Tal R
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AboutUntitled Flowers, 2021
Working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, print, textiles, sculpture and furniture, Tal R questions our conceptions of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we’re seeing and where its meaning lies. Often, he employs apparently simple compositional devices and motifs from everyday life to create complex, atmospheric worlds that, beginning with the recognisable and known, expand or collapse into spaces of enchantment or ambiguity, heady with atmosphere and colour.
Deceptively quotidian, his paintings bring into play what the artist describes as ‘painter’s mathematics’– how a flower stem goes into a vase or hits the water, for example – while criss-crossing the boundaries between depiction and invention, life and art, looking and really seeing. Sculpture has long been an integral part of Tal R’s practice. For the artist its presence – material and metaphorical – has led to an extended consideration of things we might label as ‘objects’ exerting themselves as ‘beings’ in the shared physical realm of an exhibition space. Shaped in clay, cast in plaster or moulded in bronze, they draw the viewer into their tactile surfaces, inviting us to consider mysteries of origin and meaning.
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Selected Works
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BiographyUntitled Flowers, 2021
Born in Tel Aviv in 1967, Tal R moved to Denmark with his family as a child. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, graduating in 2000, and continues to live and work in the city.
Recent solo institutional exhibitions include Tal R: The Wrong Side, an exhibition of sculptures and drawings,on view at Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden (2022). A two-person exhibition, Tal R & Mamma Andersson – About Hill, was recently on view at Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden (until 1 October 2023) and was previously on display at Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (14 October 2022–10 April 2023).
Solo presentation of the artist’s work have previously been held at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021); Glyptoteket, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020–21); Magasin III, Jaffa, Israel (2019); Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK (2019); MOCAD, Detroit (2019). His major survey Academy of Tal R opened at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in 2017, touring to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Earlier solo exhibitions have been staged at institutions including ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (2013–14); Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2013); Kunstverein in Hamburg (2011) and Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), amongst others. Tal R held a Professorship at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 2005–14.
His work is held in public collections including: ARKEN, Ishøj, Denmark; ARoS Århus Denmark; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Goetz Collection, München, Germany; Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, USA; Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; Kunsten, Ålborg, Denmark; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden; Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; ; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA.
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News
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María Berrío, Idris Khan, John Kørner and Tal R create new works for From the Ashes
February 21, 2024Organised by Migrate Art, this fundraising exhibition and auction supports the Xingu Indigenous communities of the Amazon Rainforest. All works have been created using ink,...Read More -
Tal R: Weather Report at Ravinen Kulturhus, Båstad, Sweden
January 28, 2024New works (on view 3 February–26 May 2024) reflect on inner experiences of nature, climate, and landscape in this vivid exhibition by the Copenhagen-based artist....Read More -
Tal R & Mamma Andersson – About Hill travels to Museum More, Gorssel
November 1, 2023On view from 11 November 2023 until 25 February 2024, the exhibition features work by Tal R and Mamma Andersson dialogue with works by Swedish...Read More -
Sculptures by Tal R on view in Venice
An outdoor presentation at Palazzo Experimental, Venice May 11, 2023Sculptures by Tal R 18 May–27 August 2023 Palazzo Experimental Fondamenta Zattere, Dorsoduro 1410–12, 30123 Venice, Italy Over the summer months, three important bronze sculptures...Read More -
Tal R & Mamma Andersson – About Hill travels to Malmö Art Museum
May 6, 2023For this exhibition (6 May–1 October 2023) Tal R and Mamma Andersson have taken Hill’s highly idiosyncratic pictorial world and transformed it with their own,...Read More -
Tal R & Mamma Andersson – About Hill, at Kunsten, Denmark
October 14, 2022For this exhibition (14 October 2022–10 April 2023) the artists have created a series of brand new works, all related to the great Swedish artist,...Read More -
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022
June 20, 2022This year's theme, chosen by exhibition coordinator Alison Wilding, is ‘Climate’, with rooms selected by Grayson Perry and Conrad Shawcross. Featuring works by Perry, Shawcross,...Read More -
Tal R features in Human Conditions of Clay on view at John Hansard Gallery
March 19, 2022Curated by Deborah Smith, the exhibition (19 March–17 May 2022) highlights different ways contemporary artists use clay to understand what it means to be human....Read More -
Tal R: The Wrong Side
January 15, 2022This solo exhibition (15 January–1 May 2022) at Artipelag comprises 34 sculptures in plaster and bronze, and 100 drawings in charcoal and ink produced since...Read More -
Tal R opens at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
