Tine Bek

Tine Bek (b. 1988) is a Danish multidisciplinary artist whose practice addresses a fascination with the spaces and everyday objects we choose to surround ourselves with. With humor and sensibility, Bek works across still life photography, installations, sculptures, books and video works. Often presented as aesthetic experiments, her work functions as contemporary time capsules rooted in art history and nature morte.

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, and assisted American photographer Ryan McGinley and Danish visual artist Adam Jeppesen. In 2016 she co-founded the gallery 16 Nicholson Street in Glasgow, curated exhibitions and started a mentorship programme for recent graduates. From 2015 to 2018, she published four volumes on emerging artists through her independent publishing agency The Photographic Earth Sagas.

Bek’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Danish National Photography Collection. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including Christiansborg Palace (DK), Arden Asbæk Gallery (DK), Fotogalleriet (NO), 700b Gallery (US), Studio 488 Gallery (AR), Project Space Gallery (UK) and National Library of Lithuania (LI). Her book ‘The Vulgarity of Being Three-Dimensional’ investigated uncontrolled forms that in the sculptural tradition have been dismissed as vulgar or possibly baroque. Her work has been published in Another Magazine, Verk Tidsskrift, Vogue IT, Vogue Scandinavia, Weekendavisen, Eurowoman, The Wire Magazine and Source Photographic Review.

She is based in Copenhagen, and represented by Arden Asbæk Gallery in Denmark, Vasto Gallery in Madrid and the Picture Room in New York.