Agfacolor

2018 – 2019
Studio shot: Agfacolor, 2019-11-11
Agfacolor is a slide film that made color photography possible starting in the late 1930s. The series emerged from research on RAL colors: archives were searched for Agfacolor slides by German propaganda troops, which proved unusable for color reconstruction – the film material was chemically unstable. Enlarged sections of these photographs make the aging visible: scratches, archival dust, and color shifts become image-forming elements. The material develops its own visual logic beyond the documented reality.

Selected Works

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Pigment print titled 'Crimea (Horst Grund, 1941)', 2018, from the series Agfacolor

Crimea (Horst Grund, 1941) 2018

Pigment print titled 'Crimea 2 (Horst Grund, 1941)', 2018, from the series Agfacolor

Crimea 2 (Horst Grund, 1941) 2018

Pigment print titled 'Tunis (Horst Grund, 1943)', 2018, from the series Agfacolor

Tunis (Horst Grund, 1943) 2018

Pigment print titled 'On the Black Sea (Horst Grund, 1941)', 2018, from the series Agfacolor

On the Black Sea (Horst Grund, 1941) 2018

Pigment print titled 'Greece (Theodor Scheerer, 1941)', 2019, from the series Agfacolor

Greece (Theodor Scheerer, 1941) 2019

Pigment print titled 'Romania III (Horst Grund, 1941)', 2019, from the series Agfacolor

Romania III (Horst Grund, 1941) 2019

Installation Views

Installation view of Haunt Saison at frontviews at Haunt, 2025
Haunt Saison, frontviews at Haunt, Berlin, 2025
Installation view of Haunt Saison at frontviews at Haunt, 2025
Haunt Saison, frontviews at Haunt, Berlin, 2025
Installation view of State of Things at Konstanze Wolter e.artis contemporary, 2021
State of Things, Galerie Konstanze Wolter, Chemnitz, 2021
Installation view of State of Things at Konstanze Wolter e.artis contemporary, 2021
State of Things, Galerie Konstanze Wolter, Chemnitz, 2021
Installation view of Where the Trees Have Numbers at Frontviews at Haunt, 2020
Where the Trees Have Numbers, Frontviews at Haunt, Berlin, 2020
Studio shot: Agfacolor, 2020-04-17

Studio shot, 2020

Studio shot: Agfacolor, 2019-11-11

Studio shot, 2019

Installation view of Carsten Becker – Trauma through Time at Fatamorgana Galerie, 2019

Photo: Sandra Ratkovic

Carsten Becker – Trauma through Time, Fatamorgana Galerie, Berlin, 2019
Installation view of Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt Berlin, 2019
Bed Manners, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin, 2019
Installation view of Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt Berlin, 2019
Bed Manners, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin, 2019

Texts on the Series

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Contradictory Beauty

Carsten Becker‘s Photo Series "Agfacolor"
Philipp Hindahl, 2019
For his series "Agfacolor", Carsten Becker focuses on moments that make it impossible for photographs to disguise their voice. The artist presents image sections from color photos he discovered in archives, taken by soldiers of German propaganda troops. He closes in on details and the enhancement lends an aesthetic quality to the ageing marks, the tinting and scratches of the film material – a quality beyond the original photographer’s control.

Trauma Through Time

Interview with Ina Filla
Ina Filla, 2019
The interview with neuroscientist Ina Filla, PhD, explores the concept of transgenerational trauma, focusing especially on the Holocaust. It explains how traumatic experiences can be transmitted across generations through epigenetic mechanisms, socialization, and bonding. Filla outlines the biological basis of these transmission pathways based on current research, including animal studies, and discusses the complex psychological and societal impacts of inherited trauma.