Roger Ballen CV 2017 May 11 - Jackson Fine Art · 2017-05-11 · Phaidon. Second edition Preface by Peter Weirmair, essay by Elizabeth Sussman. Phaidon. US, UK 200, 2015 • The Audience

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ROGER BALLEN

Born in 1950, New York Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa EDUCATION

1982 PhD, Mineral Economics, University of Colorado 1982 MS, Geology, University of Colorado 1972 BA, Psychology, University of California. Berkeley

BOOKS • The Theatre of Apparitions. Roger Ballen in collaboration with Marguerite Rossouw.

Introduction by Colin Rhodes. Thames & Hudson, UK 2016 • Unleashed. Roger Ballen, Hans Lemmen. Introduction by Claude d’Anthenaise and Stijn

Huijts. Essay by Jan-Phillipp Freuhsorge. Kerber, Berlin, 2016 • Roger Ballen Appearances, Disappearances, Reappearances. Published by Nazraeli Press, US,

2016 • No Joke. Asger Carlsen, Roger Ballen, Morel. UK, 2016 • Resurrected (Toinen Tuleminen). Kerber Art/Serlachius Museot, Finland, 2015 • The House Project. Text by Didi Bozzini. Oodee Books, UK, 2015 • Elemental. Roger Ballen and Adam Ganz. Hotshoe, UK, 2015 • Outland. Phaidon. Second edition Preface by Peter Weirmair, essay by Elizabeth Sussman.

Phaidon. US, UK 200, 2015 • The Audience. Nazraeli Press, US, 2014 • Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Absurd. Pug Oslo, Norway, 2014 • Asylum of the Birds. Thames and Hudson, UK, 2014 • Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord, I Fink U Freeky. Random House Prestel, UK/US, 2013 • Lines, Marks, and Drawings: Through the Lens of Roger Ballen. Smithsonian National Museum of

African Art Washington DC; DelMonico Books; Prestel, US, 2013 • Roger Ballen. Introduction by Dominique Eddé. Photo Poche, France, 2012 • Animal Abstraction. Introduction by Wim Pijbes. Reflex, Netherlands, 2011 • Roger Ballen Photographs 1969 – 2009. Introduction by Ulrich Pohlman. Kerber Verlag,

Germany, 2010 • Boarding House. Introduction by David Travis. Phaidon Press, UK, 2009 • Shadow Chamber. Introduction by Robert A Sobieszek. Phaidon Press, UK, 2005 • Outland. Introduction by Peter Weiermair. Phaidon Press, UK 2001 • Cette Afrique lá. Introduction by Lionel Murcott. Photo Pouche series, Editions Nathan,

France, 1997 • Platteland, Images of a Rural South Africa. Introduction by Roger Ballen. William Waterman

Publications 1994, Quartet Books, UK, 1994; St Martins Press, US 1996 • Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa. Introduction by Roger Ballen. Clifton Publications, South

Africa, 1986 • Boyhood. Introduction by Roger Ballen. Chelsea House Publishers, UK-US, 1979 FILMS

• Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions, 2016 • Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind, 2016

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• Roger Ballen’s Outland, Director Ben Crossman and Roger Ballen, 2015 • Asylum of the Birds, Director Ben Crossman and Roger Ballen, 2014 • I fink you Freeky. Music Video. Die Antwoord, Directed by Roger Ballen and Ninja, 2012 • Memento Mori. Saskia Vredeveld The Netherlands Film Fund, 2005 • South African Broadcasting Corporation. Dorps, Small Towns of South Africa. Film documentary

on Roger Ballen’s book. 1986 • Ill Wind

MULTIMEDIA

• Ballen, Roger. You may be a photographer, but are you an artist? Cooperative of Photography. 2016

• Seymour, T; Cox, T; Bainbridge S; Spatz, JM. Roger Ballen – Outland. British Journal of Photography www.vjp-online.com, 2016

• Asylum Directed by Roger Ballen and Saskia Vredeveld. The Netherlands Film Fund, 2012 • Behind the Scenes with Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen, by Peter Schiering • Casper, Jim. Breakfast with Roger Ballen: Audio interview and 25 photos. Lensculture magazine.

2009 • Netherlands Broadcasting Cooperation . Selfportrait, Roger Ballen. 2002 • ITV Television . Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa. South Bank Show, London. 1995 •

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 • The Jewish Museum, New York, United States – to be confirmed • The Cleveland Museum, United States – to be confirmed • M Contemporary, Sydney, Australia 2017 • Yu Deyao, China

• The Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile

• Les Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles

• Gamma Galeria, Guadalajara, Mexico

• Hamiltons Gallery – London, United Kingdom

• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, United States

• La ERRE Cultural Soace, Guatemala

• Origins Centre Association, Johannesburg, South Africa



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• Guandong Museum, China

• Akershus Kunstsenter, Lillestrom, Norway

• Te Uru Waitakere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

• Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand

• Biennial Fotografica Bogota, Columbia

• John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota Florida, United States

• Stadtmuseum + Kunstsammlung Jena, Jena, Germany

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• Gallery Momo, Johannesburg

• Gallery Momo, Cape Town

• Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia

• James Fuentes, New York City, United States

• Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, United States

• Carpentier Gallery, Berlin, Germany

• Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

• Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico

• Von der Heydt-Kunsthalle, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany

• Southeast Musuem of Photography, Daytona, United States

• Etherton Gallery, Tucson, United States

• Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Beijing

• Anzenberger Gallery, Handmade Show, Austria

• SIPF Gillman Barracks, Singapore

• Photokina, Cologne, Germany

• Foto Museo de Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City

• Izzy Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• Hydra and Fotografia, Mexico

• SNAP! Gallery, Orlando, Florida, United States

• Wei-Ling Contemporary, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• City Gallery Palffy Palais – Bratislava



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• Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts, India

• TEA Tenarife Space of Arts, Tenerife

• Barbado Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal

• Zemack Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

• Aura Gallery, China

• • 2015 • Bogotá Photo Festival, Bogotá, Colombia • CAFAM, Beijing, China • Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, United States • David Krut Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa • Frigoriferi Milanesi, Milan, Italy • Fried Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa • Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln, Germany • Galerie Rudolphe Janssen, Masks, Brussels, Belgium • Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain • Kafka House, Prague, Czech Republic • Kyotographie, Kyoto, Japan • La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain • Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain • Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil • Museum of Image, Braga, Portugal • Photoink, New Delhi, India • Pori Art Museum, Pori , Finland • Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland • • 2014 • • Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland • Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland • Circa Gallery, Johannesburg • Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires • Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden • Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France • Galerie Karsten Greve, One Man Show “Asylum of the Birds”, Paris Photo, France • Kulungwana, Maputo, Mozambique • Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Monschau, Aachen, Deutschland • Moscow Media Centre, Moscow Russia • Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France • Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy • Museu Oscar Niemeyer, Brazil • Museum Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium • Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany • Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa



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• Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris, France • • 2013 • Samara State Art Museum, Samara • Tolyatti State Art Museum, Tolyatti • Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, Northern Island • Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg • Johannesburg Art Fair, South Africa • Maison De L'Image Documentaire, The CèTávoiR Association, Paris, France • Museum of Old and New, Hobart Australia • Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark • Photoink, New Delhi, India • Pingao International Photography Festival, China • Palm Springs Art Museum, California, USA • Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA • Westlicht, Schauplatz fur Fotografie, Vienna, Austria • • 2012 • Perm State Art Gallery, Perm • ROBA Gallery, Omsk

ROSPHOTO Museum Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia • Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk • Metenkov House, Museum of photography, Ekaterinburg • Erdmann Contemporary & the Photographers Gallery za, Cape Town, South Africa • Guate Festival, Guatemala de la Asunción, Guatemala • Kleinschmidt Fine Photographs, Wiesbaden, Germany • Kunstalle, Vienna, Austria • Manchester Art Museum, England • Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany • Musee de l Elysee, Lausanne Switzerland • Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero, Brazil • Northwest University Museum, Potchestroom, South Africa • Novosibirsk Art Museum, Russia • Rosphoto, St. Pieterburg, Russia • Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel • • 2011 • Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA • Fondazione Terre Medicee, Seravezza, Italy • Galerie Alex Daniels – Reflex Amsterdam, The Netherlands • Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark • Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Canada • Mc Dermott Gallery, Siem Reap, Cambodia • Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands • Omsk Museum, Russia • Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg, Germany



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• • • 2010 • Bozar, Brussels • Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas, Spain • Comune di Arco/Galleria Civica, Italy • Festival of Photography of Savignano, Italy • Foundazione Terre Medicee, Italy • Galeria Max Estrella, Spain • Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain • Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France • Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany • Gallery Photographer RU, Moscow, Russia • George Eastman House, Rochester, USA • Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa • Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA • Lismore Regional Gallery, Australia • Photonet Galerie, Wiesbaden, Germany • Rooke Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa • Sammlungsleiter Fotomuseum, Munich, Germany • Stenersen Museum, Oslo • Sydney Biennale, Australia • Ubuntu, Berlin, Germany • Ubuntu, Salzburg, Austria • University of the Orange Free State, South Africa • • 2009 • Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand • Aura Gallery, Shanghai • City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA • Galerie Wolfsen, Denmark • Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia • Hamiltons, London, United Kingdom • Johnen Gallery, Berlin, Germany • Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy • National Library of Australia, Canberra • Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada • Triennale, Milan, Italy • University of Johannesburg, South Africa • University of Pretoria, South Africa • • 2008 • AEREA / Christian Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden • BWA Gallery, Katowice, Poland • Galeria vanGuardia, Bilbao, Spain



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• Hertzelia Artists Host Centre, Tel Aviv, Israel • Omaggio a Federico Vender at Palazzo dei Panni of Arco Trento • Su Palatu, Sardinia • • 2007 • Aura Gallery, Hong Kong • Art Gallery of Western Australia • Clint Roenisch Gallery, Toronto, Canada • Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany • Galerie Photonet, Wiesbaden. Germany • Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA • Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg • Robert Klein Gallery, Boston • Trafo Gallery, Oslo, Norway • YOURS Gallery, Warsaw, Poland • • 2006 • Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium. • Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany. • Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. • The Consejería de Cultura y Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. • Atlanta College of Arts, GA. • Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, NV. • Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa. • Oliewenhuis Art Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa. • Berlin Biennial, Berlin • Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne • Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris • Guido Costa Projects, Torino • Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, USA • Photographer’s Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa • Sasol Art Museum, Stellenbosch, South Africa • • 2005 • Aura Gallery, Shanghai • Gagosian Gallery, New York • Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam. • Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium. • Frans Hals Museum, Amsterdam. • Durban Art Gallery, South Africa. • • 2004 • State Museum of Russia, St. Petersburg. • Roger Ballen Photographs, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California. • Le Chateau d'eau à Toulouse, France. • Dieci Comme Ltd., Tokyo.



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• • 2003 • Galleria Carla Sozzani, Italy. • Galerie Mennour, Paris. • • 2002 • Galleria D'arte Moderna Bologna, Italy. • Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills. • Musée Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France. • Museo Nazionalle Italy, Brescia, Italy. • Nuku Gallery, Oulu, Finland. • Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark. • Russian Museum, Museum Ludwig, St. Petersberg, Russia. • Museum for Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. • Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain. • Centro Cultural de Maia, O’Porto, Spain. • Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland. • OUTLAND, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy. • OUTLAND, Gagosian Gallery, New York. • • • 2001 • Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria. • Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. • Fotoforum, Frankfurt, Germany. • Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa. • Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. • Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. • Hasselbald Center, Goteborg, Sweden. • International Photo Festival, Herten, Germany. • PhotoEspana, Madrid. • Kicken Gallery, Berlin. • Michael Hoppen Gallery, London. • Encontros da imagem, Braga, Portugal. • Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany. • Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France. • • 2000 • Royal Theatre of Namur, Belgium. • Month of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece. • Noordelicht, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. • Sani Festival, Greece. • Museum of Photography, Athens, Greece. • • 1999 • Fait & Cause, Paris.



