Tobias Becker

* 1991 (DE)

lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Education

2018-2019

Conceptions of Cinematic Spaces & Conceptual Photography, Prof. Rosa Barba, University of the Arts Bremen

Post Graduate Student (Meisterschueler)

2018-2019

Film, Prof. John Skoog, University of the Arts Mainz

2013-2019

Time-Based Media, Prof. Dieter Kiessling, University of the Arts Mainz

Prizes, Scholarships & Residencies

2025

Vordemberge-Gildewart-Stipendium (Shortlist - decision in September ‘25)

2023

Balmoral Project Grant - Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral (DE)

Hans-Purrmann-Förderpreis (Shortlist) - Hans-Purrmann-Stiftung and City of Speyer (DE)

2021

Kickstarter Grant - Stiftung Kunstfonds & Federal Government of Germany (DE)

2020

Emy-Roeder-Prize - Ministry of Science, Culture and Education, RLP & Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (DE)

2019

Unit 1 Gallery Residency, London (UK)

Graduate Grant of the University of the Arts and Lions Club Mainz (DE)

2018

Scholarship of and residency at the St. Moritz Art Academy (CH)

Artist’s Advancement Award of the City Mainz (Shortlist) (DE)

Grant of Rhineland-Palatinate for the Promotion of Emerging Film & Media Artists (DE)

Advancement Award of the Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz (DE)

2017

Grant of Rhineland-Palatinate for the Promotion of Emerging Film & Media Artists (DE) 

Exhibitions (Selection)

2025

Vordemberge-Gildewart-Stipendium - Museum Wiesbaden (DE) (upcoming)

https://museum-wiesbaden.de/vordemberge-gildewart

eins.1–6 - House of City History, Offenbach (DE) (upcoming)

https://www.offenbach.de/microsite/haus_der_stadtgeschichte/index.php

2024

Other Spaces - Photographic Exploration Project - loopraum gallery, Berlin (DE)

https://www.pep.photography/other-spaces

Coexist - Balmoral Artist Residency - Museum Mittelrhein, Koblenz (DE)

https://balmoral.de/veranstaltung/coexist/

2023

Ja, warum nicht? Ja? Warum nicht? - Q18 - Quartier am Hafen, Cologne (DE) (upcoming)

http://www.aic.cologne/de/current/calendar/exhibition/q18/ja-warum-nicht-ja-warum-nicht

Turning Point - Eunam Museum of Art - Gwangju (KOR)

http://eunam.org/

Hans-Purrmann-Preis - Kunstverein Speyer (DE)

https://www.speyer.de/de/kultur/bildende-kunst/hans-purrmann-preise/

Locus Solus - Coyote - Stockholm (SWE)

https://www.coyote.pt

Au rendez-vous des amis, Landeskunstausstellung Saar Art - Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken und Institut für aktuelle Kunst, Saarlouis (DE)

https://saarart.eu

Revelation, analogueNow! - Photofestival -Genezarethkirche, Berlin (DE)

https://analoguenow.com/photoweekend-2023/pw23-main-group-exhibition-revelation/

2022

Rotlicht Festival - Publication release (maybe magazine) - Wien (AUT)

https://www.kalamariklub.org/buy-maybe/

Einfaedelspur - zuostant Space, Berlin (DE)

https://www.instagram.com/zuostant/?hl=de

altitude unknown - basis e.V. Projectspace, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

http://basis-frankfurt.de

2021

Alles mögliche - Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (DE)

https://www.kunstverein-ludwigshafen.de

Post Box - HypercubeSpace, Lisbon (PRT) (Solo)

https://www.hypercubespace.org

2020

The Invitational - Unit1 Gallery, London (UK)

https://unit1gallery-workshop.com/the-invitational-I/

when this all collapses, how do we - Terrarista TV, Online Screening as part of Doc-Filmfestival, Kassel (DE)

https://terraristatv.stream

more human than i am alone - Intervention @ Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (DE)

https://www.kunstverein-wiesbaden.de/home

Changes - Cubo Unipol, Bologna (IT)

https://www.cubounipol.it/en

Emy-Roeder-Preis 2020 - Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (DE)

https://www.kunstverein-ludwigshafen.de/ausstellungen/emy-roeder-preis

2019

European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck (DE)

https://www.emaf.de/de/index.html

Plat(t)form - Photomuseum Winterthur (CH)

https://www.fotomuseum.ch/de/explore/platform/

Radical Residency - Unit1 Gallery, London (UK)

https://unit1gallery-workshop.com/2019/01/23/radical-residency-iii/

reality is a construct of imagination - Intervention accompanying the exhibition Rosa Barba: Geschichte als Skulptur @ Kunsthalle Bremen (DE)

https://www.kunsthalle-bremen.de/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen (DE)

http://www.weserburg.de

2018

slowly i turn - basis e.V. Projectspace, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

http://basis-frankfurt.de

Display Detox - Reine Victoria, St. Moritz (CH)

http://stmoritz-art-academy.com

The Cobra Effect - Opelvillen Ruesselsheim, Frankfurt am Main (DE) (Solo)

http://www.opelvillen.de

Deltabeben - Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen (DE)

http://www.wilhelmhack.museum

Perspectives: Strategies in the Photographic Process - Days of Photography, Darmstadt (DE)

https://dtdf.de

2017

archive - xpon gallery, Hamburg (DE)

http://www.xpon-art.de

Counter statement - Kunstverein Viernheim (DE)

http://kunstverein-viernheim.de

Space Invaders - Projectspace Schmiedestraße, Duesseldorf (DE)

http://www.klasse-kiessling.kunsthochschule-mainz.de

Participant Observation - Kunstverein Frappant, Hamburg (DE) (Solo)

http://frappant.org

Digital Naives - Gallery 52 of the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen (DE)

http://galerie52.folkwang-uni.de/digital-naives/

2016

The Descent and The View - TRU Gallery, Kamloops (CA) (Solo)

http://visualarts.inside.tru.ca/category/tru-gallery-news/

2000 years and 1 night - Roemisch-Germanisches Museum, Mainz (DE)

http://web.rgzm.de/ausstellungen-termine/ausstellungen/

ueber[s]malen - xpon gallery, Hamburg (DE)

http://www.xpon-art.de

this is a journey to... - Caos Gallery, Venice (IT)

http://www.caosartgallery.com

The Glimpse (Luminale 2016) - Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

http://www.historisches-museum-frankfurt.de/index.php?article_id=160&clang=0

2015

i’ll stay - Kunstverein Familie Montez, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

http://kvfm.de/ich-bleibe/

vkunst VII - Gallery Greulich, Frankfurt am Main (DE)

http://www.v-kunst.de/ausstellung.html

5.36 p.m. - HAW Lightcampus, Hamburg (DE)

http://lichtcampus.net/haw-hamburg-lc-2015/