Tal R

Tal R is an Israeli-born Danish artist based in Copenhagen, known for his painting.

born 1967The kolboynik painting styleThe Paris Chic court caseTeaching at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Occupation: painter, graphic artist, collagist, film actor
Education: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Tal R was born in 1967 in Tel Aviv

Tal R was born Tal Rosenzweig in Tel Aviv in 1967. He moved to Denmark with his family as a small child.

He studied at Billedskolen in Copenhagen from 1986 to 1988. He then studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1994 to 2000.

His painting style is described with the Hebrew word kolboynik, meaning leftovers or a jack-of-all-trades. He has shown work in Chicago, Dublin, London and Helsinki, and received the Eckersberg Medal in 2005. He teaches at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In 2019, two Faroese artists bought his painting Paris Chic and planned to cut it up for watch faces. Tal R brought a successful action at the Maritime and Commercial Court of Denmark to stop them from destroying it.