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In haar werk abstraheert Olga Balema het menselijk lichaam en zijn functies tot sculpturale vormen aan de hand waarvan zij de grenzen van het innerlijk en uiterlijk onderzoekt. Balema bewerkt en verminkt haar materialen zodanig dat haar objecten zowel het slachtofer lijken van de kunstenares als van de machtsverhoudingen van de wereld om hen heen.
Haar doorgezakte en lekkende werken lijken misschien gehavend of kapot, maar ze roepen bij de kijker een primaire reactie op door de treffende afwijzing van de traditionele sculpturale vorm en in het oog springende materiaalgebruik. Deze fragiele gebaren dragen meestal hoogdravende titels die verwijzen naar de grote vragen van het menselijk bestaan en hedendaagse geopolitieke kwesties
Haar doorgezakte en lekkende werken lijken misschien gehavend of kapot, maar ze roepen bij de kijker een primaire reactie op door de treffende afwijzing van de traditionele sculpturale vorm en in het oog springende materiaalgebruik. Deze fragiele gebaren dragen meestal hoogdravende titels die verwijzen naar de grote vragen van het menselijk bestaan en hedendaagse geopolitieke kwesties
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'Ungestallt', Kunsthalle Basel, Duitsland. Groepstentoonstelling.
Over de kunstenaar
Olga Balema
Olga Balema’s works capture and preserve time. In her transparent
cushions made of flexible plastic sheeting filled with water and various
materials, we witness how the materials interact to change the colours
and textures in an interminable process. The observer has no influence
on this drama, which is left entirely to its own devices. The material
thus caught up in dissolution and metamorphosis is not something that
can be readily defined and, with its physical presence in the space,
challenges the body of the observer. Tension is created between
the materials, their socio-technical application and the arrangement
on the floor, which suggests a proximity to the natural state of the
materials. With this mutual permeation, the works question the force
of differentiation between the natural, which develops of its own
accord, and which serves a purpose as an artefact for human use.
The structural similarity of the cushions to cells, and thus to the smallest
quantum of definable life, conveys this complex relationship between
nature and artificiality, between process and intention, in the sphere
of the organic. Like quotations from Pop culture and social networks,
the smileys and googly eyes address both subjective and alienated
evidence of the human/inhuman. In works like Alchemy, Balema again
sets in motion interactions between elements. In doing so, she involves
language by including the disintegration of textiles and their decorative
lettering in the physical process, conveying the relationship
between regularity and contingency also at the signifying level.
Fridericianum
Artreview
Even if the work by the American-Ukrainian artist Olga Balema is often grubby, rusty or stained, that very grubbiness has been a continual source of fascination
Dominic van den Boogerd
Olga Balema
Olga Balema’s clever series ‘Interior Biomorphic Attachment’ (2014) – comprising large, soft-hued Polyfoam biomorphs that ripple, amoeba-like, through the basements’s narrow passages – points to the cartoonish nature of organic shapes in abstract art, one of its major historical motifs.
Artforum
Olga Balema
The most obvious precedent for Olga Balema’s exhibition at Hannah Hoffman gallery is the work of Eva Hesse, whose abstract, tactile sculptures make oblique
references to corporeality: not just what bodies look like, but how it feels to inhabit one. Balema takes this proposition in a direction that feels both surreal and
slightly scientific.
LA Times
Tentoonstellingen
In bedrijfscollectie van:
De Nederlandsche Bank
Marktpositie
Van 2007 tot 2009 voltooide Olga Balema haar MFA aan de Universiteit van Californië in Los Angeles. In 2011-2012 had ze een residency aan de Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
Balema heeft onder meer soloshows gehad bij het Swiss Institute in New York en de Kunstverein Nürnberg. Daarnaast werden haar werken opgenomen in tal van internationale groepstentoonstellingen van instellingen zoals Kunsthalle Basel, n.b.k. in Berlijn, Bergen Kunsthall en Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Haar werk maakte ook deel uit van de tentoonstelling "made in germany drei - PRODUKTION" van de Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover.
