I am an outsider, live on the margin and have no place in human society. I am judged by humanity to be insane, to be feared and avoided at all costs. Thus reads an extract from Roger Ballen’s latest title, Roger the Rat.
Ballen has die antwoord for ‘Hänsel und Gretel’ – Lifestyle
Photography’s king of bizarre, Roger Ballen, is taking the fairy tale opera into uncharted visual territory. SHOCK FACTOR? Die Antwoord in a still from a video by Roger Ballen. Image: Supplied Die Antwoord. Yes, that pair of purposefully misshapen artist-musicians; demented fury in their eyes, their angry faces screaming zef rhymes as they toss skeef looks at […]
Weekend Breakfast with Refiloe Mpakanyane: Profiling Artist, Roger Ballen
Weekend Breakfast with Refiloe Mpakanyane Profiling Artist, Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen – Roger the Rat – PHOTOBOOK Journal
Review by Gerhard Clausing • Jackpot, 2016 Roger Ballen is taking us on another trip – this time viewed through the mind of an alter ego named Roger the Rat. This creature is a life-sized human-animal combo who wears the mask of a rodent and serves as the tool of Ballen’s mysterious puppetry. […]
Roger the Rat Book Review – MUSÉE Vanguard of Photography Culture
Roger the Rat materializes at a bizarre node between installation art, method acting, and photography––all with a splash of nihilism.
Art Paris 2020 Roger Ballen – They Eye of Photography
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 […]