Niklas Taleb

Niklas Taleb (b. 1986, Munich) studied at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, where he lives and works. He was founder and co-curator of the exhibition space Belle Air in Essen (2014–17) and is cofounder of the artist group New Bretagne. Taleb was awarded the Peter Mertes Scholarship of the Bonner Kunstverein in 2020.

His first solo exhibition, Dream again of better Generationenvertrag, was held at Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf, in 2020. His recent solo and duo exhibitions include Sies+Höke, Caprii, Düsseldorf (2025); Edouard Montassut, Paris (2024); Cell Project Space, London (2023); CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (with Phung-Tien Phan) (2022) and 15 Orient, New York (2022).

His work was further shown at Kunsthalle Winterthur (2024); La Sira, Paris (2022); Bonner Kunstverein (2022); Peach, Rotterdam (2021); The Wig, Berlin (2021); Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (2020); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2020); and Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg (2019).