Anke Becker is a visual artist and curator based in Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany.
Anke Becker's artistic work ranges from conceptual drawings and site-specific installations to visual poetry and collective art actions to art-in-architecture projects. She deals in a variety of ways with the presence and absence of language, line and text. Drawing, line, colour and text are interwoven, complementing and commenting on each other according to an experimental principle of control and chance. She often uses everyday materials, which are transformed into unexpectedly poetic works by changing their function and context. Despite their formal and conceptual rigour, Becker's works and actions often reveal humour and irony, oscillating between baroque meandering and strict minimalism.
Anke Becker is also the founder and curator of the international art and exhibition project ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS, she has been running the long-term art project for visual poetry ECONOMICWORDS since 2012 and is co-founder of the DAMENSALON BERLIN, a network of female artists with monthly salon evenings and changing guests. 2015/2016 she initiated the international MAIL ART - Projects „Fernweh-The good life“ and „Heimweh Homesickness“. Since 2022, she has organized OderBuch an annual series of literary events in Brandenburg, Germany.