Jochen Becker

Jochen Becker (Berlin) works as an author, lecturer and curator. He is a founding member of metro-Zones – Center for Urban Affairs e.V. and, together with Stephan Lanz, edits the metroZones series of books (b_books Berlin). Becker is artistic director in the transdisciplinary cultural and research project global prayers . redemption and liberation of the city at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Latest, he co-curated the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers exhibition at nGbK/Berlin and Camera Austria/Graz as well as Self Made Urbanism Rome at nGbK/Berlin. In 2014, he will be taking up a position as director of the ‘Art & Architecture’ programme at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Publications: BIGNES? – Größe zählt, Image/Politik, Städtisches Handeln‘ (b_books, 2001) and (together with Stephan Lanz) Metropolen (2001) furthermore he is publisher of the metroZones books series Space//Troubles (2003), Hier Entsteht (2004), Self Service City: Istanbul (2005), City of COOP: Buenos Aires/Rio de Janeiro (2004), Kabul/Teheran 1979ff (2006), Architektur auf Zeit (2006), Verhandlungssache Mexiko Stadt (2008), Funk the City (2008), stagings. Kabul (2009) sowie Made in Nollywood (2011).

Current Projects: global prayers • redemption and liberation in the city (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin / Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin / Camera Austria, Graz) sowie Non-Aligned Modernity (Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Yugoslav History, Africa Museum Beograd)

Projects since 2000: Co-Curator MoneyNations2 (Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien) (2000), steirischer herbst Urban Control #1: Belfast von >hier< aus (Forum Stadtpark Graz) (2001), AnbauNeueMitte: Falsches Leben Show as ongoing performance- and theory-show (Prater/Volksbühne Berlin) (2001/2002), Co-Curator Werkleitz Biennale (2002), metroZones in ErsatzStadt (Volksbühne Berlin) (2002–2006), Learning from* (NGBK Berlin, Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien) (2003), Remember Resistance. L’Afrique en résistance films & diskussions (Kino Arsenal, Volksbühne in Prater, Alte Feuerwache Berlin) (2004), guest professor (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, Neuw Media) (2004), Founding of the decolonial film group Remember Resistance (2004), on the way to: From/To Europe #1 (Shedhalle Zürich) (2005/2006), Remember Resistance: Bourdieu in der Banlieue commented films (Globale Berlin, Shedhalle Zürich, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchdruck Leipzig, 3001 Kino Hamburg, Café Le Veneto Paris, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen Innsbruck, Salzburger Kunstverein, Galerie Museum Bozen, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart) (2006/7), Bourdieu in Algier, Bourdieu in der Banlieue: From/To Europe #2 (Shedhalle Zürich) (2006), herbstCamp (steirische herbst Graz) (2006), Roaming around: From/To Europe #3 (Shedhalle Zürich) (2006/2007), Kabulistan exhibitions with Sandra Schäfer/Elfe Brandenburger (Liquidación Total Madrid) (2006), PEPRAV - Plate-forme Européenne de Pratiques et Recherches Alternatives de la Ville (Paris, Brüssel, Berlin, Sheffield) (2006/2007), Founding of metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs e.V. (2007), Roaming Around Residency Programm (Künstlerhaus Schloss Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck) (2007), EuroMaps. Public Lectures on post/colonial mappings (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg, Brüssel) (2007), Liberation // Libération. Die Befreiung von Tirol. From/To Europe #4, (Kunstpavillion Innsbruck, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen) (2008), Doppelprojektionen Remember Resistance in cooperation with In the Desert of Modernity (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin) (2008), Brussels Capital: From/To Europe #5, (Brussels Biennial 1) (2008), Versorger Moderne: Landesgalerie Linz (am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum; in Kooperation mit Sabine Bitter/Helmut Weber) (2009).