Balema heeft onder meer soloshows gehad bij het Swiss Institute in New York en de Kunstverein Nürnberg. Daarnaast werden haar werken opgenomen in tal van internationale groepstentoonstellingen van instellingen zoals Kunsthalle Basel, n.b.k. in Berlijn, Bergen Kunsthall en Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Haar werk maakte ook deel uit van de tentoonstelling "made in germany drei - PRODUKTION" van de Kestnergesellschaft in Hannover.
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Education
UCLA, Los Angeles (CA), US, 2007-2009 (MFA)
University of Iowa, Iowa City (IA), US, 2002-2006 (BFA)
Awards
2017 Nominated for the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Porto, Portugal
Residencies
2011 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/ Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA
Solo exhibitions
2017 None of the Beauty of the Landscape can reach her pupils anymore, High Art, Paris, FR
'On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse', Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 'Motherland', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Early Man', ONE FOR ALL series, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
'Blasted Heath', CAPRI, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 'One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable', Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
'Cannibals' , Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'Listening', with Anne de Vries, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, USA
2014 'Warm Bodies', i.c.w. Jonathan Baldock, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, The Netherlands
'Her Curves', High Art Gallery, Paris, France
2013 'Body of Work', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'What Enters', 1646, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2011 'Positive thinking: Actions speak louder than words', The Vanity, Los Angeles, USA
Group exhibitions
2018 'Nothing is Permanent', Manifesta In House Exhibition, Amsterdam, the Nederlands
'Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize', Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal (upcoming)
'Baltic Triennial 13', CAC Vilnius
'Oh that I had a thousand tongues', Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Greece
'Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art', Haus der kunst, München, Germany
'Converter', Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017 'Contingencies: Arte Povera and after', Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
'You Want It Darker', Garage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
'In awe', kunsthalle exnergasse, Vienna, AT
'Ungestalt', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Koppe Astner, Glasgow, United Kingdom
'PRODUKTION. made in germany drei', Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengelmuseum, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
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, USA
'30: Untitled 1989', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Peach', W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'I Want To Live in the Country (and Other Romances)' - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
'Adhesive Products' - Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
'Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus - Handlungsanweisungen nach Beuys', Museum Kurhaus Kleve / Ewald Mataré Sammlung, Kleve, Germany
'Life Itself', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
'Pastoral Myths', La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
2015 'Affinities #2', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'By the Bearer in whose Name it it Issued', Center for Style, Melbourne, Australia
'Stranger than paradise', Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
'Where The Awning Flaps', Éric Hussenot, Paris, France
'Towers of Tub (Live Orbient 3.9.93)', Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Triennial: 'Surround Audience', New Museum, New York, USA
'Campana I', Luis Campana, Berlin, Germany
'City', William Arnold, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014 'Affinities #1', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Dylan's lost it - maybe', Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'New Dawn', curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
'Puddle, pothole, portal', Sculpture Center, New York, USA
'From Whose Ground Heaven and Hell Compare', Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'Nature after Nature', Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
'Sweet Potato', Shoot the Lobster, Luxembourg
'Material Memory', Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Geographies of Contamination', David Roberts Foundation, London, UK
'Apples and Pears', DREI, Cologne, Germany
'Musique Concrète', Michael Thibault, Los Angeles
'Doom: Surface Control', Le Magasin Grenoble - CNAC, Grenoble
2013 'Urschleim', Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark
'The Unpainted Landscape', Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Slip', The Approach, London, UK
'♥' High Art Gallery, Paris, France
'Unstable Media', curated by Anne de Vries, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Cast Recording', Prism, Los Angeles, USA
2012 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Latent Stare', Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands
'Closed because of the goings on', Dukan Hourdequin, Paris, France
2011 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 'Support Group', Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Dr. Zomb', Glendale College, Los Angeles, USA
2009 MFA Thesis Show, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
May Show, Los Angeles, USA
2008 'GLAMFA', CSULB, Long Beach, USA
'Kleveland', Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
'Delusionarium', Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
CAA Exhibit, USC, Los Angeles, USA
2007 'Fortification', Grotto Gallery, New York, USA
Collections
Centre National des Arts Plasticique, France
De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands
Fondation d'Enterprise Galeries Lafayette, France
Catalogues:
2017
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein: Hours and Hours of Inactivity
author(s): Marius Babias (ed.) Ann Cotten, Rhea Dall und Michaela Richter
catalogue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Verlag Walther König
Produktion. Made in Germany Drei
author(s): 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
author(s): Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin a.o.