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• Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. • Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia. • Month of Photography, Cape Town, South Africa. • • 1998 • Kunstal Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. • Lumo ’98, Finland. • Kunsthaus, Zürich. • • 1996 • Eindhoven Photographic Festival, Holland. • Tarranto Gallery, New York. • • 1995 • Arles Photographic Festival, Arles, France. • Royal Festival Hall/Hayward Gallery, London.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 MuséedelaChasse,ParisHansLemmen DieselArtGallery,Tokyo,Japan–NoJokewithAsgerCarlsen 2016 Shadowlands, Etherton Gallery, Tuscon, United States Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Roger Ballen with Asger Carlsen - No Joke, Germany V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark – Roger Ballen with Asger Carlsen - No Joke Kendell Geers - Sindika Dokolo Foundation in Luanda AIPAD -The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, New York, United States – Etherton Gallery Paris Photo 2016 with Hamiltons Gallery, France National Museum of History and Immigration, France ZEITZ MOCAA – Die Antwoord, Cape Town 2015 Galerie Rudolphe Janssen, Masks, Brussels, Belgium 2014 The 12th stop, Samara Art Museum, Russia 2013 SFA Galleries, Nacogdoches, Texas, USA 2012 "Manomentr" Gallery, Moscow, Russia Arezzo, Italy - as a part of the Photo Festival



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Art of Others, Outsiders, Self Taught and Navive Artists, Haifa Museum, Haifa Israel The Art of Photography Show, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California, USA, September 2012 Confounding: Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, October 2012 Domestic Disorder in Contemporary Art, Musexpo, Gouggainville, France Play, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium, Fall 2012 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, International Centre of Photography, New York, USA, September 2012 – January 2013Seeing Eye, Brundyn and Gonsalves, Cape Town, SATender and Cruel, Tim Mellville Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, May – June 2012Traumwelten – In the Court of the King of Dreams, Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt, GermanyTwins, Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, USA, June 2012

2011 Novosibirsk State Museum of Local History, Novosibirsk, Russia Krasnoyarsk cultural Museum Centre, Russia Roba Gallery, Omsk, Russia Chelyabinsk Museum of arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia Metenkov Museum of photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia Gallery of the American University in Paris, France Eumeria Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo,Japan High Speed Insanity, Blomquist, Oslo, Norway National Gallery of Modern Art, Bengaluru, India Real, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Morgan Library & Museum, The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, New York, USA

2010 Out of control, BIP 2010, 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts, Liege PEEKABOO! Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland 7th Lane, Ellen-K Fine Art Photography, Norway Skotia Gallery First Biennial Photography Invitational, Santa Fe, USA Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2008 Untitled (Vicarious), Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA After Nature, New Museum, New York USA New York Photo Festival, New York USA Cautionary Tales, Albuquerque USA

2005 Roger Ballen, Alec South, Vera Lutter, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Chelsea). Snaps, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa

2004 Dog Days of Summer, University of California Riverside/California Museum of Photography. Making Faces, Musée de l'Elysée, France.

2002 Citigroup Photography Prize, London. Dislocation, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.



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Dislocation, Centro Cultural de Maia O’Porto, Portugal. New Documentary Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. National Portrait Gallery, London. 2001 La Natura della Natura Morta, Italy. Recent Acquisitions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Hall of Mirrors, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark. 2000 Portraits of Africa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. 1999 National Portrait Gallery, London. New Natural History, National Museum of Photography of Film & Television, Bradford, United Kingdom. 1998 Comment Jouer Enfermement, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris. 1997 Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporaine, Paris. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South African. CATALOGUES

• Roger Ballen: Nothing is More Real than Nothing. Photoink, Sunaparanta- Goa Centre for the Arts. India, 2016

• Roma, il Mondo: Fotografia Festival Internazionale di Roma Quindicesima edizione. Quodlibet Macro. Italy, 2016

• Paris Photo 1997 – 2016. Editions Xavier Barral. France 2016 • The Rome Ballen Times. Rome Commission 2016 • Photographia Festival Internazionale di Roma. Curated by Marco Delogu et al. Punctum, 2016 • Roger Ballen, Wolfgang Petrick, Karlheinz Ludeking, Jens Pepper. Broken Home. Edition

Carpentier/EC2, Berling, Germany. June 2016 • Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind. Text by Colin Rhodes. STOARC, Australia, 2016 • Une Collection: Maison Europeen de la Photographie. Actes Sud / MEP. France 2015 • Roger Ballen. Fate. Museu de Montserrat. 28 July – 12 October 2015 • Roger Ballen’s Shadowland 1982-2014. Czech Centre for Photography. Kafka’s House, 3 February

– 16 February 2015 • Roger Ballen: Retrospektiv / Retrospective. Nikolaj Kunsthal. 27 August – 3 November 2013 • Roger Ballen Playpen, North-West University, Potchefstroom, SA, 2012 • Shadowland Photographs, Manchester Art Gallery, 2012 • Roger Ballen at Modern Art Projects (MAP), Richmond, SA, 2011 • Roger Ballen. Seravezza Fotografia 2011, Palazzo Mediceo, Seravezza, Italy. January – April 2011 • High Speed Insanity: the exhibition. Blomqvist Fine Art, Oslo, Norway. June – August 2011 • Roger Ballen. Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niteroi. 19 March – 15 May 2011 • Iziko South African National Gallery, 2010-2011 • Shadow Chamber, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, 2010 • (Re)construcoes: arte contemporanea da Africa do Sul. Museu de Arte Contemporanea de

Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. March – May 2010



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• Abitare Mondi – Living Worlds. Savignano Immagini Festival, Italy, 2010 • Massimo Minini, Sentences, 2010 • PEEKABOO! Current South Africa. Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Finland, 2010 • Roger Ballen Retrospective, Centro de Arte La Regenta, March – April 2010 • Skotia Gallery, First Biennial Photography Invitational. Skotia Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico,

USA. May – June 2010 • Roger Ballen Storie. Museo Riva del Garda, Italy. June – August 2010 • Roger Ballen Fotografien 1969 – 2010, Munchner Stadtmuseum, 2010 • The Arresting Image. Pimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania Centre for the Arts, 2009. • Roger Ballen Retrospektiva 1982 – 2004, Mid-career retrospective & Boarding House. Gelrija

Fotografia, Ljubjana, Slovenia, 2009 • Festival Punto Aparte, Bendita Locura, Italy. May – June 2009 • Darkroom, Photography and new media in South Africa since 1950, VMFA, 2009 • Roger Ballen: Boarding House. OCAD Professional Gallery, Ontario, Canada. March – May 2009 • Roger Ballen; 1982–2009, La Triennale di Milano, November 2009 • The Portrait: Photography as Stage, Vienna. July – September 2009 • Brutal, Tender, Human, Animal, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia. November

