Final Weeks - Fierce Paradise: Conversations with Aboriginal Art

Installation view, Museum im Schafstall:

Michael Nelson Jagamara and Imants Tillers

Afterlife 1, 2023

synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 42 canvasboards, nos. 115330–115371, 152.4 x 228.6 cm

Final Weeks: Imants Tillers Fierce Paradise: Conversations with Aboriginal Art at Museum im Schafstall, Germany

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