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Installation view: 1984 Australian Accent, New York
About
Imants Tillers is an artist, writer and curator.
He has exhibited extensively since the late 1960s and has represented Australia at significant international exhibitions such as the São Paulo Bienal (1975), the Biennale of Sydney (1979, 1986, 1988, 2006), Documenta 7 (1982) and the Venice Biennale (1986).
Tillers came to prominence during the early 1970s and has been an influential advocate of conceptual art and postmodern discourse in Australia. He works primarily with appropriation, intuitively combining existing artworks, philosophy and literature as 'ready-made' poetry in his imagery.
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Studio
Imants’ artistic practice has developed over the decades not only in relation to the shifting global and local art worlds, but within the physical constraints (both the ordinary and the specific) of each of his studios.
Part atelier, part research library, Imants’ studio facilitates his meticulous and unique canvasboard system; shaping his enduring exploration of images, ideas and memory in his artworks.
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Homepage banner photo credits: 1)Andris Zieds 2) Corinna & Dylan 3) Jessica Maurer 4) National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 5) Tillers Family Collection
Imants Tillers major retrospective exhibition, Wildes Paradise: Gespräche mit Aboriginal Kunst / Fierce Paradise: Conversations with Aboriginal Art, currently on display at the Museum Im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany with the last opening day Sunday, 31 May, 2026.
Imants Tillers major retrospective exhibition, Wildes Paradise: Gespräche mit Aboriginal Kunst / Fierce Paradise: Conversations with Aboriginal Art, currently on display at the Museum Im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany with the last opening day Sunday, 31 May, 2026.
Co-curated by Museum director, Hubert Sawatzki and Isidore Tillers, the exhibition highlights Tillers’ ongoing exploration of identity, displacement and locality, as well as his longstanding interest in Australian Aboriginal Art and its possible connections to his own experience as a member of the Latvian Diaspora.
Fierce Paradise is a survey of Tillers’ paintings spanning five decades, from 1984’s The Vortex to Zurückgelassen, 2025 (created specifically for this exhibition) and also features a number of collaborative works with Warlpiri Elder Michael Nelson Jagamara AM. A selection of paintings by Indigenous artists from the personal collection of the Tillers family including works from Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Michael Nelson Jagamara, Sue Elliott and Peter Pijaju Skipper and Sam Tjapanangka.
IMANTS TILLERS Wildes Paradies: Gespräche mit Aboriginal Kunst/ Fierce Paradise: Conversations with Aboriginal Art’
26 October 2025 – 31 May 2026
Museum im Schafstall Cleversulzbacher Straße 10, 74196 Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany