Jochen Becker

Jochen Becker (Berlin) works as an author, lecturer and curator. He is a founding member of metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs. He (co)curated exhibitions such as the Urban Cultures of Global Prayers (2012/13, nGbK Berlin, Camera Austria, Graz) and Self Made Urbanism Rome (2013/14/15, nGbK Berlin, Metropoliz Rome, Maxxi Rome). He was artistic director of the Global Prayers project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), where he curated Aernout Mik – Speaking in Tongues. In 2014/15, Jochen Becker directed the postgraduate Art & Architecture program at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Since 2014 he co-curates the ‚station urbaner kulturen’ in Berlin-Hellerdorf. Recently: ‘Chinafrika. under construction’ steirischer herbst, Graz, 2015 & 2016, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig 2017 / Lagos Biennial 2017/ .Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture 2017/18, ‘Chinafrika. mobile’ Kunstfest Weimar 2017. http://www.metroZones.info, http://www.chinafrika.org, https://www.globalPrayers.info, http://www.SMUR.eu, http://www.Kunst-im-Untergrund.de