Talisa Lallai’s (b. 1989 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 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.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include Super Super Markt, Berlin; Austin, Munich (both 2025); Soy Capitán, Berlin; Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (both 2024); Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main (2022); Museum Kurhaus, Kleve (2019); BolteLang, Zurich; and Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen (both 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; Mélange, Cologne (both 2017); and BolteLang, Zurich (2016).

Collections

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