June 21, 2021Ordrupgaard's upcoming special exhibition Tal R - Home Alone shows brand new works by the artist. The exhibition falls into three thematic sections that actualize...Read More -
A Brush with… Tal R – the Art Newspaper Podcast
January 20, 2021Ben Luke interviews Tal R about his influences and cultural experiences. In this in-depth conversation, the painter and sculptor discusses his early love of art...Read More -
Tal R: Animals and People at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
June 18, 2020The centrepiece of the exhibition (18 June 2020–17 January 2021) is a series of new bronze sculptures, which Tal R has been working on over...Read More -
Selected works by Tal R are on view at Victoria Miro New York – Office
February 26, 2020Paintings on view (until 25 April 2020) include a number of works featuring images of family and friends, such as Emma in drawing room ,...Read More -
Tal R: Men Who Can’t Sit on Horses at Magasin III, Jaffa
October 24, 2019The exhibition (24 October 2019-27 March 2020) features a single painting - Natten (The Night) - commissioned especially for Magasin III Museum & Foundation for...Read More -
Tal R: eventually all museums will be ships at Hastings Contemporary
July 6, 2019An exhibition (6 July–13 October 2019) of new and recent paintings, sculptures and drawings by the Copenhagen-based artist marks the opening of Hastings Contemporary. The...Read More -
Hastings Contemporary’s inaugural exhibitions to include a presentation of works by Tal R
April 13, 2019Exloring the rich tradition of painting in modern and contemporary ar, Hastings Contemporary's inaugural exhibitions (from 6 July 2019) include a presentation of works by...Read More -
Skye Sherwin writes about Tal R’s House Red in The Guardian
February 2, 2019The Danish painter evokes a sense of loss with a colourful palette and sharp geometric lines. Home, sweet home … A staple of the American...Read More -
Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth at Espoo Museum of Modern Art
January 17, 2019The exhibition (30 January–7 July 2019) features installations co-created by the three artist friends and colleagues, a video piece, as well as an overview of...Read More -
Tal R: The Minute at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
October 5, 2018A major exhibition (5 October–16 November 2018) of paintings and drawings, including recent works, by the artist. Read more Image: Tal R, Red Roof ,...Read More -
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018, coordinated by Grayson Perry
June 12, 2018In addition to works by Perry, the exhibition (12 June–19 August 2018) also features Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Idris Khan, Tal R and Conrad Shawcross....Read More -
Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 11, 2018The intricate, multipart installation (11 May – 29 July 2018) manifests the artist’s fantasy of Detroit. Seven large-scale paintings, rendered in a rich and moody...Read More -
Vogue writes about Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 10, 2018At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tal R Paints the Michigan Of His Dreams. Julia Felsenthal Detroit has always played an outsized role in...Read More -
Frieze reviews Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
November 15, 2017By Harry Thorne A mint-green boy lingers on a river’s lip with a bottle of milk. A rose-pink woman bends double on a bench, her...Read More -
Louisa Buck reviews Tal R: Sexshops
November 2, 2017While the subject matter is provocative, there’s nothing obviously titillating about Tal R’s “Sexshops” paintings, on show at Victoria Miro (until 20 December). Their appeal...Read More -
Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
October 14, 2017Touring from Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, the exhibition (14 October 2017 – 21 January 2018) features works from the mid-1990s to the present. Read...Read More -
Mark Rappolt writes about Tal R’s Sexshops paintings and interviews the artist in the October issue of ArtReview
October 6, 2017It’s not often that you hear ‘pleasure’ mentioned in the context of contemporary art these days. Somehow, in these times of refugee crises, the rise...Read More -
Mousse Magazine reviews Tal R: Sexshops
October 1, 2017By Nicholas Hatfull Hopping out of a black cab, a Hamley’s bag in each hand, a raspberry-corduroyed Tal R was in the nick of time...Read More -
Nancy Durrant features Tal R: Sexshops as one of her Frieze Week highlights in The Times
September 30, 2017A guide to seeing the best of Frieze London and Frieze Masters for free. By Nancy Durrant 'Oh, it’s so colourful! Oh, it’s so beautiful!...Read More -
Ben Luke selects Idris Khan and Tal R exhibitions for his Frieze Week highlights
September 29, 2017Tal R: Sexshops The Danish artist has depicted the façades of massage parlours and so on, whose seedy connotations are belied by the beauty of...Read More -
Tal R talks to AnOther ahead of his exhibition, Sexshops
September 20, 2017In his latest exhibition, Tal R celebrates the strange, seedy world of the adult entertainment By Holly Black Israeli-Danish artist Tal R first became preoccupied...Read More -
Elephant visits Tal R in his Copenhagen studio ahead of his exhibition, Sexshops
September 12, 2017Elephant issue 32 By Andrew Mellor 'You don't make art to get psychological answers back. You simply unfold the mystery of your own interest.' Andrew...Read More -
The Telegraph’s Alastair Sooke interviews Tal R ahead of his exhibition, Sexshops
September 3, 2017Danish painter Tal R on ghosts, art and obscenity: 'I think sex is quite banal' By Alastair Sooke 'Paradis' reads the sign by the entrance...Read More -
The Quietus reviews Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
June 24, 2017At the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Copenhagen, Tal R's paintings and sculptures exhibit something of the emotive non-verbal power of late Rothko. By...Read More -
Tal R: a film by Louisiana Channel