2008 • Dietro l’ombra: fotografie di Roger Ballen. Villanova Monteleone, Sardinia. 2008 • The Sorrow of Death, BWA Katowice, Poland, November, 2008 • Omaggio Federico Vender, Italy, 2007 • Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2005 • The Third Body, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany 2004 • The Photograph as Contemporary Art, UK 2004 • Roger Ballen: L’humanite pour pretexte. Toulouse, France. January – March 2004 • Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego • Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milano, Italy January 2003 • Fact & Fiction, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris France, March 2003 • Photographers’ Gallery Press no. 2, Japan • Das Geheimnis Der Photographie, Germany, 2003 • La Natura Della Natura Morta – Fotographia, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna Italy, 2002 • Dislocación – Imagen & Identidad Sudafrica, Spain, 2002 • National Portrait Gallery, John Kobal, Photographic Portrait Award 2002 Ten years: a celebration

1993 – 2002 • Africa Inside, Noorderlicht, The Netherlands, 2000 • A Thousand Hounds, Raymond Merritt & Miles Barth, 2000 • National Museum of Photography of Film & Television, United Kingdom, New Natural History,

1999 • Introduction to that Africa, Lionel Murcott, Mesiac Fotografie, November 1999 • Lumo ’98, Shadows, Finland, 1998 • South African National Gallery, Contemporary South African Photography, 1998 • Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 1997

ANTHOLOGIES & CONTRIBUTIONS • Le Petit Voyeur: Volume 1. Denmark, 2017 • Arts D’Afrique: Portraits d’une collection. Patrick Caput, Valentine Plisnier. 5 Continents

Publishing. Italy, 2016 • ABC Photography. Jan von Holleben with text by Monte Packham. Tarzipan, Germany. 2016



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• One Last Goodbye. Jehsong Baak. Afterword by Roger Ballen. Wonderlust Press. France, 2016• Parcours: Paris Photo 1997-2016. Editions Xavier Barral. France, 2016• One Last Goodbye. Jhesong Baak. Wonderlust Press. France, 2016• Une Collection. Maison Europeanenne de la Photographie. France, 2015• Artists’ Recipes. Franziska Mueller, Tobias Lambrecht. Bolo Publishing. Switzerland, 2015• Vuoropuhelu Ajan Yli: A Dialogue Across Time. Ville Lenkeri. Serlachius Museot. Finland, 2014• Face: A New Photographic Portrait. William E Ewing. Thames & Hudson. UK, 2006

AWARDS

• The Asia Pacific Brands Foundation Legendary Award, 2017• Suddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, Artist of the year, 2014 (See Issue 46, November 14 2014)• Lucie Award, Finalist for Solo Exhibition of the year, George Eastman House, 2010• PhotoEspana 2009, Madrid Spain, Honourable mention - Best Photographic Book of the

Year for Boarding House• Art Directors Club Award Photography 2006• Top 10 Exhibition 2004, Matthew Higgs, Artforum, December 2004• Honorable Mention, UNICEF Photo of the Year 2004• Top 10 Exhibition 2002, Vince Aletti, Artforum, December 2002• Photographer of the Year 2002, Rencontres d’Arles, July 2002• Photo-eye, Best Documentary Title, Best Photography Books of 2001• Special mention : UNICEF Photo of the Year 2001• PhotoEspana 2001, Madrid Spain, Best Photographic Book of the Year• Sani Festival, Thessaloniki Greece, Best Solo Exhibition, February 2000

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

• Centro Fotografico Manual Alvarez Bravo, Mexico• Museum of Contemporary Art, Italy• Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, China• Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia• The Jewish Museum, New York City, United States• Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland• Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland• Berkeley Art Museum, California• Biblioteque Nationale, Paris• Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Alabama, USA• Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France• Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa• Fotomuseum, Munchen, Germany• George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, USA• Haifa Museum of Art, Israel• Hasselblad, Goteborg, Sweden• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA• Johannesburg Art Museum, South Africa• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA• Louisiana Museum, Denmark• Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris



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• Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester. United Kingdom • MONA Museum, Hobart, Tasmania • Musée de la Photographie á Charleroi, Belguim • Musee de l'Elysee , Lausanne, Switzerland • Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark • Museo nazionale Della Fotographia, Brescia, Italy • Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany • Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA • National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa • National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford UK • Palm Springs Art Museum, California • Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia • Oliewenhuis, Bloemfontein, South Africa • Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands • Spencer Art Museum, Kansas, USA • State Museum of Russia, Moscow, Russia • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam • Tate Britain, London, UK • Tel Aviv Museum, Israel • Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia, USA • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA ARTICLES Australia

• Die Antwoord’s ‘I Fink U Freeky’ Director Roger Ballen Releases Terrifying Two-Minute Horror Film. Katherine Gillespie. Vice.com, Australia. May 12 2016

• Roger Ballen’s Lens a Dark Mirror. Richard Cooke. The Saturday Paper. May 7, 2016

• Headless children and figures from a horror movie are Roger Ballen’s works of art. John Donald. Sydney Morning Herald. April 8. 2016

• I think you’re freaky but I like it a lot. Gina Fairley. ArtsHub. April 7, 2016

• Interview: Roger Ballen. Tracey Clement. Art Guide Australia. March 16, 2016

• Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind transforms Callan Park into stuff of nightmares. Nick Galvin. Sydney Morning Herald, March 15, 2016

• Social Work: Roger Ballen, Trouble Magazine, 9 December 2013, http://www.troublemag.com

• Others and their others: spectrality and monstrosity in the photographs of Roger Ballen. Lewis Johnson. Double Dialogues, Summer 2009 www.doubledialogues.com



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• Stories that are both brutal and tender. Robert Cook. Australian Financial Review, February 6, 2009

• Taking a look at ourselves. Sally Prior. Panorama-Canberra Times, February 14, 2009

• Confronting reflections. Charly Smith. Canberra Times, March 9, 2009

• What are you looking at? Gabriella Coslovich, The Age, September 26, 2009 www.theage.com.au

• Complex spaces of the mind. Rosalie Higson. Australian, October 9, 2008 www.theaustralian.com.au

• On human psyche. Lynne Minion. Canberra Times, November 29, 2008

• Very confronting reality. The Senior, December 2008

• Art to drawing a crowd to galleries: big names. Rosalie Higson. The Australian, December 24, 2008 www.theaustralian.news.com.au

• Roger That. Tanya Macaughton. Xpress, 2007

• Brutal Tender Human Animal: Roger Ballen photography. Robert Cook. Unpublished opening speech, 2007

