About

Carsten Becker, born 1973, is a visual artist investigating technical standards (DIN, RAL) and their societal significance. He is currently developing a series on GDR standards (TGL). His research-based practice, often employing photography, interprets standards as reflections of German history, as seen in solo exhibitions like RAL (Berlin, 2018), Trauma through Time (Berlin, 2019), and Norm (Chemnitz, 2022).

After graduating from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (1999), where he received the German Thesis Award (1997, 1998), Becker founded an internet software company. In 2015, he returned to art with an artistic reflection on his professional workload, which sparked his exploration of technical norms. Fully dedicating himself to his artistic practice since 2018, he has exhibited internationally, including the duo exhibition Continental Colors in Los Angeles (2022), shows in Athens (2018), Milan (2023), and an art fair in Copenhagen (2024). Recently, his work was supported by the Neustartplus grant from Stiftung Kunstfonds (2023) and featured in the group exhibition Gläsern at Schloss Biesdorf Berlin (2025). He lives and works in Berlin.