Bernd Behr

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Bernd Behr (born 1976) is a Taiwanese artist based in London.

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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

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References

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  2. COMMA 17: Bernd Behr
  3. UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary
  4. Ça Va: A Prefabricated Movie Theatre by Berger&Berger
  5. America Deserta
  6. Territories of the In/Human
  7. Gets Under the Skin
  8. House without a Door
  9. Bernd Behr & Mie Olise Kjaergaard
  10. House without a Door
  11. Lewis Glucksman Gallery
  12. Ice Trade
  13. House without a Door
  14. Decline and Vision
  15. Fordham
  16. we live in this concrete basin
  17. Rachmaninoff's
  18. Things to Come
  19. Annely Juda Fine Art
  20. Ibid Projects
  21. We Want Out
  22. VTO Gallery