TAL R

1967

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel


1986–1988

Billedskolen, Copenhagen


1994–2000

The Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen


2000

Guest Professorship, Kunstakademiet Helsinki


2003

Guest Professorship, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg


2005–2014

Professor, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf


Lives and works in Copenhagen
 

ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Art Institute of Chicago

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

Centre Pompidou, Paris

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

Goetz Collection, Munich

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art

Holstebro Kunstmuseum

Horsens Kunstmuseum

Kiasma, Helsinki

Kunsten, Ålborg

Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

Magasin III, Jaffa

Magasin III, Stockholm

ME Collectors Room Berlin/Olbricht Foundation

Moderne Museet, Stockholm

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf

Rema Hort Mann Foundation

Saatchi Gallery, London

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Trapholt, Kolding

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2024

Untitled (duo show with Daniel Richter)
Gallery Har-El and Summer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Rosa See
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Weather Report
Ravinen Kulturhus, Båstad


2023

Sølvbryn
Galleri Bo Bjergaard, Copenhagen

How to Count to Tree
Victoria Miro, Venice

Palazzo Experimental, Venice


2022

Tal R & Mamma Andersson: About Hill
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, travelled to:
Malmö Art Museum;
Museum MORE, Gorssel

Untitled Flowers
Victoria Miro, London

The Wrong Side
Artipelag, Stockholm

The Forest in my Eyebrow
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp


2021

Alene hjemme (Home Alone)
Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund


2020

Home Alone
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

Animals and People
Glyptoteket, Copenhagen

Boy Walking and Cinnamon: Sculptures and Paintings
Anton Kern Gallery, New York


2019

:Men Who Can’t Sit on Horses
Magasin III, Jaffa

eventually all museums will be ships
Hastings Contemporary

Smukke Dreng
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

Jew Cherry, Clown and Congo
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Pink Road Through Forest
VNH Gallery, Paris


2018

:this is not Detroit
MOCAD, Detroit

Tal R Various Others
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

The Minute
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia


2017

Sexshops
Victoria Miro, London

Babylonia
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Spiegel and Winter Sleep
Borch’s Butik, Copenhagen

Academy of Tal R
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, travelled to:
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Keyhole
Cheim and Read, New York


2016

Svanesang - Tal R & Mamma Andersson
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard / Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Copenhagen

The Night You Can’t Remember is the Night I Can’t Forget
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam

Garbage Man
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Flamingo Flametti
Institut für Modern Kunst, Nuremberg


2015

Almanach 67
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York

The Drawing Class
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Yasmin & Tania
Retrospective Gallery, New York

Chimney school of sculpture
Victoria Miro, London

The Oolong
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Altstadt Girl
Cheim and Read, New York


2014

Walk Towards Hare Hill
Victoria Miro, London


2013

The Virgin
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Fog over Malia Bay
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thomas, Vienna

Sortedam
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

Sail Away
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg

Egyptian Boy
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Schneiderbrett Tee Pavillion
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich


2012

The Shlomo
Cheim & Read, New York

Man overboard
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Egg Chair and Tal R
Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, São Paulo

Galerie MIRO, Prague

Banana Beach
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo

IRRECONCILABLE
the Spaceship at Ha Yarkon 70, Tel Aviv

Zig versus Zag
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf


2011

Science Fiction
Victoria Miro, London

Mann auf Schlaf
Kunstverein Augsburg

The Elephant behind the Clown
Der Kunstverein, Hamburg

The Pyjamas
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv


2010

Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin


2009

Old confused
Magasin III, Stockholm

You laugh an ugly laugh
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Tübingen

Teenager Beach
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga

Armes de chine
Victoria Miro, London

Prints by Tal R
Holstebro Kunstmuseum


2008

Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca

Prince Fruit
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

You laugh an ugly laugh
Gió Marconi, Milan

Adieu Interessant
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Flovmand
Galerie Haas, Zürich

Masters and Method
Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin


2007

The Look
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Toyko

Working hard during the day naked at night
Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, travelled to:
Centro Cultural dos Correios, Rio de Janeiro

