Art Paris, the spring art fair that was postponed and reinvented as a virtual online art fair, will be returning to the Grand Palais from the 10th to the 13th of September. Galerie Karsten Greve and Caroline Smulders present Roger Ballen. Between installation, drawings and photographs, the world of Roger Ballen will be revealed to […]
Roger Ballen to Speak at DEKHO Forum by Chitr Sanstha – BWW Newsdesk
Roger Ballen will be speaking about his work at the month-long web based Talk series in its Second Season organised by Chitr Sanstha Foundation. He will be joining the initiative in the second season post talks by other eminent photographers and artists such as Ryan Lobo, Aditya Arya, Akash Das, Waswo X Waswo, Ajay Rajgarhia […]
Dans la tête de Roger Ballen expert en chaos – RÉPONSES RENCONTRE
Roger in the Family Room, 2014 Photographe sud-africain né aux Etats-Unis, Roger Ballen déploie depuis cinq décennies un univers singulier et puissamment dérangeant. La grande rétrospective que lui consacrait depuis quelques mois la Halle Saint-Pierre, haut-lieu parisien de l’art brut, est plongée dans l’obscurité depuis la mi-mars et reste depuis suspendue à une incertaine réouverture. […]
Interview: The World According to Roger Ballen – GUP Magazine
‘The World According to Roger Ballen’ (Thames & Hudson, 2019) features photographs selected from across Ballen’s career, along with installations created exclusively for an exhibition at Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, last year. The exhibition closes on July 31st, 2020. The book, co-authored with Colin Rhodes, includes photographs of objects and works from Ballen’s own collection […]
The World According to Roger Ballen – They Eye of Photography/L’Oeil de la Photographie
The World According to Roger Ballen L’Œil de la Photographie February 4, 2020 Roger in His World “I often hear people referring to my photographs as disturbing, dark, scary … It is obvious to me that this response reveals a state of mental repression, a mind that is talking to itself, one that is […]
Photographer Roger Ballen’s journey into the depths of the mind – BRUZZ Culture Video Live
Roger Ballen: I fink U freeky South Africa is summery, while Belgium is increasingly autumnal. Roger Ballen is too busy to notice the seasonal change. Surrounded by mannequins, music instruments, and masks, he sits on a wobbly chair surveying the troops that will transform the CENTRALE for Contemporary Art into the Theatre of the Ballenesque. […]
The World According to Roger Ballen – British Journal of Photography
For nearly 40 years Roger Ballen has been an outsider, operating on the margins with his fellow art brut artists. Now a new book and exhibition offer a glimpse inside the workings and processes of his dark mind, a world, he says, that, “reveals itself through itself”
Roger Ballen delves into the human psyche, conjuring up our darkest fears – Collaboration / FvF x Unseen
No other twenty first century photographer is as consistently committed to visualising the shadowy realms of the mind as Roger Ballen. Throughout his career the psychological images he creates have embodied an aesthetic that we now unflinchingly refer to as Ballenesque.
EXPO Roger Ballen – CHARLIE HEBDO in Culturons Nous
The World According to Roger Ballen – The British Journal of Photography
For nearly 40 year Roger Ballen has been an outsider, operating on the margins with his fellow art brut artists . Now a new book and exhibition offer a glimpse inside the workings and processes of his dark mind, a world, he says , that , “ reveals itself through itself ”. Words and portrait […]