Stephan Balkenhol Born in Fritzlar/Hessen, 1957 Lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany and in Meisenthal, France. Education 1976-1982 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg Solo Exhibitions (selected) 2018 Resurrections. Masterpieces from the collection,curated by Katharina Henkel, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Luxembourg Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki CAC MÁLAGA, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Malaga 2017 2016 Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski 2015 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munchen New Sculptures, Akinci, Amsterdam Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski New Sculptures, Akinci, Amsterdam Landes Museum, Linz, Austria 2014 Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg Deweer Gallery, Otegem Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Ravensburg 2013 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Johnen Galerie, Berlin Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Big Head Column, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice 2012 Deweer Gallery, Otegem New Works, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Stephan Balkenhol in St. Elizabeth, St. Elizabeth Church, Kassel 2011 Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich Johnen Galerie, Berlin Halle Verriere, Meisenthal LUCE Gallery, Torino Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto 2010 Dörrie Priess, Hamburg Museè de Grenoble, Grenoble Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki 2009 Un Segno nel Foro di Cesare, curated by L. Pratesi, Fori Imperiali, Roma Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig 2008 Galerie Akinici, Amsterdam
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Roma Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich Update, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium 2007 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong P.A.C. Padiglione Arte Contemporanea, Milano Museum Der Moderne, Salzburg Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris New works, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki Galeri Artist, Istanbul 2006 Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Museum Liner, Appenzell Regen Project, Los Angeles Museum Liner, Appenzell 2005/06 Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla 2005 The National Museum of Art, Osaka Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris 2004 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munchen Doagenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany 2003 Sprengel-Museum, Hannover (Cat.) Stephan Balkenhol und... Stadtische Galerie Fellbach, Germany Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Le Rectangle, Lyon Galerie Ropac, Paris 2002 Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam Galerie Mai 36, Zurich Gallery Pepe Cobo, Sevilla Stephan Balkenhol: Installation, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt Stadtverwaltung, Erfurt Regen Projects, Los Angeles Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach Monica De Cardenas, Milano Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Stephan Balkenhol: An Acquisition, Johnson City Community College,Overland Park, KS Neue Arbeiten, Dörrie o Priess, Hamburg Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela OMR Gallery, Mexico City Dogenhaus, Leipzig Museum der Bildenden Kunste, Leipzig Kunstforum Baloise, Basel 2000 Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center Brown University, Providence The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Stephan Balkenhol, New Works, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis Stephan Balkenhol. Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach Galerie Mai 36, Zürich
1999 Regen Project, Los Angeles Galerie Lohrl, Berlin Kunst Mitte, Berlin Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento Università degli Studi di Bologna, San Giovanni in Monte Fondation Europée pour la sculpture, Bruxelles Sadier's Wells, London Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris Bawag Foundation, Vienna Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam Galerie Deweer, Otegem 1998 Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salisburgo The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Gerhard Marcks Haus, Brema Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve Galerie Mai 36, Zürich Sacker's Well, London Group Exhibitions (selected) 2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK Defining Sculpture, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA Animalia, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England Philippe Cognée, Staphan Balkenhol, Marie Bovo, Fondation Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis 2015 Alex Katz, Stephan Balkenhol, Jules de Balincourt, Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin 2014 Collector's Room #5 - Pleasure, Deweer Gallery, Otegem Study from the Human Body, 2013 The Art of the Present, Helga de Alevear Collection, Centro Centro, Madrid Truth, ESMoA, Los Angeles Je t'aime... moi non plus, Musée des Beaux-Arts Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing 2012 Unlimited Bodies, Palais Diena, Paris Re-opening, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium The Drawing Room, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium The Bear Necessities, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 2011 Twenty Years of Presence, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Art Set Free, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf Melting Point, Akinci, Amsterdam Invisibleness is Visibleness, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei Stephan Balkenhol and The Object of Observation (Changes by Being Observed), Johnen Galerie, Berlin 2010 The Secret Lives of Trees, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz Stephan Balkenhol - Alberto Giacometti, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany Idea and Object, Galerie Thaddaeus Roapc, Salzburg, Austria Wings, 2009 On Paper, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz The Core Marrow of Art, Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong Eva Penny & Stephan Balkenhol, Trepanierbaer Gallery, Calgary, Canada Fuentes, Austria
PastPresentFuture: Works from the UniCredit Art Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna; toured to Palazzo della Regione, Verona and Yapi Credi Cultural Center, Istanbul Securities, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium 2008 Listen Darling The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles UPDATE, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium Mai 36, Zurich 2007 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London Intersezioni 3, Parco Archeologico di Scolacium (CZ) with Wim Delvoye and Marc Quinn Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France New Dimensions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 2006 ZOO, La Centrale Electrique/De Elektriciteitscentrale, Brussels Ein gemeinsamer Ort, Lentos Museum, Linz Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden My world in your eyes, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Six Feet Under; Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern Der erste Blick-Die Sammlung GAG, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar Figures in the Field-Figurative sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA, Chicago 2005 Zeichen des Glaubens, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Die obere Hälfte-Die Büste von Rodin bis Funakoshi, Kunsthalle in Emden Large Drawings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, München 40 Jahre Galerie Thomas, Galerie Thomas, München 10 Years Anniversary Exhibition, 2004 Gruppenausstellung-Leipzig in Hamburg, Produzentengalerie Hamburg 15 Years Anniversary of regen Project, Regen Projects, Los Angeles Sculpture and form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco 2003 Sculpture Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago Sculpture project, More London (with Fiona Banner and David Batchelor) London Durchgehend geoffnet, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden + Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden 2002 Das Tier in Mir, Kunsthalle Baden, Baden The Photogenic, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania Parkett, Colaborations and Editions since 1984, Museum of Modern Art, New York De vereld tolgens Duitsland, Odapark Le cops mis à nu, Dorjon de Vez Geometrie & Gestus, Photografierte Bilder, Museum Bochum 2000 Stephan Balkenhol, Christian Hahn, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Essensbilder, Dorrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg Back to Kassel Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel 1999 Collected Rooms - Collected Dreams: German Art from 1960 to 2000, The Hans grotte Collection Martin Gropius Building, Berlin 1998 Extensions - Aspects of the Figure, The Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School Works in public spaces Chicago, Illinois, Permanent site specific sculpture and fountain installation at the Shedd Aquarium, Man with Fish 1996 Karlsruhe, Germany, Group of Musicians Bremen, Germany, Man with Bird on Shoulder: bronze and color
Copenhagen, Denmark, Twenty Dancing Couples 1995 Inzell, Germany, Three Figures for an Altar: cedar wood and color Johannesburg, South Africa, Global Couple: cedar wood and color Krefeld, Germany, Man with Green Shirt and Grey Trousers: oak wood and color 1993 Konstanz University, Germany, Big Head-Column: wawa wood and color Hamburg, various sites in the harbour, Four Buoy-Figures Amiens, France, Buoy - Figure and Wallrelief: oak wood and color Rapperswil, Switzerland, Pair of Acrobats: cedar wood and color 1992 Giessen University, Germany, Tower culpture: wood and color, steel construction 1991 Expo - Parc, Sevilla, Spain, Man with White Shirt and Black Trousers: wood and color 1988 Heide, Germany, Man on Horse: cast iron relief