Stephan Balkenhol attracted attention in 1987 with his contribution to Skulptur Projekte in Münster. He placed a sculpture of a male figure in a green shirt and white trousers on an exterior wall over a tobacconist ’s shop. In the art scene of the 1980s, conditioned by the influence of minimal art and conceptual art, this switch to the figurative came as a surprise. Balkenhol´s wooden sculptures re-evaluate human representation on the basis of Modernism, and at the same time they are differentiated from its self-imposed limitations. In contradistinction to classical, neo-expressionist or abstract sculpture with its typical idealisation, emotionalism and fragmentation, Balkenhol’s colourfully painted wood sculptures and reliefs show people in mundane everyday guise - young men and women in stereotyped dress, with relaxed and somewhat bored expressions, without any explicit reference to profession, function or social status. The attempt to avoid narrative references is emphasized through descriptive titles and the seemingly casual display of the sculptures in architechtural niches or in crudely carved pedestals. In spite of individual characteristics, his figures become types through repetition. Balkenhol’s unconcern with meticulous realism is corroborated by his emphasis on the production process, which can be perceived in the evidence of a usually hasty handling of the surface. Moreover, since 1990 a surrealistic element has been introduced in his juxtapositions of a small male figure with animals of approximately the same size. In spite of these fanciful encounters, the human figure retains its composed facial expression, thereby presumably exciting from many viewers precisely that mixture of matter-of-factness and irritation which Balkenhol is aiming at.
Since 1992 Professor at Akademie für Bildende Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany
EDUCATION
1976-1982 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski
New Sculptures, Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014-2015
Landes Museum, Linz, Austria
2014
Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg, Luxeumbourg
Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
Skulpturen, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2013
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Germany
2012
Sankt Elisabeth - Katholische Kirche, Kassel, Germany
2011
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2010
Musée de Grenoble, France
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2008-2009
Stephan Balkenhol, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Valentina Bonomo Roma, Rome, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2007
Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kabinett Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Sculptures and Drawings, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Wenzel Hablik Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2006
New Work, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Homme-girafe, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; touring to Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria and MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
2005
CRG, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo, Japan
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Johnin & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
2004
Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach, Germany
Dorrie & Priess, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Rudiger Sch"ttle, Munich, Germany
Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie Mal 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2003
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Le Rectangle and Goethe Institute, Lyon, France
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
"Stephan Balkenhol und. . . " Stadtische Galerie Fellbach, Germany
Galerie Ropac, Paris
2002
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol: Installation, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt,
Stadtverwaltung, Erfurt,
Gallery Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Begegnungsstatte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt, Erfurt
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, München, Germany
Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Monica DeCardenas, Milario
Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
C.G.A.C (Centre Galego de Arte Contemporaneo), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
OMR Gallery, Mexico-City, Mexico
Dorrie Priess Galerie. Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Wein Verlag/Galerie Berlin: S.B-Photographien
Fries Museum, Leeuwaarden
Museum de bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Germany
2000
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bell Gallery, Brown University Providence, Rhoda Island, USA
St Louis Arts Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanéa, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinatti, USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
1999
Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
European Foundation for Sculpture, Parque Tournay Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie L"hrl, Berlin, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
1998
The Arts Club, Chicago, USA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1997
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kabinett Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Wenzel Hablik Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Strassbourg, C.E.A.A.C., France
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Stephan Balkenhol, Saatchi Gallery, London
1995
The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1994
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany. Travelled to Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, Kunstraum Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechoouart, France. Travelled to Musée des Beaux Arts, Haute-Normandie, France
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Galerie D"rrie and Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Stephan Balkenhol: Vier Männer auf Bojen, Locations: Elbe, near Museumshafen Ovelg"nne, Hamburg-Altona; Suderelbe, Hamburg-Harburg; Serrahn, Hamburg-Bergdorf; Aussenalster, near Gurlittinsel, Hamburg-Mitte
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Outdoor installation in Amiens, France (Summer)
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
1992
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris and Marseille, France
Stephan Balkenhol: About Men and Sculpture, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Six ours pour Paris, Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen im Stadelgarten, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Germany and Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: K"pfe, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach. Travelled to Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Mannheim Kunstverein, Germany
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen 1990 und Entwürfe fur Skulpturen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
1989
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, Munich, Germany
Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
1988
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Neue Skulpturen, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Basel. Travelled to Portikus, Frankfurt and Kunsthalle Nürnberg Germany
