Talia Maidenberg France, b. 1998

Talia Maidenberg (b. 1998, France) explores the interplay between visibility and erasure, the represented body and the perceived gaze. Drawing on collected photographs, personal archives, popular iconography and historical imagery, she constructs a mental theatre in which painting becomes both diaphanous and saturated. The often isolated female figures appear acutely aware of their roles as observed performers; they play with, subvert, and resist these expectations as their the role of muse, unsettling the dynamics between subject and audience. “They are, like elusive goddesses, uninterested in our projections”.

Maidenberg lives and works between Paris and Oslo, having recently completed her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in Mimosa Echard’s atelier (September 2025). In her diploma presentation Lies May Flow From Our Lips, Maidenberg presented a series of oil portraits whose faces were reproduced and circulated widely in popular culture. By scattering these portraits across the gallery floor she extracted them from their historical context. In a second series of paintings, Maidenberg shifts from face to body, blurring the line between truth and fantasy.

Maidenberg presented her first solo exhibition at the Sorgenfri Gallery in Oslo, Norway (2024), before participating in a collective exhibition at the Art Encounters Foundation in Timisoara, Romania (2025) as well as at the Jezca Gallery in the same city (2025). In Paris, she has presented her works in several collective exhibitions, including with Whitewall Projects (2025), Galerie Merman (2025), Galerie John Ferrère (2025), and a duo exhibition with artist Francisce S. Pinzón at the La Boulangerie! Gallery (2024). Her paintings were also exhibited in Nice at Espace à Vendre (2023). Maidenberg studied at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, in Mimosa Echard’s studio and before she studied social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge in the UK, specialising in anthropology of urban spaces and the Middle East.