2024
Galerie Wedding, Berlin
Launch of the publication "POLY. A Fluid Show" with Kathrin Becker, Felicia Ewert, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, and Maxi Wallenhorst
2023
KINDL, Berlin
Guided tour through the exhibitions "Emma Talbot: In the End, the Beginning" and "POLY. A Fluid Show" with Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Kathrin Becker
2022
KINDL, Berlin
Guided tour through the exhibition Rémy Markowitsch. No Simple Way Out“ with Kathrin Becker and Rémy Markowitsch (Künstler, Berlin / Lucerne)
Kathrin Becker in conversation with Áile Aikio (Sámi museum professional, Rovaniemi / Finland), Mahret Ifeoma Kupka (Curator and art scholar, Frankfurt / M.) and Erika Stöckel (Artist, Oslo)
KINDL, Berlin
Kathrin Becker in conversation with artist Julie Edel Hardenberg (Artist, Nuuk / Kalaallit Nunaat)
VideonaleX / hidden gems / reveal a secret (Online format / video contribution)
Kathrin Becker: Eli Cortinas: Walls Have Feelings
Goethe-Institut Sofia
Kathrin Becker: Private and Civic engagement in support of contemporary art: Examples from Germany
2021
KINDL, Berlin
Alexandra Bircken in conversation with Kathrin Becker as part of the exhibition "Alexandra Bircken. Fair Game"
Praxis Center for Aesthetic studies, New York
Roundtable-Discussion (online)
Ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Conversation "30 years Ifa-Gallery" with Sandra Teigte and Dmitry Vilensky (Chto delat?) (Podcast)
e1 art gallery, Tehran
Discussion "Shahram Entekhabi and Kathrin Becker. How to Deal with Video Art? " (online)
2020
Index Foundation, Stockholm
Conversation "Letters and History", with Ramesch Daha, Kathrin Becker and Marti Manen (Podcast)
Goldrausch-Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
Online-Seminar "The Role of Independent Curators"
2019
Slovenian Cinematheque / Kino-integral, Ljubljana
From Found Footage to Re-enactment. Screening with works from the collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum by Kathrin Becker (in cooperation with SCCA Ljubljana)
After the butcher, Berlin
Discussion about the artist Maja Weyermann on the occassion oft he exhibition The Yellow Section, with Kathrin Becker, Irène Hug, and Erden Kosova. Moderation: Antje Weitzel
Kunsthaus sans titre, Potsdam
Video Art – Insights into a medium. Works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection. Screening by Kathrin Becker (head of n.b.k. Video-Forum) and Kristina Paustian (n.b.k. Video-Forum)
2018
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Future Continuous Present(s) – "Video Art" through Time. International Symposium.
Shaping future collections. Roundtable with Karen Archey, Kathrin Becker, Keren Cytter, moderated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers
Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
100% Mehr | Wert | Schöpfung: Körper Macht Politik. Videobeispiele aus der Sammlung des n.b.k. Video-Forums.
Lecture by Kathrin Becker
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Das nackte Überleben / Brute Survival. Video works from the collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum, Berlin
Lecture by Kathrin Becker for ALERT! Before the gates of power - expect exclusion!, KRIK Festival 2018
Denkerei, Berlin // Konferenz Essayfilm. Sichtbare Denken
Die essayistische Arbeit in der Medienkunst. Artist talk with Hulda Rós Gudnadóttir and Kathrin Becker
Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf / Kunstverein Düsseldorf
Screening for D'Est. A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former "East" and "West", Chapter 1: The suspension and excess of time, curated by Kathrin Becker and Jana Seehusen
Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Kathrin Becker: Geschichte, Aufbau und Vermittlungspraxis des n.b.k. Video-Forums. Lecture followed by a Tutorial / Portfolio-Viewing
Galerie Katharina Maria Raab, Berlinv
Curating under Restrictions / Finding Alternatives. Panel discussion in the frame work of the exhibition: Beyond the Exhibit. Contextualizing Emerging Iranian Artists I by Factory TT with Kathrin Becker
(n.b.k.), Alexander Koch (KOW Berlin, New Patrons) and Christy Woody (Aperto Raum Berlin). Moderation: Katharina Maria Raab
2017
E-Werk Freiburg
"Videokunst aus Russland seit den 1990er Jahren"
Presentation by Kathrin Becker
Whitechapel Gallery, London
"Artists' Film International: Collaboration and Global Networks", (Presentations and discussions with Ursula Mayer (artist, UK), Kathrin Becker (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Video-Forum, Berlin), Zorana Dakovic (Cultural Centre of Belgrade), Lukasz Ronduda (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw), Maria Palacios Cruz (Deputy Director, LUX) and Iwona Blazwick (Director, Whitechapel Gallery).