The Sum
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, travelled to:
BonnefantenMuseum, Maastricht;
Camden Arts Centre, London
Kunsthalle Mannheim


2006

Le peintre n’est pas là
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York

Minus
Victoria Miro, London

Fruits
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Gold is Over
Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich


2005

Pink Yellow Brown Black Green White Red
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen


2004

Figur
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Last Drawing Before Mars
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York

House of Prince
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, travelled to:
Galerie Elisabeth und Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck;
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin;
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow


2003

New born, but same old phone number
Tal Esther Gallery, Tel Aviv

Arcade
Bawag Foundation, Vienna

Lords of Kolbojnik
Victoria Miro, London


2002

Ike og Ancher
Horsens Kunstmuseum

Fruitland
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach


2001

Lord Madras
Hostrup-Perdersen & Johansen, Copenhagen

Live at Club Sombi
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin


2000

Dinglebœr
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen

El Castilio
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Für Immer (with Daniel Richter)
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen

Viva Ultra
Holstebro Kunstmuseum


1999

Looket
Horsens Kunstmuseum

Grill 48
part of the exhibition Street Sharks, Copenhagen

At the Foot of Mount Fuki
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin


1998

Bicycle Thieves (with Annika Strøm)
Beret International Gallery, Chicago

Basement Buet
DCA Gallery, New York


1997

Everybody Please Go Home
Arts Center of Givat Haviva, Israel


1996

Tur retur
Galleri Cambells Occasionally, Copenhagen


1994

Sugar Paintings
Sugar Club, Copenhagen
 

2024

Colour is Everything!
Museum Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden

»Draußen betrachtete ich dann die schwankenden Grashalme und spürte, wie auch ich allmählich ein Gesicht bekam.«
Achim Freyer Kunsthaus, Berlin

I Follow the Sun: Sunflowers in Art, 1889–2024
Artipelag, Stockholm

Colour is Everything!
Museum Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden

The Beauty of Diversity
The Albertina Museum, Vienna

Tal R & David Shrigley: The Notebook
Anton Kern Gallery, New York


2023

das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
Kunstmuseum Thun

Billedbarrikader
Sorø Kunstmuseum

BUTTERFLY!
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj


2022

Summer Exhibition 2022
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Let’s Go
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

Peeping Tom
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Prints Prints Prints
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen


2021

The Essl Collection
Albertina Modern, Vienna

Diversity United Contemporary European Art
Tempelhof Airport, Berlin;
New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Desde el Salón (From the Living Room)
Whitechapel Gallery, London

Human Conditions of Clay
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff;
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton

Subterranean
Amos Rex, Helsinki

Kunst in Puurs
Puurs-Sint-Amands

Arven – efter Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen
Den Frie, Copenhagen

Gå
Sophienholm Kunsthal, Lyngby

Touch
Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Tales of Manhattan
Anton Kern Gallery, New York

Imagine
Artzuid, Amsterdam

Huid & Haar
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden

The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue
Victoria Miro, London


2020

Everything Is Personal
Tramps, New York

Gezeichnete Stadt. Arbeiten auf Papier 1945 bis heute
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin


2019

Stains on a Decade: Ten Years at Josh Lilley
Josh Lilley, London

Nordic Impressions: Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden
Scandinavia House, New York

Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter & Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth
Espoo Museum of Modern Art

Works on Paper
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Tal R
Victoria Miro, London

Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman
Victoria Miro, Venice

NICO
Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg

Cutting Edge
Museum August Macke Haus, Bonn

Wege Zur Welt
G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig

GMA XXX AAR
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen

Der Naïve Krieg
Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Berlin

Party
Tabor Presse Berlin

Kitchen: Siegfried Anzinfer, Herbert Brandl, Arnulf Rainer, Tal R
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna


2018

The Rubell Family Collection
Kunsthalle zu Kiel

Nordic Impressions: Contemporary Art from Åland, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821–2018
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

Detour
Artipelag, Gustavsbergs Sweden

Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter & Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth
Museum Stade

