Tama Gono
Graduate of the Fine Arts programme at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
Master’s student of Prof. Marcel Odenbach
Lives and works in Cologne.
With Studierenden Kunstmarkt since 2024
About the works
“I don’t make sketches. I react to my surroundings and my perceptions, and use these impulses as catalysts.”
Tama Gono’s painting oscillates between abstraction and figuration, between artistic exploration and improvisation. The forms and figures remain closely linked to the colours and gestures from which they emerge. In this way, sociological, psychological and historical questions are explored artistically.
Exhibitions (selection)
2026 Kassandra, solo exhibition, Asimmetric, Cologne
2025 Very Demure, group exhibition, Jags, Cologne
2024 Exhibition by Kunstetage e.V., Lore Deutz, Cologne
2023 parc/ours 2023 – Chimӕra Salon / Mönchengladbach
Kunstetage Open Studios / Cologne
2022 Zuostand / Berlin
2021 1+6 / MG16 / Cologne
2019 Art Group 2019, Salon Schmitz, Cologne
A DEEP BREATH, ART RMX, Cologne
2018 Ciao, Strizzi Off Space, Cologne
2017 We’re from the government..., Büro für Brauchbarkeit Off Space, Cologne
Saskia, Jagla Off Space, Cologne
2016 The Laocoön Dilemma, Gallery Sturm, Nuremberg
SASKIA, Off-Space, Cologne
2015 International Bergisch Art Exhibition, Museum Baden, Solingen
Reconciliation Sex, Acud Macht Neu, Off Space Berlin
2014 Take for Granted, Kunstraum Düsseldorf
Looking at the Big Sky, Goethe-Institut, Barcelona
2013 Arzt, Gold+Beton, Off Space, Cologne
Ida Gerhardi Prize, Luedenscheid Municipal Gallery
Silent Perception, KIT, Düsseldorf
2012 13 AUS 317, Kunstverein Krefeld
Sehsucht, Loft Etagi Project, St Petersburg
Card Games, Kunstverein Leverkusen, Morsbroich Castle
Narration-Affect-Discourse / imai, Lothringer13, Munich
images against darkness, KIT, Düsseldorf
2011 Newcross, DNA-Gallery, Berlin
It’s OK, Yeralti Club, Istanbul
Grants
2022 VG Bild-Kunst grant
2020 Scholarship from the Kunstfonds Foundation
2013 Residency grant from the Kunststiftung NRW, Schöppingen Artists’ Village
2009 ZKM/HfG Karlsruhe Encouragement Award
Here you can see the last eight works sold