XXIII. Rohkunstbau, Schloss Lieberose
Catalogue Launch & Artist Talk (with Shahram Entekhabi and Kathrin Becker)
Humanwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität zu Köln, Labor für Kunst und Forschung
Kathrin Becker: "Feminismen. Gender Politics in Videoart". Lecture/Screening
Biennale WRO 2017 "Draft Systems", Barbara Infopoint, Wroclaw
The Suspension and Excess of Time. Video presentation and panel discussion (with Kathrin Becker, Jana Seehusen & Ulrike Gerhardt) for D'EST. A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former "East" and "West"
Syracuse University – College of Visual and Performing Art's graduate program in Berlin
Tutorial by Kathrin Becker
Hochschule Düsseldorf, Peter Behrens School of Arts
"Enthüllungen! Videobeispiele aus der Sammlung des n.b.k. Video-Forum"
Presentation by Kathrin Becke
2016 / 2017
Institute for Time-Based Media, University of Arts, Berlin
Teaching assignment for the seminar "Video - Art - History" (winter course)
2016
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Artist talk with Halil Altındere. Translation by Yildiz Aslandogan
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico-City
"Inevitablemente: Obras selectas de la Neuer Berliner Kunstverein". Videoscreening, curated by Kathrin Becker, Misael Torres and Milene Zozaya in the Framework of the Portfolio-Festival for Video art and Photography, 2016
Goethe Institute, Mexico-City
"On Ethics, Censorship, and Self-Censorship in Contemporary Art". Lecture by Kathrin Becker
Centro ADM, Mexico-City
"Curating under Pressure". Workshop by Kathrin Becker
2015
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
"The Russian Have A Word For It - Balagan and the World Outside". International Symposium
Balagan in Leningrad and St. Petersburg. Lecture by Kathrin Becker
Ludwig-Forum Aachen
- On the collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum. Presentation by Kathrin Becker
- Debate (collection). Panel discussion (with Kathrin Becker. Renate Buschmann, Sofie Ruysseveldt, François Michaud)
Bar Babette, Berlin
"Projekträume vs. Markt und Galerien". Panel discussion (with Guido W. Baudach (Galerie Guido W. Baudach), Conny Becker (tête), Enrico Centonze (Grimmuseum), Yvonne Quirmbach (BQ), Anemone Vostell (Landesverband Berliner Galerien), Christof Zwiener (statsion), moderated by Kathrin Becker (n.b.k.)
