Stephan Balkenhol - Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Influential German sculptor Stephan Balkenhol structured this profound book to accompany his most recent exhibition, a long-overdue retrospective shown in his hometown, Hamburg. More than a catalog, it is a reader, a collection of essays by authors who relate to Balkenhol’s sculptural oeuvre in very different, highly personal ways, from social psychologist Hans-Jaochim Maaz to art historian Laszlo Glozer to cultural anthropologist Thomas Macho. The exhibition and catalog together form an inseparable whole conceived by the artist as a kind of “family reunion” bringing together work from 1982-2008, people and animals, all in Balkenhol’s powerful mirror of the contemporary individual.

Exhibition catalog / Hardcover
190 pp / 22 b&w and 54 color
ISBN: 978-3-936859-56-0

Available in English and German