Artist talk: Tal R | Reading: Dimen Abdulla

The painting Natten (The Night) was created by Tal R in 2019 specifically for Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv. The painting was shown at Magasin III in Stockholm in 2021, together with six woodcuts.

On Saturday, December 4, Museum Director Tessa Praun had a talk with Tal R about his artistry and the topic of falling in relation to the subject matter of Natten (The Night).

After the talk, playwright and artist Dimen Abdulla gave a reading of a text with the act of falling as a starting point.
 
Listen to the talk with Tal R here or watch it as a video with a slideshow below.

Tal R (Rosenzweig) is a Copenhagen based artist working with painting, ceramics, and drawing, among others. He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Between 2005 and 2014, Tal R was a professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in Germany. Tal R’s artworks have previously been exhibited at Magasin III in the solo exhibition Old Confused (2009), as well as in the group exhibitions Thrice Upon a Time (2010), Museum Magasin 3 (2011/12), and The Drawing Room (2014).

Dimen Abdulla is a playwright and artist. She has worked on assignments for, among others, Stockholm City Theatre, Dramaten, Riksteatern, Folkteatern in Gävle, and Folkteatern in Gothenburg. Abdulla writes for both adults and children with the attitude that no topics or emotions are too complex for these target groups to absorb. In 2014, she made her debut with the monologue På alla fyra (On All Fours) at Stockholm City Theatre, which was also selected for the Scenkonstbiennalen 2015 in Malmö. The following year, the performance X debuted together with Erik Uddenberg and Farnaz Arbabi at Unga Klara. The acclaimed monologue K, inspired by Leila K’s life, was staged in 2018 at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. In 2015, she was also appointed as Sveriges Radio’s first in-house playwright for a year. Abdulla is educated at Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.