The American artist’s videos of high-stakes virtual-reality games of skill and chance—imagine “Tron” crossed with “The $25,000 Pyramid”—were underappreciated when they first appeared, in the late seventies and eighties. Now they’re getting their due. (In recent years, Beckman’s work has been on view at the Met and the Whitney.)

"Many of us have, at one time or another, been plagued by that lost memory, i.e. that image of a person, place or thing, long forgotten, buried, and it were, somewhere deep in the backs of our minds..."

For Beckman´s first solo exhibition in Berlin, a debut series of drawings and three conceptual films will be installed – among them a special two-channel installation of her 1999/2015 experimental short “Hiatus”, which deals with virtual reality.

'The Turn-About' by Ericka Beckman. EFFECTS magazine, 1984.