Cinema of the Hotel Angleterre, St. Petersburg
Art and Education. Round table discussion (with Kathrin Becker, Yevgenia Kikodze, Vladimir Logutov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Dmitry Ozerkov, Olesja Turkina, moderated by Anastasya Mitjushina)
2014
Finnland Institute Deutschland, Berlin
"The image-based culture and the critical reading of art". Discussion (with Anita Seppä, Kathrin Becker, Laura Horelli)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
"Zur Lage der Bildenden Kunst in Berlin". Panel discussion (with Axel Haubrok, Heike Catherina Mertens, Ingrid Wagner, Corinne Wasmuht, moderated by Kathrin Becker)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
"Berlin , Moskau , Peking". Panel discussion (with Anatoly Shuravlev, Oxana Timofeeva, Joanna Warsza, moderated by Kathrin Becker)
Cinema / Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
Lunch Bytes Glasgow. Structures and Textures: Archive / Database. Round table discussion (with Kathrin Becker, Andrew Hoskins, Yuri Pattison, Stephen Sutcliffe)
2013
Migros Museum, Zurich
Video@Löwenbräu: Discussion about artist David Zink Yi (with Irene Müller and Kathrin Becker)
F+F School of Art and Media Design, Zurich
Workshop about artist David Zink Yi (with Irene Müller and Kathrin Becker)
Blickle Kino, 21er Haus, Vienna
Videoscreening and discussion with Kathrin Becker
Unteres Belvedere, Research Center, Vienna
About the history and practice of the n.b.k. Video-Forum. Lecture by Kathrin Becker
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kronprinz barracks, Kaliningrad
Discussion with curator Kathrin Becker
University of Arts, Certification course Curation Module II, Berlin
Exhibition tour and discussion with Kathrin Becker
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Artist talk and videoscreening with Massimiliano De Serio, moderated by Kathrin Becker and Silke Wittig
Kunstmuseum Bonn / Videonale
Panel discussion "Alternative Spaces of Video Art"
(with Markus Ambach, Kathrin Becker, Anita Beckers, Henriette Huldisch. Moderation Lilian Haberer)
University of Arts, Berlin, Medienhaus
"Video_Weekend No. 3", realised by Niklas Goldbach (with Kathrin Becker, Matthias Einhoff, Transforma)
Kathrin Becker: Videoscreening about categories of videoart production
Palais am Festungsgraben / Saarländische Galerie, Berlin
Opening speech / Exhibition Virtual Borders. Travelling lightly
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kathrin Becker in conversation with David Zink Yi
2011
Goethe-Institute Pakistan, Karachi / Pakistan
Workshop "Cultures of Curating" by Kathrin Becker
Goethe-Institute Pakistan, Karachi / Pakistan
Video screening On violence, curated by Kathrin Becker
Beaconhouse National University, Lahore / Pakistan
Students' Workshop "Cultures of Curating" by Kathrin Becker
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Students' workshop "Professional Training: Curator" of the University of Arts, Berlin
LOJA Center for Balkan Cooperation, Tetovo / Macedonia
Video screening The Triggering Town, curated by Kathrin Becker
Kunstmuseum Bonn
The Triggering Town. Videoscreening composed by Kathrin Becker with selected works of the n.b.k.v Video-Forum, Berlin, by KP Brehmer (D), Michel de Broin (CA/D), Antje Engelmann (D), Samira Eskandarfar (IR), Niklas Goldbach (D), Hiroharu Mori (JP), Larissa Sansour (PS/UK)
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Artist talk with the Videonale 13-artists Melanie Manchot (UK/D) and Meggie Schneider (D). Moderation: Kathrin Becker (n.b.k., Berlin)
Arsenal 1, Berlin
Participation in the screening and round table Open Archives - 40 Years of n.b.k. Video-Forum and Arsenal–Institute for Film and Video Art (with Kathrin Becker (Head of n.b.k. Video-Forum, Berlin), Constanze Ruhm (artist, Prof. for New Media, Vienna / Berlin), Stefanie Schulte Strathaus (Co-director of Arsenal–Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin), Mathilde ter Heijne (artist, Berlin), moderated by Anselm Franke (curator, Berlin)), in the framework of the Forum Expanded of the 61st Berlinale
n.b.k., Berlin
Videoscreening & Finissageof the annual exhibition series Gruppenbild, selected and commented by Kathrin Becker and Sophie Goltz (with works by Vito Acconci, Kenneth Anger, Trisha Brown, Annika Erikson, Maryam Jafri, Andrei Ujica, et al.)
