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.