Kirsten Becken was born in Kleve, Germany in 1982, grew up in an artistic family and studied at Folkwang Hochschule in Essen where she graduated in 2007.In 2017 she published Seeing Her Ghosts at VfmK Verlag. In 2018 she co-founded femalephotographers.org.
She teaches at Joseph-Beuys-Gesamtschule Kleve and lectures at HSRW. Her work was shown in VOGUE Germany, NEON, Welt, Page, AD, ZEIT.Contact: Studio Kirsten BeckenKalkarer Straße 8147533 Klevestudio {at} kirstenbecken . com0049 0176 61658336@kirstenbecken
Exhibitions:Upcoming: 2021 "The Naked Body", Museum Kurhaus Kleve2020 THE BODY ISSUE, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart2020 art pul, PAN Forum, Emmerich2020 Schule Kunst Museum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve2020 Pop-Up Exhibition Wild Gardens, Students of HSRW 2019 Pop-Up Exhibition Self Studies, Students of HSRW 2018 Lothringer13 Nest, München, Seeing Her Ghosts2018 Kunstquartier Bethanien, bitchMATERial Art, Group Show2018 Book Presentation at DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin2017 Pavlov's Dog, Berlin, Seeing Her Ghosts2016 Schaufenster, Berlin, Man reiche mir Trost, Group Show2015 Seehof, Goldegg, Angelika Suite2014 Galerie f 5,6, München, Der Greif Guestroom Katrin Weber, Group Show2014 Neue Galerie im Höhmannshaus, Augsburg,A Process, Group ShowBooks:2020 The Body Issue by femalephotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin2017 Seeing Her Ghosts, Art Book by Kirsten Becken, VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien
Clients (extract):AD Magazine, Allegra, angelikabooks, Boros GmbH, Condé Nast Verlag, Harpers Bazaar,FAZ, Galerie f 5,6, NIDO Magazin, LOEWS, VOGUE Germany, Fräulein Magazin, freundin, Interview Magazine, Iloveyou Magazine, Brigitte, Eltern, EMMA, Missy Magazin, Musikexpress,Pomellato, Samsung, Scholz & Friends, Scholz & Volkmer.Talks:2020 The Body Issue, Deutschlandfunk Kultur "Fazit", femalephotographers.org2020 Künstlerportrait und Kollektiv, WDR "westART", femalephotographers.org2019 Es geht um die Perspektive, Deutschlandfunk, femalephotographers.org2018 Book Presentation, DDPP Congress at Charité Nervenklinik, Berlin2018 "ocelot, not just another bookstore" with Mirna Funk, Saralisa Volm and Stefanie Lohaus2017 Book Presentation at WPA XVII World Congress of Psychiatry, BerlinPublications:2019 WELT, Warum ich schöne Frauen fotografiere? 2017 LENNY LETTER, Breaking the Silence
