Stephan Balkenhol

1957

Born in Fritzlar/Hessen, Germany

1976-1982

Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg – Ulrich Rückriem

1983

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship

1986

Work stipend of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg

1989

Advancement prize by the state of Baden-Württemberg 

1990-1991

Lectureship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt/Main (Städelschule)

Since 1993

Professor for sculpture at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe

2014

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, awarded by Aurélie Filippetti, French minister for culture and communication

2016

Honorary member of the Academy of Russian Arts

2020

Stephan Balkenhol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

Stephan Balkenhol. Le Prévu et l’Imprévu, Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France

2019

Stephan Balkenhol. Skulpturen und Bilder zum Tod, Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel

Stephan Balkenhol, Le Portique, Le Havre, France

2018

Stephan Balkenhol, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga, Spain

Stephan Balkenhol, Kunshalle Emden, Emden

2016

Stephan Balkenhol, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Palais Gogolevski, Russia

2014

Stephan Balkenhol, Kunstmuseum Ravensburg

Stephan Balkenhol, Landesmuseum, Linz

2013

Big Head Column, Peggy Guggenheim Colletion, Venedig, Italy

2008

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

2007

Stephan Balkenholl, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst, Duisburg

Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

2006

Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden

2005

The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

2003

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

1995

Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA