Bernd Behr (born 1976) is a Taiwanese/German artist based in London.
Born in Hamburg and raised in Malaysia, Behr studied at San José State University, California and Goldsmiths College, London.
Behr was shortlisted for the 2003 Beck's Futures prize. His work can be seen as a cultural archaeology of sites and events which share confluent histories of art, cinema and the built environment. He works across video, photography and sculpture to explore a dialogue between documentary and constructed approaches to his subjects and the associative, sometimes fictional, histories that emerge from them.
2010
COMMA 17, Bloomberg Space, London
UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable
America Deserta, Parc Saint Léger Centre d'Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux, France
Territories of the In/Human, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2009
Gets Under the Skin, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
2008
House Without a Door, High Desert Test Sites, California
Bernd Behr & Mie Olise Kjaergaard, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London
2007
House without a Door, E-raum, Cologne
Overtake, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Ice Trade, Chelsea Space, London
2006
House without a Door, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Decline and Vision, European Kunsthalle/Art Cologne, Cologne
Fordham, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium
2005
we live in this concrete basin, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2004
Bernd Behr / Charles Ellis, Rachmaninoff's, London
Things to Come, Flaca, London
2003
Beck's Futures, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Charlie's Place, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Someplace Unreachable, Ibid Projects, London
2002
We Want Out, Citylights Gallery, Melbourne
The Way to Happiness, VTO Gallery, London
2001
Cargo Fever, Fordham Gallery, London