Stephan Balkenhol (*1957) is one of those trail-blazing German sculptors who in the last two decades has also exerted a great influence internationally.

The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden is devoting an extensive exhibition to the oeuvre of this sculptor, who has been teaching at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe since 1992. The show will focus on Balkenhol’s technical mastery and on the diversity of his intellectual and cultural references. The human form, the head, animals, and recently also architecture, are the motifs which Balkenhol chooses for his sculptures, drawings and photographs.

In addition to the sculptures and reliefs dedicated to the human figure, the animal, mythical motifs and architecture, the voluminous book will feature the many-sided and often less known facets of this artist’s sculptural work and his large drawings and photographs.