1987
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Braunschweig, Germany
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegen, Belgium
1985
Stephan Balkenhol Skulpturen, A.O. Kunstraum, Hamburg, Germany
Skulpturen Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1984
Stephan Balkenhol: ‘Neue Arbeiten’, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2009
Eva Penny & Stephan Balkenhol, Trepanierbaer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel, Basel
2008
Listen Darling The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2006
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, MCA Chicago, IL
2005
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Large Drawings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Germany
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
My Favorite Things!: Painting in France, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
21, Dogenahaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
We can do it!, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow, Russia
2004
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, München, Germany
MIEDO–FEAR, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
Miedo, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
2003
Jetzt und hier–Die Sammlung Zeitgenosslscher Kunst, Museum Kurhaus Kleve –Ewald Mataré–Sammlung, Kleve, Germany
Inaugural Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Sculpture, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Rhons Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Sculpture project at More London with Fiona Banner and David Batchelor
Durchgehend ge"ffnet, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Sammlung Frieder
Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2002
Avant que la mer fut au monde, Rochechouart portoit les Ondes, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Das Tier in mir, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany
Photogenic Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Grünzeug Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Germany
Pop Art und die zeitgen"ssische Bildhauerkunst, Gerhard Marcks-Haus Bremen, Germany
Yime-Space-Motion Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
De wereld folgens Duitsland, Odapark
Fotografierte Bilder Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Geometrie & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1996
Essensbilder, Dorrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg
Back to Kassel, Kasseler-Kunstverein, Kassel
Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, 14 October 3 December 2000
1998
Women, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
1997
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
1995
Philip Akerman/Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle. Cologne, Germany
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
1994
Summer Group Show, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC, USA
Das Jahrhundertder Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Cultural Capital of Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
Still Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Ludwig’s Lust: Die Sammlung Irene und Peter Ludwig, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Germany
Gegenbilder, Installation at Lamberti Kirche, Münster, Germany
NL Dordrecht: 51º 48-04º 40º, Dordrecht Kalkhaven, The Netherlands
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992
Doubletake, Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Die 29. Austellung, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Current Art in Public Spaces, Expo ’92, Seville, Spain
Tiere, Galerie D"rrie & Priess, Hamburg, Germany, travelled to Galerie Tr"ster
& Schlüter Frankfurt
Double Identity, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany, Lausanne, Switzerland
Post Human, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, travelled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Qui, Qui Ou?; Un regard sur l’art en Allemagne en 1992, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1991
Tio ars ing konst I Hamburg 80/90, Malm", Konstmuseet Malm" Sweden
Ansichten von Figur in der Moderne Heilbronn, Deutschhof, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany
Seven Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds: Zeichunungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Zeitgen"ssiche Kunst aus der Deutschen Bank: Skulptur, Zeichnug, Photographie’ Erholungshaus der Bayer, AG, Leverkusen, Germany, travelled to Bozen Museum für Moderne Kunst and Hoechst, Galerie Jahrhunderthalle
Hamburg Abroad, European Visual Arts Centre, Ipswich, UK
1990
A New Necessity, First Tyne International, Newcastle, UK
Possible Worlds: Sculpture from Europe, ICA and Serpentine Gallery, London
Prospekt 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
4. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
Sei Artisti Tedeschi, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Das goldene Zimmer, Nymphenburger Schlosspark, Munich, Germany
Bremen Kunstpreis 1989, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Binationale: ‘German Art of the Late 80s and American Art of the Late 80s’, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, travelled to Boston, MA; ICA and Museum of Fine Art Hamburg, Germany
1987
Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Kampangelfabrik, Münster, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Skulptur
Projekt in Münster’
Manserdam, The Netherlands. Kunstrai 1987. ‘A Choice: Contemporary Art from Europe’
Et de la Sculpture, Park de la Pepiniere, Nancy, France
Exotische Welten-Europäische Phantasien, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Werner Kutz, Jan Vercrysse, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle Cologne, Germany
Theatergarten-Bestiarium, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
1986
Jenisch-Park Skulptur, Jenisch Park, Kulturbeh"rde Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Momente-zum Thema Urbanitat, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, L.Gerdes, E.Karnauke, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Neue Deutsche Skulptur, Deweer Art Gallery and International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen Otegem, Belgium
Die Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendiaten, 15 junge Künstler, Darmstadt, Germany
1984
Die Stipendatiaten der Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff F"rderrungsstiftung, Brucke-Museum, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur in Hamburg, Landesvertretung der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Bonn, Germany
Jenis Park Skulptur, Jenish Park, Kulterbeh"rde Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983
Impulse I, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
SELECTED CATALOGS
2008
Stephan Balkenhol, Deichtorhallen, Snoek Pub, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Stephan Balkenhol, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
2005
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen und Reliefs, The National Museum of Art, Osaka and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, The Arts Club of Chicago, USA
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004
More London Sculpture, More London Development Ltd.
