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Visual artist, Berlin, industrial colors and standards, photography.
30.10: Mitgift, S-Gallery, LA

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We’re excited to introduce our upcoming show, Mitgift, which opens Friday, October 30 at S-Gallery in East Hollywood (More info in bio) as part of @b_la_m_

For the first teaser, we’re introducing longtime Noysky Projects collaborator, @carsten_becker , and member of Berlin based collective, @frontviews_

Carsten Becker’s TGL series examines how color is encoded and administered through the industrial and technical standards of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Reconstructing state-prescribed colors from historical registers and standard sheets, the series reveals their political and material histories. Among them, Twilight Grey 2403, introduced in 1988, disappeared just two years later with the state that prescribed it.

Pictured: Flaschen (Olivgrün, Dämmergrau, Schwarzgrau) / Bottles (Olive Green, Twilight Grey, Black Grey), 2026, pigment print, 23.2 × 16.5 inches

#TGL #carstenbecker #BLAM #b-la-m #GDR flaschen photography photograph colortheory frontviews RAL industrailcolor communism totalitarianism Green, blue and black bottles

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Was ist RAL? In meinem Gespräch mit Carsten Becker unterhalte ich mich über Nomen, Farben und 08/15.

Das ganze Gespräch gibt es jetzt überall, wo es gute Podcasts gibt 🥹

Link in Bio 😘

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🎨 Warum ist Rot eigentlich nicht einfach nur Rot?

In der neuen Folge von Fragen an… spreche ich mit dem Künstler Carsten Becker über Farben, Formen und die Geschichten, die sich dahinter verbergen.

RAL, DIN und die TGL-Normen der DDR – klingt erstmal ziemlich technisch? Ist es aber gar nicht! Denn hinter Farben und Normen stecken spannende Fragen über Ordnung, Geschichte und unsere Wahrnehmung der Welt.

Wir sprechen über seinen Weg zur Kunst, darüber, was ihn antreibt, und darüber, warum es sich lohnt, bei den scheinbar alltäglichen Dingen genauer hinzusehen. 👀

Denn manchmal steckt gerade im Unspektakulären die spannendste Geschichte.

🎧 Jetzt reinhören und die Welt ein bisschen anders sehen!

Link in Bio 😘

#FragenAn #CarstenBecker #Kunst #Farben #RAL Design KunstImAlltag Podcast Kulturpodcast

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Mitgift opening Oct 30 6-9 pm at 5151 Romaine st (Hollywood )

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Rollbild154 o.T. / Scrollpainting154 untitled | 11.07. - 22.08.2026 | oil on paper 125 x 375 cm, nylon thread, found stones, broom from the site, in:
Judgment and Calculation | frontviews at HAUNT, Berlin | concept: Carsten Becker / exhibition text > www.frontviews.de : Qin Yan
with works by Carsten Becker and Harm van den Dorpel
photos: 1/4/5 Ralph Maak, 3 Carsten Becker
@carsten_becker @harmvandendorpel @qin__yan @frontviews_ #sitespecific #installation #oilonpaper #flexiblesculpture #elisabethsonneck

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Judgment and Calculation – Three Systems of Color: Elisabeth Sonneck, Carsten Becker, Harm van den Dorpel

At the centre are three systems through which colour is produced: the bodily process of painting, historical colour standards, and the algorithm.

Sonneck layers colour on paper, which she arranges into site-specific installations. Becker reproduces RAL colours and the GDR’s TGL standards — the latter vanished with the state. Van den Dorpel generates colour algorithmically across distributed systems.

Body, norm, algorithm — three different configurations of judgment and calculation.

Until August 22 at Frontviews/HAUNT, Kluckstraße 23, 10785 Berlin.

@elisabethsonneck @carsten_becker @harmvandendorpel @haunt_berlin @qin__yan
#frontviews #haunt #hauntberlin #groupexhibition #contemporaryart

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At Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung this week, the exhibition ‘Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand’ brings together the photomicrographic works of Matthias Burba and an interactive video work by Max Seeger, revealing sand as a multifaceted visual field. Through the pieces, the material is shown to be a carrier of ecological, cultural and historical processes. Also exploring how heritage is carried, ‘Lineage’ at Ballhaus Ost is a drag theater play by Corazón insisting on how shared experience and veneration of the same icons and figures bring people together.

