Gregor Becker (b. Mainz, Germany) is a visual artist whose practice emerges from a fundamental question: what happens when making becomes a form of attention?
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Trained in graphic design and landscape architecture, Becker spent years shaping gardens across Germany, the United States, and Australia. This experience — working with living systems, with growth and decay, with the slow time of natural processes — became the invisible foundation of his art.
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In 2014, after years of searching for a language adequate to his vision, Becker developed a technique that exists nowhere else: paper mosaics composed of thousands of hand-painted fragments, assembled without preparatory drawings into luminous, three-dimensional surfaces that shift with light and movement.
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The process is deliberately slow. A single work may take four months. The paper is painted in layers, sometimes gilded, then cut into tesserae of two centimeters, then embedded one by one in an adhesive matrix — a method that recalls fresco painting but produces something entirely new: surfaces that breathe, that change as you move, that seem to hold light rather than reflect it.
Becker lives and works between the Black Forest and Tuscia, Italy. His studio is surrounded by gardens he tends himself — an extension of the same attention he brings to his art.
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Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
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2025 – Dachsbacher Kunstausstellung, Dachsbach, Germany
2024 – RAW Rome Art Week – Logical Space, Logical Space, Rome, Italy
2024 – Im Krokodil, Freiburg, Germany
2023 – Im Krokodil, Freiburg, Germany
2022 – Berlin Art Week, Neukölln, Berlin
2021 – Berlin Art Week, Schöneberg, Berlin
2018 – RAW Rome Art Week, Y.E.S. Studio, Rome, Italy
2016 – RAW Rome Art Week, Pavart Gallery, Rome, Italy
2016 – AWAKENING, Pavart Gallery, Rome, Italy
2015 – AWAKENING, Fiera di Arte Contemporanea, Padua, Italy
Group Exhibitions
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2019 – Gallery Weekend Berlin, Schipper – Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Gallery Weekend CDMX, Colima 105, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 – 9th Triennale Internationale Du Papier, Musée de Charmey, Charmey, Switzerland
2017 – Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NY, USA
2016 – Top 5, Pavart Gallery, Rome
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