2003
Stephan Balkenhol Photographien, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Le Rectangle, Centre D’Art De La Ville De Lyon; Goethe-Institut, Lyon,, France
2002
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2001
Stephan Balkenhol, Hans Werner Schmidt, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Vor Ort, Andreas Franzke, Hatje Cantz Verlag
Stephan Balkenhol, Fries Museum, Leuwarden, The Netherlands
2000
Stephan Balkenhol and Stephan Balkenhol Archives, CGAC
1999
Stephan Balkenhol, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Stephan Balkenhol, Johnen & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1998
Stephan Balkenhol Skulpturen, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1997
Open City, Change or Die, No. Five, New York, a project for Open City
Stephan Balkenhol, Editions Dis Voir, Paris, essays by Jeff Wall, Ludger Gerdes,
Hervé Vanel, Ingrid Schaffner
1996
Stephan Balkenhol at the Saatchi Gallery
Stephan Balkenhol Sculptures and Drawings, Cantz Verlag
Stephan Balkenhol, Plätze Orte Situationen, Cantz Verlag, text by Andreas Franzke
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, CEAAC, Strasbourg, text by Neal Benezra, Paul Guérin, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann
1995
Kunst auf der Zugspitze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, text by Lucius Grisebach
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale '95, Johannesburg, text by Klaus Gallwitz
Stephan Balkenhol: Drawings and Sculptures, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. introduction by James T.
Demetrion, essay by Neal Benezra
1994
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, introduction by Britta Schmitz, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Hoffman, Klaus Riese und Zwerg, Zwischenwelt und Zwischenzustande im Werk von Stephan Balkenhol
Pfleger, Susanne Engel und Teufel, Eine ikonographische Interpretation
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie L"hrl, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
The Day After Tomorrow: Lisbon Cultural Capital of Europe ’94, Helmut Friedel, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Stephan Balkenhol, Musee Departemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France, interview by Alexandra Midal, essay by Frederic Migayrou
Stephan Balkenhol: Three Figures as Witness, Muniz, Vik, As time goes by, Parkett, no.43, Zurich, Berlin, New York
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, Kalkhaven, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
NL Dordrecht: 51 degrees 48’-0 degree 40’, statement in English and Dutch by Stephan Balkenhol, reprinted from Volker Plagemann, ed. Kunst im offentlichen Raum: Anstosse der 80er Jahre. Cologne: DuMont, 1989, pg.260
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium. Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, introduction by Jurgen Harten and Klaus Heinrich Kohrs, Berlin: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Forderungsstiftung
1993
Kalkhaven NL Dordrecht: 51 Grad 48'-0 Grad 40', Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, statement in English and Dutch by Stephan Balkenhol
Karl-Rottluff Stipendium, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, introduction by Jurgen Harten and Klaus Heinrich Kohrs
Stephan Balkenhol: Vier Männer auf Bojen, Kulturbeh"rde Hamburg
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen 93, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem
1992
Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London, essays by Lynne Cooke, Bice Curiger and Greg Hilty, London: South Bank Centre/Parkett
Stephan Balkenhol:Uber Menschen und Skulpturen/About Men and Sculpture, texts by Stephan Balkenhol, James Lingwood and Jeff Wall; interviews by Ulrich Ruckriem and Thomas Schutte, Stuttgart: Edition Cantz
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Possible Worlds, Stephan Balkenhol interview with Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood and Andrea Schlieker, ICA/Serpentine Gallery, London
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin Fonds: Zeichnungen des 20. Jahrhundert. biography by Patricia Nussbaum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, text by Jorg Johnen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen im Stadelgarten, Galerie in Stadel, Frankfurt/Main, Ursula Gzechca-Mohr, Stephan Balkenhol
Hamburg Abroad, text by Janis Mink, European Visual Arts Centre at Ipswich, Ipswich, UK
Autonome Menschen, J"rg Johnen, Stephan Balkenhol, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1990
Stephan Balkenhol, Zeichungen und Entwurfe fur Skulpturen 1990, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Possible Worlds: Sculpture from Europe, interview by Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood and Andrea Schlieker, ICA/Serpentine Gallery London
Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen 1990 und Entwurfe fur Skulpturen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
1989
Die Umkerung von Pygmalions Traum, Gunter Gerken, Bremmer Kunstpreis ’89, Kunstverein und Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Sei Artisti Tedeschi, Gregori Magnani, Stephan Balkenhol, Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy
Nymphenburger Schlosspark, organized by Kunstverein Munchen in co-operation with Bayerische Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlosser, Garten und Seen, Munich, Germany
Das Goldene Zimmer, text by Rudiger Schottle
Skulptur und Werkidee bei Stephan Balkenhol, Dirk Teuber, Stephen Balkenhol
1988
Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Deutsche Kunst der spaten 80er Jarhe, Rainer Crone, Stephan Balkenhol (introduction), David A. Ross, Jurgen Harten, Stadtische Kunsthalle und Kunstsammlung Nordrheim-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Germany
