KIRSTEN BECKEN
KIRSTEN BECKEN
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Kirsten Becken holds a varied artistic position as a multidisciplinary artist. Her creative practice encompasses Photography, Film and Painting. Ophelia Revisited is testify to a feminist lens, portraying women who are self-determined, at peace, and actively shaping their own imagery subverting traditional portrayals of female characters. She consciously uses the female body as a means of expression for autonomy and at the same time as a surface for reflection on social power relations. With L’Origine du Monde she is reclaiming its narrative. 

In 2015 her son was born and in 2017 she published Seeing Her Ghosts at VfmK Verlag Wien.

As co-founder of femxphotographers.org in 2018 she likes to amplify female artists’ visibility and challenge the male-dominated art-world. 
Her art film Ihre Geister Sehen starring Sandra Hüller was in 2021 awarded by independent film festivals. Works by Becken are part of collections in Germany, and private collections in France and the Netherlands. Ongoing photographic works are Girls In Trees, Ophelia Revisited and L'Origine Du Monde. Ongoing video work Spilling Something. Her work has been featured in Missy Magazine, SLEEK, Photonews, VOGUE Germany, and Harpers Bazaar France, PARNASS Magazine, Observer ...

KIRSTEN BECKEN

TIMELINE

2026
Self on Stage, Museum Goch, DE
Wassergärten, Kunstverein Emmerich e.V. Project Grand Kunststiftung NRW, DE
DON'T TOUCH UNLESS IT'S CARE, VINZENZ, Group Show, Vienna, AT
In the Picture, Porträtfotografie aus der Sammlung, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE


2025
Marina Abramović & MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE
Marina Abramović & MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, Residency for Museum Schloss Moyland, DE
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, New York, USA
LOVE edited by Charlotte Cotton for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin


2024
INTRO, Auftaktausstellung im Kunstverein Emmerich e.V., Emmerich am Rhein, DE
KOSMOS Ewald Mataré, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, DE
femxphotographers.org MIND OVER MATTER, elsa artspace, Bielefeld, DE
femxphotographers.org LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, AFF Galerie, Berlin, DE
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, IT
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, Galerie St. Joseph, Paris, FR
femxphotographers.org LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE


2023
Alle meine Freunde, KulturKiosk, Stuttgart, Solo-Exhibition, DE
selbdritt, Kerkje van Persingen, Group Show, NL
No Strings Attached, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE



2022
Salon Des Refuse(e)s, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE
MIND OVER MATTER edited by Roula Seikaly for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin

2021
The Naked Body - A Matter of Perspective Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Mom, I'm a rich man, femxphotographers.org Galerie im Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin, DE
Sommernachtstraum, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE
schwebe im Beuysjahr,  Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE



2020
THE BODY ISSUE, Group Show, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, DE
art pul, PAN Forum, Emmerich am Rhein, DE
THE BODY ISSUE edited by Elisabeth Biondi for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin


2018
Seeing Her Ghosts, Lothringer13, München, DE
bitchMATERial Art, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Seeing Her Ghosts, DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin, DE

2017   
Seeing Her Ghosts Group Show at Pavlov's Dog, Berlin, DE

2016   
Man reiche mir Trost, Ophelia Revisited at Schaufenster, Berlin, DE

2015   
Seehof, Angelika Suite, for Angelika Taschen, Goldegg, AT

2014   
Galerie f 5,6, Der Greif Guestroom Katrin Weber, München, DE

2014   
Neue Galerie im Höhmannshaus, A Process, Der Greif, Augsburg, DE

2010   
Freelance Art Direction and Photography

2008   
Art Direction in digital agencies

2007   
Diploma at Folkwang Hochschule Essen

2005   
Sichtwerk, Folkwang Hochschule, Essen

SCREENINGS

2024 
Malkasten Düsseldorf, DE

2021  
DDPP Congress at Charité Berlin, DE
Indie Filmmakers Festival Toronto, USA
Tri-State International Film Festival New York, USA
International Short Film Festival Seoul, ID
Wonderous Stories Film Festival London, UK
Indie Film Festival Berlin, DE
New Wave Short Film Festival Berlin, DE

AWARDS
Ihre Geister Sehen Hörspiel
Publikumspreis der ARD Hörspieltage
Nominierung WESTSTERN Förderpreis
mothertongue Ausstellungskonzept, Kunstverein Emmerich am Rhein