catalogue: New Museum and Rizzoli
2014
Puddle, Pothole, Portal
author(s): Ruba Katrib, Spyros Papapetros, Serge Daney, Camille Henrot
catalogue: Sculpture Center, New York
Bibliography:
2017
Ungestalt
author(s): Aoife Rosemeyer
newspaper/magazine: ArtReview October 2017
Olga Balema
author(s): Jonathan Griffin
newspaper/magazine: Frieze
Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Isa Tarasewicz
author(s): Kate Sutton
newspaper/magazine: Frieze
2016
Olga Balema
author(s): Dominic van den Boogerd
newspaper/magazine: ArtReview
Onappetijtelijk en raadselachtig
author(s): Frits de Coninck
newspaper/magazine: Museumtijdschrift
2015
Hot!
author(s): Chris Sharp
newspaper/magazine: Cura.
Olga Balema
author(s): Tess Edmonson
newspaper/magazine: Frieze 176
Olga Balema. Zwischen den Körpern
author(s): Elvia Wilk
newspaper/magazine: Frieze d/e, no. 19
Olga Balema
author(s): Quinn Latimer
newspaper/magazine: Artforum, april
Olga Balema & Anne de Vries
author(s): Travis Diehl
newspaper/magazine: Artforum critic picks, online
New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future
author(s): Holland Cotter
newspaper/magazine: New York Times
2014
Nature after Nature
author(s): Dirk Schwarze
newspaper/magazine: Kunstforum # 228, Aug-Sept
Meet artist Olga Balema
newspaper/magazine: Kaleidoscope # 20, Winter '13/'14
'Puddle, Pothole or Portal' at Sculpture Center in Queens
author(s): Ken Johnson
newspaper/magazine: New York Times
'Puddle, Pothole or Portal' brings Animation's Absurdity to the Art World
author(s): Priscilla Frank
newspaper/magazine: Huffington Post
UCLA, Los Angeles (CA), US, 2007-2009 (MFA)
University of Iowa, Iowa City (IA), US, 2002-2006 (BFA)
Awards
2017 Nominated for the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Porto, Portugal
Residencies
2011 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/ Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands
2010 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA
Solo exhibitions
2017 None of the Beauty of the Landscape can reach her pupils anymore, High Art, Paris, FR
'On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse', Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2016 'Motherland', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Early Man', ONE FOR ALL series, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
'Blasted Heath', CAPRI, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015 'One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable', Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
'Cannibals' , Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'Listening', with Anne de Vries, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, USA
2014 'Warm Bodies', i.c.w. Jonathan Baldock, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, The Netherlands
'Her Curves', High Art Gallery, Paris, France
2013 'Body of Work', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'What Enters', 1646, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2011 'Positive thinking: Actions speak louder than words', The Vanity, Los Angeles, USA
Group exhibitions
2018 'Nothing is Permanent', Manifesta In House Exhibition, Amsterdam, the Nederlands
'Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize', Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto, Portugal (upcoming)
'Baltic Triennial 13', CAC Vilnius
'Oh that I had a thousand tongues', Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Greece
'Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art', Haus der kunst, München, Germany
'Converter', Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2017 'Contingencies: Arte Povera and after', Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
'You Want It Darker', Garage, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
'In awe', kunsthalle exnergasse, Vienna, AT
'Ungestalt', Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Koppe Astner, Glasgow, United Kingdom
'PRODUKTION. made in germany drei', Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengelmuseum, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
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, USA
'30: Untitled 1989', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Peach', W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'I Want To Live in the Country (and Other Romances)' - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
'Adhesive Products' - Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway.