Summer Exhibition 2018
Royal Academy of Art, London


2017

Luther and the Avantgarde
Wittenberg Old Prison

Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter & Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth
Kunstmuseum Holstebro

House Work
Victoria Miro, London

Collage: The Cards Players
Shanghai Gallery of Art


2016

Flowers in Your Hair
Night Gallery at FUSED, San Francisco

Human Animals: The Art of Cobra and its Legacy
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Summer Exhibition 2016
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Dwellers on the Threshold
STAR Gallery, Beijing

Illumination: New Contemporary Art at Louisiana
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk

Café Pettoresque
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Opslag Nedslag
Den Sorte Diamant, Copenhagen

Human condition
The former Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles

Viehof Collection, International Contemporary Art
Förderkreis Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Aby Warburg – Mnemosyne Bilderatlas
Salon 8, Hamburg

Making & Unmaking
Camden Art Centre, London

Alles les Bleus
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen


2015

Arthur Cravan
Salon 8, Hamburg

Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings
SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York

Eva, Pamela, Victoria...
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

L. Quan Healing Arts Centre
Ratio 3, San Francisco

Naturmøder
J.F Willumsen Museum, Frederikssund

Random Sampling: Paintings from Sammlung Goetz
Haus der Kunst, Munich

Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction
White Cube, London

Forces in Nature
Victoria Miro, London

Avatar & Atavism
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Station to Station
Barbican Center, London

Fire & Forget. On Violence
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

ArtZuid 2015
Apollolaan, Minervalaan and Zuidas, Museumplein, Amsterdam


2014

TILLYKKE MED FØDSELSDAGEN, ASGER JORN!
Galerie Van de Loo, Munich

in farbe! – Figur – Landschaft – Abstraktion
Im H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg

Little Nemo
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna

Shades of Black on White
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen

Front Row
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Portray
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

Paperworlds
ME Collectors room Berlin/Olbricht Foundation, travelled to:
Buchheim Museum, Munich

The Age of Small Things
Dodge Gallery, New York


2013

Chicken or Beef?
The Hole, New York

Stargazer
Sven-Harry Art Museum, Stockholm

La Figurazione Inevitabile
Museo Pecci, Prato

Enten Eller
Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen

Either Or
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Flora and Friends
Skånes Konstförening

Flora Danica
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen

Everything and More
Tim van Laere Gallery, Antwerp

Blackbooard – Art from teaching / Learning from Art
Artipelag, Gustavsber

Paper
Saatchi Gallery, London


2012

Kids
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Wunderkammer
Autocenter, Berlin

Other Voices – Other Rooms
Avlskari Gallery, Copenhagen

Tal R, Meese and Richter
Holstebro Kunstmuseum

Pink Caviar: Louisiana’s acquisitions from the collection over the past three years
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

Rendezvous der Maler II – Malerei an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1986 bis heute
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

BERLIN TUT GUT!
The 16th Line Gallery, Rostov

LUBOK, Gráfica contemporánea y libros de artistas de Leipzig
Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City

The Magic Flute
Golden Gallery, New York

Sims
Team Gallery, New York


2011

Presentations from the Collection: Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R
Magasin III, Stockholm

Projeckt Skagen 2
Lysets Land, Skagen

Woodcuts - From Dürer to Tal R
SMK Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

North by New York: New Nordic Art
American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York

Review / Preview II
Grieder Contemporary, Zurich

LUBOK. Künstlerbücher aus Leipzig
Spendhaus Reutlingen


2010

Blickkontakte. Sammlung SOR Rusche
Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, Dessau

In the company of Alice
Victoria Miro, London

PHYSICAL
Autocenter, Berlin

Skulpturengarten Villa Schöningen
Villa Schöningen, Potsdam

Thrice Upon a Time
Magasin III, Stockholm


2009

BRANDNEU Ankäufe 2007–2008
Essl Museum, Klosterneuberg

ROOMING IN!
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad


2008

Schwarze Galle, roter Saft. Aspekte des Melancholischen in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, b-05
Kunst und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur

Andersens Wohnung two
Andersen S Contemporary, Berlin

Penal Colony
Museum of Art Ein Harod

Abstrakt
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten

Danskjåvlar – en Svensk kaerlighedserklaering (Danish Bastards – A Swedish Declaration of Love)
Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen


2007

xxs
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

Effiges
Stuart Shave Modern Art, London

Return to Form
Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad

Mad Love – Young Art from Danish Private Collections
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj

Köln Skulptur 4
Cologne sculpture park

The Believers
MASS MoCA, Massachusetts


2006

Mother (with Jonathan Meese)
Bortolami-Dayan, New York

Naivism in Contemporary Art
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj

Once Upon a Time in the West – Part One
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

The Kingston Turnpike
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh and Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston Upon Thames

The Triumph of Painting IV
Saatchi Gallery, London


2005

Fairy Tales are Forever
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

The Triumph of Painting II
Saatchi Gallery, London

Goetz meets Falckenberg
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Mor (with Jonathan Meese)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Shadow Play
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense

Schnitte/Cuts
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg

Imagination Becomes Reality – Part 1: Expanded Paint Tools
Sammlung Goetz, Munich

Baby Shower
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen


2004

New Blood
Saatchi Gallery, London

Huts, curated by Tal R
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

Stay Positive
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Extended Painting
Victoria Miro, London

Leipzig in Hamburg – Das Neue Museum der bildenden Kunste in Leipzig
Produzentengalerie, Hamburg

Helmut Federle – A Nordic View and Kunst Stoff
Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna


2003

Go Johnny Go – The Electric Guitar, Art and Myth
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna


2002

The Galleries Show
Royal Academy of Arts, London

Carnegie Art Award
Konstakademien, Stockholm

Ars Fennica
Henna and Pertti Niemistö Art Foundation, Helsinki

Stop for a moment – Painting as Presence
Wäino Aaltonen Museum Museum of Art, Turku and ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj


2001

Artists from Berlin, Los Angeles and New York
Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Works on paper from Acconci to Zittel
Victoria Miro Gallery, London

TAKE OFF 20:01
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum

Xanadu
Forumbox, Helsinki


2000

Organising Freedom - Nordic Art of the 90's
Moderna Museet, Stockholm;
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

Painterly, 11th Vilnius Painting Triennial
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

Duchamps Suitcase
Arnolfini, Bristol

Fuori Uso 2000 / The Bridges
Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara


1999

Cities on the Move
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek

Scorpio Rising
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

Expansive og optimistike Øjeblikke
Rhisom, Aarhus, Denmark

Big Red
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen

Gallery Swap - Contemporary Fine Arts at Sadie Coles HQ
Sadie Coles HQ, London

Proms IV
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense


1998

The White Loop, Part of “Archipelago“
Fos & Kaspar Bonnén, Søhistorisk Museum, Stockholm

Momentum
Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, Moss

Couples
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen

Nordic Nomad
White Columns, New York


1997

90’ modernisme
Den Frie, Copenhagen

Frisk-o
Kørners Kontor, Copenhagen

Korn Maj Du Søde Milde
Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen

Louisiana udstillingen
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek


1996

Coming Up
Stalke Kunsthandel, Copenhagen

Smile Now, Cry Later
Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen

Update
Turbinehallerne, Copenhagen

Charlottenborgs Efterarsudstilling, Det Nye Kvarter
Fos & Kaspar Bonnén, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen


1995

The Grand Las Vegas Opening
Las Vegas, Copenhagen

Maleri efter Maleri
Kastrupgardsamlingen, Copenhagen


1992

Flag
Hollerups Kunsthandel, Copenhagen

Hvis det var dig der kom til et fremmed sted, Tombola
Fos & Kaspar Bonnén, Aarhus Festuge, Aarhus

Carnegie Art Award - Nordic Painting
Konstakademien, Stockholm, travelled to:
Sophienholm, Lyngby;
Stenersenmuseet, Oslo;
Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki;
Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik

Nordic Nomads
White Columns, New York

It all began in the seventies
Mishkan Le’Omanut - Museum of Art, Ein Harod