Stephan Balkenhol news

There must be few contemporary sculptors who have managed to create such striking and unmistakable three-dimensional works as those by the German artist Stephan Balkenhol (born 1957). His iconic figures of a...

Museum Jorn in Silkeborg hosts the first comprehensive presentation of Stephan Balkenhol's work in Denmark. The exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the German artist and features new works. This project...

'A Cool Breeze' brings together seventeen artists to explore the evolution of artistic conventions relating to representation of the body. The artists included in the exhibition portray the human body in ways...

The Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, Germany presents 'Deadline', a solo exhibition of works by Stephan Balkenhol centred on the theme of death. Employing a wide symbolic vocabulary to reference the...

Stephan Balkenhol's candid figures are paradoxical demonstrations of the everyday, the very ordinariness of which poses questions for the viewer. Combining forty of these wooden sculptures with works on paper, this exhibition...