John Berggruen Gallery

Stephen Balkenhol

Biography

STEPHAN BALKENHOL



Born:

1957 Fritzlar, Germany


Education:

1982 M.A. (Art Education), Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany. (Studied under Sigmar Polke, Nam June Paik and was a studio assistant for Ulrich Rückreim.)

Teaching:

1991-present Akademie für Bildende Künste – Karlsruhe (professor)
1990-91 Hocschule für Bildende Künste - Frankfurt
1988-89 Hochshule für Bildende Künste - Hamburg


Selected Solo Exhibitions:


2005 The National Museum of Art, Osaka
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2004 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München
Monica de Cardenas, Mailand
2003 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Sprengel-Museum, Hannover
"Stephan Balkenhol," Le Rectangle, Lyon
2002 Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2000 Essensbilder, Galerie Dörrie & Priess, Hamburg
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 Montreal Museum of Fine Art, (same exhibition that was at the Hirshorn in 1995), Montreal, Canada
1995 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1994 “Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen,” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1993 “Four Men on Boys,” installed in various places around Hamburg, Germany
1992 “Stephan Balkenhol: Über Menschen und Skulpturen/About Men and Sculpture,” Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland
1991 Städtische Galerie, outdoor sculpture installation
1990 “Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen und Entwürfe für Skulpturen,” Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
1988 “Stephan Balkenhol,” Kunsthalle Basel; traveled to Frankfurt and Nuremberg, Germany





Selected Group Exhibitions:

1994 “The Day After Tomorrw: Lisbon, Cultural Capital of Europe, ’94,” outdoor sculpture exhibition, Lisbon
1993 “Kalkhaven NL Dordrecht: 51º 48’ – 04º 40’,” outdoor sculpture installation in Dordrecht Harbor
“Gegenbilder,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (exhibited in the Lamberti Kirche, Munich, Germany)
1992 “Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art,” Hayward Gallery, London, England
1987 “Skulptur Projekte in Münster,” public sculpture show in Munich, Germany
1985 “Die Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendiaten,” Austellungshallen Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
1984 “Die Stipendiaten der Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Förderungsstiftung,” Brücke-Museum, West Berlin, Germany
1983 “Impulse I,” Galerie Lührl, Münchengladbach, Germany
“Forderstand ART Cologne Art Fair,” Cologne, Germany

Awards:

1995 Selected to represent Germany at the Johannesburg Biennale, “Africus”
1989 Förderpreis Zum Internationalen Preis des Landes Baden-Württemberg (an award from the state of Baden-Württemberg)
Bremer Kunstpreis (a civic award from the city of Bremen)
1985 Financial grant from the City of Hamburg
1983 Karl-Scmidt-Rottluff Forderungsstiftung (scholarship)

Commissions:

1993 Tondi (Head of a Woman/Head of a Man), Work for “PostHuman,” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Acrobats, by Union Bank of Switzerland, for their headquarters in Rapperswil, Switzerland


Artist Works

Large Woman with Yellow Shirt 1994 poplar wood and paint 100
Large Woman with Yellow Shirt 1994
poplar wood and paint
100" x 32" x 16 1/2"   



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