Binationale: German Art of the Late 80’s/American Art of the Late 80’s, interview by Marie Luise Syring and Christiane Vielhaber. Cologne: DuMont, Stadtisches Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Bezugspunkte im Werk von Stephan Balkenhol, Jeff Wall, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1987
E en keuze: Hedendaagse kunst uit Europa/A Choice: Contemporary Art from Europe, Kunstrai 1987, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Anmerkungen zur Arbeit von Stephan Balkenhol, Wilhem Bojescul; Balkenhols Standbilder, Gerdes Ludger, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Menschen bidder von Gerhard Richter und Stephan Balkenhol, Gunther Gerken, Neue Kunst in Hamburg 1987, Hamburg, Germany
1985
Stephan Balkenhol-Skulpturen, Ulrich Ruckriem, Stephan Balkenhol, Ausstellungshallen Mathildenh"ne, Darmstradt, Germany
1983
Impulse 1, Dietrich Helms, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Newspaper and Journal Articles (selected)
2007
Danilevich, Ann, Stephan Balkenhol, Canadian Art International online
Kern, Ingolf, Stephan Balkenhol, Monopol, October
2006
Platthaus, Andreas, Who’s been carving here, then? exhibition review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 21
1995
Karmel, Pepe Stephan Balkenhol exhibition review, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York Times, June 23, Weekend Section, C23
Richie, Matthew Still Life, exhibition review, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Flash Art 28, no.181 March-April, pg.65
Kent, Sarah Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Time Out, no.1321, December 13-20
1994
Balkenhol, l’homme du bois, exhibition review, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France, Le Progres/Depeches, October 3
Gourmelon, Mo Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Musee Departemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France, Beaux Arts Magazine (Paris) 125 July-August, pp.96-97
1993
Messler. Norbert Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Artforum 32, December, pp.91-92
Ammann. Jean-Christophe Stephan Balkenhol: 57 Penguins/57 Pinguine, Parkett 36, pp.66-69
Benezra, Neal Stephan Balkenhol: The Figure as Witness/Die Figur als stummer Zeuge, Parkett 36 pp.37-41
1992
Ammann, Jean-Christophe and Horst Schmitter 57 Pinguine suchen 57 Freunde, advertisement, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 30, pp.110-111 Searle, Adrian Not Waving, Not Drowning, Frieze 4, April-May, pp.17-20
Fleissig, Peter Stephan Balkenhol, Juan Munoz at the Hayward, Doubletake and the New Tate Re-Hang, exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, City Limits 5, number 12, February-March, pg.18
Stringer, Robin Why Cant You Dummies Just Let Me Be Alone?, Exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, London Evening Standard, February 28
Bourriaud, Nicholas Figuration in an Age of Violence, Flash Art, no.162
January-February, pp.87-91
Cork, Richard Do You See What I See? exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, The Times (Life and Times section), February 28
1991
Decter, Joshua Seven Women, exhibition review, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, Arts Magazine 65, number 9, May, pg.103
Since 1992 Professor at Akademie für Bildende Künste, Karlsruhe, Germany
EDUCATION
1976-1982 Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski
New Sculptures, Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014-2015
Landes Museum, Linz, Austria
2014
Nosbaum & Reding, Luxembourg, Luxeumbourg
Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, Germany
Skulpturen, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2013
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Germany
2012
Sankt Elisabeth - Katholische Kirche, Kassel, Germany
2011
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2010
Musée de Grenoble, France
Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2009
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2008-2009
Stephan Balkenhol, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2008
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Valentina Bonomo Roma, Rome, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2007
Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kabinett Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Sculptures and Drawings, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Wenzel Hablik Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
2006
New Work, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Homme-girafe, CEAAC, Strasbourg, France
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; touring to Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria and MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
2005
CRG, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Opera City, Tokyo, Japan
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Johnin & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
2004
Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach, Germany
Dorrie & Priess, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Rudiger Sch"ttle, Munich, Germany
Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie Mal 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
2003
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Le Rectangle and Goethe Institute, Lyon, France
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
"Stephan Balkenhol und. . . " Stadtische Galerie Fellbach, Germany
Galerie Ropac, Paris
2002
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol: Installation, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt,
