© Tine Bek
Tine Bek is a Danish multidisciplinary artist whose practice addresses a fascination with the spaces and everyday objects we choose to surround ourselves by. With humour and sensibility, Bek works across still life photography, installations, sculptures, books and video works.
She holds an MA in Fine Art Photography and Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. Prior to this, she studied photography at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography. Bek’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Danish National Photography Collection and the Copenhagen municipality art collection.
Tine Bek’s first monograph ”The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional” was published by Disko Bay (Copenhagen 2022). The highly anticipated book has been awarded with the Hasselblad Foundation’s Photo Book Grant 2021.
Bek has exhibited nationally and internationally including Fotografisk Center (DK), Christiansborg Palace (DK), Arden Asbæk Gallery (DK), Fotogalleriet (NO), Helsinki Photo Festival (FI), Glasgow International Arts Festival (UK) National Library of Lithuania (LI) and Gerðarsafn Art Museum (IS).
Bek’s works portray a mixture of still life, found objects and sculptural forms, which all convey a tactility and sensuality that is visually alluring and appealing. Her work appeals to our instinctive desire to touch and resonate with deep emotion and introspection. Everything seems to overflow, crumble or bulge – uncontrolled, baroque forms, which brings to mind how materials and things form part of a hierarchy and a structure. Bek invites us to explore the fine balance between strength and vulnerability.
She holds an MA in Fine Art Photography and Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. Prior to this, she studied photography at Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography. Bek’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Danish National Photography Collection and the Copenhagen municipality art collection.
Tine Bek’s first monograph ”The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional” was published by Disko Bay (Copenhagen 2022). The highly anticipated book has been awarded with the Hasselblad Foundation’s Photo Book Grant 2021.
Bek has exhibited nationally and internationally including Fotografisk Center (DK), Christiansborg Palace (DK), Arden Asbæk Gallery (DK), Fotogalleriet (NO), Helsinki Photo Festival (FI), Glasgow International Arts Festival (UK) National Library of Lithuania (LI) and Gerðarsafn Art Museum (IS).
Bek’s works portray a mixture of still life, found objects and sculptural forms, which all convey a tactility and sensuality that is visually alluring and appealing. Her work appeals to our instinctive desire to touch and resonate with deep emotion and introspection. Everything seems to overflow, crumble or bulge – uncontrolled, baroque forms, which brings to mind how materials and things form part of a hierarchy and a structure. Bek invites us to explore the fine balance between strength and vulnerability.