Tamara K.E.
Tamara K.E. emerged from the Dusseldorf art scene in the 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 New York and Dusseldorf. K.E. represented Georgia at the 50th Venice Biennale (with Thea Gvetadze) and was invited for 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 display at Daimler Contemporary Headquarters at Haus Huth, Berlin. Tamara K.E. has won a number of art awards, including the Kunst- Preis 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. 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 socio-critical approach. K.E.’s second monograph "fading song in the wide open" is published by DISTANZ Verlag in collaboration with editor Uta Grosenick and with the essays by Gregor Jansen (Kunsthalle Dusseldorf) and Gean Moreno (Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami).
K.E.’s recent shows include 5 minutes 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; The Piquantries at Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Dusseldorf and Regret at Window Project, Tbilisi.
Tamara K.E. lives and works in Dusseldorf, Germany
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2024
Sports Illustrated, Frieze Cork Street, London
Ouch, Behncke Gallery, Munich, Germany
Tamara K.E., Brian DeGraw and Tamo Jugeli: The rose is the rose and is the cat, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, USA
2022
Regret, Window Project, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Piquantries, B&e Contemporary
2021
Parade, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tamara K.E.: Explaining Hare He was Never Here, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
2020
31: Women, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
Tamara K.E.: Ink Under The Skin, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany
2019
Tamara K.E.: Five Minutes of Random Love, Beck & Eggeling, Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
Six: A benefit for Regina Rex ,Regina Rex ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
2015
Surph: The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt , East Hampton, New York, USA
Unwheeled, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art , London, UK
2013
Tamara K.E.: The Day After the Future, Johannes Vogt, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2011
Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Unscharp, Kunsthalle Hamburg (Cat.)
Private/Corporate IV, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth Berlin (Cat.)
Eremitage, Cologne, Germany
You Can Leave Your Hat On, Performance Series für “Inspiriert von Beuys, Schmela Haus K20/K21 Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Born in Georgia, Cobra Museum, Museum of Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Suspended. Georgien/ Russland, Begegnungen auf einem anderen Terrain, Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
do you make friends, or stay home? (with Thea Gvetadze), Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, Germany
2008
Urban Female Entertainment (with Anna K.E.), Pilot Projekt e.V., Dusseldorf, Germany
2007
Take Your Rotten Wings, Kunstverein Bochum, Germany
Private/Corporate IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin (Cat.)
2006
Outside Europe, Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany
Interzon@s, Kunsthalle Zaragoza, Spain (Cat.)
2005
Regarding Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf, Germany (Cat.)
Kleines Affektchen III, Performance/Video, museum kunst palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Outside Europe, Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany
Kleines Affektchen II, Performance/Video, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Museum of Fundamental Archeology, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2004
Suite 106, NY, USA
MadDonna and Donna Corleone, Galerie Voss, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collection Daimler-Chrysler, Stuttgart, Germany
Foreign Affairs, PAN Kunstforum, Emmerich, Germany (Cat.)
Kleines Affektchen I, Installation/Performance/Video, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
2003
Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Periphery Becomes Centre, Prague Biennale, Czech Republic (Cat.)
Accrochage, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum of Fundamental Archeology, Georgian Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Italy
2002
Tom Green and My Favorite Blondes, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001
Moving Pictures, 5. Internationale Fototriennale, Galerie der Stadt Villa Merkel, Esslingen (Cat.)
Collection Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich, Germany
Die Kunsthexen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany (Cat.)
Grand Canyon, Performance/Video, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
About Virgins (mit Thea Gvetadze), Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2000
Gib Gas – Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, Berlin
European Prize for Painting, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Oostende (Cat.)
Accrochage, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
UBS Art Award 2000, Whitechapel Gallery, London (Cat.)
Deutsche Kunst in Moskau, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Die Kunsthexen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Art Cologne, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
UBS Award 2000, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Next comes Democracy, Installation für Collection DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, Germany
1999
Glück Durch Paarung, Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany (Cat.)
Word Volume, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (Cat.)
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
1998
Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fazit, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
1997
The Loser and the Treasury, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Portrait of a Family, Galerie der Stadt Villa Merkel, Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen
1994
Treasury of the Context, Villa Walberta, Feldafing, Germany
Züge, Züge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
Gathering Exhibitions
Selected Press
23 Apr 2024
Gathering is delighted to announce the representation of Georgian artist Tamara K.E (born in Tbilisi; lives and works in Düsseldorf and New York)
4 Apr 2024
We are thrilled to announce Gathering's participation in this year’s edition of Art Ono, with a group booth featuring; Jame St Findlay, Benedikt Hipp, Francesco João, Tamara K.E, Ndayé Kouagou, Wynnie Mynerva, Tai Shani