Stadtverwaltung, Erfurt,
Gallery Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Begegnungsstatte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt, Erfurt
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, München, Germany
Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Monica DeCardenas, Milario
Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
C.G.A.C (Centre Galego de Arte Contemporaneo), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
OMR Gallery, Mexico-City, Mexico
Dorrie Priess Galerie. Hamburg, Germany
Barbara Wein Verlag/Galerie Berlin: S.B-Photographien
Fries Museum, Leeuwaarden
Museum de bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Germany
2000
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
The Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Bell Gallery, Brown University Providence, Rhoda Island, USA
St Louis Arts Center, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanéa, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Centre for Contemporary Art, Cincinatti, USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
1999
Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleria Civica Di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
European Foundation for Sculpture, Parque Tournay Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
Galerie L"hrl, Berlin, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London
1998
The Arts Club, Chicago, USA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Gerhard Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1997
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Art Statements Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kabinett Für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Wenzel Hablik Museum, Itzehoe, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Strassbourg, C.E.A.A.C., France
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Stephan Balkenhol, Saatchi Gallery, London
1995
The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1994
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany. Travelled to Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, Kunstraum Neue Kunst, Hannover, Germany
Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechoouart, France. Travelled to Musée des Beaux Arts, Haute-Normandie, France
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Galerie D"rrie and Priess, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Stephan Balkenhol: Vier Männer auf Bojen, Locations: Elbe, near Museumshafen Ovelg"nne, Hamburg-Altona; Suderelbe, Hamburg-Harburg; Serrahn, Hamburg-Bergdorf; Aussenalster, near Gurlittinsel, Hamburg-Mitte
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Outdoor installation in Amiens, France (Summer)
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
1992
Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris and Marseille, France
Stephan Balkenhol: About Men and Sculpture, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Six ours pour Paris, Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, Paris, France
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen im Stadelgarten, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Germany and Kunstverein Ulm, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: K"pfe, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach. Travelled to Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany; Mannheim Kunstverein, Germany
The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen 1990 und Entwürfe fur Skulpturen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
1989
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, Munich, Germany
Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
1988
Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol: Neue Skulpturen, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Basel. Travelled to Portikus, Frankfurt and Kunsthalle Nürnberg Germany
1987
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Braunschweig, Germany
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegen, Belgium
1985
Stephan Balkenhol Skulpturen, A.O. Kunstraum, Hamburg, Germany
Skulpturen Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1984
Stephan Balkenhol: ‘Neue Arbeiten’, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2009
Eva Penny & Stephan Balkenhol, Trepanierbaer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel, Basel
2008
Listen Darling The World Is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Center, Lisbon, Portugal
2007
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2006
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections, MCA Chicago, IL
2005
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Large Drawings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Germany
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
My Favorite Things!: Painting in France, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
21, Dogenahaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
We can do it!, Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow, Russia
2004
Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, München, Germany
MIEDO–FEAR, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
Miedo, Galeria Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain
2003
Jetzt und hier–Die Sammlung Zeitgenosslscher Kunst, Museum Kurhaus Kleve –Ewald Mataré–Sammlung, Kleve, Germany
Inaugural Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Sculpture, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Rhons Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Sculpture project at More London with Fiona Banner and David Batchelor
Durchgehend ge"ffnet, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Sammlung Frieder
Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2002
Avant que la mer fut au monde, Rochechouart portoit les Ondes, Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France
Das Tier in mir, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany
Photogenic Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Grünzeug Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Germany
Pop Art und die zeitgen"ssische Bildhauerkunst, Gerhard Marcks-Haus Bremen, Germany
Yime-Space-Motion Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2001
De wereld folgens Duitsland, Odapark
Fotografierte Bilder Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Geometrie & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1996
Essensbilder, Dorrie Priess Galerie, Hamburg
Back to Kassel, Kasseler-Kunstverein, Kassel
Conversation, Milton Keynes Gallery, 14 October 3 December 2000
1998
Women, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
1997
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
1995
Philip Akerman/Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle. Cologne, Germany
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
1995 Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
1994
Summer Group Show, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC, USA
Das Jahrhundertder Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Cultural Capital of Europe, Lisbon, Portugal
Still Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Ludwig’s Lust: Die Sammlung Irene und Peter Ludwig, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, Germany
Gegenbilder, Installation at Lamberti Kirche, Münster, Germany
NL Dordrecht: 51º 48-04º 40º, Dordrecht Kalkhaven, The Netherlands
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992
Doubletake, Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Die 29. Austellung, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Current Art in Public Spaces, Expo ’92, Seville, Spain
Tiere, Galerie D"rrie & Priess, Hamburg, Germany, travelled to Galerie Tr"ster
& Schlüter Frankfurt
Double Identity, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle, Cologne, Germany, Lausanne, Switzerland
Post Human, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, travelled to Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Der gefrorene Leopard, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
Qui, Qui Ou?; Un regard sur l’art en Allemagne en 1992, Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1991
Tio ars ing konst I Hamburg 80/90, Malm", Konstmuseet Malm" Sweden
Ansichten von Figur in der Moderne Heilbronn, Deutschhof, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany
Seven Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds: Zeichunungen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Zeitgen"ssiche Kunst aus der Deutschen Bank: Skulptur, Zeichnug, Photographie’ Erholungshaus der Bayer, AG, Leverkusen, Germany, travelled to Bozen Museum für Moderne Kunst and Hoechst, Galerie Jahrhunderthalle
Hamburg Abroad, European Visual Arts Centre, Ipswich, UK
1990
A New Necessity, First Tyne International, Newcastle, UK
Possible Worlds: Sculpture from Europe, ICA and Serpentine Gallery, London
Prospekt 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
4. Triennale der Kleinplastik, Fellbach, Germany
Sei Artisti Tedeschi, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Das goldene Zimmer, Nymphenburger Schlosspark, Munich, Germany
Bremen Kunstpreis 1989, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dorothea von Stetten-Kunstpreis, Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Binationale: ‘German Art of the Late 80s and American Art of the Late 80s’, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, travelled to Boston, MA; ICA and Museum of Fine Art Hamburg, Germany
1987
Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Kampangelfabrik, Münster, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Skulptur
Projekt in Münster’
Manserdam, The Netherlands. Kunstrai 1987. ‘A Choice: Contemporary Art from Europe’
Et de la Sculpture, Park de la Pepiniere, Nancy, France
Exotische Welten-Europäische Phantasien, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Werner Kutz, Jan Vercrysse, Galerie Johnen & Sch"ttle Cologne, Germany
Theatergarten-Bestiarium, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich, Germany
1986
Jenisch-Park Skulptur, Jenisch Park, Kulturbeh"rde Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Momente-zum Thema Urbanitat, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, L.Gerdes, E.Karnauke, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Neue Deutsche Skulptur, Deweer Art Gallery and International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen Otegem, Belgium
Die Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendiaten, 15 junge Künstler, Darmstadt, Germany
1984
Die Stipendatiaten der Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff F"rderrungsstiftung, Brucke-Museum, Berlin, Germany
Skulptur in Hamburg, Landesvertretung der freien und Hansestadt Hamburg, Bonn, Germany
Jenis Park Skulptur, Jenish Park, Kulterbeh"rde Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983
Impulse I, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
SELECTED CATALOGS
2008
Stephan Balkenhol, Deichtorhallen, Snoek Pub, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Stephan Balkenhol, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
2005
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen und Reliefs, The National Museum of Art, Osaka and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, The Arts Club of Chicago, USA
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art
2004
More London Sculpture, More London Development Ltd.