Ihre Geister Sehen Kunstfilm, Auszeichnungen
Award Artist Film (Short)
Berlin Indie Film Festival
Finalist,Women Empowerment
Munich New Wave Short Film Festival
Semi-Finalist, Experimental Short (International)
Blow-Up Arthouse Filmfest Chicago



PUBLICATIONS

2025 
LOVE by femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz

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, Wien

PRESS (print & online, sel)

2021   
Ihre Geister Sehen, Nicole Zepter

2021   
Rheinische Post, Das Unausgesprochene sagen

2019   
WELT, Warum ich schöne Frauen fotografiere? 

2017   
WELT am Sonntag, Denn kein Mensch ist eine Diagnose, Saralisa Volm

2017   
LENNY LETTER, Breaking the Silence


TALKS

2026   
Salon der Fotografie, Artist Talk - LOVE Freundeskreis des Hauses der Fotografie eV, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2025   
LET’S TALK – FRAUEN UND DER KUNSTMARKT andshewaslikeBÄM!, Ulrike Rosenbach und Kirsten Becken Panel im Museum Schloss Moyland

2023   
PhotoPhlo New York, Women’s History Month
Salon der Fotografie, Artist Talk - Mind over Matter Freundeskreis des Hauses der Fotografie eV, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2022    
Paris Photo, Mind over Matter, femxphotographers.org

2021    
DDPP Congress at Charité, Ihre Geister Sehen, Screening, Berlin
Dlfkultur Werkstattgespräch, Ihre Geister Sehen, Kunstfilm und Hörspiel

2020   
Dlfkultur Fazit, The Body Issue, femxphotographers.org
WDR westART, Künstlerinnenportrait

2019   
Dlfkultur, Es geht um die Perspektive, femxphotographers.org

2018   
DDPP Congress at Charité, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin
ocelot bookstore, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin

2017   
World Congress of Psychiatry, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin

Kirsten Becken holds a varied artistic position as a multidisciplinary artist. Her creative practice encompasses Photography, Film and Painting. Ophelia Revisited is testify to a feminist lens, portraying women who are self-determined, at peace, and actively shaping their own imagery subverting traditional portrayals of female characters. She consciously uses the female body as a means of expression for autonomy and at the same time as a surface for reflection on social power relations. With L’Origine du Monde she is reclaiming its narrative. 

In 2015 her son was born and in 2017 she published Seeing Her Ghosts at VfmK Verlag Wien.

As co-founder of femxphotographers.org in 2018 she likes to amplify female artists’ visibility and challenge the male-dominated art-world. 
Her art film Ihre Geister Sehen starring Sandra Hüller was in 2021 awarded by independent film festivals. Works by Becken are part of collections in Germany, and private collections in France and the Netherlands. Ongoing photographic works are Girls In Trees, Ophelia Revisited and L'Origine Du Monde. Ongoing video work Spilling Something. Her work has been featured in Missy Magazine, SLEEK, Photonews, VOGUE Germany, and Harpers Bazaar France, PARNASS Magazine, Observer ...

KIRSTEN BECKEN

TIMELINE

2026
Self on Stage, Museum Goch, DE
Wassergärten, Kunstverein Emmerich e.V. Project Grand Kunststiftung NRW, DE
DON'T TOUCH UNLESS IT'S CARE, VINZENZ, Group Show, Vienna, AT
In the Picture, Porträtfotografie aus der Sammlung, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE


2025
Marina Abramović & MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE
Marina Abramović & MAI in dialogue with Joseph Beuys, Residency for Museum Schloss Moyland, DE
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, New York, USA
LOVE edited by Charlotte Cotton for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin


2024
INTRO, Auftaktausstellung im Kunstverein Emmerich e.V., Emmerich am Rhein, DE
KOSMOS Ewald Mataré, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, DE
femxphotographers.org MIND OVER MATTER, elsa artspace, Bielefeld, DE
femxphotographers.org LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, AFF Galerie, Berlin, DE
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, IT
Just Women Group Show, Imagenation, Galerie St. Joseph, Paris, FR
femxphotographers.org LOVE YOURSELF FIRST, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE


2023
Alle meine Freunde, KulturKiosk, Stuttgart, Solo-Exhibition, DE
selbdritt, Kerkje van Persingen, Group Show, NL
No Strings Attached, Museum Schloss Moyland, DE



2022
Salon Des Refuse(e)s, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE
MIND OVER MATTER edited by Roula Seikaly for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin

2021
The Naked Body - A Matter of Perspective Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Mom, I'm a rich man, femxphotographers.org Galerie im Rathaus Johannisthal, Berlin, DE
Sommernachtstraum, Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE
schwebe im Beuysjahr,  Kunst und Gäste, Kleve, DE



2020
THE BODY ISSUE, Group Show, Kultur Kiosk, Stuttgart, DE
art pul, PAN Forum, Emmerich am Rhein, DE
THE BODY ISSUE edited by Elisabeth Biondi for femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz Berlin


2018
Seeing Her Ghosts, Lothringer13, München, DE
bitchMATERial Art, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, DE
Seeing Her Ghosts, DDPP Congress at Charité, Berlin, DE

2017   
Seeing Her Ghosts Group Show at Pavlov's Dog, Berlin, DE

2016   
Man reiche mir Trost, Ophelia Revisited at Schaufenster, Berlin, DE

2015   
Seehof, Angelika Suite, for Angelika Taschen, Goldegg, AT

2014   
Galerie f 5,6, Der Greif Guestroom Katrin Weber, München, DE

2014   
Neue Galerie im Höhmannshaus, A Process, Der Greif, Augsburg, DE

2010   
Freelance Art Direction and Photography

2008   
Art Direction in digital agencies

2007   
Diploma at Folkwang Hochschule Essen

2005   
Sichtwerk, Folkwang Hochschule, Essen

SCREENINGS

2024 
Malkasten Düsseldorf, DE

2021  
DDPP Congress at Charité Berlin, DE
Indie Filmmakers Festival Toronto, USA
Tri-State International Film Festival New York, USA
International Short Film Festival Seoul, ID
Wonderous Stories Film Festival London, UK
Indie Film Festival Berlin, DE
New Wave Short Film Festival Berlin, DE

AWARDS
Ihre Geister Sehen Hörspiel
Publikumspreis der ARD Hörspieltage
Nominierung WESTSTERN Förderpreis
mothertongue Ausstellungskonzept, Kunstverein Emmerich am Rhein

Ihre Geister Sehen Kunstfilm, Auszeichnungen
Award Artist Film (Short)
Berlin Indie Film Festival
Finalist,Women Empowerment
Munich New Wave Short Film Festival
Semi-Finalist, Experimental Short (International)
Blow-Up Arthouse Filmfest Chicago



PUBLICATIONS

2025 
LOVE by femxphotographers.org, Hatje Cantz

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, Wien

PRESS (print & online, sel)

2021   
Ihre Geister Sehen, Nicole Zepter

2021   
Rheinische Post, Das Unausgesprochene sagen

2019   
WELT, Warum ich schöne Frauen fotografiere? 

2017   
WELT am Sonntag, Denn kein Mensch ist eine Diagnose, Saralisa Volm

2017   
LENNY LETTER, Breaking the Silence


TALKS

2026   
Salon der Fotografie, Artist Talk - LOVE Freundeskreis des Hauses der Fotografie eV, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2025   
LET’S TALK – FRAUEN UND DER KUNSTMARKT andshewaslikeBÄM!, Ulrike Rosenbach und Kirsten Becken Panel im Museum Schloss Moyland

2023   
PhotoPhlo New York, Women’s History Month
Salon der Fotografie, Artist Talk - Mind over Matter Freundeskreis des Hauses der Fotografie eV, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2022    
Paris Photo, Mind over Matter, femxphotographers.org

2021    
DDPP Congress at Charité, Ihre Geister Sehen, Screening, Berlin
Dlfkultur Werkstattgespräch, Ihre Geister Sehen, Kunstfilm und Hörspiel

2020   
Dlfkultur Fazit, The Body Issue, femxphotographers.org
WDR westART, Künstlerinnenportrait

2019   
Dlfkultur, Es geht um die Perspektive, femxphotographers.org

2018   
DDPP Congress at Charité, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin
ocelot bookstore, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin

2017   
World Congress of Psychiatry, Seeing Her Ghosts, Book Talk, Berlin