Tatjana Vall's works question the authority of what is seen, proposing a poetics of instability rooted in embodied experience, and challenging what is assumed to be stable, natural, or real. 

Tatjana Vall is a Serbian artist and researcher, based in Munich. Her sculptural and installation practice explores the boundary between perception and material reality. Working with materials such as silk, stone, metal, and paper, Vall creates mechanical and ecosystemic structures that challenge conventional ways of seeing. Drawing from psychology, art history, and vision science, her works disrupt habitual perceptions, treating error and irregularity not as anomalies, but as generative spaces where perception falters and reshapes itself. Vall questions the authority of the visible, proposing a poetics of instability rooted in an embodied experience that challenges what we assume to be stable, natural, or real.

Vall completed her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, where she graduated with honors as Meisterschülerin under Pamela Rosenkranz. She has participated in academic residencies across media art, time-based media, and documentary film at institutions such as HFG Karlsruhe, HFBK Hamburg, and Falmouth University. Vall’s work has been supported by several awards and scholarships, including the Deutschlandstipendium, the Young Art & New Ways Scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria, and a grant from the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of Baden-Württemberg. 

Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions including ONE STEP BEYOND at ERES Stiftung München (2024), NO MIND NO MATTER at Kunstarkaden München (2024), GHOST TO ITS STORY at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2024), JUNGER WESTEN 23 at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2023), NEXUS at Verpackerei Görisried (2023), and at the SITU Festival in Sicily (2023). Additional exhibitions have taken place at BosqueRreal (Zurich), Goethe-Institut (Paris), and the island of Samos. In 2022, she participated in the newcomer contribution alongside the Egyptian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, hosted at Verpackerei Görisried. 

Featured Works

Warm Silver Skies

Empty Shell

hang on for deer life

You are going to take a bath in good luck

Kubaparis

Tatjana Vall: Warm Silver Skies

Kubaparis

Sugar Pie Honey Punch

Drop dead faster, 2020

Collaboration with Justin Urbach
Transmedia Performance
45 min
AkademieGalerie

The transmedial installation Drop Dead Faster explores the boredom and rampant consumerism of our society, presenting these themes on virtual, analog, and performative levels. The work is inspired by Allen Ginsberg’s poem ‘C’mon pigs of western civilizations’, in which he critiques the affluent society of the 1970s. As a stage for hyperreality, the gallery space hosted a performance alongside a props-based installation.

The smile — a longstanding demonstration of power and wealth through the display of gold — is symbolized by the Amazon logo as an icon of satisfaction. The gilded teeth jewelry, shaped like an AK-47 and worn by all performers (who occasionally reveal it to the audience), alludes to acts of representation. Documentation plays a crucial role in conveying value, and the audience is placed under critical scrutiny — a stance the two artists embrace without hesitation.

The call for attention is positioned as a potent act of construction and deconstruction, amplified by sound and invisible interaction.