2003
Stephan Balkenhol Photographien, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Le Rectangle, Centre D’Art De La Ville De Lyon; Goethe-Institut, Lyon,, France
2002
The Photogenic: Photography through its Metaphors in Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA
2001
Stephan Balkenhol, Hans Werner Schmidt, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Vor Ort, Andreas Franzke, Hatje Cantz Verlag
Stephan Balkenhol, Fries Museum, Leuwarden, The Netherlands
2000
Stephan Balkenhol and Stephan Balkenhol Archives, CGAC
1999
Stephan Balkenhol, Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Stephan Balkenhol, Johnen & Sch"ttle, K"ln, Germany
Stephan Balkenhol, Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1998
Stephan Balkenhol Skulpturen, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
1997
Open City, Change or Die, No. Five, New York, a project for Open City
Stephan Balkenhol, Editions Dis Voir, Paris, essays by Jeff Wall, Ludger Gerdes,
Hervé Vanel, Ingrid Schaffner
1996
Stephan Balkenhol at the Saatchi Gallery
Stephan Balkenhol Sculptures and Drawings, Cantz Verlag
Stephan Balkenhol, Plätze Orte Situationen, Cantz Verlag, text by Andreas Franzke
Stephan Balkenhol, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Galerie Rüdiger Sch"ttle, CEAAC, Strasbourg, text by Neal Benezra, Paul Guérin, Carla Schulz-Hoffmann
1995
Kunst auf der Zugspitze, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, text by Lucius Grisebach
Africus: Johannesburg Biennale '95, Johannesburg, text by Klaus Gallwitz
Stephan Balkenhol: Drawings and Sculptures, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. introduction by James T.
Demetrion, essay by Neal Benezra
1994
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, introduction by Britta Schmitz, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie
Hoffman, Klaus Riese und Zwerg, Zwischenwelt und Zwischenzustande im Werk von Stephan Balkenhol
Pfleger, Susanne Engel und Teufel, Eine ikonographische Interpretation
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Galerie L"hrl, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
The Day After Tomorrow: Lisbon Cultural Capital of Europe ’94, Helmut Friedel, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Stephan Balkenhol, Musee Departemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France, interview by Alexandra Midal, essay by Frederic Migayrou
Stephan Balkenhol: Three Figures as Witness, Muniz, Vik, As time goes by, Parkett, no.43, Zurich, Berlin, New York
Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, Kalkhaven, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
NL Dordrecht: 51 degrees 48’-0 degree 40’, statement in English and Dutch by Stephan Balkenhol, reprinted from Volker Plagemann, ed. Kunst im offentlichen Raum: Anstosse der 80er Jahre. Cologne: DuMont, 1989, pg.260
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Stipendium. Stadtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, introduction by Jurgen Harten and Klaus Heinrich Kohrs, Berlin: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Forderungsstiftung
1993
Kalkhaven NL Dordrecht: 51 Grad 48'-0 Grad 40', Centrum Beeldende Kunst Dordrecht, statement in English and Dutch by Stephan Balkenhol
Karl-Rottluff Stipendium, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, introduction by Jurgen Harten and Klaus Heinrich Kohrs
Stephan Balkenhol: Vier Männer auf Bojen, Kulturbeh"rde Hamburg
Stephan Balkenhol: Skulpturen 93, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem
1992
Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery, London, essays by Lynne Cooke, Bice Curiger and Greg Hilty, London: South Bank Centre/Parkett
Stephan Balkenhol:Uber Menschen und Skulpturen/About Men and Sculpture, texts by Stephan Balkenhol, James Lingwood and Jeff Wall; interviews by Ulrich Ruckriem and Thomas Schutte, Stuttgart: Edition Cantz
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1991
Possible Worlds, Stephan Balkenhol interview with Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood and Andrea Schlieker, ICA/Serpentine Gallery, London
Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin Fonds: Zeichnungen des 20. Jahrhundert. biography by Patricia Nussbaum, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Stephan Balkenhol, text by Jorg Johnen, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Stephan Balkenhol, Skulpturen im Stadelgarten, Galerie in Stadel, Frankfurt/Main, Ursula Gzechca-Mohr, Stephan Balkenhol
Hamburg Abroad, text by Janis Mink, European Visual Arts Centre at Ipswich, Ipswich, UK
