Bernd Behr

Bernd Behr (born 1976) is a Taiwanese/German artist based in London.

Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths, University of London, London.

Behr was shortlisted for the 2003 Beck's Futures prize at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.[1] His work can be seen as a cultural archaeology of sites and events which share confluent histories of art, cinema and the built environment. He works across video, photography and sculpture to explore a dialogue between documentary and constructed approaches to his subjects and the associative, sometimes fictional, histories that emerge from them.

Behr currently teaches on the BA (Hons) Photography course at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2010

COMMA 17: Bernd Behr, Bloomberg Space, London

UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable

Ça Va: A Prefabricated Movie Theatre by Berger&Berger, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

America Deserta, Parc Saint Léger Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France

Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

2009

Gets Under the Skin, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York

2008

House without a Door, High Desert Test Sites, California

Bernd Behr & Mie Olise Kjaergaard, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London

2007

House without a Door, E-raum, Cologne

Overtake, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Ice Trade, Chelsea Space, London

2006

House without a Door, Chisenhale Gallery, London

Decline and Vision, European Kunsthalle/Art Cologne, Cologne

Fordham, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium

2005

we live in this concrete basin, S1 Artspace, Sheffield

2004

Bernd Behr / Charles Ellis, Rachmaninoff's, London

Things to Come, Flaca, London

2003

Beck's Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Charlie's Place, Annely Juda Fine Art, London

Someplace Unreachable, Ibid Projects, London

2002

We Want Out, Citylights Gallery, Melbourne

The Way to Happiness, VTO Gallery, London

2001

Cargo Fever, Fordham Gallery, London

External links

References

  1. Gibbons, Flachra (17 December 2002). "Art prize offers oddity by the bucketful". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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