Talya Feldman is a time-based media artist from Denver, Colorado. She earned her MFA from the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through her intercultural and collaborative practice, Feldman generates social transformation through artistic and educational projects that offer alternative and reparative narratives to violence. She has received global recognition for her works combating right-wing terror in cooperation with activist and research-based networks in Germany and abroad. Feldman has achieved numerous awards including the 2023 Federal Prize for Art Students in Germany, the 2022 Berenberg Culture Award, the 2021 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship Award, and the 2021 DAGESH Art Prize for her sound installation 'The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts' at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
EDUCATION
2022 MFA, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
2013 BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 WIR SIND HIER, NS Documentation Center, Munich, Germany
2023 Talya Feldman, Kunstverein Gastgarten, Hamburg, Germany
2023 Klagegedicht: 4 Jahre danach, Galerie Waidspeicher, Erfurt, Germany
2023 And Our Cities Change, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin, Germany
2022 Cut from Blue Sky, Nick and Vera Munro Foundation, Hamburg, Germany
2022 WIR SIND HIER, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany
2022 WIR SIND HIER, KV Digital; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
2021 After Halle, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
2021- The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts, Jüdischen Museum Berlin, Germany;
2023 Künstlerhaus 188 e. V., Halle (Saale), Germany; Hanse-Schule Wirtschaft & Verwaltung, Lübeck, Germany; Dietrich-
Keuning-Haus, Dortmund, Germany
2020 Elegy [Excerpt], Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany
2020 Global White Supremacist Terror: Halle, artist collective/interactive web platform, NSU-Watch, Germany
2020 Together/Apart: In Memory of Potta Géza and Dzsuga Géza, public installation, Denver, CO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Belonging!, Robotron-Canteen, Dresden, Germany
2024 Stopp. Zuhören. Begegnen., Public Project, Dortmund, Germany
2023 In situ, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2023 Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2023 Wer wir sind, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
2021 Darkness, Frappant e.V. Hamburg, Germany
2021 memory is a social organ, fffriedrich, Frankfurt, Germany
2020 After One Year, Raum der Erinnerung und Solidarität, Halle, Germany
2020 Nebenkläger, Jahresausstellung, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany
2020 Dearly Disillusioned: In the Making, McNichols Civic Center, Denver, CO
2019 Disconnect, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Process as Ritual, Sanctuary UCC, Medford, MA
2018 Responding with Representation, Mission Hill Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Brooklyn: Juxtaposition, Repair the World, Brooklyn, NY
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, 26. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung
2022 Kulturpreise, Berenberg Bank Stiftung
2021 The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship Award
2021 DAGESH-Kunstpreis, Jüdischen Museum Berlin and DAGESH: Jewish Art in Context
2021 Leistungsstipendium, the City of Hamburg and the DAAD
2019 Graduate Student Research Grant, Tufts University
2019 Hamburg Travel Grant, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts
2018 Montague Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2018 District 75 Worksite Award, New York Department of Education, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Ripple Effects, Catalog: Kunstverein Gasgarten e.V., Hamburg
2023 Bundespreis für Kunststudierende, Catalog: 26. Bundeswettbewerb des Bundesministeriums
für Bildung und Forschung, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2022 Cut from Blue Sky, Catalog: Vera & Nick Munro Foundation, Hamburg
2021 After Halle, PROTOCOLS, Issue #10: Temple
2021 Hashtag, Media Organize: A Companion to Technological Objects, Kunstverein in Hamburg
2021 Mapping Halle: Reshaping Narratives of Right-Wing Violence, Gastgarten Magazin, Issue 2