Beate Rathke

Beate Rathke was born in 1974 in Überlingen / Bodensee (Germany).

Between 1996 and 1999 she was trained as chiseler in Duderstadt and Kassel and did a traditional travelling apprenticeship (Wanderschaft) in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, France, Spain, Switzerland, and Ireland from 1999 to 2002

Studied in Free Arts / Sculpture at the Academy of Art Berlin-Weißensee from 2002-2008 and Urban Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute 2006-2007.

Beate Rathke also lives and works as Justin Time. Her installations and videos explore and undermine the "normal", focussing on gender identities. Both her female-to-male and female-to-female drag performances question and transform stereotypical roles.

The cowboy as a myth of masculinity and how it functions as a national figure for identification lead to her works Passing Suburbia (in collaboration with Christine Woditschka) and The Way Things Look.

in distribution

The Way Things Look, 2007

Toss it, Baby, 2007

Passing Suburbia, 2005 (zusammen mit Christine Woditschka)