kathrin becker


 

Selected Lectures, Panels & Presentations

2009
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

ifa-Galerie Berlin
Video screening This Is Hong Kong, curated by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Para | Site Art Space, Hongkong with an introduction by Kathrin Becker for WL Project

Soemardja Gallery, ITB, Bandung/Indonesia
Video seminar Indonesia – Berlin & Beyond by Krisna Murti & Kathrin Becker, organised by Videolab
i- Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker, moderator Deden Hendan Durahman
ii- Video lecture A Sense of History. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker, moderator Heru Hikayat
iii- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
-iv Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys

Ruangrupa, Jakarta/Indonesia
Video screenings about urban phenomena by Kathrin Becker and Hafiz, organised by the Goethe-Institute Jakarta
i- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Annemarie-Schimmel-House, Lahore/Pakistan
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Heinrich Böll Foundation, Lahore
in collaboration with the Beaconhouse National University (Class of Prof. David Alesworth)
i- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
ii- Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys
iii- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss

Koel Gallery, Karachi/Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
i-Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
ii- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
iii- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss

Goethe-Institute Pakistan, Karachi/Pakistan
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Indus Valley School, Karachi/Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
i- Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys
ii- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss

V.M. Art Gallery, Karachi/Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
i- Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
ii-Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
iii- Video lecture A Sense of History. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran/Iran
Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Azad Art Gallery, Tehran/Iran
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker

Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Video screening Videovisionen (Kuratorin: Kathrin Becker)

Galerie Stedefreund, Berlin
Video screening Lets misbehave 2 (Kuratorin: Kathrin Becker)

Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Filmscreening Fair Play – Works of the DAAD guests in the Temporäre Kunsthalle (with works by Sharon Lockhart, Katerina Seda, Annika Eriksson, Artur Zmijewski, Phil Colins. Introduction and public discussion with Kathrin Becker, Ariane Beyn, Annika Eriksson, Jörn Schafaff, Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus)

Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Videoscreening All Man-Made, curated by Kathrin Becker

Kunstbüro Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech Shahram Entekhabi: Shahre Farang

Artprojx Space | Artists Film Club, London
Videoscreenings Performance for video from the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein archive: The City as a Stage & My Favourite Pastime | London, curated by Kathrin Becker

Invaliden1, Berlin
Moderation of the talk Structuring: Artist – Curator – Institution – Audience (with Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Shahram Entekhabi, Noe Sendas)

Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund
Participation in an artist´s talk regarding the exhibition Martin Brand. Eyes Wide Shut (with Inke Arns, Kathrin Becker, Martin Brand, Verena Titze)

2008
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Videoscreening Art is a man's name, curated by Kathrin Becker

Royal Academy of London, London
Videoscreenings My favourite pastime | London & The City as a Stage, curated by Kathrin Becker

WL PROJECT, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
Videoscreening My favourite pastime | Hong Kong, curated by Kathrin Becker, Berlin

International art fair "Art Forum", Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talk about Video and Film III (with Phil Collins, Lluciá Homs, Friedrich Meschede, Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, Paul Young)
 
Palais am Festungsgraben/Saarländische Galerie, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech Stoll & Wachall, The future is gold!
 
Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
Videoscreening Let´s misbehave. Video works from the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker
 
Videonale im Kunstmuseum, Bonn
Videoscreening in the frame work of "Elektronenströme": My favourite pastime | Bonn, curated by Kathrin Becker, Berlin
 
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Videoscreening Videogeister und andere Erscheinungen. Video works from the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker (on the occasion of the symposium Here, there and anywhere. Von Geistern, Hologrammen und anderen Abwesenheiten)
 
vdance #3, International VideoDance Festival, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel
Videoscreening Let's misbehave, curated by Kathrin Becker, Head of Video-Forum, n.b.k., Berlin

Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
Videoscreening East Side Stories. Video works form the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker

University For Applied Arts, Institute for Science of Art, Art History Branch, Vienna
Kathrin Becker: Lecture From De/construction of Monument (Sarajevo) to Displaced. Interventions/interactions in public space (Berlin)

Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse Cologne-Bonn, Cologne
Symposium New ways for media art, production of new works
i- Kathrin Becker: Lecture about the co-productions of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
ii- Participation in a panel discussion (with Anja Nathan-Dorn, Cologne; Sven Hahne, Cologne; David Zink Yi, Berlin; Dr. Sabine Himmelsbach, Oldenburg; Bjørn Melhus, Berlin; Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Munich; Moderation: Dr. Andreas Broeckmann, Berlin)

Cinema Arsenal, Filmhaus am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Lenin - Saint and Human being in the frame work of the project series of the  Osteuropa-Institut of the Free University Berlin Lenin lives!

