Grace Grit Grin / Ilke Cop & [GUEST] Curated by Ilke Cop / Kendell Geers
Tatjana Pieters•Nov 16, 2025 — Feb 08, 2026
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TATJANA PIETERS is honoured to invite you to ‘Grace Grit Grin’, the third solo exhibition by Belgian artist Ilke Cop, alongside ‘[GUEST] curated by Ilke Cop’, a curated response by celebrated South African artist Kendell Geers. An intergenerational dialogue unfolds between two uncompromising voices in contemporary art, resulting in a charged exchange around the codes of art history, (female) embodiment , and the subversive power of play.
In ‘Grace Grit Grin’, Ilke Cop examines the internalisation of visual codes of femininity embedded in everyday objects. Damaged porcelain figurines of women, frozen in poses of mothers, caretakers, or lovers, are not restored but remade. Working from her own likeness, Cop sculpts grotesquely grinning heads that parody the polite smile historically demanded of women.
Through photography and the re-enactment of these poses, the artist translates them into painting. On canvas, the bodies appear almost too large for the frame—expansive and forceful,…
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Grace Grit Grin / Ilke Cop & [GUEST] Curated by Ilke Cop / Kendell Geers
Tatjana Pieters•Nov 16, 2025 — Feb 08, 2026
Press Release
TATJANA PIETERS is honoured to invite you to ‘Grace Grit Grin’, the third solo exhibition by Belgian artist Ilke Cop, alongside ‘[GUEST] curated by Ilke Cop’, a curated response by celebrated South African artist Kendell Geers. An intergenerational dialogue unfolds between two uncompromising voices in contemporary art, resulting in a charged exchange around the codes of art history, (female) embodiment , and the subversive power of play.
In ‘Grace Grit Grin’, Ilke Cop examines the internalisation of visual codes of femininity embedded in everyday objects. Damaged porcelain figurines of women, frozen in poses of mothers, caretakers, or lovers, are not restored but remade. Working from her own likeness, Cop sculpts grotesquely grinning heads that parody the polite smile historically demanded of women.
Through photography and the re-enactment of these poses, the artist translates them into painting. On canvas, the bodies appear almost too large for the frame—expansive and forceful,…
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