• Brutal Tender Human Animal. Robert Cook. Photofile, Summer 2007

• Roger Ballen: exhibition opening address at Sills Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Alasdair Foster. Unpublished August 16, 2006

• A world where fiction is stranger than truth. Robert McFarlane. Sydney Morning Herald, August 22, 2006 www.smh.com.au

• States of mind. Sebastian Smee. The Weekend Australian, September 2006 www.theaustralian.com.au

• Ballen speaks. KG. RealTime & OnScreen, October/November 2006 www.realtimearts.net

• Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber. Artlife, August 2006 http://artlife.blogspot.com

Austria

• Roger Ballen: Wo andere das Elend vermuten, entdeckt er das Schone. Gebhard Schat. Vernissage, February-April 2010

• Das leise Gluck des Elends. Moni Bruggeller. Kultur , March 4, 2010

• Wo Magie und Elend wohnen. Ivona Jelcic. Kultur & Medien, March 4, 2010 • Roger Ballen: Outland. Martin Reiterer. Springerin, October/November 2002

• Von der Tragik der Außenseiter. Salzburg Volkseitung, Feb 2001



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• In der besten aller möglichen Welten? Die Presse - Spectrum, February 24, 2001

Belgium

• Ieder mens exploiteert anderen. Han Ceelen. DeMorgen, July 26, 2010

• Een Afrikaanse Zomer van de Fotografie / Un ete de la photographie africain. Bozar, Summer 2010

• I have got used to dangerous places. Heleen Rodiers. Agenda, Summer 2010

• Psy-show. Philippe Cornet. FocusVif, April 2009 www.focusfiv.be

Portretten als stillevens. Filip Naudts. FOTO @ Beeld, November 2003 • Cachez-moi cette autre Afrique du sud. Valerie Hirsch. Le Soir - Bruxelles, January 11, 2000

• Roger Ballen: láparthed, pas celui que lón croit. Cedric Flament. Vers Lávenir, January 12, 2000

• Le dire vrai du portrait photographique. Claude Lorent. La Libre Belgique, February 2000

• Parcours namurois. , Le Vif, Léxpress, January / February 2000

Brazil

The skin is the deepest / O mais profundo e a pele: corpos orquestrados. Jurandy Valenca. Ffw>>Mag! #25, 2011

Cambodia

• Artist explore ambiguities. Nicky McGavin. The Phnom Penh Post, November 24, 2011 www.phnompenhpost.com

Canada

• Roger Ballen’s Theatre of the Mind Exhibit at Izzy gallery is a Visual Adventure. 3 November, 2016. Real Style

• Roger Ballen embraces the unmentioned parts of life. Tom Power. 31 October, 2016. www.cbc.ca/radio

• Roger Ballen: Raw Power. Bryne McLaughlin. CanadianArt, April 2009 www.canadianart.ca

• Grime, disintegration, grit, desolation: Roger Ballen’s South Africa. Bill Clarke. Sketch, Spring 2009

• Roger Ballen: Boarding House. Gary Michael Dault. Ciel Variable, Issue # 82, Summer 2009

• Questions & Artists: Roger Ballen’s South Africa. Leah Sandals. National Post, March 04, 2009



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• Images of the transfixed. Peter Goddard. The Toronto Star, February 10, 2007

• Wild Chamber: Roger Ballen on making chaos coherent. The Walrus, May 2007

• Direct, disturbing – and unapologetic. Gary Michael Dault. The Globe and Mail, June 2, 2007

Chile

• Roger Ballen: art outside the comfort zone. Leonie Schilling. Art Global/Arte Al Limite, July/August 2010

China

• Roger Ballen, Land of Shadows. Art Link Art. 22 September 2016 • Chinese Photographers 5 May 2016 • Engaging with South Africa, Part One: Roger Ballen. Ryan Nuckolls. Arthubasia.org. April 10,

2016

Denmark

• Et fraekt makkerskab. Politiken. 23 September, 2016



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• Flotte fotos fra hele verden. Laust Stoltze. Nordjyske Stiftstidende. August 26, 2009

• Kulturo nr.25, 2007 p 42 – 43. www.kulturo.dk

• Skyggerne finds inde i ham selv. Michael Bo. Politiken, January 21, 2006

• Outland, Roger Ballen. Henning Wettendorff. Katalog, Fall 2002

• Fortraengte eksistenser. Mette Mortensen. Information, October 17, 2002

• Grimheden som blikfang. Peter Michael Hornung. Politiken, October 27, 2002

• Hall of mirrors: variants of the photograph. Press release, June 17-September 2, 2001

• Ballens bizarre billedverden. Lars Schwander. Louisiana Magasin, August 2002

• Foto-chok. Fyns Amts Avis, september 5, 2002

• Kortslutning. Stig Olesen. Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, SEptember 8, 2002

• Urimelig kritik gor mig skor. Mogens Damgaard. Morgensposten Fyens Stiftstidende, September 10, 2002

• Foto og kunst. Midtjyllands Avis, September 12, 2002

• Tilvaerelsen som sort komedie. Mogens Damgaard. Morgensposten Fyens Stiftstidende, September 17, 2002

• Sociale documenter. Kjerteminde, September 19, 2002

• I graenselandet. Mette Sandbye. Weekendavisen, October 4-10, 2002

• Portraits as still lifes. Peter Weiermair. Katalog, Spring 2001

France • Unleashed: Roger Ballen and Hans Lemmen. www.urbanmishmash.com 1 March 2017 • Drole d’oiseaux a Paris Photo. Clement Mercier. Liberation. Edition No 11031 • Some/Talk: Roger Ballen. Shana Chandra; Pouria Khojastehpay. Some Slash Things

Magazine. April 4, 2016 • Paris Photo – ‘The House Project’ de Roger Ballen. November 6, 2015 • Roger Ballen: Sondeur d’etres. Garance Clements. Magame Figaro. September 12, 2015. • Aletti, Vince. Livres: Roger Ballen, Lucas Foglia, Danny Lyon, pg 74 -75 • Photoscopie. Pension èlèmentaire, August 20, 2013, www.liberation.fr • Pisani, Giulio-Enrico. Roger Ballen : Être humain n’est pas un bain à l’eau de rose,

September 27, 2013, http://www.zlv.lu/ • Docteur Roger and Mister Ballen. Olivia Marsaud. Afrique in Visu, May 14, 2012.

www.afriqueinvisu.org • Roger Ballen: Birds Private # 54, Autumn 2011 • Boarding House. Yannick Vigouroux. Lacritique, February 2010



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• Recent photographs by Roger Ballen. Jim Casper. Lensculture, January 06, 2009 www.lensculture.com

• Roger Ballen. Emmanuelle Ferrand, D-Side, May/June 2009 • Roger Ballen: The twirling wires. Monika Bielskyte. Some/Things Magazine, Issue 1, 2009 • Roger Ballen. Brigitte Ollier. Beaux Arts Magazine, April 2007 • Ballen, noirceur blanche / “Je traque l’eclosion du mystere”. Ange-Dominique Bouzet.

