Descripción del Artista
Olga Balema
*1984, Lviv, Ukraine — Lives and works in Berlin and New York
Education
2007 – 2009
MFA in New Genres, University of California Los Angeles
2002 – 2006
BFA in Sculpture, University of Iowa
Residencies
2011/2012
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2010
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017
None of the beauty of the landscape can reach her pupils anymore, High Art, Paris
On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles
2016
Early Man, Swiss Institute, New York
Motherland, Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Blasted Heath, Capri, Düsseldorf
2015
One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg
Cannibals, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Olga Balema & Anne De Vries: Listening, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles
2014
Her Curves, High Art, Paris
Warm Bodies (with Jonathan Baldock), Kunstvereiniging Diepenheim, Diepenheim
2013
Body of Work, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
What Enters, 1646, Den Haag
2011
Positive thinking: Actions speak louder then words, The Vanity, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Oh that I had a thousand tongues, Tinos Quarry Platform, Tinos (upcoming)
Paulo Cunha E Silva Art Prize, Galeria Municipal Do Porto (upcoming)
Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennale, BTXIII CAC, Vilnius, Tallinn Art Hall, Kim?, Riga
Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Converter, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
2017
Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel
PRODUKTION. made in germany drei, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengelmuseum, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
Ewig Weibliche, Koppe Astner, Glasgow
Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Iza Tarasewicz, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Hours and Hours of Inactivity, n.b.k, Berlin
2016
Object(ed): Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah
30: Untitled 1989, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Brachland, PEACH at W139, Amsterdam
I Want To Live in the Country (and Other Romances), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Adhesive Products, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
Wer Nicht Denken Will, Fliegt Raus: Handlungsanweisungen nach Beuys, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
I Am Still Alive – On the Materialities of Life, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Pastoral Myths, La Loge, Brussels
2015
By the Bearer in whose Name it it Issued, Center for Style, Melbourne
Stranger than paradise, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Where The Awing Flaps, Éric Hussenot, Paris
Campana I, Luis Campana, Berlin
Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Surround Audience, Triennial, New Museum, New York
City, William Arnold, Brooklyn
Towers of Dub (Live Orbient 3.9.93), Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
2014
Musique Concrète, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles
Doom: Surface Control, Le Magasin Grenoble – CNAC, Grenoble
Puddle, pothole, portal, Sculpture Center, New York
Dylan’s lost it – maybe, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin
From whose ground heaven and hell compare, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel
Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Material Memory, Fluxia, Milan
Apples and Pears, DREI, Cologne
2013
Urschleim, Fauna, Copenhagen
♥, High Art, Paris
The Unpainted Landscape, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
Slip, The Approach, London
Unstable Media, Gallery Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
Cast Recording, Prism, Los Angeles
2012
RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
Latent Stare, Casco, Utrecht
Closed because of the goings-on, Duquon Hourdequin, Paris
2011
RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2010
Support Group, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
Dr. Zomb, Glendale College, Los Angeles
2009
MFA Thesis Show, UCLA, Los Angeles
May Show, Los Angeles
2008
GLAMFA, CSULB, Long Beach
Kleveland, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles
Delusionarium, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles
Publications
2017
Hours and Hours of Inactivity, edited by Marius Babias, Text by Ann Cotten, Rhea Dall und Michaela Richter, Catalogue, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, published by Verlag Walther König, Berlin
Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, Text by Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich, Timo Feldhaus, Jana Franze, Stefan Gronert, Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Lisa Mattheis, Dominikus Müller, Carina Plath, Kathleen Rahn, Gabriele Sand, Elmas Senol, Noemi Smolik, Maik Schlüter, Ute Stuffer, Milan Ther, Kristina Thieke, Christina Végh, Catalogue, Kestner Gesellschaft, Kunstverein hannover, Sprengel Museum, Snoeck
2015
New Museum 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, Text by Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin a.o., Catalogue, New Museum and Rizzoli, New York
2014
Puddle, Pothole, Portal, Text by Katrib, R, Papapetros, S, Daney, S, Henrot, C, Sculpture Center, New York
Selected Press
2017
Rosemeyer, Aoife, “Ungestalt”, ArtReview, October
Griffin, Jonathan, “Olga Balema”, Frieze, February, issue 186
Sutton, Kate, “Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Iza Tarasewicz”, Frieze, February
2016
van den Boogerd, Dominic, “Olga Balema”, ArtReview, September
de Coninck, Frits, “Onappetijtelijk en raadselachtig”, Museumtijdschrift
2015
Sharp, Chris, “Hot!”, Cura., Autumn, No. 20
Edmonson, Tess. “Olga Balema”, Frieze, February,issue 176
Wilk, Elvia, “Olga Balema. Zwischen den Körpern”, Friezed/e, May, no. 19
Latimer, Quinn, “Olga Balema”, Artforum, April
Diehl, Travis, “Olga Balema & Anne de Vries”, Artforum critic picks, April
Cotter, Holland, “New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future”, New York Times, February
2014
Schwarze, Dirk, “Nature after Nature”, Kunstforum # 228, August/September
“Meet artist Olga Balema”, Kaleidoscope # 20, Winter
Johnson, Ken, “Puddle, Pothole or Portal” at Sculpture Center in Queens, New York Times, October
Frank, Priscilla, “Puddle, Pothole or Portal’ brings Animation’s Absurdity to the Art World”, Huffington Post, October
Creación, 21 jun de 2018
Las reconocidas becas para artistas de la Fundación Botín ya tienen ganadores
Por Paula Alonso Poza
Los artista premiados son los españoles Eli Cortiñas, June Crespo, Mario Espliego, Antoni Hervás y Anna Moreno, los portugueses Salomé Lamas y Bruno Pacheco y la ucraniana Olga Balema. Han sido seleccionados entre ...
Exposición. 17 dic de 2024 - 16 mar de 2025 / Museo Picasso Málaga / Málaga, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España