Galerija Karas, Zagreb
Lecture Conceptual Art From California (on the 2008 n.b.k. exhibition), in the framework of the series This Is Not America, organised by slobodne veze / loose associations, Zagreb
2010
Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion The Internet as an art mashine: Does new technology cause new aesthetics? (with Susanne Gerber and Stefan Eckel / reproducts.de. Moderation: Valie Djordjevic) in the frame work of the symposium Verbotene Filme (organised by iRights.info)
Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Videoscreening: Negative land. Video works from the collection of the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker in the framework of the Symposium Utopia, Seminar for Photography
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Participation in a public conversation (with Adeline Blanchard, Paris; Luís Miguel Oliveira, Lisbon and Berta Sichel, Madrid), on the occasion of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
Gallery Christian Hosp, Berlin
Seminar and workshop Iran Inside Out – Tailored, a project organized by i RAN HOME team
vKultur Atelier, Berlin
An evening with Fereydoun Ave and Mitra Farahani, moderated by Kathrin Becker, a project organized by i RAN HOME team
Kultur Atelier, Berlin
An evening with Nana Seo, introduced by Kathrin Becker, presented by WL-Berlin, Berlin
Ludwig-Forum, Aachen
Kathrin Becker in conversation with Marcel Odenbach in the framework of the exhibition RECORD AGAIN!
2005-2006-2007-2008-2010
Kunst-Werke Berlin (2005), ExtraCity; Antwerpen (2006); Mucsarnok-Kunsthalle, Budapest (2006), PiST, Istanbul (2006-2007); Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas; (2006-07), Bienal de Canarias, Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisabon (2008), Fondazione Giuliani per l'arte contemporanea. Rome (2010)
Kathrin Becker: Auswahl von Videoarbeiten für E-flux video rental. A project by Anton Vidokle und Julieta Aranda
2009
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede
Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
ifa-Galerie Berlin
Video screening This Is Hong Kong, curated by Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Para | Site Art Space, Hongkong with an introduction by Kathrin Becker for WL Project
Soemardja Gallery, ITB, Bandung / Indonesia
Video seminar Indonesia – Berlin & Beyond by Krisna Murti & Kathrin Becker, organised by Videolab
- Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker, moderator Deden Hendan Durahman
- Video lecture A Sense of History. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker, moderator Heru Hikayat
- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
- Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys
Ruangrupa, Jakarta / Indonesia
Video screenings about urban phenomena by Kathrin Becker and Hafiz, organised by the Goethe-Institute Jakarta
i- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Annemarie-Schimmel-House, Lahore / Pakistan
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Heinrich Böll Foundation, Lahore / Pakistan
in collaboration with the Beaconhouse National University (Class of Prof. David Alesworth)
- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
- Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys
- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss
Koel Gallery, Karachi / Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
-Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
- Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss
Goethe-Institute Pakistan, Karachi / Pakistan
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Indus Valley School, Karachi / Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
- Video lecture I like America and America likes me by Joseph Beuys
- Video lecture The way things go by Fischli/Weiss
V.M. Art Gallery, Karachi / Pakistan
organised by VASL, Karachi
- Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
-Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
- Video lecture A Sense of History. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran / Iran
Video screening Picturing Places Around The World, Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran / Iran
Video screening Berlin Hot Shots. Video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum, curated by Kathrin Becker
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Video screening Videovisionen (Kuratorin: Kathrin Becker)
Galerie Stedefreund, Berlin
Video screening Lets misbehave 2 (Kuratorin: Kathrin Becker)
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Filmscreening Fair Play – Works of the DAAD guests in the Temporäre Kunsthalle (with works by Sharon Lockhart, Katerina Seda, Annika Eriksson, Artur Zmijewski, Phil Colins. Introduction and public discussion with Kathrin Becker, Ariane Beyn, Annika Eriksson, Jörn Schafaff, Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus)
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Videoscreening All Man-Made, curated by Kathrin Becker
Kunstbüro Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech Shahram Entekhabi: Shahre Farang
Artprojx Space | Artists Film Club, London
Videoscreenings Performance for video from the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein archive: The City as a Stage & My Favourite Pastime | London, curated by Kathrin Becker
Invaliden1, Berlin
Moderation of the talk Structuring: Artist – Curator – Institution – Audience (with Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya, Shahram Entekhabi, Noe Sendas)
Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund
Participation in an artist´s talk regarding the exhibition Martin Brand. Eyes Wide Shut (with Inke Arns, Kathrin Becker, Martin Brand, Verena Titze)
2008
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Videoscreening Art is a man's name, curated by Kathrin Becker
Royal Academy of London, London
Videoscreenings My favourite pastime | London & The City as a Stage, curated by Kathrin Becker
WL PROJECT, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
Videoscreening My favourite pastime | Hong Kong, curated by Kathrin Becker, Berlin
International art fair "Art Forum", Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talk about Video and Film III (with Phil Collins, Lluciá Homs, Friedrich Meschede, Jean-Conrad Lemaitre, Paul Young)
Palais am Festungsgraben / Saarländische Galerie, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech Stoll & Wachall, The future is gold!
