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 & Hud- son 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 Re- nate 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 ran- dom 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; current shows include „The Piquantries“ at Beck & Eggeling Contemporary, Dusseldorf and „Regret“ at Window Project, Tbilisi

EDUCATION

1995–1997: Academy of Fine Arts of Munich (Prof. Gerd Winner);

1997–2004: Kunstakademie Dusseldorf (Meisterschülerin Prof. Alfonso Hüppi);

PRIZES

1999: Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken, Sprengel Museum, Hannover;

2000: UBS Award 2000 (awarded for Germany), Whitechapel Gallery, London; The European Prize for Painting, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Oostende;

LIST OF SHOWS

2025: Gathering London, London (solo); artgenève, with Gathering London, Geneva (solo);

2024: Sports Illustrated (w. Gia Edzgveradze), Frieze Gallery No. 9 Cork Street, in collaboration with Gathering London and Window Project Tbilisi; The rose is the rose and is the cat, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York; Ouch, Behncke Gallery, Munich (solo); Asia Now, with Window Project Tbilisi, Paris (solo);

2023: Equinox, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku;

2022: Regret, Window Project, Tbilisi (solo);
The Piquantries, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Dusseldorf (solo);

2021: Explaining Hare He was Never Here, Aurel Scheibler Gallery,
Berlin (solo); Parade, Beck & Eggeling, Dusseldorf;

2020: Ink Under the Skin, Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Berlin (solo); 31: Women, Works of the Daimler Art Collection from 1930–2020, Haus
Huth, Berlin (cat.);

2019: 5 Minutes Random Love, B&E Contemporary, Dusseldorf (solo);

2018: Language Down the Drain, B&E Contemporary, viennacontemporary (solo); Twelve Women Went Missing, Silk Museum, Tbilisi;

2016: A benefit for Regina Rex, Regina Rex, New York; Untitled, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Miami (solo);

2015: Screwed Up Screens, in collaboration with Four Six One Nine and Johannes Vogt Gallery, Los Angeles (solo); Surph: The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton;Unwheeled, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, curated by David Lillington, London;

2013: The Day After the Future, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York (solo); Untitled, Agency LA, Miami (solo);

2012: Jesturing, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York; Untitled, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Miami (solo);

2011: New Acquisitions, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; New Acquisitions, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg (cat.); Unscharf, Kunsthalle Hamburg (cat.); Private/Corporate IV, Daimler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin (cat.); 2010: You Can Leave Your Hat On, Performance Series Inspired by Beuys, Schmela Haus, Düsseldorf;

2009: Born in Georgia, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam (cat.); Suspended:, Neues Kunstforum, Cologne (cat.);

2008: Urban Female Entertainment (w. Anna K.E.), Pilot Projekt, Dusseldorf; do you make friends, or stay home? (w. Thea Gvetadze), Collection Philara, Düsseldorf;

2007: Take Your Rotten Wings, Kunstverein Bochum;
Private/Corporate IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Haus Huth, Berlin (cat.); The Pioneers II, Voss Gallery Dusseldorf (solo);

2006: Outside Europe, From the Collection DaimlerChrysler, Stadtgalerie, Kiel; The Pioneers I, Nesser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich (solo); Interzon@s, Kunsthalle Zaragoza (cat.);

2005: Regarding Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf (cat.); Kleines Affektchen III, Performance/Video (w. Everything is Alright), Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf; Kleines Affektchen II, Performance/Video (w. Everything is Alright), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; I am not a Suicidor, I am an Investigator, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (cat.);

2004: Suite 106, Newman&Popiashvili Gallery, New York; MadDonna and Donna Corleone, Gallery Voss, Dusseldorf (solo); Collection Daimler-Chrysler, Stuttgart; Foreign Affairs, PAN Kunstforum, Emmerich (cat.); Kleines Affektchen I, Installation/Performance/Video (w. Everything is Alright), Kunstmuseum Bochum;

2003: Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt (solo); Periphery Becomes Centre, Prague Biennale (cat.); Accrochage, Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf; Museum of Fundamental Archeology (w. Thea Gvetadze), Georgian Pavilion, Venice Biennale (cat.);

2002: Tom Green and Favorite Blondes, Kunsthalle Göppingen (solo); Schueppenhauer Gallery, Cologne; Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf;

2001: Moving Pictures (cat.), 5. Internationale Fototriennale, Galerie der Stadt Villa Merkel, Esslingen; Collection DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Stuttgart; High Class Toys and the Regenerated Man, Gallery von Lintel & Nusser, Munich (solo); Die Kunsthexen, Kunstmuseum Bochum (cat.); Gr and Canyon, Performance/Video (w. Everything is Alright), Kunstmuseum Bochum; About Virgins (w. Thea Gvetadze), Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt;

2000: Gib Gas, Collection DaimlerChrysler, Haus Huth, Berlin; European Prize for Painting, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Oostende (cat.); Accrochage, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf; UBS Art Award 2000, Whitechapel Gallery, London (cat.); German Art in Moscow, curated by Christian Nagel, Central House of Artists, Moscow; Art Cologne, Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf; Next Comes Democracy, permanent display for Haus Huth, Collection DaimlerChrysler, Berlin (solo.); Art Fair Munich, Gallery von Lintel & Nusser, Munich (solo);

1999: Glück Durch Paarung, Ludwig Museum, Aachen (cat.); Word Volume, Schueppenhauer Gal ler y, Cologne; Kunstpre is der Deutsche n Volks- und Raif fe isenbanken ( cat.) , Spr enge l Museum, Hannover (cat.); Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen; Art Cologne, Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf;

1998: In Case You Don’t Live in New York, Schueppenhauer Gallery, Cologne (solo); The Private View, Beck & Eggeling Gallery, Dusseldorf (solo); Fazit, Galerie Schueppenhauer, Cologne;

1997: The Loser and the Treasury, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (solo); The Portrait of a Family, Galerie der Stadt Villa Merkel/Bahnwärterhaus, Esslingen (solo);

1994: Treasury of the Context, Villa Walberta, Feldafing; Züge, Züge, Villa Merkel, Esslingen (cat.);