Liberation February 22, 2006

• Zones d’ambiguité. Magali Jauffret. L’Humanite hebdo, February 25, 2006

• L’oeuvre en noir. Jean-Pierre Bourcier. La Tribune, February 28, 2006

• Photo vingt-cinq saisonsblanches et seches. Soline Delos. Elle, March 2006

• Les chambers sans clef de Roger Ballen. Herve Le Goff. Le Photographe, March 2006

• Roger Ballen: Dans le chamber d’ombres. Dominique Godreche. Photo, March 2006

• Les images à sensation de Roger Ballen. Claire Guillot. Le Monde, March 2, 2006

• Roger Ballen, l’expo qui peut déranger. Yasmine Youssi. Journal du Dimanche, March 5, 2006

• Roger Ballen hanté par ses demons intérieurs. Armelle Canitrot. La Croix, March 24, 2006

• Roger Ballen et sa chamber d’ombres. Images Magazine, March-April 2006

• Interieur nuit. Natacha Wolinski. Beaux Arts Magazine, April 2006

• Univers innommables. Frédérique Chapuis. Telerama, April 5-11, 2006

• Trois visions du monde a la Bibliotheque Nationale de France. Jean-Marie Dubois. Paris Capitale, May 2006

• Roger Ballen la part de l’ombre. Marie-Guy Baron. Le Figaro et Vous, February 23, 2005

• Des images qui dérangent. Evelyne Chevallier. Photo June 2001 • Roger Ballen. Sylvie Huet. www.photographie.com February 1999 • Sexe, tomate et vidéo. Hervé le Goff. Inrockuptibles 1999

• Roger Ballen Platteland Aux Rip. Hervé le Goff. Telerama. 1999

• Parias postapartheid. Gilles Renault. Libération, February19, 1999 • Pellicules Sensibles. Libération, December 29, 1997 • Black dreams, white heart. Stéphane Guibourgé. Paris Photo, June-August 2001 • Arles les photos se recadrent. Ange-Dominique Bouzet. Libération, July 9, 1995

• Roger Ballen et les dégénérés. Michel Guerrin. Le Monde, July 11, 1995

• Dans le monde gris des petits Blancs. Ange-Dominique Bouzet. Libération, July 28, 1995



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• Platteland. Michel Nuridsany. Le Provençal, August 15, 1995

• Platteland. Michel Nuridsany. Arles Festival Magazine, 1995

• Roger Ballen: a propos de Platteland… Bernard Perrine et Hervé le Goff. Le Photographe, February 1995

Germany

• Wesen ohne Fell. Susanne Mayer. Die Zeit. 4 May 2017

• Unterhout: Collagen von Roger Ballen und Asger Carlsen. Der Tagespiegel. October 8, 2016

• Maskerball fur Zwei. Monopol. August 2016

• ,Wir sind in unseren bewusstein gefangen’ Ralf Hanselle. Photograhie 7-8, June 2016

• Back to Black (Photo essay). Die Welt Kompakt. April 14, 2016

• Pepper im Gespräch mit Roger Ballen. Jens Pepper. Obst und Muse. April 12, 2016

• Resurrected: An interview with Roger Ballen. Michelle Veen. Kerber Blog. April 1, 2016

• Pepper’s Photo Chat. Jens Pepper. Brennpunkt. Feb 2016

• “Kunst ist wie ein Blitzschlag” Im Geschprag mit Roger Ballen. Ralf Hanselle. Profifoto. October 2015

• Im Asyl fur Schrage Vogel. Peter Dittmar. Die Welt. August 8, 2015

• Roger Ballen Portfolio. Dienacht, Magazine fur fotografie, gestaltung und subkultur. April 2012. www.dienacht-magazine.com

• Asylum. Fotos von Roger Ballen. Vice Magazine. The Photo Issue, 2012

• Hohepriester der Dunkelkammer. Sascha Renner. Du. 828. Juli/August 2012. P. 46 – 54.

• Roger Ballen: auf der Suche nach dem Wesen des Menschen. Martin Lehmann. Schwarzweiss 84, October/November 2011

• The Asylum. Daniel Völzke. Monopol, June 2010

• Im Schatten des Lebens. Ulrich Pohlmann. Photo International, November/Dezember, 2010

• Du bist, was su siehst. Michael Bitala. Suddeutsche Zeitung, November 12, 2010

• Der ganz nomale Albtraum. Christoph Wiedemann. Suddeutsche Zeitung, November 17, 2010

• Willkommen in der Hölle. Maike Schultz. Berliner Zeitung, February 24, 2009



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• Auf einer dunklen Wustenstrasse, den kuhlen Wind im Haar. Freddy Langer. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 12, 2009

• Tanz am Strand: die Sammlung von Agnes b. Lisa Zeitz. Frankfurter Allgemeine FAZ.NET, October 7, 2008 www.faz.net

• Roger Ballen’s Shadow Chamber. Robert Fleck. Eikon, # 57, March 2007

• Roger Ballen, Fragen zum Schattenkabinett. Anna Gripp, Photonews (COVER), June 2007

• Kafkas Illustrator: Fotografien von Roger Ballen in Hamburg. Freddy Langer. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 26, 2007

• The subtle appeal of grey tones. Bettina Hennig. Booklet, 07/08 2007

• Im Innern der Wand. Freddy Langer. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 1, 2006

• Roger Ballen: Outland. Susanne Boecker. Kunstforum International, Jan–March 2002

• Bild Rätsel. Gabriele Augenstein. Schwarzweiss 33, June 2002

• Schöpferische Lüge. Jörg Restorff. Kunstzeitung (Lindinger & Schmid, March 2001