Riga Art Space, Riga / Latvia
Videoscreening Let´s misbehave. Video works from the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker
Videonale im Kunstmuseum, Bonn
Videoscreening in the frame work of "Elektronenströme": My favourite pastime | Bonn, curated by Kathrin Becker, Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Videoscreening Videogeister und andere Erscheinungen. Video works from the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker (on the occasion of the symposium Here, there and anywhere. Von Geistern, Hologrammen und anderen Abwesenheiten)
vdance #3, International VideoDance Festival, Tel-Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel
Videoscreening Let's misbehave, curated by Kathrin Becker, Head of Video-Forum, n.b.k., Berlin
Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
Videoscreening East Side Stories. Video works form the collection of Video-Forum, selected and presented by Kathrin Becker
University For Applied Arts, Institute for Science of Art, Art History Branch, Vienna
Kathrin Becker: Lecture From De/construction of Monument (Sarajevo) to Displaced. Interventions / interactions in public space (Berlin)
Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse Cologne-Bonn, Cologne
Symposium New ways for media art, production of new works
- Kathrin Becker: Lecture about the co-productions of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
- Participation in a panel discussion (with Anja Nathan-Dorn, Cologne; Sven Hahne, Cologne; David Zink Yi, Berlin; Dr. Sabine Himmelsbach, Oldenburg; Bjørn Melhus, Berlin; Dr. Stephan Urbaschek, Munich; Moderation: Dr. Andreas Broeckmann, Berlin)
Cinema Arsenal, Filmhaus am Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Lenin - Saint and Human being in the frame work of the project series of the Osteuropa-Institut of the Free University Berlin Lenin lives!
2007
The Museum of Vojvodina, Novi Sad / Serbia
Videoscreening Spaces, Territories. Current video art from Berlin from the collection of Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker (in the frame work of the 11th international video festival videomedeja)
Centre For Contemporary Art (KSA:K), Chisinau/ Republic of Moldova
Kathrin Becker: Lecture
- Lecture On the creation and preservation of the digital video art collection of the NBK Video-Forum, Berlin
- Lecture Eastside Stories. East European Art from the collection of the NBK Video-Forum, Berlin
- Lecture All That I Am. International Art from the collection of the NBK Video-Forum
Institute for Time-Based Media, University of Arts, Berlin
Series of lectures How to make, show, and buy video art
Kathrin Becker: About the co-productions of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Museum Centre, Krasnojarsk / Russia
Video screening Berlin Calling. Current video art from Berlin from the collection of Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
Panel discussion ETHICS OF GLAMOUR (Participants: Kathrin Becker, Katja Diefenbach, Anne Philippi, Adina Popescu, Moderator: Ingeborg Harms)
2006
Motorenhalle Dresden, Dresden
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
Symposium as the closing of the project 40jahrevideokunst - was fehlt?
