Imants Tillers retrospective

‘IMANTS TILLERS: Wildes Paradies; Gespräche mit Aboriginal Kunst’

‘IMANTS TILLERS: Fierce Paradise; Conversations with Aboriginal Art’.

Museum Im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany

26 October 2025 – 31 May 2026

Imants Tillers
Fierce Paradise, 2021
synthetic polymer paint, gouache on 54 canvasboards, 228.6 x 213.3 cm

Imants Tillers presents ‘Fierce Paradise,’ a major retrospective exhibition of works spanning five decades, including a number of collaborative works with Warlpiri Elder Michael Nelson Jagamara AM.

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’ will include 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. Tillers has also created several new works specifically for the exhibition.

The exhibition will be shown at Museum im Schafstall, Neuenstadt am Kocher, Baden Württemberg, Germany, and will run from 26 October 2025 – 31 May 2026.

This will be Imants Tillers’ most significant international retrospective exhibition since ‘Journey to Nowhere’ which was held at the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia in 2018.