Tim Beeby

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90 Loopholes, 2019 / 2020

90 stretched canvases, cut and extracted circles

50 x 35 cm, in total 250 x 630 cm

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Tim Beeby is a visual artist and translator for galleries and art museums based in Essen, Germany.

He studied at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) Cambridge, UK, and Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), Leicester, UK. In 2000 he was awarded a European Painting Prize in Ostend, Belgium, leading to a solo exhibition at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Ostend the following year.

His project Unsigned Untitled Undated began as a series of four-day events in Berlin (November 2017), Vienna (June 2018), and Cologne (September 2018), leading to extensive coverage in the German language press, including an article in the prestigious weekly German broadsheet DIE ZEIT and a comprehensive 10-page interview in the German art magazine Kunstforum.

In October 2022, Unsigned Untitled Undated made its debut in a museum, at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany. In March 2023 it was presented for the first time in a Kunstverein, at Kunstraum München in Munich. Unsigned Untitled Undated subsequently featured in Kunstforum again, in the introductory essay to its Nov.– Dec. 2023 issue. Unsigned Untitled Undated was shown for the first time in Scandinavia in October 2024 at Södertälje Konsthall near Stockholm. The event was covered by SVT, Swedish national television. In September 2025, Unsigned Untitled Undated was installed for 3 days as an interactive conceptual happening and intervention in the historical spaces on the ground floor of Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne. Six months later Unsigned Untitled Undated was presented for the first time in a Benelux country, at IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Belgium from 20 – 22 March 2026.

As a translator he has made extensive contributions to the catalogues for Skulptur Projekte 2017 Münster, Germany; and A-Z. The Marzona Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof–Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); as well as translating the complete catalogue for 10 Americans. After Paul Klee, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (2017) / Phillips Collection, Washington DC (2018). In 2021, his essay Working with Artists and Curators: translating for the contemporary art world, co-authored with Sabine Bürger, appeared in Translation – Kunstkommunikation – Museum, Barbara Ahrens et al. (eds.), published by Frank & Timme Verlag, Berlin. He translated texts for Gaming (2022), an exhibition curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist for the Julia Stoschek Foundation Düsseldorf, and all the texts for Taking Stock. Gurlitt in Review (2022) at Kunstmuseum Bern, Materializing. Contemporary Art and the Shoah in Poland (2023) at the Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism, as well as for Amy Sillman. Oh, Clock! (2024/25) at Kunstmusem Bern. He made a major contribution to the translations for the catalogue Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media. An Operative Canon, published in 2025 by ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.