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Life and Work
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Tamara K.E. is a German artist of Georgian origin. Since 1997 she has lived in Düsseldorf, among other places, where she began her artistic career in the context of the Düsseldorf art scene of the early 2000s.
The artist studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she graduated in 2004. Since 2010 the artist K. E. lives between Düsseldorf and Brooklyn/New York.
Her best-known works include her radically socio-critical, conceptual paintings as well as her most recent works in which she combines the classic medium of oil painting with a printed pictorial world reworked in Photoshop. In these large-scale paintings, she experiments with visual idioms and the possibilities offered by the application of new technologies. With her obsessive, constantly evolving visual language, the artist turns to the dynamics of our cultural memory. She creates seemingly random, freely associated systems from codes, carriers of meaning, and energy fields.
K.E. represented Georgia at the 50th Venice Biennale and showed on the 1st Prague Biennial. She participated in shows in the U.S. and Europe and has exhibited at Haus Huth, Daimler Contemporary Berlin; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Central House of Artists, Moscow; CoBrA Museum, Amsterdam; Van der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Kunsthalle Hamburg and elsewhere. Her work group Next Comes Democracy, which she created in collaboration with Hans Mayer Gallery (Dusseldorf), is on permanent show at Daimler Contemporary Headquarters at Haus Huth, Berlin. The artist has won a number of art awards, including the Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (Germany); the UBS Art Award for Young Art (Switzerland), and The European Prize for Painting (Belgium). She was nominated for the Fountainhead Artist Residency in Miami; the residency at Etaneno Museum im Busch, Namibia; and for the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York.
K.E.’s work can be found in number of public and private art collections including the UBS Private Bank Collection; Deutsche Bank Collection; Daimler Contemporary Art Collection; Van Der Heydt Museum Sammlung; Sammlung der Galerie der Stadt Esslingen; Museum SAFN Reykjavík; Deutsche Apotheker- und Ärztebank Sammlung; Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg; as well in Jochen and Susi Holy Collection (Munich); Collection Susanne Porsche (Munich); Edward & Phyllis Kwalwasser Art Collection (NYC), Sammlung Philara (Dusseldorf), among others.
The artist is included in 100 Painters of Tomorrow, published by Thames & Hudson in 2014.
The first monograph on K.E.’s work “none of us and somewhere else” (Kehrer Verlag, 2007), for which Boris Groys (NYU) and Renate Wiehager (Daimler Contemporary) contributed essays, was dedicated to her critical approach.
K.E.’s second monograph “fading song in the wide open” is published by DISTANZ VERLAG in collaboration with Uta Grosenick and with the essays by Gregor Jansen (Kunsthalle Dusseldorf) and Gean Moreno (ICA Miami).
Biography
1995 – 1997 | Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, DE, class of Prof. Gerd Winner |
1997 – 2004 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE – master student of Prof. Alfonso Hüppii |
2010 | lives and works in Duesseldorf, DE and New York, US |
Prizes and Awards
2000 | UBS Award 2000 – Preis für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
1999 | Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volks-und Raiffeisenbanken, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, DE |
Works (Selection)
EXHIBITIONS AT BECK & EGGELING (SELECTION)
bibliography
Tamara K.E., fading song in the wide open, Uta Grosenick (Hrsg.), Texte von Gregor Jansen und Gean Moreno, Berlin: DISTANZ Verlag 2018. |
Tamara K.E., none of us and somewhere else, Gia Edzgveradze (Hrsg.), Texte von Boris Groys und Renate Wiehager, Bielefeld: Kehrer Verlag 2007. |
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Tamara K.E. @ Daimler Contemporary Berlin
31: Women (Exhibition Concept after Marcel Duchamp, 1943). Works from the Daimler Art Collection 1930–2020.
We are pleased to announce that works by Tamara K.E. from the collection of Daimler Contemporary will be included in the group show '31: Women' at Haus Huth in Berlin. The show opens Saturday, February 29, 2020, from 3 – 6 pm. ›31: Women‹, the Daimler Art Collection’s new Berlin show, references two groundbreaking presentations held at Peggy Guggenheim’s New York g...
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Random Data, coded in human systems
Art historian Elke Backes visits Tamara K.E.'s studio in Düsseldorf. Read the full story at atelierbesuche.com
Düsseldorf. Visiting art fairs is exciting. At least in the beginning. Then, at some stage, it starts to become tiring because one can feel one’s concentration going. Many good art work is then simply missed, unless …. Stop! Put on the brakes. A work of art or an entire presentation unfold a presence from which one cannot escape. This happened in Vienna, during the presentation of works by Tam...
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