andrea Fraser, Peter Friedl, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Fabrice Hybert, Michael Joo, Philippe Parreno, Daniel Pflumm, Pipilotti Rist, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Beat Streuli, Jane & Louise Wilson, Erwin Wurm, Heimo Zobernig)

1996
pop mix / vol. II, shift, Berlin (Curator)
(Participating artists: S.M.v.d. Linden, Rémy Markowitsch, mediamorph, Susanne Paesler, Matt Ranger, Hunter Reynolds, Maya Roos)

pop mix / volume one, in the frame work of the exhibition series "Ortsbegehung/Site Inspection", Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Gabriele Basch, Claudia Hart, Thomas Hauser)

Metaphern des Entrücktseins, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (Curator with Dr. Andreas Vowinckel & Ekaterina Andreeva) (Catalogue)

1995/1996
Flight - Departure - Disappearance. Moscow Conceptual Art, Gallery of the Capital Prague; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel/ Germany (Curator with Dr. Milena Slavická & Dorothee Bienert) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Juri Albert, Erik Bulatov, Elena Elagina, Inspektion Medizinische Hermeneutik, Ilya Kabakov, Jurij Lejderman, Igor Makarevich, Andrej Monastyrskij, Viktor Pivovarov, Oleg Vassilyev, u.a.)

Landscape viewed through the eyes of the 90s, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz/ Germany; Museum Schloss Burgk/Saale/ Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (Curator with Klara Wallner) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Dellbrügge/de Moll, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Eller, Eva & Adele, Fischli/Weiss, Hervé Graumann, Felix Stephan Huber, Karin Kneffel, Svetlana Kopystiansky, Rémy Markowitsch, John Miller, Christian Philipp Müller, SUSI POP, Bernhard Prinz, Ugo Rondinone, Lisa Schmitz, Rob Scholte, u.a.)

1995
Inez van Lamsweerde/Judy Fox, Kunst-Werke Berlin (Curator with Klaus Biesenbach)

Contemporary Photographic Art from Moscow, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; ifa-Galerie; Akademie der Künste/Galerie im Marstall, Berlin (Curator for ifa-Galerie) (Catalogue)
(Participating artists: Group "Fenso", Ilya Piganov, Alexej Shulgin, Anatolij Shuravlev, Group "IV. Vysota")

1994/1995
The Institute of Theore(c)tical Painting, annual programme for the Galerie Likörfabrik, Kunst-Werke Berlin (Curator with Claudia Hart) (Catalogue):
i- Kids Fantasy Cakes (group show)
ii- Attila Richard Lukacz: Works from the Sex-Cycle (with a Perfomance by Hunter Reynolds: Patina Du Prey: Transgender Torture and Transformation)
iii- Post-Conceptual Painting (group show)
iv- Evgenij Jufit: Nekrorealism
v- Caroline Dlugos/Laura Kikauka: A Sense of Reality
vi- Mina Totino: Curiosities
vii- I is Another (group show)

1994/1996
Self-identification. Positions in St. Petersburg art from 1970 until today, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel/ Germany - Tourings to: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; National Museum for Contemporary Art, Oslo; State Art Gallery, Sopot (Poland); Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg; Sophienholm, Lyngby (Denmark) (Head of project with Barbara Straka) (Catalogue)

1994
Dellbrügge/de Moll. Art Consumers' Profiles
, Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (Curator) (Catalogue)

Andrej Monastyrskij. Signatures, Kunst-Werke Berlin (Curator) (Catalogue)

1993
Stalin´s Choice - Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956, P.S. 1 Museum/The Institute of Contemporary Art, New York (Curator with Alanna Heiss, Joseph Bakstejn and Zdenka Gabalova) (Catalogue)

Dmitri A. Prigov. The Sleep of the Valkyries, Kunst-Werke Berlin (Curator)

1992
37 Rooms, Kunst-Werke Berlin (Catalogue):
Birgit Brenner: A fit of hysterics (Curator)

1991/92
Interferences. Art from West-Berlin 1960-1990 (exhibition of the NGBK Berlin at) Central Exhibition Hall (Manege), St. Petersburg (Coordinator in Berlin and St. Petersburg) (Catalogue)

1991
Sovier Art around 1990. Binational II Israel/UdSSR, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Central House of Artists Moscow (Coordinator of the Leningrad part) (Catalogue)

We love Germany, Palace of Youth, Leningrad (Curator)