Berlin
23 - 26 November 2017
Haus 1 | Berlin
Installation view Unsigned Untitled Undated | Haus 1 Berlin | November 2017
Vienna
14 - 17 June 2018
galerie bechter Kastowsky | Vienna
Installation view Unsigned Untitled Undated | galerie bechter kastowsky Vienna | June 2018
Cologne
13 - 16 September 2018
Goltsteinstr. 49 | Cologne
Installation view Unsigned Untitled Undated | Goltsteinstr. 56 Cologne | September 2018
Bibliography – Unsigned Untitled Undated
“Is it the signature that turns a piece of work into art? Galerie Vayhinger based in Singen, Germany, and the artist Tim Beeby have ventured an experiment in Berlin.”
Berlin – A Painting Is A Painting, Siegmund Kopitzki, Südkurier Online, January 12, 2018 Read the complete article >>>
“Even works by renowned contemporary artists are sometimes available for free.
But what value do they actually have if nobody has paid for them?”
These Works are for Free, Gunnar Lützow, DIE ZEIT No. 8/2018, February 15, 2018 Read the complete article >>>
“The concept of 'pay what you want' already exists in many areas, from guided tours to music downloads. But it's above all cafes and restaurants that report positive results. When price recedes, the focus is on value. The absence of a prescribed price means lack of transparency and how it is calculated is no longer an issue. Why hasn't 'pay what you want' been discovered by the art world?”
Tim Beeby Giving Away Work, Paula Watzl, 1010 Wien | Parnass, 6 June 2018
“[...] I do think the art world has long been ready for a "punk rock" moment, in that any critical potential is immediately lost in a situation when works are being exchanged for absurd sums. In order to resist the forces of a hyper-capitalist society it is not enough, as an artist, to make works about current social injustices. Rather, art in and of itself must be political.” (T. Beeby)
Tim Beeby – A Debate with Wolfgang Ullrich, Kunstforum International, Vol. 259, Cologne 2019, pp. 126-135
Read the complete interview >>>
The art critic Heinz Schütz considers Unsigned Untitled Undated in terms of the signature and identity in his introductory essay to the Nov–Dec. 2023 issue of KUNSTFORUM. He situates the project in an art historical context together with such artists as Cindy Sherman and Marcel Duchamp, beginning his hypothesis with Unsigned Untitled Undated as an exemplary contemporary approach.
The Art Turn. Models of Authorship and Constructions of Identity, Heinz Schultz, Kunstforum International vol. 292, Cologne 2023, pp. 46-59
Read an extract in English >>>
Charlotte Seidel, in her 2025 graduate thesis for the Department of Art History at the University of Cologne, examines the importance of the signature in Western art using the paradigm of Unsigned Untitled Undated.
Charlotte Seidel: Unsigned Untitled Undated: how does the signature influence the value of a work of art – using Tim Beeby's exhibition project as a paradigm?
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Unsigned Untitled Undated, installation view 14 October 2022, LWL-Museum Münster (Atrium)
Unsigned Untitled Undated event on 14 Oct. 2022 at the LWL-Museum Münster, video clip 9:30 min. (no audio)
Unsigned Untitled Undated, the event with members of the public; visitors selecting their canvas and leaving the museum with the works
including an artist's talk with Wolfgang Ullrich
Munich
8–12 March 2023
Kunstraum München
Münster
14 October 2022
LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster
Documentation of the artist's talk (in German). For a translation of a previous interview with art historian and theorist Wolfgang Ullrich, published in Kunstforum in March 2019, see >>>
Unsigned Untitled Undated event on 3-5 October 2024 at Södertälje Konsthall near Stockholm, video clip 7 min
(audio)
The Events
2017– ongoing
Södertälje near Stockholm
3–5 October 2024
Södertälje Konsthall
Unsigned Untitled Undated, installation views of the intervention
in the historical spaces of Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders
19-21 September 2025
Unsigned Untitled Undated event on 19-21 September 2025 at Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders near Cologne,
video clip 16 min (audio)
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Bergisch Gladbach
19–21 September 2025
Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders
A conceptual exhibition with works on canvas
by Tim Beeby
Eupen
20–22 March 2026
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
Unsigned Untitled Undated, installation view of the intervention at IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium, 20-22 March 2026
Unsigned Untitled Undated, visitors interacting with the installation,
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art in Eupen, Belgium
20-22 March 2026
Each Unsigned Untitled Undated event consists of 120–150 works on canvas, any visitor to the exhibition may select an unsigned work to take away with them free of charge. Alternatively, they can have the canvas signed by the artist
and acquire it at the standard market price.
Unsigned event on 20-22 March 2026 at IKOB Museum of Contemporary art, video clip 5:28 min (audio)