'Wer nicht denken will, fliegt raus - Handlungsanweisungen nach Beuys', Museum Kurhaus Kleve / Ewald Mataré Sammlung, Kleve, Germany
'Life Itself', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
'Pastoral Myths', La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
2015 'Affinities #2', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'By the Bearer in whose Name it it Issued', Center for Style, Melbourne, Australia
'Stranger than paradise', Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
'Where The Awning Flaps', Éric Hussenot, Paris, France
'Towers of Tub (Live Orbient 3.9.93)', Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Triennial: 'Surround Audience', New Museum, New York, USA
'Campana I', Luis Campana, Berlin, Germany
'City', William Arnold, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2014 'Affinities #1', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Dylan's lost it - maybe', Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'New Dawn', curated by Leidy Churchman, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
'Puddle, pothole, portal', Sculpture Center, New York, USA
'From Whose Ground Heaven and Hell Compare', Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
'Nature after Nature', Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
'Sweet Potato', Shoot the Lobster, Luxembourg
'Material Memory', Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy
'Geographies of Contamination', David Roberts Foundation, London, UK
'Apples and Pears', DREI, Cologne, Germany
'Musique Concrète', Michael Thibault, Los Angeles
'Doom: Surface Control', Le Magasin Grenoble - CNAC, Grenoble
2013 'Urschleim', Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark
'The Unpainted Landscape', Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Slip', The Approach, London, UK
'♥' High Art Gallery, Paris, France
'Unstable Media', curated by Anne de Vries, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Cast Recording', Prism, Los Angeles, USA
2012 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Latent Stare', Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands
'Closed because of the goings on', Dukan Hourdequin, Paris, France
2011 RijksakademieOPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010 'Support Group', Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
'Dr. Zomb', Glendale College, Los Angeles, USA
2009 MFA Thesis Show, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
May Show, Los Angeles, USA
2008 'GLAMFA', CSULB, Long Beach, USA
'Kleveland', Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
'Delusionarium', Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
CAA Exhibit, USC, Los Angeles, USA
2007 'Fortification', Grotto Gallery, New York, USA
Collections
Centre National des Arts Plasticique, France
De Nederlandsche Bank, The Netherlands
Fondation d'Enterprise Galeries Lafayette, France
Catalogues:
2017
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein: Hours and Hours of Inactivity
author(s): Marius Babias (ed.) Ann Cotten, Rhea Dall und Michaela Richter
catalogue: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Verlag Walther König
Produktion. Made in Germany Drei
author(s): 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
author(s): Lauren Cornell and Ryan Trecartin a.o.
catalogue: New Museum and Rizzoli
2014
Puddle, Pothole, Portal
author(s): Ruba Katrib, Spyros Papapetros, Serge Daney, Camille Henrot
catalogue: Sculpture Center, New York
Bibliography:
2017
Ungestalt
author(s): Aoife Rosemeyer
newspaper/magazine: ArtReview October 2017
Olga Balema
author(s): Jonathan Griffin
newspaper/magazine: Frieze
Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Isa Tarasewicz
author(s): Kate Sutton
newspaper/magazine: Frieze
2016
Olga Balema
author(s): Dominic van den Boogerd
newspaper/magazine: ArtReview
Onappetijtelijk en raadselachtig
author(s): Frits de Coninck
newspaper/magazine: Museumtijdschrift
2015
Hot!
author(s): Chris Sharp
newspaper/magazine: Cura.
Olga Balema
author(s): Tess Edmonson
newspaper/magazine: Frieze 176
Olga Balema. Zwischen den Körpern
author(s): Elvia Wilk
newspaper/magazine: Frieze d/e, no. 19
Olga Balema
author(s): Quinn Latimer
newspaper/magazine: Artforum, april
Olga Balema & Anne de Vries
author(s): Travis Diehl
newspaper/magazine: Artforum critic picks, online
New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future
author(s): Holland Cotter
newspaper/magazine: New York Times
2014
Nature after Nature
author(s): Dirk Schwarze
newspaper/magazine: Kunstforum # 228, Aug-Sept
Meet artist Olga Balema
newspaper/magazine: Kaleidoscope # 20, Winter '13/'14
'Puddle, Pothole or Portal' at Sculpture Center in Queens
author(s): Ken Johnson
newspaper/magazine: New York Times
'Puddle, Pothole or Portal' brings Animation's Absurdity to the Art World
author(s): Priscilla Frank
newspaper/magazine: Huffington Post
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