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ABOUT

It is only in its plurality that Tamara's body of work develops its wholeness, like one of the mythical hybrid creatures that appear again and again as an image or historical reference in her work. The sculptures could be a leg, the drawings the loose right wrist, the video the eyes, the sound of course the voice, the belly the painting, and the whole body dances, wobbles, and sways to the rhythm of its heart. As the parts wiggle around, the body is constantly shifting. There is a sense of becoming, not being.

The rhythm of the bone saw she uses to detach a limp from a pop song hovers through the air. Sharp-eyed and steady-handed, she dissects pop culture, mythology, puppets and manga figures, texts and songs and stitches them back together. She (re-)tells us stories about sex and violence, lust and pain, heaven or hell, which always fluctuate between fictional and personal – a chirurgic performance of cultural staging and assembly. What we see are creatures that are challenging our identity; do they terrify us?

Drawn in by a constant seductive game of veiling and unveiling we are waiting for the last cover to drop. But even when all have fallen, we must realize that the body itself is still a disguise, a shell. There is a revolting aspect against a core of truth in her work that makes you unable to find the solid Matryoshka. Every puppet is just the cover for another and another after that.

half possibility half fiction
hiding the personal behind ever shifting shells
mythological corpi seemingly real
her own voice, giving harmonie to scattered plurality
the vital beat of self-experience
what is body, what is shell?


Text by Kurt Cassady




PRESS

https://kubaparis.com/post/stille-wasser-sind-tief

https://ooo.place/content/jonathan-mink-es-ist-gruen-es-ist-magenta-und-vielleicht-wird-es-einmal-blau-sein-versuch-einer

https://www.schwaebische.de/regional/bodensee/friedrichshafen/nixen-und-andere-wasserwesen-im-kunstverein-2473916

https://contemporarymatters.org/projects/hosted-by-contemporary-matters-with-my-jaws-blue-and-my-eyes-running-water​



EXHIBITIONS

2024
HEAVY WATER
(floated through her winters and summers), Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen (GER) – Solo
Simultan Projekte 2024, Kunstverein Simultanhalle, Cologne (GER) – Group
Tales of Water
, Hafen2, Offenbach a.M. (GER)

2023

a_m_a_t_t_e_r 2, Gesundbrunnen Center, Berlin (GER) – Group
Ich möchte eine Meerjungfrau sein sowie auf Seite 87, Schweizer 5, Frankfurt am Main (GER) – Solo
with my jaws blue and my eyes running water, Contemporary Matters, Vienna (AUS) – Group
not all those who wander are lost, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (GER) – Group
Halb Frau, Halb Fisch (Syrenka & Havfrue), Das Gericht, Frankfurt am Main (GER) – Solo
als wäre ich du, Basis Projektraum, Frankfurt a.M. (GER) – Group
 
2022
Kai's Kitchen, Einsteinstraße 50, Munich (GER) – Group
A Place in the Woods, Hardtwald, Karlsruhe (GER) – Group
​Salon de Refuse, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt (GER) – Group
interventions #1, Saasfee*Pavillon, Frankfurt a.M (GER) – Solo
ineverread radio show, ineverread, Basel (CH) – Group
re.flect, 18th issue of re:flect gallery, Berlin (GER) – Group
C‘est beau, c‘est loin, Galerie Jeune Création, Paris (FR) – Group
I Caught A Glimpse Of You On The Escalator Stairs 2, Basis, Frankfurt a.M. (GER) – Group
Aviso, Residencia Las Quintas, Cuernavaca (MX) – Solo
Doing by Doing, Zollamt, Offenbach a.M. (GER) – Group

2021            
​Pas de deux, Laube & TV HIFI, Karlsruhe (GER) – Solo
essenweinstrXhumboldtstr, Tante Edith, Karlsruhe (GER) – Group
TOP20 Meisterschüler*innen, Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn (GER) – Group
16,5 x 10,5 x X, Wie Oft Noch, Karlsruhe (GER) – Solo
Frankfurter Kunst Vertrieb, Frankfurter Kunstverein & Magma Maria, Frankfurt a.M. (GER) – Group
Skulpturen Park Karlsruhe, Albtalbahnhof, Karlsruhe (GER) – Group

2020            
​Dolcedo Vita, Dolcedo, Dolcedo (IT) – Group
Meet the artist, ARTTWIST, Frankfurt a.M. (GER) – Group
Baractine, Barac, Mannheim (GER) – Group



PERFORMANCES // PROJECTS // PUBLICATIONS

2024
sentimental gental rental (part II), performer for Juliane Schmitt's work at the ORNAMENTA 2024, Northern Black Forest (GER) 
When is a good time?, performance & reading for the exhibition ‘When is it a good time?’ at Basis Projektraum, Frankfurt a.M. (GER)

UND WER LIEST IHNEN VOR, WENN SIE MAL TRAURIG SIND?, performance & text for 'Das Blatt, Die Bar' at La Felce, Cologne (GER)
sentimental gental rental, performer & singer for Juliane Schmitt's work performed at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (GER)
Junge Kunst, introductory speech and reading for the exhibition JUNGE KUNST at the KunsTraum Kelkheim, Kelkheim (GER)

2023
(das) Wasser in mir, publication of my poetry book edition with performative reading, Schweizer5, Frankfurt am Main (GER)
with my jaws blue and my eyes running water, exhibition organization as a continuation of the experimental summer school and residency format "up here my eyes are green leaves" in collaboration with curator Amelie Gappa at Contemporary Matters, Vienna (AUS)
not all those who wander are lost, text and reading for the publication as part of the exhibition "not all those who wander are lost" in the Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim (GER)
vorübergehender Aufenthalt, sound work for Sertaç Özdemir's textile installation at the Rundgang of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe (GER)
Streitkultur, reading for the Frankfurter Hauptschule & Korbinian Verlag at Atelier Frankfurt, Frankfurt a. M. (GER)
 
2022
Die Lesung, reading & contribution to the publication of the fourth edition of "Das Blatt" at the Saasfee*Pavillon, Frankfurt a.M. (GER)
Pocket Crumbs, book publication, contribution to the publication in the context of the exhibition "Loops and Breakthroughs" at Magma Maria, Offenbach (GER)
up here my eyes are green leaves, experimental format between summer school, residency, and artist retreat with an open end in cooperation with curator Amelie Gappa, Frohngau (GER)
Das Blatt, published prose & texts, Freiburg (GER)
 
2021
essenweinstrXhumboldtstr., curatorial work at Tante Edith, Karlsruhe (GER)
Das Blatt, published prose & texts, Freiburg (GER)
Seen from a Distance, performer for Cécile Kobel's work performed at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe (GER)


 

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