> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Lucia Tallová Folds Flea-Market Paper Until It Stands on Its Own - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-berlin-deutsche-bank-prize/ - Published: 2026-10-23T02:14:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-23T02:14:00.000Z - Description: Explore Lucia Tallová's Moving Clouds at PalaisPopulaire in Berlin, where flea-market paper and bent columns mark her Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year show. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition, Memory & Identity, Works on Paper, Painting, Sculpture & Installation, Berlin ## PalaisPopulaire Presents Lucia Tallová's Moving Clouds in Berlin **PalaisPopulaire** presents *Moving Clouds*, curated by **Britta Färber**, through December 31, 2026. **Moving Clouds** **Artist:** Lucia Tallová **Exhibition:** Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026 **Venue:** [ PalaisPopulaire ](https://palaispopulaire.db.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Berlin, Germany **Dates:** September 10, 2026 – December 31, 2026 **Hours:** Daily except Tuesday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Thursday until 7 p.m. **Address:** Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin **Curator:** Britta Färber, Global Head, Art & Culture, Deutsche Bank **Photography:** Matthias Schormann Slovak artist [**Lucia Tallová**](https://www.luciatallova.sk/?ref=catapult-platform.art), born in 1985 in Bratislava and named [**Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2026**](https://www.db.com/news/detail/20251119-lucia-tallova-is-deutsche-bank-s-artist-of-the-year-2026?language%5Fid=1&ref=catapult-platform.art)**,** fills the [**PalaisPopulaire**](https://palaispopulaire.db.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) in Berlin with collage, assemblage, painting and sculpture. The exhibition also marks the end of PalaisPopulaire's eight-year programme, with the Berlin institution closing at the end of 2026. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: long gallery room with a wooden lattice structure and framed works along the walls.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-01.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, wide installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: hall with timber lattice walls, bent green columns and a framed cloud collage in the foreground.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-06.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. The central sculpture group, Fragility of Caryatid (2025), is a set of bent Ionic columns with poster-like images of ancient female sculptures, mostly headless torsos, inserted into them. Wooden lattice structures around it hold collages cut from flea-market books, 1950s fashion and film magazines and illustrated books on the 1974 Spartakiad. Charcoal, dyed paper, glass domes and parts of furniture push the paper works out into the room. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: room lined with wooden lattice walls holding dense rows of framed collages and a black stepladder.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-04.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. Below, the exhibition text explains why a page from a second-hand shop ends up carrying that much weight. ### Exhibition Text Courtesy of PalaisPopulaire / Deutsche Bank Lucia Tallová was born in 1985 in Bratislava, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and where she continues to live and work. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: window frame filled with charcoal, cloud paintings behind timber steps and a slatted timber wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-07.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: bent pale green fluted columns with printed female torso images in a white gallery room.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-02-1.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. Since 2023, a prominent figure from the international art world has been invited to select artists for the “Artist of the Year” award, with this role rotating every two years. The Slovak artist was nominated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of the Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Berlin. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-05-2.webp) ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: pale green fluted column lying on the floor beside a printed image of a female torso.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-01-1.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: purple-toned paper strip trailing from a fluted column beside a printed arm and a cabinet.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-06-1.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: stacked dark wooden cabinet parts holding photographs of crossed arms and legs behind glass.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-08.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. The title of Lucia Tallová’s exhibition, Moving Clouds, evokes clouds endlessly moving across the sky, embodying the perpetual cycle of becoming and passing away. [DEUTSCHE BANK ARTIST OF THE YEAR TALLOVA | UMRIAN GALLERYPALAIS POPULAIRE DEUTSCHE BANK | ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2026 | LUCIA TALLOVA | UMRIAN GALLERY![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)UMRIAN GALLERY![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/UMRIAN-20GALLERY-20LOGO-1b02d26c-930d-4caf-bc8b-7c20a45c5de7.png)](https://www.umrian.gallery/tallova-moving-clouds?ref=catapult-platform.art) Umrian Gallery In her work, however, “moving” also refers to an emotional and inner movement: the experience of being touched by the world, by its beauty as well as by its increasing destruction. At first glance, Tallová’s room-filling installation for the PalaisPopulaire appears to be an almost surreal journey into the past. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: dark wooden cabinet with purple-toned printed arms and legs emerging from its glazed door.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-02.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. Yet the artist is ultimately concerned with a highly personal examination of the present. Her works explore memory, layers of history, and the ways in which the past continues to exist within the present. She interweaves personal and collective narratives with references to art history, architecture, and the legacy of modernism. Her works reflect the profound transformations of recent decades: the collapse of political systems, the disappearance of industrial worlds, technological change, ecological threats, and the increasing vulnerability of democratic societies. ![Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin. Wooden glass-fronted cabinet containing a woman's image and piled black material.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-02.webp) Installation shot Lucia Tallova - Moving Clouds - Deutsche Bank- Artist of the Year 2026 - PalaisPopulaire - Berlin 2026 Photo - Matthias Schormann From a feminist perspective, Tallová examines human civilization and the patriarchal structures that have shaped it. She traces a history in which the oppression and marginalization of women are inseparable from the exploitation of nature. In response, she develops new, associative forms of storytelling and archiving. The wooden structures that house her collages, paintings, and assemblages resemble expansive tableaux, but also improvised archives or fragments of a theatrical set. The bent columns of the central sculpture group Fragility of Caryatid (2025) likewise evoke the atmosphere of a stage production. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: stacked dark wooden cabinet parts holding photographs of crossed arms and legs behind glass.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-08-1.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann Using found objects, pages from books and magazines, paper, wood, and photography, Tallová creates an immersive Gesamtkunstwerk that engages poetically and critically with the fragility of memory in an accelerated, digitized present. #### Fragile worlds made of paper The first thing that strikes one about Lucia Tallová’s works on paper is their object-like, almost sculptural quality. She finds the source material for her collages and assemblages, which are inhabited by women and female stereotypes from a wide range of historical periods, at flea markets and in antique shops: illustrated books about the 1974 Spartakiad, fashion and film magazines from the 1950s, and publications on the temples and sculptures of Classical Antiquity. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: three black boxes with charcoal over a portrait, a turned baluster and a cut portrait.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-05.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, view of three works, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. Tallová combines the facial features of postwar models with the faces of Baroque Madonnas. She allows staircases, columns, and architectural elements to emerge from the collage like images in a pop-up book. Elsewhere, assembled female bodies merge with depictions of plants, twine, fragments of mountain ranges, and planetary orbits. Branches may lie across the paper like nerve pathways or flashes of lightning; stones become ornaments in the hair on the picture surface. Everything in these collages and assemblages pushes toward three-dimensionality, toward spatial presence. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: cut-out printed photograph of a laurel-crowned bust bent over a dark turned wooden pedestal.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-07.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. The origins of this approach lie in painting, in the use of black paint, which Tallová first applied to create her semi-abstract, cloud-like paintings and later used to transform photographs and motifs taken from books and magazines. Over time, she began treating paper as a sculptural material that she could “shape,” fixing it in place so that it retains a specific position and tension. The paper is creased or crumpled, fanned out or folded, with corners protruding like wings or spreading like undergrowth. Through this process, Tallová creates precise yet intuitive compositions—forms of montage in which images overlap, motifs connect, and hidden memories or associations are brought to the surface. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: black frame with a book page showing a stone laid over a sculpted head.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-06.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. At the same time, her works create the impression that the history and condition of the material itself have been preserved, as though a moment has been suspended in time. Tallová extends this technique into her assemblages. She places collages beneath glass domes, wedges charcoal between frames, glass, and paper, and allows it to extend beyond the image and frame, growing into a new image on the wall. Abstract structures emerge from dyed, crumpled paper; paper works are combined with fragments of furniture and parts of chair legs. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: glass dome on a black base covering stones and a cut-out printed arm in grey tones.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-03.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann This paper-based universe is both delicate and remarkably adaptable. In Tallová’s work, the possibilities of combining materials and forms seem almost limitless, allowing them to enter into entirely new relationships with the surrounding space. #### Material and memory Everything, including ephemeral phenomena, overlooked biographies, everyday memories, and found objects, sets something in motion in this art. Through montage and recombination, Tallová imbues bodies, objects, and materials with beauty, emotion, and new, universal meanings. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: oval cream window frame filled with charcoal pieces and a mountain photograph.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-07.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. ![catapult contemporary review](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-detail-04.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. In this process, there are no hierarchies; nothing is considered too insignificant, banal, or simple. Her practice is grounded in an idea that is as poetic as it is materialist: that history is inscribed into every form of matter, into every material, whether living or non-living, organic or artificial. This includes geological history, the histories of civilizations, progress, technology, and culture, as well as fleeting personal memories. Materials absorb these recollections as traces, like a subtle energy, and preserve them like sediment. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: two black-framed works, one topped with charcoal pieces, one with gathered cream-coloured fabric](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-01-1.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, view of two works, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. Tallová’s work can be understood as that of an archaeologist, historian, or sociologist: a form of artistic forensics that uncovers hidden narratives. Bratislava and Slovakia, together with the wider Central and Eastern European region shaped by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, form an important source of inspiration. The books, illustrated volumes, encyclopedias, and magazines she encounters in her everyday surroundings, in second-hand bookshops and at flea markets, offer a cross-section of what people here have read and looked at since the early twentieth century, revealing the images and ideals that have shaped collective consciousness, ideology, and social norms over the decades. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: black-framed collage of cut comet and moon photographs with small white stones on top.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-03.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann The subjects of these publications range from Classical Antiquity and the Habsburg Monarchy to postwar modernity: the era of reconstruction, socialist progress, and industrialization in both Eastern and Western Europe. #### Male fantasies, female bodies “Historically,” Tallová said in an interview in 2025, “the female body has been perceived more as an object than the subject of its own history. It bears traces of pressure, deformation, and constant efforts to conform to a defined norm.” Her collages and assemblages speak precisely to this condition. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: black frame with layered cloud and sky photographs cut and overlapped on a black panel.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-08.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. They are inhabited by deformed female bodies that nevertheless must maintain their composure: female workers, athletes, and models whose achievements and lives were excluded from the male-dominated canon of modernism and postwar modernism. The artist allows female bodies to merge with all manner of architecture designed and built by men. The bodies themselves assume the function of columns and ornaments, or become architecture in their own right. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: pleated cream fabric below a wave photograph in a black frame on timber blocks.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-work-04.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, detail view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann In one work, legs in silk stockings and patent leather shoes emerge from one of the most famous buildings of Italian Fascism, the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, inaugurated in 1940, appearing as frivolous as figures in a cabaret performance from the Weimar era. In other works, women must literally bear the weight of history. Young female gymnasts form the foundation of towers made from ancient temples or recreate Stalinist monuments dedicated to heroic figures. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: three black-framed works with cream fabric, layered paper and stones on a slatted timber wall.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-09.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. This idea is fully articulated in the installation Fragility of Caryatid (2025). The work consists of a group of bent fragments of Ionic columns into which poster-like images of ancient female sculptures, mostly headless torsos, have been inserted. Through this, Tallová refers to the gender metaphors embedded in ancient architecture and sculpture. Caryatids are female figures used in place of columns or pillars. Unlike male Atlantes, who appear to struggle beneath the weight of architectural elements, caryatids are expected to carry the load gracefully on their heads. They embody a disciplined femininity that is not permitted to reveal its effort. In Tallová’s interpretation, they have disappeared: the columns are bent, damaged, or broken. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: large black and white cloud paintings on wheeled wooden frames, a visitor standing before them.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-03.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. #### Between new beginnings and decline Tallová’s work confronts viewers with a sense of transience. It presents the remnants of lives once lived: pieces of furniture with which someone once furnished a home, books that someone once read and collected, objects that once belonged to someone, anonymous photographs that were once personal memories. These are dreams of progress and the future, of which only ruins remain. “I rediscover ancient civilisations,” says Tallová, “and build utopian worlds that then fall prey to destruction once again to destruction. After many unsuccessful attempts throughout history, these unstable structures collapse. Human existence is predestined to perish. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: black-framed work with curling cream paper and a stone before a slatted wall and cloud paintings.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-08-2.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. It seems to have lost the ability to function within the current system and the dystopian vision of the future. The body succumbs to time, to ageing and finitude.” This may not sound hopeful. Yet the statement offers a realistic description of a state of constant historical change and uncertainty, of repeated new beginnings that have become an everyday reality for many people. Tallová’s artistic practice, writes Sam Bardaouil, “emerges from a specific geography: Central and Eastern Europe, a landscape shaped by the collapse of communism and the ongoing archaeology of its ruins. ![Lucia Tallová, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin: printed grey arm wrapped around a pale fluted column leaning on a concrete pillar.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/lucia-tallova-moving-clouds-palaispopulaire-berlin-2026-installation-05.webp) Lucia Tallová, Moving Clouds. Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2026, installation view, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, 2026\. © Lucia Tallová, Photo: Matthias Schormann. The flea market and the second-hand shop—sites where she discovers her objects—are not neutral reservoirs. They are the informal museums of a region where the circulation of fragments testifies to the discontinuities of history.” In this sense, Tallová “stages not merely the memory of objects but the condition of a society where memory itself is unstable, fractured, suspended between regimes.” Although the exhibition repeatedly refers to socialist culture and its diverse currents, styles, and ideologies, it is not exclusively concerned with a critical or nostalgic reassessment of the past. Nor is it about drawing comparisons between East and West. Rather, it focuses on an in-between state: rupture, uncertainty, and unresolved tensions that only become visible and tangible through collage and recombination. Against the monolithic narratives that allow no breaks or ambiguity, Tallová sets something fragile, fractured, and assembled: the utopia of a “feminine” world in which domination and power are no longer central, and in which everything exists in a state of interdependence. **About the Artist** **Lucia Tallová** Lucia Tallová was born in 1985 in Bratislava, where she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design and continues to live and work. She works across painting, collage, assemblage and sculpture and was named Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2026. 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