Kathrin Becker's activities include:

Since February 2020, she works as the Artistic Director of the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art.

From 2001 to 2019, Kathrin Becker was Head of the n.b.k. Video-Forum at the Arts Association Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.); since 2003 in addition, she was also Managing director of the n.b.k.

Grants & Research Activities:

  • 2009: Research Travel Grant for German Curators of the Goethe-Institute Munich for a Contemporary Art Research in Tehran / Iran; Karachi & Lahore / Pakistan; Jakarta, Bandung & Yogyakarta / Indonesia
  • 1998: Scholarship from the Senate Department for Work, Professional Education, & Women, Berlin / support program "gender studies" for developing the anthology The art of women & women in the arts in Eastern Europe from 1910 until today
  • 1996: Scholarship from the Senate Department for Work, Professional Education, & Women, Berlin / support program "gender studies" for developing a documentary about the sculptor Vera Muchina (1889-1953) (with Karen Kipphoff)
  • 1989-1991: Research & Study Visits to Leningrad & Moscow (Grants by the German Academic Exchange Council (DAAD), Bonn, Culture Funds of the USSR / Leningrad branch & the Society A-Ya at the Academy of Science of the USSR, Leningrad)
  • 1987: Grant for the International Summer Seminar of Centre International D´Etudes Slaves, Belgrade, FSR Yugoslavia

Education:

  • 1994: Magistra Artium in Art History at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Germany (summa cum laude)
  • 1984-1989: Study of Art History & Slavic Languages at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum / Germany
  • 1984: High School Diploma (Abitur) at Ernst-Meister-Gymnasium, Hagen / Germany

Honorary Appointments:

  • 2011: Member of the Founding Committee of the Kunst- und Kulturhaus Karlshorst, Berlin-Lichtenberg
  • 2008-2009: Member of the Work Group For Media Art Production Support, "SK Stiftung Kultur", Cologne