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.

Talisa Lallai (b. 1989 in 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 Soy Capitán, Berlin (2024 upcoming); Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (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 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.

Italien zeigt sich von einer anderen Seite
NWZ, Maren Janka Hopp, 2024

Piccoli e grandi capolavori da museo
Il Sole 24 ORE, Silvia Anna Barrilà, 2023

Talisa Lallai malt Italien
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Christoph Schütte, 2022

Buon viaggio con l'arte a prova di lockdown che non si ferma mai
ELLE, Simona Marani, 2021

Talisa Lallai – AUTOSOLE
dieMotive, 2021