• Roger Ballen: Outland. A.G. Photonews, March 2001

• Glasauge, sei wachsam. Gabriele Mayer. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 10, 2001

• Eingefrorenes Leben. Hubert Filser. Suddeutsche Zeritung, March 14, 2001

• Falten des Verfalls. Stephan A. Dudek. Allgemeine Zeitung, April 1, 2001

• The darker side of self. Eva Kaiser. International Herald Tribune (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), April 9, 2001

• Rebellen gegen die Wirklichkeit. Wilhelm Roth. Frankfurter Rundschau, April 19, 2001

• Ihr Trostlosen, bitte auf die Bühne. Frankfurter Allgemeine, Sonntagszeitung, April 29, 2001

• Out of Johannesburg. Michael Koetzle. PHOTO Technik International, May/June 2001

• Bizarre Schockbilder testen die Ehrlichkeit und die Toleranz der Betrachter. Boris Schöppner. Frankfurter Neue Presse, May 14, 2001

• Radikaler Dokumentarismus. Marc Peschke. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 22, 2001

• Nebendarsteller de Gesellschaft. Christoph Wilden. Gannstatter Zeitung, June 2001

• Das Leben – gebandigt, seziert, inszeniert. Nikolai B. Forstbauer. Wurttembergerishe Kunstverein, June? 2001

• Mops und Herrin. Adrienne Braun. Wurttembergerishe Kunstverein, June 30, 2001



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• Aussenzeiter und schwarzer Rap. Westdeutsche Zeitung, October 24, 2001

• Archetypishe Figuren und Wurzeln de Rap. Niederrhein Nachrichten, October 24, 2001

• Viel unterscheidet uns nicht vom Affen. Ruth Ciesinger. Tagesspiegel, October 9, 2001

• Generation Boul Fale im Outland. Grenzland Nachrichten, Octoer 25, 2001

• Bilder aus der fremden Ferne. Westdeutsche Zeitung, October 26, 2001

• Die Melodie ser Nacht … und verborgene Schiksale. Petra Diederichs. Rheinische Post, October 26, 2001

• 100 Tage und 100 Nachte verdichtet. Heinz-J Ingenpahs. Westdeutsche Zeitung, October 27, 2001

• Schrage Helden. Matthias Weiss. Wesfalisher Anzeiger / Luden Scheider Nachrichten, November 14, 2001

• Out-Generation. Heinz/Info Magazin fur Wuppertal, December 2001

• (Keine) Sorge. Stadtmagazine, December 2001

• Bilder, die nach dem Magen krallen. Claudia Posca. Neue Ruhr Zeitung, December 20, 2001

Greece

• Texves, 27 February 2000

• Photographos Magazine, November 1999

India

• The man who invented Ballenesque. Ornella D’Souza. DNA, 21 November 2016

• Who’s Afraid of Roger Ballen? Alisha Sett. The Hindu 2016

Ireland

• Roger Ballen: the interview. Agata Stoinska. Blow #1, 2010 • Inside Outland. Aidan Dunne. The Irish Times Magazine, November 23, 2002

Israel

• Up Close with Photographer Roger Ballen. Daily Dose. Maya Margit. 23 February 2017 • Sgt F de Bruin. Ha’aretz newspaper. 22 December 2016 • Dafna Arad, Haaretz Newspaper, 8 May 2016

Italy

- Giampietro Guiotto. Ballen, ‘The House Project’ in un edificio del Carmine. 4 June 2016

- A Palazzo Mondini a Brescia ‘The House Project’. Stefania Provinciali. May 2016



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- Roger Ballen – The Houe Project. Artribune.com. May 2016

- Alessandra Troncana. La casa e luogo della mente. Brescia. 15 May 2016

- Roger Ballen . The House Project. Vogue.it. May 14, 2016

- Roger Ballen. The House Project. Artnoise.it. May 9, 2016

- Roger Ballen e la sua idea di ‘Casa’. Nerospinto.it. May 3, 2016

- Luca Sommi. La tua mente e la tua casa. ifioridelmale.it. 17 Nov 2015

• Roger Ballen. Giulio Di Mauro. La Republica. September 2012. p.131 – 133

1. Il teatro dell’incubo. Emanuela Costantini. FotoCult, March 2011

2. Roger Ballen. Elisabetta Piatti. Zoom, July/August 2010

3. Roger Ballen: The Asylum. Walter Guadagnini. Aperture, Winter 2010. ww.aperture.org

• Where are we? : a conversation between Roger Ballen and Andrea Bellini. Catalogue: Triennale di Milano, October 7 – November 8, 2009

• Roger Ballen REALTÀ: in bilico tra il documentario e l’arte & fiction. Massimo Minini, Velvet, November 2009

1. Roger Ballen: Galleria Massimo Minini. March 21, 2009 www.galleriaminini.it

2. Nelle stanze derelitte di Roger ballen. Fausto Lorenzi. Giornale di Brescia, March 25, 2009

3. The Visionary and Silent Theatre of Roger Ballen. Walter Guadagnini. Magazine of Franco Maria Ricci, Issue 30, March/April 2009

4. Ballen, animalità sommersa. Giampietro Guiotto, Brescia Oggi, May 2009

5. Roger Ballen. Cinzia Busi Thompson, Photoit, July/August 2009

6. Triennale, in mostra 2 geni americani. Di Domenico Monalto. Awenire, October 10, 2009

7. Ballen, domatore degli incubi. Rocco Moliterni. La Stampa, October 19, 2009

8. La Triennale apre alla fotografia inaugurazione surrealista con Ballen. Roberto Mutti. La Republica, October 6, 2009

• Il ‘teatro della mente’ del fotografo Roger Ballen. Ines Turani. L’Eco di Bergamo, October 17, 2009

1. Violence: Nathalie Djuberg and Roger Ballen. Tarzan & Jane. Domus 892, May 2006 / Wrong Times, 2006

• Qusto e il “mio” Sudafrica. Mariella Radaelli. Il Giorno, January 21, 2003



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• Roger Ballen, scatti in bianco e nero per rendere armonica la quotidianita. Barbara Silbe. Il Giornale, January 26, 2003

• Tutti I guasti dell’apartheid negli scatti crudi di Ballen. Gabriele di Totto. Il Cittadino-Quotidiano del Lodigiano, January 2003

