Boris Becker

Boris Becker, born in Cologne in 1961, studied photography at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin and was a master student of Bernd Becher. Since 1989, numerous solo exhibitions and exhibition participations have followed at home and abroad. After receiving the Chargesheimer Scholarship and Villa Massimo Scholarship, he was a visiting professor at the Hochschule für Künste in Bremen and took on a substitute professorship at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne. Becker lives and works in Cologne.

In the ARTEFAKTE series, Boris Becker deals with the seemingly absolute disorder in private, commercial and public spaces. In doing so, he examines obviously chaotic scenarios and thus conveys the ambivalence of ordered and disordered spaces and situations. His photographs move on the fine line between inscrutable incoherence and the recognition of ordered structures. Therefore, on the one hand, they question the meaning of socially recognised parameters of order and on the other hand, through their high aesthetic impact, they convey coherent pictorial systems that function purely visually.

C-Print, 54 x 40 cm print run: 15 + 2 AP, 595,- EUR