Katja Albers and Kathrin Becker: Video statement Real Time Strategic Change
Stiftung Dominick, Nürtingen and Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen
Symposium, workshop, film programme DISTRIBUTE! Auswertungs- und Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten von Film- und Videokunst zwischen Galerie und Verleih
- Kathrin Becker: Lecture Limited - Unlimited. Aspects of Purchasing Video Art at the Video-Forum of NBK
- Participation in a panel discussion (with Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Wien; Dr. Lars Henrik Gass, Oberhausen; Gabriele Röthemeyer, Stuttgart; Clemens von Wedemeyer, Berlin)
Cinema of the Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Symposium Inside the Zapping-Zone: Art-Clips in discussion
Kathrin Becker: Statement Aspects of contemporary video production in Germany
International art fair "Art Forum", Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talks about Video and Film II (with Eleonore de Montesquiou, Sandra Thomas, Ivo Wessel)
Tbilisi Art Academy, Tbilisi / Georgia
A Sense of History. Video seminar about international video art from its beginning to the present, from the collection of the Video Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
ACC Galerie Weimar
Kathrin Becker: Lecture From "De/construction of Monument" (Sarajevo) to "Displaced. Interventions / interactions in public space" (Berlin), by invitation of the MFA Public Art and New Artistic Strategies on the Faculty of Design at the Bauhaus-University Weimar
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
Video selection 100 Days=100 Videos (accompanying programme). Includ. videos by Ang Song Ming, THE ATLAS GROUP (Walid Raad), Ursula Biemann, COM&COM, David Blandy, Ulla von Brandenburg, Shahram Entekhabi, Bethan Huws, Andrea Loux, Matthias Müller, Isabel Nolan, Julian Rosefeldt, Pia Rönicke, Corine Stübi, Nicole Wermers and Akram Zaatari. With curatorial participation of Katja Albers, Kathrin Becker, Heman Chong, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Mischa Kuball, Lars Bang Larsen, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum, Larsen and Rodney LaTourelle, (Publication)
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Kathrin Becker: Introduction Rosa Barba: Printed Cinema. A Presentation of the Hartware MedienKunstVereins in the Museum am Ostwall on the occasion of a grant by the land of NRW
2005-2006-2007-2008
Kunst-Werke Berlin (2005), ExtraCity; Antwerp (2006); Mucsarnok-Arthall, Budapest(2006), PiST, Istanbul(2006-2007); Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas; (2006-07), Bienal de Canarias, Arquitectura, Arte y Paisaje, Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2007), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa (2008)
Selection of video-works for e-flux video rental
2005
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico-City
Video screenings: Jigsaw Feelings + Spaces, Territories. Videoarte contemporáneo de Berlín - una selección de la colección Video-Forum del NBK
International art fair "Art Forum", Berlin
Moderator of the ART-FORUM BERLIN talks about Video-Art (with Anita Beckers, Mathilde ter Heijne, Prof.Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath, Olaf Stüber, Prof. Wilhelm Schürmann)
Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen
Walled Souls. Two-part video program from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, selected by Kathrin Becker and Simon Sheikh, in the frame work of the exhibition Circa Berlin (incl. catalogue)
Educational Institute of the Professional Association of Fine Artists, Berlin
Dr. Alexander Tolnay and Kathrin Becker: Exhibition spaces in Berlin: The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
2004
College of Arts and Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland / Ohio
Video screening: Home is not a friendly place. A selection from the Video Forum at NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
SIDE CINEMA, Newcastle Upon Tyne / UK
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje / Macedonia
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Tallinn Arthall, Tallinn / Estonia
Video screening: Berlin Lights. Current video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Goethe-Institute Budapest
Video screening: Current Berlin video art from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
Kathrin Becker (NBK) and Karine Vonna (forum itinérant) present video works from the collection of the Video Forum in NBK
2003
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava / Slovakia
Video screening: Strange Places. Screening program selected from the collection of the Video-Forum, curated and presented by Kathrin Becker
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion The Berlin and Moscow art scenes between 1990 and 2003 by comparison in the frame work of the exhibition Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000 (with Yekaterina Dyogot, Kai Hilgemann, Paul Maenz, Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Moderator: Harald Fricke)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Video screening: Circuit City. Presentation of the NBK Video Forums at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, selected by Kathrin Becker