2007
The Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
Videoscreening Spaces, Territories. Current video art from Berlin from the collection of Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker (in the frame work of the 11th international video festival videomedeja)

Centre For Contemporary Art (KSA:K), Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Kathrin Becker: Lecture
i- Lecture On the creation and preservation of the digital video art collection of the NBK Video-Forum, Berlin
ii- Lecture Eastside Stories. East European Art from the collection of the NBK Video-Forum, Berlin
iii- Lecture All That I Am. International Art from the collection of the NBK Video-Forum

Institute for Time-Based Media, University of Arts, Berlin
Series of lectures How to make, show, and buy video art
Kathrin Becker: About the co-productions of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Museum Centre, Krasnojarsk, Siberia/ RUS
Video screening Berlin Calling. Current video art from Berlin from the collection of Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Panel discussion ETHICS OF GLAMOUR (Participants: Kathrin Becker, Katja Diefenbach, Anne Philippi, Adina Popescu, Moderator: Ingeborg Harms)

2006
Motorenhalle Dresden, Dresden
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
Symposium as the closing of the project 40jahrevideokunst - was fehlt?
Katja Albers and Kathrin Becker: Video statement Real Time Strategic Change

Stiftung Dominick, Nürtingen and Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen
Symposium, workshop, film programme DISTRIBUTE! Auswertungs- und Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten von Film- und Videokunst zwischen Galerie und Verleih
i- Kathrin Becker: Lecture Limited - Unlimited. Aspects of Purchasing Video Art at the Video-Forum of NBK
ii- Participation in a panel discussion (with Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Wien; Dr. Lars Henrik Gass, Oberhausen; Gabriele Röthemeyer, Stuttgart; Clemens von Wedemeyer, Berlin)

Cinema of the Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Symposium Inside the Zapping-Zone: Art-Clips in discussion
Kathrin Becker: Statement Aspects of contemporary video production in Germany

International art fair “Art Forum”, Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talks about Video and Film II (with Eleonore de Montesquiou, Sandra Thomas, Ivo Wessel)

Tbilisi Art Academy, Tbilisi/ Georgia
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

ACC Galerie Weimar
Kathrin Becker: Lecture From "De/construction of Monument" (Sarajevo) to "Displaced. Interventions/interactions in public space" (Berlin), by invitation of the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies on the Faculty of Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar

Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Video selection 100 Days=100 Videos (accompanying programme). Includ. videos by Ang Song Ming, THE ATLAS GROUP (Walid Raad), Ursula Biemann, COM&COM, David Blandy, Ulla von Brandenburg, Shahram Entekhabi, Bethan Huws, Andrea Loux, Matthias Müller, Isabel Nolan, Julian Rosefeldt, Pia Rönicke, Corine Stübi, Nicole Wermers and Akram Zaatari. With curatorial participation of Katja Albers, Kathrin Becker, Heman Chong, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Mischa Kuball, Lars Bang Larsen, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum, Larsen and Rodney LaTourelle, (Publication)

Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Kathrin Becker: Introduction Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema. A Presentation of the Hartware MedienKunstVereins in the Museum am Ostwall on the occasion of a grant by the land of NRW 2004/05

2005-2006-2007-2008
Kunst-Werke Berlin (2005), ExtraCity; Antwerp (2006); Mucsarnok-Arthall, Budapest(2006), PiST, Istanbul(2006-2007); Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas; (2006-07), Bienal de Canarias, Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (2008)
Selection of video-works for e-flux video rental

2005
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico-City
Video screenings: Jigsaw Feelings + Spaces, Territories. Videoarte contemporáneo de Berlín - una selección de la colección Video-Forum del NBK

International art fair “Art Forum”, Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talks about Video-Art (with Anita Beckers, Mathilde ter Heijne, Prof.Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath, Olaf Stüber, Prof. Wilhelm Schürmann)

Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
Walled Souls. Two-part video program from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, selected by Kathrin Becker and Simon Sheikh, in the frame work of the exhibition Circa Berlin (incl. catalogue)

Educational Institute of the Professional Association of Fine Artists, Berlin
Dr. Alexander Tolnay and Kathrin Becker: Exhibition spaces in Berlin: The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

2004
College of Arts and Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland/Ohio
Video screening: Home is not a friendly place. A selection from the Video Forum at NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

SIDE CINEMA, Newcastle Upon Tyne/ UK
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje/ Macedonia
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Tallinn Arthall, Tallinn/ Estonia
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Goethe-Institute Budapest
Video screening: Current Berlin video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
Kathrin Becker (NBK) and Karine Vonna (forum itinérant) present video works from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK

