TAMARA KHUNDADZE
1970, Tiflis, Georgia. Lives and works in Düsseldorf

Tamara Khundadze uses the painting medium in association with short texts, that integrate or contradict the represented subject.
A deep ambiguity dominates her entire production. For example, we can see a foreshortened female figure lying in a tub. That could be indifferently a moment of complete relax or a still taken from a thriller movie.
The scene is connotated by a sentence amplifying the possible
misunderstanding. It was a lovely place, refers to a no more existing past, probably replaced by an amguished present. More brutal the
meaning of You never got me down, where the question of security
is reduced to a crude instinct of violence.
— Gyonata Bonvicini


Selected solo exhibitions: 2003: Nusser & Baumgart, Munich.
Selected group exhibitions: 2003: 50a Biennale di Venezia; 2002: Superman and my favourite Blondes, Kunsthalle, Göppingen, Germany; Zoll, Alte Zollhalle/ Güterbahnhof Derendorf, Düsseldorf; 2001: Grand Canyon, Museum Bochum; High Class Toys and The Regenerated Man, Nusser & Baumgart, Munich; Grand Canyon, Museum Bochum; 5th International Photo Triennale, Stadt Vilöla Merkel, Esslingen, Germany; Sechs Wandmalereien von sechs Künstlern, Daimler Chrysler, Stuttgart; 2000: Gib Gas, Collection Daimler Chrysler, Haus Huth, Berlin; Kunst Hexen Kunst, Museum Bochum, Germany.




The Lovely Place, 1999.
Egg-tempera on canvas, 240 x 230 cm.

You never got me down, 2001.
Egg-tempera on canvas, 180 x 180 cm.
Courtesy Nusser & Baumgart, Munich.