Few artists have a visual language that feels as immediate as Tal R's. Playful and naive at first glance — but full of resistance, humour, and seriousness for those who stay a little longer.

This summer, a selection of Tal R's graphic works is on view at Galleri LUNDBERG-SANDHAGEN.
You can recognise a Tal R in a matter of seconds. The colours, the figures, the off-kilter humour, the restless eye — all of it hits at once. But beneath the playfulness there is always something more: a resistance, an unease, a humanity that keeps the images with you long after the first encounter.

Tal R is today one of the Nordic region's most internationally recognised artists. His work is held in collections at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Art Institute of Chicago, Louisiana, and Moderna Museet. Working across painting, sculpture, and printmaking with a colour-saturated palette and an instinctive visual language, he moves freely between media — always with a curiosity and joy that makes the overlooked and the imperfect come unexpectedly alive.

Printmaking is one of the oldest and most enduring mediums in art history. From Dürer's woodcuts to Goya's etchings and Picasso's lithographs, the printed image has drawn artists back again and again. Tal R is no exception. He returns to printmaking not as a side project, but as a distinct artistic space — one he approaches with a spirit of experiment and a desire to push what the medium can do.

The exhibition at Galleri LUNDBERG-SANDHAGEN spans several of printmaking's classic techniques — intaglio, lithography, etching, and woodcut — offering a rare breadth within a single artistic practice. Each technique has its own character, its own resistance, its own voice.

This summer, Tal R fills Millesgården with sculpture and painting in the exhibition Elefanten i rummet (The Elephant in the Room). Galleri Lundberg-Sandhagen invites those who want to come even closer to this singular practice to spend time with his prints — where the hand, the pressed mark, and Tal R's stubborn individuality appear in a different register.

Welcome.
Marie Lundberg and Håkan Sandhagen