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BIOGRAFIE
| 1931 | Bernd Becher born in Siegen District, Germany |
| 1934 | Hilla Becher born in Berlin, Germany |
| 1953 – 1956 | Bernd Becher studied lithography and painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Blidenden Künste, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1957 – 1961 | Bernd Becher studied typography at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1959 | The two artists collaborated for the first time |
| 1961 | The two artists got married |
| 1963 | Had their first gallery show in Siegen at the Galerie Ruth Nohl |
| 2007 | Bernd Becher died in Rostock, Germany |
| 2015 | Hilla Becher died in Düsseldorf |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
| 2018 | Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop |
| 2017 | Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt: |
| 2013 | Schenkung Herbert Lange: Fotografien 1925 - 2009, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany neu gesehen: Sammlung + documenta-Erwerbungen - Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany |
| 2012 | Bernd & Hilla Becher: Coal Mines. Steel Mills, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2011 | Bergwerke und Hütten – Industrielandschaften, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Der Westen leuchtet, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, USA Zeche Zollverein, Essen: Ruhrblicke Josef-Albers-Museum, Bottrop |
| 2009 | 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures 1945-1989, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin/Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, Germany Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| 2008 | Die Hande der Kunst, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Second Thoughts, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hundson, USA Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA |
| 2007 | 20 ans du Musee d'Art Moderne - L'art apres 1960 dans les collections, Musee d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France |
| 2006 | Düsseldorf School of Photography and Contemporary Western Masters, Hannart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong SK Stiftung Kultur – Die Photographische Sammlung, Köln |
| 2005 | Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
| 2004 | Early works, Andre Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf |
| 2002 | The Russian Avant-Garde Book 1910-1934, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Augenblick – Foto/Kunst in der Sammlung Essl, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria Positionen der Fotografie, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany documenta 11, Kassel, Germany |
| 2001 | Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gallery Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA |
| 1999 | Photographische Sammlung – SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany |
| 1994 | Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany |
| 1993 | Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| 1991 | Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1990 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA Typologies, XLIV Venice Biennale, Kolnischer Kunstverein, etc. Italy; Germany; Cambridge, USA; Cleveland, USA |
| 1985 | Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris – ARC, Paris |
| 1984 | Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf, Messe Düsseldorf |
| 1977 | XIV. Biennale von São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasilien |
| 1975 | Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA |
| 1974 - 1975 | Arts Council, London (Wanderausstellung durch fünf engl. Museen) |
| 1974 | Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, Kalifornien, USA |
| 1971 | abinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven |
| 1970 | Städtisches Museum, Ulm Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Schweden |
| 1969 | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf |
| 1968 | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach |
| 1967 | Kunstakademie Charlottenburg, Kopenhagen, Dänemark Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, München |
| 1964 | Galerie Ruth Nohl, Siegen |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
| 2002 | Recipient, the Erasmus Prize |
| 1991 | Recipient, the Leone d'Oro award for sculpture at the Venice Biennale |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL, USA Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England Tate Britain, London, England Tate Modern, London, England Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna, Austria SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples, Italy |
