Stephan balkenhol biography channel

Born in Fritzlar / Hessen, Germany, 1957.

Lives and works in Karlsruhe and Berlin, Germany, and Meisenthal, France.

Stephan Balkenhol is a sculptor in the strict sense of the word.

He carves figurative motifs, representations of people and animals in wood, both as standing, three-dimensional sculptures, and as two-dimensional relief panels. Balkenhol often combines his typical, so-called column figures with colourful relief panels.

Stephan balkenhol biography channel

In this way he attempts to link sculpture to painting and to the representational capacities of this medium. Historically, the importance of Stephan Balkenhol, lies in the fact that he, precisely in the aftermath of Concept and Minimal Art, was able to reconcile a minimal formal language with figurative sculpture in wood.

Over the last three decades, far removed from the prejudices that exist concerning traditional European wood carving and its supposed irreconcilability with modern and contemporary art, Stephan Balkenhol has develope