Talisa Lallai

Talisa Lallai’s work combines her own photographic and film material with found footage from private slide collections, vintage magazines and convolutes of commercial photographs. Rather than capturing a reality, it is the subjective perception of a place that is of key importance to her. Lallai’s pictorial language is based on real and imaginary journeys, where she particularly focuses on idealisations and stereotypes of the South in general and what ideas and images it evokes in us.

A solo exhibition of Lallai's work, Ciao!, took place at Oldenburger Kunstverein in 2024.

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Works

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Sunbeams of Childhood, 2025

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Sketch of Summer, 2025

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End Credits, 2024

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I’ll be right there, 2024

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Movements (Chapter I), 2024

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Movements (Chapter II), 2024

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Your Silent Face, 2024

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Ciao!, 2024

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La Qualità in Tavola, 2024

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Fountain, 2024

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not yet titled, 2024

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BIOXCARE, 2022

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Exhibitions

The Reminiscence Bump

In collaboration with Super Super Markt
Omari Douglin, Isa Genzken, Douglas Gordon, Talisa Lallai, Gowoon Lee
March 15 – May 11, 2025
BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne, Germany

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Talisa Lallai: Ciao!

August 23 – November 17, 2024
Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

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Biography

Talisa Lallai (b. 1989, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Education

She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Georg Herold and Rebecca Warren.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin; Austin, Munich (both 2025 upcoming); Soy Capitán, Berlin; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (both 2024); Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (2022); Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (2019); BolteLang, Zurich (2017); and Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen (2017).

Lallai’s work has been included in group exhibitions at BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne (2025); Soy Capitán, Berlin (2024); Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2023); Super Super Markt, Friends Space, Berlin (2022); Kunststiftung DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main (2021); Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2020); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden (2019); Salon Dahlmann, Berlin (2018); Dolder Waldhaus, Zurich (2017); Mélange, Cologne (2017); and BolteLang, Zurich (2016).

Collections

Talisa Lallai's work is part of public collections. These include the DEKA Bank, Frankfurt am Main; DZ Bank, Frankfurt am Main; and the Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf.

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