Tal R

Tal Rosenzweig (born 1967 in Tel Aviv, Israel), known by his pseudonym Tal R, is a Danish artist.

Life

Tal Rosenzweig was born during the Six-Day War in Israel, the son of a Danish mother and a Czech father. The family moved half a year later to Denmark. Tal R studied 1986-1988 at the Copenhagen Billedskolen including among Erik Steffensen. Between 1991 and 1993 he worked as a teacher at the Nut Cracker - Art School in Copenhagen. Then he started in 1994 to study at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, which he finished in 2000. In the same year he was a visiting professor at the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts. 2001 Tal R was studio scholarship from the city of Mönchengladbach. In 2003 he was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Since 2005, Tal R has taught at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf a master class for painting. His works have been shown in various group exhibitions as well as in solo exhibitions in Denmark, the USA, Germany, Israel and the UK. Tal R 2009 arranged his works in its curatorial concept in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel and the Kunsthalle Tübingen.

Tal R has worked among others with Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter. Besides Kaspar Hardly Bonnén, Kirstine Roepstorff and John Kørner Tal R is a member of the artist collective korners office.

Works

In his works, such as paintings, collages and installations Tal R often used elements of music, comic aesthetics, TV and old video game graphics. Tal R describes his works as Kolbojnik itself, by its own account a used in the kibbutzim for the common trash Yiddish word ( the literal meaning would be something like " alls ", "Smart Meier ").

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2014: The Virgin in ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
  • 2013: Egyptian Boy at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2012: Man Overboard at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
  • 2011: The Elephant Behind The Clown at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2011: The Elephant behind the clown in the Kunstverein, Hamburg
  • 2010: TAL R at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2009: You laugh at ugly laugh at the Kunsthalle zu Kiel and the Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 2008: Prince Fruit, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg / Vienna
  • 2008: Adieu Interestingly, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2007: The Sum, Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 2006: Fruits, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2005: House of Prince, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; Galerie Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
  • 2005: Mor ( with Jonathan Meese ), Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
  • 2004: figure, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
  • 2003: Arcade, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
  • 2002: Ike og Ancher, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
  • 2002: Fruitland, Abbey Museum Mountain, Mönchengladbach
  • 2000: El CASTILIO, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2000: Forever. Together with Daniel Richter at Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen
  • 2000: Viva Ultra, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark
  • 1999: Looket, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
  • 1999: Grill 48, part of the Street Sharks Biennale, Copenhagen
  • 1999: Viva Ultra, Holstebro Kunstmuseum, Holstebro, Denmark

Awards (selection )

  • 2005: Eckerberg Medal
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