Beck & Eggeling Contemporary is pleased to announce “The Piquanteries”, Tamara K.E.’s second solo show with the gallery.

On view is the series “Remnants of the Glaring Day”, featuring sculptural interventions. With the show and its seemingly random system of codes, its unconventional multitude of materials, and narrative, we walk a line that distorts, contorts, and tangles, but also celebrates the farewell to history that it outlines.

Tamara K.E. is a Georgian-born German artist. She emerged from the Dusseldorf art scene in the early 2000s, where she was based from 1997 onwards. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, where she graduated in 2004. Since 2010, K.E. has lived and worked in Brooklyn and Dusseldorf.

Tamara K.E. represented Georgia at the 50th Venice Biennale (with Thea Gvetadze) and was invited for the 1st Prague Biennial. She has 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. Tamara K.E. 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).

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; Kunstsammlung der Provinzial; 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...

Tamara K.E. is a Georgian-born German artist. She emerged from the Dusseldorf art scene in the early 2000s, where she was based from 1997 onwards. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, where she graduated in 2004. Since 2010, K.E. has lived and worked in Brooklyn and Dusseldorf.

Tamara K.E. represented Georgia at the 50th Venice Biennale (with Thea Gvetadze) and was invited for the 1st Prague Biennial. She has 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. Tamara K.E. 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).

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; Kunstsammlung der Provinzial; 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.

K.E.’s most recent shows include '5 minutes of random love' at Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Dusseldorf; '31:Women' at Daimler Collection, Berlin; 'ink under the skin and Explaining to a Hare He was Never Here' at Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Berlin. Upcoming shows: 'The Piquantries', at Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Dusseldorf, and 'Regret' at Window Project, Tbilisi.