Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
London / Paris / Salzburg + 2 other locations
Artists
- Cory Arcangel
- Jules de Balincourt
- Stephan Balkenhol
- Ali Banisadr
- Miquel Barceló
- Alvaro Barrington
- Georg Baselitz
- Oliver Beer
- Joseph Beuys
- Marc Brandenburg
- Lisa Brice
- Jean-Marc Bustamante
- Rosemarie Castoro
- Heemin Chung
- Tony Cragg
- Richard Deacon
- Marcel Duchamp
- Mandy El-Sayegh
- Valie Export
- Harun Farocki
- Sylvie Fleury
- Adrian Ghenie
- Gilbert & George
- Amos Gitaï
- Antony Gormley
- Han Bing
- Hans Josephsohn
- Donald Judd
- Martha Jungwirth
- Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
- Alex Katz
- Anselm Kiefer
- Imi Knoebel
- Wolfgang Laib
- Jonathan Lasker
- Lee Bul
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Robert Longo
- Liza Lou
- Marcin Maciejowski
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Jason Martin
- Bjarne Melgaard
- Ron Mueck
- Patrick Neu
- Not Vital
- Nick Oberthaler
- Lydia Okumura
- Irving Penn
- Elizabeth Peyton
- Jack Pierson
- Rona Pondick
- Imran Qureshi
- Arnulf Rainer
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Daniel Richter
- Gerwald Rockenschaub
- Megan Rooney
- James Rosenquist
- Tom Sachs
- David Salle
- Markus Schinwald
- Sean Scully
- Raqib Shaw
- Andreas Slominski
- Joan Snyder
- Sturtevant
- Emilio Vedova
- Banks Violette
- Andy Warhol
- Lawrence Weiner
- Robert Wilson
- Erwin Wurm
- Zadie Xa
- Yan Pei Ming
Stephan Balkenhol
(German, born 1957)
Stephan Balkenhol is a contemporary German artist known for his painted statues of the human form. The artist’s totem-like sculptures of everyday people, are reminiscent of both folk art as well as medieval sculpture. The artist uses a variety of woods, including poplar and Douglas fir, and crafting each work from single blocks using hammers, power saws, and chisels. “Figurative sculpture is often misused as a bearer of messages,” Balkenhol reflected. “In my vision my sculptures become a question, a mirror. And it is the viewer who fills it with meaning.” Born on February 10, 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany, Balkenhol attended the Hamburg School of Fine Arts from 1976–1982, where he was taught by Nam June Paik ...