For Ballen, the often tense, or destructive, intimacy between animals and humanity, with their different behavioral and environmental needs, contributes to a much wider ecology, part of a cosmology or holistic system of being.
South African Pavilion announces artists and curators for the 2022 Venice Biennale – ARTAFRICA
South African Pavilion announces artists and curators for the 2022 Venice Biennale The South African Department of Arts and Culture has announced their team for the 59th Venice Biennale, including: Roger Ballen, Lebohang Kganye, Phumulani Ntuli, Amè Bell, Thuli Mlambo-James and Grace Rapholo The SA 59th Biennale team. Standing (left to right): Thuli Mlambo-James, Amè Bell, Lebohang […]
South Africa announces artists and curators for the 2022 Venice Biennale – ARTTHROB
The South African Department of Arts and Culture has announced their team for the 59th Venice Biennale, including: Roger Ballen, Lebohang Kganye, Phumulani Ntuli, Amè Bell, Thuli Mlambo-James and Grace Rapholo.
South Africa Announces Team for Venice Biennale
The South African Department of Arts and Culture has announced their team for the 59th Venice Biennale featuring artists Roger Ballen, Lebohang Kganye and Phumulani Ntuli.
SA artists to participate at Biennale Arte 2022 – DevDiscourse News Desk
Three South African artists will get the opportunity to showcase their work to an international audience at a visual arts exhibition to be held in Venice, Italy. Artists who showcase at Biennale Arte 2022 are selected by the department via a tender process as this enables more local artists to exhibit their works to an […]
Biennale Arte 2022: Three artists to represent South Africa in Venice – Shwisher SA News
Biennale Arte 2022: Three artists to represent South Africa in Venice The artists will participate via the country’s pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2022.
‘My head is on fire’: Roger Ballen finds poetry in pain – in pictures – The Guardian
Paint, collage and photography combine in Ballen’s tumultuous The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast. Italian poet Gabriele Tinti reflects on his work …
The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast – Lens Culture
In his latest offering, the unnerving universe of Roger Ballen’s photographs grows another dark layer through the words of Italian poet Gabriele Tinti.
Roger Ballen goes Grimm: From rats and rappers to witches and gingerbread houses – Maverick Life
An abiding interest in psychology and a lifetime’s worth of experiences in difficult places have established him as a visual curator of humanity’s uncanny interior world. And now photographer Roger Ballen has designed his first opera. Unsurprisingly, it’s no straightforward fairy tale.
Roger Ballen: The Enigma of Organised Chaos – TALKING PICTURES
We try to find purpose in confusion, but … chaos dominates the human condition.