Lecture

Häutungen des Archivs (Kudo und die Nachkriegsmoderne)
Prof. Dr. Ilka Becker (Art Historian and Art Critic)

Wednesday, September 20, 2017
5 PM

Ilka Becker talks about her work in the exhibition Asymmetric Architextures – Readings in the Postwar History of the Kunstverein.

Prof. Dr. Ilka Becker is an art historian and art critic with main focus on Modern and Contemporary Art. Since 2013 she is a visiting professor at the Institute of Aesthetics & Art History and dissertation adviser at the PhD Program The Photographic Dispositif at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Last publication (ed.): Fotografisches Handeln, Kromsdorf/Weimar 2016; curatorial projects (among others): Katja Davar / Nikolaus Gansterer, Kunstwerk e.V., Köln (2014), Schnittraum, Braunschweig University of Art (2010/11); 1998-2000 editor at Texte zur Kunst.

The event accompanies the exhibition Asymmetrische Architexturen – Lektüren zur Nachkriegsgeschichte des Kunstvereins, on view at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf through October 8, 2017.