May 23, 2017In the run up to his major exhibition, Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (until 10 September 2017), the artist...Read More -
Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
May 20, 2017TAL R Academy of Tal R 20.5.2017 - 10.9.2017 Over the past decade Louisiana has established a distinctive collection of works – especially paintings –...Read More -
Tal R in Luther and the Avantgarde
March 21, 2017An exhibition (19 May - 17 September 2017) of international contemporary art exploring the spiritual figure of Luther and inspiring ideas of the Reformation. Read...Read More -
Chantal Joffe and Tal R in Human Condition at the former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center
November 9, 2016Human Condition (1 October - 30 November 2016) is an immersive, site-specific exhibition that features the work of over eighty emerging and established artists in...Read More -
Tal R interviewed in Collectors Agenda
September 14, 2016In the Studio Tal R Copenhagen Denmark Interview: Michael Wuerges Photos: Florian Langhammer At first glance Tal R’s exuberant colorful paintings may give the false...Read More -
Tal R interviewed in AnOther
March 14, 2016Viewing Pop Culture Through Tal R’s 200 Collages. By Maisie Skidmore. The artist's new Berlin show displays 20 years worth of archive material in the...Read More -
Tal R reviewed in The New York Times
February 12, 2015Tal R: ‘Altstadt Girl’. By Roberta Smith. When the Danish artist Tal R started emerging on the international scene in the early oughties, he had...Read More
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Gallery Exhibitions
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Tal R: How to Count to Tree
1 Jul – 26 Aug 2023 VeniceVictoria Miro is delighted to present How to Count to Tree , an exhibition in Venice of new paintings by Tal R. Tal R often employs apparently simple compositional devices...Learn More -
Tal R: Untitled Flowers
26 May – 30 Jul 2022 London Gallery IVictoria Miro is delighted to present Untitled Flowers , an exhibition of new paintings by Tal R. The paintings are complemented by a large-scale installation of drawings. On view in...Learn More -
Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman
26 Jan – 18 Apr 2019 VeniceThis exhibition brings together ceramic works by four artists who, through a diversity of approaches, explore the possibilities of the medium: its fluidity, in spite of an undeniable physicality, in...Learn More -
Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Tal R
23 Jan – 23 Mar 2019 Victoria Miro MayfairVictoria Miro presents an exhibition celebrating three generations of internationally acclaimed Danish artists: Asger Jorn (1914–1973), Per Kirkeby (1938–2018), and Tal R (born 1967). Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby and Tal...Learn More -
Tal R: Sexshops
20 Sep – 20 Dec 2017 London Gallery IWith their areas of flat, unmodulated colour and deceptively simple compositions, Tal R’s paintings have long questioned our conception of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we see...Learn More -
House Work
25 Jan – 18 Mar 2017 Victoria Miro MayfairIncluding Mamma Andersson, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, Marc Chagall, Peter Doig, Adrian Ghenie, David Harrison, Karen Kilimnik, John Kørner, LS Lowry, Alice Neel, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Tal R,...Learn More -
Forces in Nature – curated by Hilton Als
13 Oct – 14 Nov 2015 London Gallery IIA group exhibition curated by the celebrated US critic and author Hilton Als. The exhibition explores the idea of man in nature and includes works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Verne...Learn More -
Tal R: Chimney school of sculpture
23 Apr – 30 May 2015 London Gallery IAn exhibition of new work by the Copenhagen-based artist, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with essay by Tom Morton, view an online version . Tal R has often used...Learn More -
Tal R: Walk Towards Hare Hill
13 Mar – 17 Apr 2014 Victoria Miro MayfairAn exhibition of a cycle of distinctive plein air paintings by the Copenhagen-based artist. Walk towards Hare Hill comprises thirty-seven works created near the artist's summerhouse in northern Denmark, over...Learn More -
Tal R: Science Fiction
12 Oct – 12 Nov 2011 London Gallery IIVictoria Miro Gallery presents Science Fiction , an exhibition of new paintings by Tal R. The works in this exhibition mark a major development in the Danish artist's practice. Known...Learn More -
In the Company of Alice
22 Jun – 30 Jul 2010 London Gallery I'If you do not solve your painting problem in painting human beings, you do not solve it at all'. Gertrude Stein Hernan Bas, John Currin, Verne Dawson, Peter Doig, Marlene...Learn More -
Tal R: armes de chine
21 May – 25 Jul 2009 London Gallery I'armes de chine refers to a classic manual about weapons from ancient China. These objects, which once had a very specific and practical purpose, now several hundred years later seem...Learn More -
Tal R: Minus
13 May – 23 Jun 2006 London Gallery IVictoria Miro presents Minus , an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Tal R. The Danish artist is best known for his exuberant and deceptively simple works,...Learn More -
Extended Painting
14 Jan – 14 Feb 2004 London Gallery IIAnne Chu, Hiroko Nakao, Jacco Olivier, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Adriana Varejão This exhibition features six artists from Asia, the Americas and Europe whose work extends the possibility of painting...Learn More -
Tal R: Lords of Kolbojnik
17 May – 14 Jun 2003 London Gallery I'My art always finds its point of departure in contemporary life… I'd say that most of my works are about things I've picked up in all imaginable places other than...Learn More -
Painting 2001
Group Exhibition 1 Feb – 17 Mar 2001 London Gallery IVerne Dawson, Mari Eastman, Steve Mumford, Kori Newkirk, Tal R, Daniel Richter
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