Niklas Taleb *1986, Germany. Lives and works in Essen
CV
- SCRIPT – MEMORY, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur group
- Scheiße alles, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf solo
- Amour Systémique, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux group
- Exposing, Camera Austria, Vienna group
- Solo Yolo, Cell Project Space, London solo
- Yes, color makes me feel something, Room 3557, Los Angeles group
- Portraits, Crèvecoeur, Paris group
- Digits and Numbers, Stereo, Warsaw group
- Beth Collar, Rhea Dillon, Niklas Taleb, Marina Xenofontos, Sweetwater, Berlin group
- Only One Step From Heaven, La SIRA, Asnières-sur-Seine group
- Modernistin, (with Phung-Tien Phan), CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux solo
- Hyper Edit, Édouard Montassut, Paris solo
- ‘s Place, 15 Orient, New York solo
- Let's Go Crazy, Peach, Rotterdam solo
- Live in Paris, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn solo
- Parts, Haus der Wig, Berlin group
- The Holding Environment, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn group
- The reality doesn't have a door to knock on, just in case, Späti 71, Berlin group
- Should we get lunch, I want to burn this place down, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg group
- THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, Adalbertstr. 9, Berlin group
- Dream again of better Generationenvertrag, Lucas Hirsch, Dusseldorf solo
- Soft View/Privatissime, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen group
- Subjekt und Objekt, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf group
- Every Loft Needs A Sink, Vleeshal, Middelburg group
- poetry season, S pichernblvd 30, Essen group
- Die Idee der besten schlechten Geschichte, 8. Salon, Hamburg group
- TRUST CAMP Vision, Roof Top, Essen group
- Safety First, (with Phung-Tien Phan), AedT, Dusseldorf solo
- Harmoniemusik und Vogelschiessen, Shanaynay, Paris group
- ibne, Off Space, Dusseldorf group
- As I recall you love to show off, HBDK Babel, Duisburg group
- Landhaus Schwerte Ergste, Belle Air (Bel Ètage), Essen group
- Wasting time on the Internet, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf group
- No Drinks Outside, Belle Air, Essen group
- Kein Wort zu viel, Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe, Ettlingen group
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2012
Education
Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen
Awards
Peter Mertes Scholarship of the Bonner Kunstverein, 2020
Selected Press
Philipp Hindahl, "Happy Accidents: Niklas Taleb", Mousse Magazine, Issue 80, 2022
"Niklas Taleb - ’s Place", The Manhattan Art Review, 2022
Piero Bisello, "Niklas Taleb: staging privacy with no cunning", Conceptual Fine Arts, 2022
Gregor Quack, "Niklas Taleb at Lucas Hirsch", Artforum, Critic’s Pick, 2020
Moritz Scheper, "Ausserordentliche Freiheiten", Texte Zur Kunst, 2020
Mira Anneli, "Tyrannei der Intimität", gallerytalk.net, 2020
Collections
CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Bundeskunstsammlung, Germany