Roger Ballen Photography

The collaboration with The Eiger Foundation grew out of our shared vision and goals for advancing the art of photography. Both the Roger Ballen Foundation and The Eiger Foundation are dedicated to promoting public awareness of photography as an important and influential art form. Our work focuses on fostering a deeper understanding of the aesthetics […]

Roger Ballen a Venezia In occasione della mostra “Apparitions in Venice”, che lo vede protagonista, l’artista e fotografo Roger Ballen si è incontrato con visitatori ed estimatori allo Spazio eventi della Toletta a Venezia. MARTA D’AGOSTINO TORTORELLA 10 Ottobre 2024   Photograph taken by Michele Mattiello On October 6th at 6.00pm Roger Ballen materialized at […]

The Theater of Apparitions, the best-known experimental work by the cult photographer Roger Ballen (NY 1950), and his artistic director Marguerite Rossouw, returns to Venice from 20 September to 20 November 2024 at the SpazioEventi of the La Toletta bookshop, in collaboration with Galleria Alice Schanzer, promoter of the Event, after having been exhibited, in […]

Nestled in the historic Piazza Giuseppe Garibaldi 7, the Galleria Giampaolo Abbondio has long been a beacon for contemporary art. Known for its commitment to showcasing groundbreaking and thought-provoking works, the gallery offers an ideal setting for Ballen’s hauntingly intricate pieces. The space itself, with its stoical design and atmospheric lighting, enhances the stark, unsettling […]

Roger Ballen is a visionary artist, who with his research reveals a surreal and often disturbing universe, populated by freak characters, claustrophobic settings and enigmatic symbolism. His images testify to journeys into the abyss of the human psyche, where reality and dream mix in a complex interweaving of meanings and interpretations.

The closeness between the works of Joel-Peter Witkin and Roger Ballen’s works trigger other gloomy other gloomy that create tuned dissonances. The atmosphere of a photograph penetrates the other that is placed next door, even at a distance of thousands of kilometers and years. The thread that links the images of the two American artists […]

The Uncanny Lens pairs the two artisans together in a way that only compliments the nuances of each other’s work. Staged elegantly amidst the classical setting of Italy’s Castel Ivano, the exhibition takes sixty works from the two artists and examines them together; there is no competition. Ballen and Wilkin are two differently-toned voices telling […]

The Uncanny Lens / La Lente Inquietante is an exhibition aimed at showcasing the photographic works of two renowned artistic figures, Joel-Peter Witkin and Roger Ballen. Both artists are known for their distinctive and unconventional approaches to black-and-white photography, the human condition, the human psyche and the grotesque. The proposed exhibition seeks to encourage an […]

The best way to describe what is strange in my work is the word enigma. In short, I do not have a lucid explanation for this part of my work. Many of the elements in my photographs are beyond my conscious mind; it might be years before I come to a conclusion about them. These […]

As part of Call of the Void, an exhibition at Museum Tinguely in Basel, Ballen presents photographs from two bodies of work, Asylum of the Birds and Roger’s Rats. The images include drawings, people, animals, and objects, arranged to create a single, cohesive whole.  Ballen’s work is exhibited next to Mengele—Dance of Death by Jean […]