from September 10, 2026
Lucia Tallová: Moving Clouds
Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026
Deutsche Bank honors Lucia Tallová as "Artist of the Year" 2026. Born in Bratislava in 1985, Tallová completed her studies at the local art academy and gained international recognition in 2022 through her participation in the Lyon Biennale. For her collages, she uses photographs from old books and magazines, partly combined with found objects such as furniture fragments and natural materials. At the intersection of painting, collage, and installation, she develops an impressive visual language. In doing so, she addresses themes such as ecology, suppressed female histories, modernity, loss, and utopia. Her "Artist of the Year" award recognizes the relevance of Tallová's poetic exploration of the fragility of memory in an accelerated, digital present.
An extensive solo presentation of Lucia Tallová's works will be on display at PalaisPopulaire in Berlin starting September 2026.
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Since 2010, Deutsche Bank has honored artists annually, thus offering a platform for new positions in contemporary art. The work of the “Artist of the Year” should be of social and artistic relevance, offer new perspectives on the present, and incorporate the media of paper and photography—the focal points of the Deutsche Bank Collection.
Artists for the award are proposed every two years by leading figures from the global art world. The “Artists of the Year” for 2026 were nominated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof—Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart—Berlin, and founders of the curatorial platform Art Reoriented. From among these nominees, the bank’s curatorial team selected Lucia Tallová.
Learn more about Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" here.
Stage: Lucia Tallová, Photo: Miro Nota