2003
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava/ Slovakia
Video screening: Strange Places. Screening program selected from the collection of the Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion The Berlin and Moscow art scenes between 1990 and 2003 by comparison in the frame work of the exhibition Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000 (with Yekaterina Dyogot, Kai Hilgemann, Paul Maenz, Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Moderator: Harald Fricke)

Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Video screening: Circuit City. Presentation of the NBK Video Forums at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, selected by Kathrin Becker

Staatsbank, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Action Living in the 80s in collaboration with Rainer Haar, Freiburg i.Br., in the frame work of the project dis-positiv. Zur Produktivität von Kunst und Diskurs

Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig
Kathrin Becker: Lecture about curatorial practice and the NBK Video-Forum

Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbunds, Berlin
Participation in the discussion Qualität oder Quote? – Frauen im Kunstbetrieb: Analysen und Strategien (with Fenja Braster, Dusseldorf, Ellen Fischer, Braunschweig, Verena Kuni, Frankfurt/Main, Chris Regn, Hamburg-Basel. Moderation: Ingrid Wagner-Kantuser, Berlin)

2002
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Participation in the panel discussion of the Bielefelder Kreis Blind flight? Where is the art system headed?, (with Dr. Stephan Berg, Dr. Hans Michael Herzog, Dr. Birgit Sonna, Prof. Bogomir Ecker, Dr. Michael Fehr, Michael Krome)

Robert-Koch-Auditorium of the Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene of the Charité, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Introduction on behalf of the screening of the film Fremdkörper by Katja Pratschke and Gusztav Hamos

2001/2002
Institute for Time-Based Media, University of Arts, Berlin
Teaching assignment for the seminar History of video art (winter course)

2001
Art Academy Bergen/ Norway
Tutorial for the students of Prof. Karen Kipphof´s class

2000
University College of Arts, Craft and Design (Konstfack), Stockholm
Tutorial for the students of the painting programs in Prof. Felix Gmelin´s class

Atelier Level, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion Talks about the aesthetical surplus (with Prof. Eckhard Minx, Prof. Thomas Sieverts, Claudia Skoda, Moderator: Prof. Christoph Langhof)

1999
International art fair “Art Forum”, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion The arts association is out. Long live the arts association?! (Verein ist out! - Es lebe der Kunstverein?!) at the AdKV (with Alice Creischer, Bernd Milla, Heike Munder, Andreas Siekmann, Christoph Tannert, Nicola Kuhn, Moderator: Dr. Stephan Berg)

ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture on behalf of the exhibition project Neues Moskau

Goldrausch-Künstlerinnen-Programm, Berlin
Participation in an artists´ talk about curatorial practice

State University Kiev
A sense of history: Retro-Totalitarism and the art of the 90s in Russia. Lecture in the context of the seminar about East European art

1998
University College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm/ SE
Participation in the panel discussion Art in Reality (with Maria Lind, Charlotte von Poehl, Jerome Sans, and others, Moderator: Daniel Birnbaum)

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Video lecture About the current art production in Russia

basis wien, Vienna
Kathrin Becker: Videoscreening art club berlin (with Klara Wallner)

Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
Participation in the talk German résumés, with Gerd Harry Lybke, Moderator: Claudia Henne

1997
Heinrich-Lüdecke-Library, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech On Haralampi Oroschakoff´s Polis-Project

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion Art in the context of Club (with Tilman Baumgärtel, Harald Fricke, Thomas Herr, Christine Hill) in the frame work of the Jugendmusikfestivals ´97/ Join the Club!

University of Arts, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Workshop Curating today (with Klara Wallner)

Grassi-Museum, Leipzig
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech International Painting Exhibition Parallelen

Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen/ D
Kathrin Becker: Opening Speech Ute Pleuger. Serielle Räume

1996
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture on behalf of the exhibition pop mix/ volume one

Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Kathrin Becker: Video screening Video-chill-out: Moscow in the frame wok of the symposium Kabakov und die aktuelle russische Kunst on behalf of the exhibition Stimmen hinter der Tür by Ilya Kabakov

1995
Literaturhaus Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Body in Communism: Lenin in the frame work of the international symposium Körper im Kommunismus

1994
Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
Lecture Nekrorealism and Neoakademism. Contemporary Positions in St. Petersburg Art

Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin
Artist’s discussion with Yevgeny Yufit, moderated by Kathrin Becker, in the context of the series Never mind the 90s

1993
Free University Berlin, Study course "Kulturmanagement"
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Cultural exchange with Eastern Europe

1992
Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für Lehrerfortbildung in collaboration with the Ostakademie Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Soviet Socialist Realism and Russian inofficial art (advanced training course for teachers)