Staatsbank, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Action Living in the 80s in collaboration with Rainer Haar, Freiburg i.Br., in the frame work of the project dis-positiv. Zur Produktivität von Kunst und Diskurs
Academy of Fine Arts, Braunschweig
Kathrin Becker: Lecture about curatorial practice and the NBK Video-Forum
Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbunds, Berlin
Participation in the discussion Qualität oder Quote? – Frauen im Kunstbetrieb: Analysen und Strategien (with Fenja Braster, Dusseldorf, Ellen Fischer, Braunschweig, Verena Kuni, Frankfurt/Main, Chris Regn, Hamburg-Basel. Moderation: Ingrid Wagner-Kantuser, Berlin)
2002
Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Participation in the panel discussion of the Bielefelder Kreis Blind flight? Where is the art system headed?, (with Dr. Stephan Berg, Dr. Hans Michael Herzog, Dr. Birgit Sonna, Prof. Bogomir Ecker, Dr. Michael Fehr, Michael Krome)
Robert-Koch-Auditorium of the Institute of Microbiology and Hygiene of the Charité, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Introduction on behalf of the screening of the film Fremdkörper by Katja Pratschke and Gusztav Hamos
2001/2002
Institute for Time-Based Media, University of Arts, Berlin
Teaching assignment for the seminar History of video art (winter course)
2001
Art Academy Bergen / Norwayv
Tutorial for the students of Prof. Karen Kipphof´s class
2000
University College of Arts, Craft and Design (Konstfack), Stockholm
Tutorial for the students of the painting programs in Prof. Felix Gmelin's class
Atelier Level, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion Talks about the aesthetical surplus (with Prof. Eckhard Minx, Prof. Thomas Sieverts, Claudia Skoda, Moderator: Prof. Christoph Langhof)
1999
International art fair "Art Forum", Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion The arts association is out. Long live the arts association?! (Verein ist out! - Es lebe der Kunstverein?!) at the AdKV (with Alice Creischer, Bernd Milla, Heike Munder, Andreas Siekmann, Christoph Tannert, Nicola Kuhn, Moderator: Dr. Stephan Berg)
ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture on behalf of the exhibition project Neues Moskau
Goldrausch-Künstlerinnen-Programm, Berlin
Participation in an artists´ talk about curatorial practice
State University Kiev
A sense of history: Retro-Totalitarism and the art of the 90s in Russia. Lecture in the context of the seminar about East European art
1998
University College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm
Participation in the panel discussion Art in Reality (with Maria Lind, Charlotte von Poehl, Jerome Sans, and others, Moderator: Daniel Birnbaum)
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Video lecture About the current art production in Russia
basis wien, Vienna
Kathrin Becker: Videoscreening art club berlin (with Klara Wallner)
Kulturbrauerei, Berlin
Participation in the talk German résumés, with Gerd Harry Lybke, Moderator: Claudia Henne
1997
Heinrich-Lüdecke-Library, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech On Haralampi Oroschakoff´s Polis-Project
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Participation in the panel discussion Art in the context of Club (with Tilman Baumgärtel, Harald Fricke, Thomas Herr, Christine Hill) in the frame work of the Jugendmusikfestivals ´97/ Join the Club!
University of Arts, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Workshop Curating today (with Klara Wallner)
Grassi-Museum, Leipzig
Kathrin Becker: Opening speech International Painting Exhibition Parallelen
Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen Germany
Kathrin Becker: Opening Speech Ute Pleuger. Serielle Räume
1996
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture on behalf of the exhibition pop mix/ volume one
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
Kathrin Becker: Video screening Video-chill-out: Moscow in the frame wok of the symposium Kabakov und die aktuelle russische Kunst on behalf of the exhibition Stimmen hinter der Tür by Ilya Kabakov
1995
Literaturhaus Berlin
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Body in Communism: Lenin in the frame work of the international symposium Körper im Kommunismus
1994
Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
Lecture Nekrorealism and Neoakademism. Contemporary Positions in St. Petersburg Art
Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin
Artist's discussion with Yevgeny Yufit, moderated by Kathrin Becker, in the context of the series Never mind the 90s
1993
Free University Berlin, Study course "Kulturmanagement"
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Cultural exchange with Eastern Europe
1992
Niedersächsisches Landesinstitut für Lehrerfortbildung in collaboration with the Ostakademie Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Kathrin Becker: Lecture Soviet Socialist Realism and Russian inofficial art (advanced training course for teachers)