Tamara Kametani is an Athens-based, Slovak visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans moving image, installation, sculpture, as well as web-based works. Using found digital material, online mapping apps, satellite imagery, and geolocation data, her practice and research are largely concerned with the topics of border politics, forms of surveillance and resistance, and the shifting relationship between digital and physical environments. She is particularly interested in the concept of techno-solutionism within the context of utopia and world-building.
She holds an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art and has been awarded placements on residency programs ISCP in New York, Off Site Project Google Maps Artist Residency, AGORAMA residency at Raven Row, and Florence Trust Artist in Residence, amongst others. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Furtherfield, London, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Benaki Museum, and Triennale of Photography, Hamburg, amongst others.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
All Utopias Fail (solo), MISC Athens, GR
Housewarming, Mithimnis 35, Athens, GR
2024
Dangerous Border, Kunstverein Dresden, DE
leap beyond our tribal past, Galéria Tabaċka, Košice, SK
2023
Shrine (solo), Galéria Mladých Nitrianska Galéria, Nitra, SK
2022
Brave New Humanity, Arts and Technology Festival, Nicosia, CY
Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, GR
2021
All In. At Least a Possibility… Oskár Čepan Award, Kunsthalle Bratislava, SK
It might be nothing, but it could be something, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Time Out Of Joint, isthisit?, online
2020
screensaver watching you, Off Site Project, online
TransLocal Co-operation, Furtherfield, London, UK
2019
What do you need where you are?, Connect for Creativity Artist Residency, Romantso, Athens, GR
Swayze Effect, Platform Southwark, Curated by AGORAMA, London, UK
404 Resistance in the Digital Age, RAGE Collective, CFCCA, Manchester, UK
Sink Without Trace, P21 Gallery, London, UK
Walls 2.0- Augmenting border reality, Project launch, Elephant West, London, UK
For the Time Being, The Photographers’ Gallery curated by CCA Royal College of Art, London, UK
Digital Diaspora, Centrala, Birmingham, UK
2018
Summer Show, Florence Trust, London, UK
[ENTER], Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
From space, the planet is blue. From space, the planet is the territory, Sluice Art, London, UK
Winter Open, Florence Tust, London, UK
2017
Show 2017, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Odious Smell of Truth, RAGE Collective, Hockney Gallery, RCA, London, UK
2016
What Happens to Us, Wimbledon Space, London, UK
As Document, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK
Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
EDUCATION
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere, Royal College of Art, 2017
BA Photography & Film, Edinburgh Napier University, 2011
RESIDENCIES/ AWARDS/ COMMISSIONS
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, 2025
Oskár Čepan Award finalist, 2021
(In) Security commission by University of Birmingham/ Eastside Projects, Birmingham, 2020-21
Artist in Residence, Off Site Project Google Maps Residency, online, 2021
Artist in Residence, Connect for Creativity Art and Technology Residency, Athens, Greece, 2021
Artist in Residence, Agorama at Raven Row, London, 2019
Artist in Residence, Florence Trust, London, 2017-18
Artist in Residence, La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, 2016
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
Guest lecture, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, UK, 2023
Guest lecture, Digital Arts, VŠVU AFAD, Bratislava, SK, 2022
Artist Talk, It might be nothing, but it could be something, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK, 2021
Guest lecture, Critical Inquiry Lab, Design Academy, Eindhoven, NL, 2021
Visiting artist lecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, London, UK, 2021
Guest lecture, Westminster University, London, UK, 2020
Visiting artist lecture, University of the Arts, LCC, London, UK, 2019
Artist Talk, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK, 2018
Guest lecture, Westminster University, London, UK, 2017
Guest lecture and critique, The New School, NY, 2015
Artist talk, International Centre of Photography, NY, 2015