Arno Beck lives and works in Bonn, Germany.
Within his work, Beck reflects on the early computer games and computer graphics with manual drawings, typewriter drawings, paintings and most recently with the pen plotter. Fascinated by the aesthetic worlds of the digital age that Beck grew up with, he approaches them by manual work.

EDUCATION
2015
MA Fine Arts
2006
Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2004
Art History, Philosophy, New German Literature, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University, Bonn, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Zen Them To Hell, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2021
Don’t Put All Your Becks In One Basket, Galerie Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt, Germany
2020
Delete History – Galeria Fran Reus, Palma de Mallorca
dig-it-all, DAM Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2019
Screengrabs, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Errorsmith, Pop 68, Cologne, Germany
Crystal Math – Galerie Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt
2018
Watchlist, Evelyn Drewes Galerie, Hamburg
2017
Push Start, Galerie Rundgænger, Frankfurt
2016
Syntax Error, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
2010
Vertical Ghetto, Pretty Portal, Düsseldorf, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Shotgun Wedding, Kanya Kage Art Space, Berlin, Germany
The artist is online, Galerie König, Berlin, Germany
Darktaxa-projects, Office Impart, Berlin, Germany
Watchlist 2, Galerie Droste, Wuppertal, Germany
2020
Drawing Wow, Kunstaele, Berlin, Germany
All In/7 Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
darktaxa-project: the Frankfurt-constellation, Galerie Schierke Seinecke, Frankfurt, Germany
Re-Decoders, Onomato, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mixed Pickles, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Germany
Das Blatt, Online Ausstellung bei Curated Affairs, Düsseldorf, Germany
Surprize, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
DECADE, Marian Cramer Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Too many I in Digital, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Illusion Natur, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
Summer Mixer, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Splash 5, DAM GALLERY, Berlin, Germany
Photon / Icon, Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
All In/6, Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
2018
Benefit Auction, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
10 Marginal Years, Foxy Production, New York, NY
La Bodega Y Màs, Little Havanna, Miami, FL
Mixed Pickles 4, Michael Horbach Stftung, Cologne, Germany
Bloom Award, Art Düsseldorf
Banz und Bowinkel, Arno Beck, Dominik Halmer, Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne, Germany
Antifurniture Store, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Signs, Creatures And Forms, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich, Germany
This Is Not, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
In The Future, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, England
Digital Provocateur / The Wrong, New Digital Art Biennale, Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2017
Heartwork, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Wrong Club, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Die Digitale – Low Tech Art, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Would I rather watch this as a movie?, Galerie Golestani, Düsseldorf, Germany
Metaspace,Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
ALL IN/5, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Homeoffice, Salonabend, Bochum, Germany
2016
Escapism, Kö Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Farbe muss gesehen warden, Galerie Golestani, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fenster 16, Galerie Golestani, Düsseldorf, Germany
Gedruckte Bilder, Kunstbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
Low Tech, Galerie Rundgænger, Frankfurt, Germany
2015
Interface, Best Gruppe, Düsseldorf, Germany
ALL IN/4, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Schlaraffenland, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany
ALL IN/3, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
2014
Schlaraffenland, Alte Börse, Berlin, Germany
2013
ALL IN/2, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
2012
Wiedersehen, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Gruppenausstellung, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
NKOTB, Bespoke, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Projekt 8, Copenhagen, Denmark
Neurologische Unreife, Galerie Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
2009
KÖ-Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008
Lange Nacht der Museen, Koblenz, Germany

RESIDENCIES
2017
Art Residency ‘Espositivo’, Madrid, Spain

AWARDS
2019
Studio Grant at Bonner Kunstverein
2015
Scholarship by Best Gruppe
2010
Hogan Lovells Kunstförderpreis
2009
3rd prize of Kö-Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003
Jugendkunstpreis des BBK Bonn Rhein-Sieg e.V.

Command + Control + Q, DAM Berlin, February 26 – April 30, 2022
dig-it-all, DAM Berlin, May 23 – July 04, 2020
Summer Splash 5, DAM Berlin, July 13 – September 07, 2019