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Taiwanese artist (born 1976)
Bernd Behr (born 1976) is a
Taiwanese
artist based in
London .
Biography
Born in
Hamburg in 1976 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
[2]
UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable
[3]
Ça Va: A Prefabricated Movie Theatre by Berger&Berger, 12th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
[4]
America Deserta, Parc Saint Léger Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
[5]
Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
[6]
2009
Gets Under the Skin, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
[7]
2008
House without a Door, High Desert Test Sites, California
[8]
Bernd Behr & Mie Olise Kjaergaard, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London
[9]
2007
House without a Door, E-raum, Cologne
[10]
Overtake, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
[11]
Ice Trade, Chelsea Space, London
[12]
2006
House without a Door, Chisenhale Gallery, London
[13]
Decline and Vision, European Kunsthalle/Art Cologne, Cologne
[14]
Fordham, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
[15]
2005
we live in this concrete basin, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
[16]
2004
Bernd Behr / Charles Ellis, Rachmaninoff's, London
[17]
Things to Come, Flaca, London
[18]
2002
We Want Out, Melbourne
[21]
The Way to Happiness, VTO Gallery, London
[22]
2001
Cargo Fever, Fordham Gallery, London
References
External links
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