Kirsten Becken was born in Kleve, Germany in 1982 and grew up in an artistic family. She studied at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen where she graduated in 2007.In 2018 she co-founded the independent artist collective femalephotographers.org.In 2017 she published Seeing Her Ghosts at VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst.She teaches at Joseph-Beuys-Gesamtschule Kleve and lectures at HSRW Kamp-Lintfort.Her work was featured in VOGUE Germany, NEON Magazin, Welt, Page and Der Greif.Contact: Studio Kirsten BeckenKalkarer Straße 8147533 Klevestudio {at} kirstenbecken . com0049 0176 61658336@kirstenbecken
Exhibitions:2020 Schule Kunst Museum, Museum Kurhaus Kleve2020 Pop-Up Exhibition Wild Gardens, Students of HSRW Hochschule Rhein-Waal2019 Pop-Up Exhibition Self Studies, Students of HSRW Hochschule Rhein-Waal2018 Lothringer13 Nest, München, Seeing Her Ghosts, Group Show2018 Kunstquartier Bethanien, bitchMATERial Art, Group Show2018 Book Presentation at DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin2017 Pavlov's Dog, Berlin, Seeing Her Ghosts, Group Show2016 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:2017 Seeing Her Ghosts, Art Book published at VfmK Writers: Andrew Solomon, Kirsten Becken, Dayna Gross, Bessel Van Der Kolk, Paul Fletcher, Danielle Knafo, Allie Burke, Robert Whitaker, Dorothea Buck, Peter Lehmann, Gerd Glaeske, Katharina Lessing, Christian Gruber, Nadire Biskin, Stefanie Lohaus, Joachim Witt, Bettina Alberti, Paul Hammersley amongst others.Artists: David Shrigley, Roger Ballen, Angela Deane, Angela Becken, Holger Becken, Sarah Illenberger, Martin Fengel, Marine Fisch, Johanna Dumet, Faye Moorhouse, Nana Dix, Nina Kaun, Ute Klein, Julia Navarro, Clementine de Chabaneix, Ricardo Parker, Marta Claret, Sophia Weisstub amongst others
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, Pomellato, Samsung, Scholz & Friends, Scholz & Volkmer.Talks:2019 Es geht um die Perspektive, Deutschlandfunk, femalephotographers.org2018 Book Presentation, DDPP Congress at Charité Nervenklinik, Berlin2018 "ocelot, not just another bookstore" with Dayna Gross, 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
