Kirsten Becken *1982 is a female artist from Germany living and working in Kleve and elsewhere.
She studied at Folkwang Hochschule where she graduated in 2007. Becken had teaching assignments
at Hochschule Rhein Waal and Fachhochschule Bielefeld.
Her artistic positions include different mediums - photography, film and painting.
In 2015 her son was born and in 2017 she published Seeing Her Ghosts at VfmK Verlag Wien.
2018 she co-founded the non-hierarchical artist collective femxphotographers.org.
Her art film Ihre Geister Sehen starring Sandra Hüller was in 2021 awarded by independent film festivals.
Works by Becken are part of private collections in Germany, France and the Netherlands.
Ongoing photographic works are Girls In Trees, Ophelia Revisited and L'Origine Du Monde.
Ongoing video work Spilling Something.
SCREENINGS
2024 Malkasten Düsseldorf
2021 Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival
2021 New York Tri-State International Film Festival
2021 Seoul International Short Film Festival
2021 Wonderous Stories Film Festival, London
2021 Berlin Indie Film Festival
2021 New Wave Short Film Festival, Berlin
AWARDS
2021 Publikumspreis der ARD Hörspieltage
Hörspiel und Kunstfilm
Autorin: Rabea Edel, Deutschlandfunk Kultur
2021 Ihre Geister Sehen, Kirsten Becken
Award Winner, Kategorie: Artist Film (Short)
Berlin Indie Film Festival
2021 Ihre Geister Sehen, Kirsten Becken
Finalist, Kategorie: Women Empowerment
Munich New Wave Short Film Festival
2021 Ihre Geister Sehen, Kirsten Becken
Semi-Finalist, Kategorie: Experimental Short (International)
Blow-Up Arthouse Filmfest Chicago
PUBLICATIONS (sel)
2022 Mind Over Matter by femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz
2020 The Body Issue by femalephotographers.org, Hatje Cantz
2017 Seeing Her Ghosts by Kirsten Becken, VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, Wien
2021 Rheinische Post, Das Unausgesprochene sagen
2019 WELT, Warum ich schöne Frauen fotografiere?
2017 LENNY LETTER, Breaking the Silence
TALKS
2023 PhotoPhlo New York, Women’s History Month
FEMXPHOTOGRAPHERS.ORG panel w Qiana Mestrich
Katharina Bosse, Lilly Urbat, and Eva Woolridge
2023 Mind over Matter, Salon der Fotografie, Artist Talk
Freundeskreis des Hauses der Fotografie eV,
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2022 Mind over Matter, Paris Photo, Book Signing,
femxphotographers.org
2021 Ihre Geister Sehen, Filmpräsentation,
DDPP Kongress, Berlin
2021 Ihre Geister Sehen, Dlfkultur
Werkstattgespräch
2020 The Body Issue, Dlfkultur
Fazit, femxphotographers.org
2020 Künstlerportrait, WDR westART
2019 Es geht um die Perspektive
Dlfkultur, femxphotographers.org
2018 Book Talk, DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin
2018 Book Talk, ocelot, Berlin
2017 Book Talk, World Congress of Psychiatry, Berlin
EXHIBITIONS
2025 July, 2025 - MAI Residency Museum Schloss Moyland
2025 March, 2025 - Just Women, Imagenation, 23 Warren Street, Tribeca, New York City
2024 KOSMOS Ewald Mataré, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve
2024 MIND OVER MATTER, femxphotographers.org, elsa art space, Bielefeld
2024 LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, femxphotographers.org, AFF Galerie, Berlin
2024 Just Women, Imagenation, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan
2024 Just Women, Imagenation, Galerie St. Joseph, Paris
2024 LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, femxphotographers.org, Museum Schloss Moyland
2023 Alle meine Freunde, KulturKiosk, Stuttgart, Solo-Exhibition
2023 selbdritt, Kerkje van Persingen, Group Show
2023 No Strings Attached, Performance
with Maria Vogt and Laura Louise van Meurs, Museum Schloss Moyland
2022 Salon Des Refuse(e)s, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve
2021 The Naked Body - A Matter of Perspective,
Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2021 Mom, I'm a rich man, femxphotographers.org,
Galerie im Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin
2021 Sommernachtstraum, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve
2021 schwebe im Beuysjahr, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve
2020 THE BODY ISSUE, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart
2020 art pul, PAN Forum, Emmerich
2020 SKM, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2020 Wild Gardens, Students of HSRW
2019 Self Studies, Students of HSRW
2018 Seeing Her Ghosts, Lothringer13, München
2018 Kunstquartier Bethanien, bitchMATERial Art
2018 Book Presentation at DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin
2017 Pavlov's Dog, Berlin, Seeing Her Ghosts
2016 Schaufenster, Berlin, Man reiche mir Trost
2015 Seehof, Goldegg, Angelika Suite
2014 Galerie f 5,6, München,
Der Greif Guestroom Katrin Weber
2014 Neue Galerie im Höhmannshaus,
Augsburg, A Process
2005 Sichtwerk, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen