CV

Olaf Otto Becker:

1959   Born in Lübeck-Travemünde, Germany
1981–1986   Studied communication design in Augsburg, specializing in photography
1986–1988   Studied philosophy and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

Awards:

2019   Grant for Olaf Otto Becker: Yedoma (Siberian Summer) from the Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2017   Grant for the project Olaf Otto Becker: „Yedoma“ by the Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Bonn
2011   Grant and artist-in-residence in Rossinière, Switzerland
2010   Photography prize of the Bavarian Journalists’ Association
2008   LeadAward
2007   Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line
2006   Olaf Otto Becker: Under the Nordic Light. A Journey through Time. Iceland 1999–2011, nominated for best book at Rencon­tres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles; Grant for Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line from the Kulturwerk VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
2005   Photography prize of the Bavarian Journalists’ Association

Publications:

2020   Civilization. Photography. Now., exh. cat. The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Siberian Summer, Berlin
2019   The Way We Live Now, exh. cat. Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, The Auckland Art Gallery
2018   Civilization The Way We Live Now, exh. cat. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA)
2017   Ilulissat – Sculptures of Change, Berlin
2016   European Month of Photography, exh. cat., Berlin
2015   Norderlicht Arena, exh. cat., Heerenveen
2014   Landmark: Fields of Landscape Photography, London
2013   Subhankar Banerjee, Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point, New York, Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775–2012, exh. cat. Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
2012   Olaf Otto Becker: Under the Nordic Light. A Journey through Time. Iceland 1999–2011, Ostfildern
2011   The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, exh. cat. Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
  Help Earth 2011, The Society of Korean Photography
2010   Photo Speaks 2011, The Society of Korean Photography BredaPhoto: International Photo Festival, exh. cat.
  Breda’s Museum
2009   Olaf Otto Becker: Above Zero, Ostfildern
2008   Visual Leader 2008, exh. cat. Deichtorhallen Hamburg Vanishing Landscapes, Cologne
2007   Olaf Otto Becker: Broken Line, Ostfildern
2006   Lynne Warren, Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, vol. 1, New York
2005   Under the Nordic Light, Cologne, exh. cat. Fotosommer Stuttgart
  Fotosommer Stuttgart 2005, exh. cat. Fotosommer Stuttgart e. V.
2004   Wasser in der Kunst: Vom Mittelalter bis heute, exh. cat. /
  Städtische Galerie Überlingen

Solo Exhibitions (Selection):

2024   Olaf Otto Becker, Gallery Vogdt, Munich,
    Olaf Otto Becker Polaroid H2 Museum for Contemporary Art, Augsburg
2023   Olaf Otto Becker, Gallery Ruzicska, Salzburg
    Olaf Otto Becker, Signs of Change, Technik Museum, Berlin
2022   Dialog, Gallery Abt Art, Stuttgart
2020   Change, Galeriehaus Stuttgart
2019   The Niah Project, Gallery f5,6, Munich
2018   Ice and Land, The Reykjavík Museum of Photography
    Ilulissat – Sculptures of Change, Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
    Traces, Gallery Huxley Parlour, London
2017   Above Zero, MARCOROSSI Arte Contemporanea Milano
    Above Zero, MARCOROSSI Arte Contemporanea Verona
2016   Ilulissat – Sculptures of Change, Gallery f5,6, Munich
2015   Reading the Landscape, Gallery f5,6, Munich
    Traces Gallery Robert Morat, Hamburg
    Ilulissat – Sculptures of Change, Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
    Gallery Anteprima d’arte contemporanea, Rome
2014   Gallery f5,6, Munich
    Gallery Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
2013   Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
    Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul
2012   Cohen Amador Gallery, New York
  Gallery f5,6, Munich
2011   Stadthaus Ulm
2010   Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  Goethe-Institut, Nancy
  Gallery f5,6, Munich
  Gallery Wouter van Leeuwen, Amsterdam
  Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
  Tekhne Architectes, Lyon
2009   The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
  Cohen Amador Gallery, New York
  Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Cologne
  Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
2008   Gallery f5,6, Munich
  Cohen Amador Gallery, New York
2007   Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles
  Gallery Münsterland, Emsdetten
2006   Cohen Amador Gallery, New York
  Gallery Peter W. Hartmann, Munich
2005   Rotonda, Gallery Thomas Zander, Cologne
2004   Gallery av, Ludwigsburg
2003   Gallery Peter W. Hartmann, Munich

Group Exhibitions (Selection):

2025   Civilization, How we live now, Kunsthalle, Munich
2024   Civilization, How we live now, Taipei, Jut Art Museum
    The Awe of the Arctic: A Visual History, The New York Public Library, New York
2023   Civilization, Saatchi Gallery, London
2021   How we live now, Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, Marseille
2020   Civilization, The Auckland Art Gallery,
    The Blue Planet, H2 - Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg
2019   Civilization, UCCA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
    The Way We Live Now, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2018   The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (MMCA), Seoul
    33°, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence
    Sculptures of Change, Visual Arts Center of UT, Austin, Texas The Vanishing Ice, Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Festival La Gacilly, France
2017   The Vanishing Ice, David Brower Center, Berkeley, California
2016   Above Zero, Noorderlicht Arena, Groningen
    European Month of Photography, Cuco, Berlin
  Longing for Landscape, Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin
  World in Transition, Photobook Museum, Rostock
  Wonders of the World, FFF Fotoforum, Frankfurt
2015   Land Meets Water, Artipelag, Stockholm
  McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
2014   Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
  El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
  Seeing Glacial Time, Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2013   Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775–2012, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington
2012   State of the Art: New Contemporary Photography, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
  The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
2011   Masterpieces, Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
  Alt + 1000. Festival de photographie de montagne, Rossinière
  The Eye Is a Lonely Hunter: Images of Humankind, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
2010   Biennale internationale de l’image de Nancy
  BredaPhoto, International Photo Festival, Breda’s Museum WEISS: Ice / White: Contemporary International Art,
  Kunstverein KISS, Untergröningen
2009   Ulsan International Photography Festival
  Gallery f5,6, Munich
  Gallery Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg
  Arcadia, Clamp Art Gallery, New York
  Gradwanderungen, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
  The AIPAD Photography Show, New York
  B-sides, Gallery f5,6, Munich
2008   New York Photo Festival
  Solo Project, Gallery f5,6, Art Basel
  Visual Leader 2008, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
2007   Reykjavík Museum for Photography
2006   Kunstverein Ebersberg
2005   Gallery Thomas Zander, Paris Photo
  Fotosommer Stuttgart 2005
2004   Wasser in der Kunst. Vom Mittelalter bis heute,
  Städtische Galerie Überlingen
2003   Schaden.com, Paris Photo