Lucia Tallová Bratislava, Slowakei, 1985

Lucia Tallová (b.1985, Slovakia) works across painting, collage, object, and installation. Her practice revolves around memory, forgetting, and the passage of time, tracing their effects on the human body and experience. Human figures and architectural forms intertwine in shifting scales, evoking fragility, collapse, and transformation. Tallová often turns to the female body as both subject and site of memory, layering historical images with personal interventions to question stereotypes and expectations. Viewers encounter wooden structures, platforms, and barriers that suggest ruins or remnants of architecture, moving through spaces that reflect the instability and persistence of memory.

Lucia Tallová lives and works in Bratislava. She completed her BA and MA in the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. Her recent solo exhibitions include Unstable Monuments, Zilberman Istanbul, Turkey (2025), I Wish That I Was Made of Stone, Telegraph gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic (2025), Marble Sky, Tomas Umrian Contemporary, Bratislava, Slovakia (2025), Areas of Transformation, Galerie Pekelne Sane, Kromeřiž, Czech Republic (2024), Fragility of Caryatid, Rosenfeld Palace, Zilina, Slovakia (2023), Mountains Between Us, Galerie Paris B, Paris, France (2021), Islands, The P. M. Bohun Gallery in Liptovksy Mikulas, Slovakia (2019), Island of Time, Tezukayama gallery, Osaka, Japan (2018) and Hidden grace of black stories, Strabag Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria (2010). Selected group exhibitions include Im Erweiterten Raum at Künstlerhaus Wien (2026), 16th Biennale de Lyon: Manifesto of Fragility, Lyon (2022), Voyage in Liquid Times, Gallery of Ján Koniarek, Trnava, Slovakia (2025), Home is where one starts from, Zilberman, Istanbul (2024), The Future is Female - Love Letters, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherland(2020), Sonda, P74 Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018), Par voi(X) postale, Musée de la photographie à Charleroi, Brussels (2017), and 6th Zlín Youth Salon 2012, Regional Gallery of Fine Arts in Zlín, Czech Republic (2012).

Selected residencies and awards include Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2026, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2020), Artist in Residence at Karla Osorio Gallery, Brasília (2019), Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California (2018), NOVUM Foundation Art Award (2021), and Tatra Bank Foundation Art Award for Young Visual Artists (2016), Painting 2013, Intesa San paulo Bank (VÚB Bank), Strabag Artaward International 2010, Austria.