See the full list at the link in bio.

Credits:
Corazón // © Neus Miras Sanchez
Matthias Burba: ‘Nidden, Kurische Nehrung’, Print // © Matthias Burba
Abdullah Miniawy: ‘The evens, Rahma’
Corazón // © Neus Miras Sanchez
Harm van den Dorpel
Alfred Ehrhardt: ‘Dünenkamm, Kurische Nehrung’, 1934, Silbergelatineabzug // © Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung

@ballhausost @corazon.corazon___ @aestiftung @maxseeger_ @frontviews_ @haunt_berlin @carsten_becker @harmvandendorpel @elisabethsonneck @kwinstitutefcontemporaryart @abdullahminiawyofficial
#whatson #berlin #berlinevents #berlinexhibition #performance

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Judgment and Calculation
– Three Systems of Colour

Elisabeth Sonneck, Carsten Becker, Harm van den Dorpel

concept by Carsten Becker
exhibition text by Qin Yan

Duration
Sat 11 Jul – Sat 22 Aug 2026

Vernissage
Sat 11 Jul 6 – 9 pm

Finissage
Sat 22 Aug 6 – 9 pm
with Artist Talk 7 – 8 pm

Opening hours
15 Jul – 22 Aug 2026 (August Fri – Sat)
Wed – Sat 2 – 6 pm
and by personal appointment
closed on public holidays

Location
frontviews at HAUNT
Kluckstraße 23 A Yard
D – 10785 Berlin

This project is profoundly supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. It’s also made possible with the initiative of the whole collective.

@frontviews_
@haunt_berlin

@carsten_becker
@harmvandendorpel
@elisabethsonneck

@qin__yan

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HAUNT HOF PARTY was a blast💥

Thank you to all the guests for coming and joining in the celebrations. Thank you to all the active members and supporters for helping out, and last but not least a special thank you to Stephan for the tireless dedication with which you have led Frontviews for so long.

Here’s to keeping the ship sailing for a while longer through the stormy waters ...🥂🪄✨

pics by @saskia_wendland
strawberry matcha & tartlets by @alirezaspatisserie
bar by @carsten_becker, @kathrin_koester, @isabell.schulte and others
all ❤️‍🔥 by @frontviews

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Premiere for SPECTRE UNION: first piece is on display at the collector´s !!!
@carsten_becker @spectreunion

Work title: Auf dem Schwarzen Meer (Horst Grund, 1941)
Pigmentdruck, 84 × 63 cm,
Edition: 5 + 2 AP
Image Credit: Carsten Becker / BArch, N 1603 Bild-052 / Grund, Horst;

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285 mit Carsten Becker über verschwundene Farben und historische Normierungen

Carsten Becker ist bildender Künstler und untersucht technische Normen und ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung.

Ein Gespräch über den Reichsausschuss für Lieferbedingungen (RAL), über Tannengrün, Panzergrau, Kommunal Orange und das verschwundene Dunkelgelb, welches von Nachtsichtgeräten nicht entdeckt werden kann, über den Kegelstift, den Afrikafeldzug Rommels, schwarzgraue Panzer in der Wüste, über das Design der sowjetischen MIG Cockpits und die TGL Normen der DDR.

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𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗕𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗘𝗡 𝗙𝗥𝗨𝗜𝗧
Aug 30 – Sep 5, 2025
Opening: Aug 29, 2025, 15:00-21:00

Carsten Becker @carsten_becker
Vasil Berela @vasil_berela
Kurt von Bley kurtvonbley
Jacopo Dal Bello @jacopo_dal_bello
Miriam Döring @miriam_doering
Robert Gschwantner @robertgschwantner
Yun Kima @yuunkima
Lilia Kovka @lilia.kovka
Justina Los @justina__los
Anna Mészáros annamesza
Anna Nezhnaya @anna_nezhnaya
Ou Yanshan @ou.yanshan
Seongwon Park @seongwon.art
Jakub Šimčik @jakub.simcik
Yiy ZHANG @yiyzhang

Performance:
Samantha Bohatsch @1xm5xm
Elana Katz @katzelana

Curated by Qin Yan @qin__yan
Co initiators: Ou Yanshan @ou.yanshan and Yiy Zhang @yiyzhang
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#berlin #当代艺术 #柏林 #artist #art

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