Autonome Menschen, J"rg Johnen, Stephan Balkenhol, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1990
Stephan Balkenhol, Zeichungen und Entwurfe fur Skulpturen 1990, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Possible Worlds: Sculpture from Europe, interview by Iwona Blazwick, James Lingwood and Andrea Schlieker, ICA/Serpentine Gallery London
Stephan Balkenhol: Zeichnungen 1990 und Entwurfe fur Skulpturen, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
1989
Die Umkerung von Pygmalions Traum, Gunter Gerken, Bremmer Kunstpreis ’89, Kunstverein und Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Sei Artisti Tedeschi, Gregori Magnani, Stephan Balkenhol, Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy
Nymphenburger Schlosspark, organized by Kunstverein Munchen in co-operation with Bayerische Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlosser, Garten und Seen, Munich, Germany
Das Goldene Zimmer, text by Rudiger Schottle
Skulptur und Werkidee bei Stephan Balkenhol, Dirk Teuber, Stephen Balkenhol
1988
Stephan Balkenhol, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Stephan Balkenhol, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Deutsche Kunst der spaten 80er Jarhe, Rainer Crone, Stephan Balkenhol (introduction), David A. Ross, Jurgen Harten, Stadtische Kunsthalle und Kunstsammlung Nordrheim-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Germany
Binationale: German Art of the Late 80’s/American Art of the Late 80’s, interview by Marie Luise Syring and Christiane Vielhaber. Cologne: DuMont, Stadtisches Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Bezugspunkte im Werk von Stephan Balkenhol, Jeff Wall, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
1987
E en keuze: Hedendaagse kunst uit Europa/A Choice: Contemporary Art from Europe, Kunstrai 1987, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stephan Balkenhol, Anmerkungen zur Arbeit von Stephan Balkenhol, Wilhem Bojescul; Balkenhols Standbilder, Gerdes Ludger, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Menschen bidder von Gerhard Richter und Stephan Balkenhol, Gunther Gerken, Neue Kunst in Hamburg 1987, Hamburg, Germany
1985
Stephan Balkenhol-Skulpturen, Ulrich Ruckriem, Stephan Balkenhol, Ausstellungshallen Mathildenh"ne, Darmstradt, Germany
1983
Impulse 1, Dietrich Helms, Galerie L"hrl, M"nchengladbach, Germany
Newspaper and Journal Articles (selected)
2007
Danilevich, Ann, Stephan Balkenhol, Canadian Art International online
Kern, Ingolf, Stephan Balkenhol, Monopol, October
2006
Platthaus, Andreas, Who’s been carving here, then? exhibition review, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 21
1995
Karmel, Pepe Stephan Balkenhol exhibition review, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York Times, June 23, Weekend Section, C23
Richie, Matthew Still Life, exhibition review, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Flash Art 28, no.181 March-April, pg.65
Kent, Sarah Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Time Out, no.1321, December 13-20
1994
Balkenhol, l’homme du bois, exhibition review, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France, Le Progres/Depeches, October 3
Gourmelon, Mo Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Musee Departemental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France, Beaux Arts Magazine (Paris) 125 July-August, pp.96-97
1993
Messler. Norbert Stephan Balkenhol, exhibition review, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Artforum 32, December, pp.91-92
Ammann. Jean-Christophe Stephan Balkenhol: 57 Penguins/57 Pinguine, Parkett 36, pp.66-69
Benezra, Neal Stephan Balkenhol: The Figure as Witness/Die Figur als stummer Zeuge, Parkett 36 pp.37-41
1992
Ammann, Jean-Christophe and Horst Schmitter 57 Pinguine suchen 57 Freunde, advertisement, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 30, pp.110-111 Searle, Adrian Not Waving, Not Drowning, Frieze 4, April-May, pp.17-20
Fleissig, Peter Stephan Balkenhol, Juan Munoz at the Hayward, Doubletake and the New Tate Re-Hang, exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, City Limits 5, number 12, February-March, pg.18
Stringer, Robin Why Cant You Dummies Just Let Me Be Alone?, Exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, London Evening Standard, February 28
Bourriaud, Nicholas Figuration in an Age of Violence, Flash Art, no.162
January-February, pp.87-91
Cork, Richard Do You See What I See? exhibition review, Hayward Gallery, London, The Times (Life and Times section), February 28
1991
Decter, Joshua Seven Women, exhibition review, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, Arts Magazine 65, number 9, May, pg.103