• Roger Ballen. Giulio Piovesan. Photo Italia, July/August 2003

• Nel bianco-e-nero di Ballen la faccia pallida dell’ apartheid. Michele Smargiassi. La Repubblica, May 6, 2002

• Gli alieni bianchi del Sud Africa nelle foto di Ballen. Chiara Pilati. Emilia Romagna, May 8, 2002

• Ballen, clic dal Sudafrica crudele. Il Resto del Carlino, May 8, 2002

• Quegli scatti fastidiosi e ironici. Sabrina Camonchia. Il Domani, May 8, 2002

• Poveri bianchi in Sudafrica. Franco Basile. Il Resto del Carlino, May 9, 2002

• the INSIDER. Margherita Remotti. Kult, May 2002 • Ritrat come nature morte. Sara Recordati. Photo Italia, May 2002

• Quel Sudafrica più lontano. Fulvia Scarduelli. Giornale di Brescia, June 1, 2002

• Roger Ballen. Rosanna Checchi. Zoom, July/August 2002

Japan

• Oshiro, Sohei. A Ballenesque: Photography by Roger Ballen. Them Magazine. Issue 013/4, 2017

• Hamamura, Kiyotaka. Outland: Interview with Roger Ballen. Them Magazine. Issue 013/4, 2017

• Oshiro, Sohei & Ballen, Roger. Interview with Die Antwoord: The Zef Side. Them Magazine. Ussue 013/4, 2017

• Roger Ballen (Portfolio) Dumb, 2010

Korea • Kim Aram. Roger Ballen. Blink, January, 2013, www.blinkreflex.com

Latvia

• Rodzers Ballens: Poemas, kas rakstitas ar fotoaparatu. Ieva Puke. Foto Kvartals, October 2010

Lebanon

• From “Boyhood” to “Boarding House”. Kaelen Wilson-Goldie. Daily Star, March 3, 2011 Malaysia



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• This photographer sees animals his own way. Rouwen LIn. The Star, November 6, 2016 Mexico • Le hicimos la misma entrevista a Roger Ballen y a Asger Carlsen en secreto. Vice. 17 March, 2017 • Roger Ballen y el extranamiento de lo ordinario. Alejandro Salvidar, Proceso, May 26, 2016 • Exponen retrospective del fotografo Roger Ballen en Oaxaca. Oaxaca.quadratin.com 11 May

2016 • Acoge CFMAB retrospective de Roger Ballen. Pagina 3. 24 May 2016 • Exposicion. Introspective, Roger Ballen. Cuartoscuro.com.mx 21 May 2016 • Salvidar, Alejandro. Roger Ballen y el extranamiento de lo ordinario. Procesco.com.mx 26 May

2016 • Compuzano, Rodrigo. Roger Ballen: Una retrospctiva. The Creators Project, Vice. 31 May 2016 • Notas sobre las ultimas semanas de la exposicion en el CFMAB. Nvinoticias.com 28 July 2016 • ‘Introspective’ del fotografo Roger Ballen se vade Oaxaca. Ciudadania-express.com 26 July

2016 • Introspective de Roger Ballen en Mexico. Espaciogaf.com 30 May 2016 • Dona Ballen obra fotografica a la Coleccion Toledo-INBA. Rotativooaxaca.com May/June 2016 • Foto museo Cuatro Caminos celebra aniversario con obra de Roger Ballen. 7 September 2016.

20minutos.com.mx • Quevedo, Hanna. El imaginario de Roger Ballen una revision de moda en Mexico. The Creators

Project. 13 September 2016 • Rivera, Niza. Coleccion Toledo-INBA recibe donacion fotografica de Roger Ballen.

Procesco.com.mx 20 December 2016 • Roger Ballen en el Fotomuseo Cuatro Caminos, una expo que no debes dejar pasar.

Dondeir.com • Madrid, Jaen. La impactante fotografia de Roger Ballen en el Fotomuseo. Mxcity.mx

Netherlands

• Unexpected Marriages: Roger Ballen +Asger Carlsen. Foam.org March 2017

• Roger Ballen. Presented by Galerie Alex Daniels. Unseen Magazine. Autumn 2016

• Roger Ballen. The Theatre of Apparitions. Gup International Photography Magazine. Issue 51

• Roger Ballen. Ordinary Magazine. June 2016.

• Interview – Roger Ballen. Claudia Crobatia. A Course in Dying. June 6, 2016

• Freak Show. Exclusive Interview with Roger Ballen. Photographe.de. May 2012 p 38 – 47

• Roger Ballen, Neon (p 131), April 2012



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• Van buiten naar binnen: twee ‘niewe’ publikaties van Roger Ballen. Photoq, April 7, 2011 www.photoq.nl

• My best pictures are the ones I don’t understand: A conversation with Roger Ballen. Ben Kerwinkel. GUP Magazine, 2011 Concerned Photo Books, May 9, 2011

• Skadukant: Roger Ballen in Het Domein. Zuiderlicht, June/July 2011 www.zuiderlicht.eu

• On my mind. FOAM Magazine, Summer 2010

• Roger Ballen: Boarding House. Heather Snider. Eyemazing, Winter (January) 2009

• Roger Ballen. Heather Snider. Eyemazing, Summer 2005

• Roger Ballen. Herman Hoeneveld. Kunstbeeld #9, 2005

• Trieste artiesten: feit en fictie in de foto’s van Roger Ballen. Merel Bem. De Volkskrant, September 22, 2005

• Krochten van de ziel. Dennis Mijnheer. Blend #7, October 2005

• Toch maar liever struisvogel spelen. Toef Jaeger. NRC Handelsblad October 7, 2005

• Dicht bij de hel. Stefan Kuiper. De Groene Amsterdammer, October 14, 2005

• Travel and play with the natives. , Clare Shabsis, Baby!, July 2004

• De Spiegel laat schrikken. Esther Bootsma, Trouw, Feb 24, 2001

• Outland. , Focus, March 2001

• Zoals Fellini het niet kon verzinnen. , Jhim Lamoree, Parool, May 31, 2001

• Innerlijke verwarring. Thijsen, Mirelle. Financ Dagblad, May 1, 1999

• De Geduldige Lens. Ton Hendriks, Holands4Licht, Issue 4 1999

• Overgeleverd aan rijkeluisogen. , Machteld van Hulten, Het PAROOL, 28 May 28, 1998

Wat jou bang maakt, is essentieel. Quaedvlieg, Petra NRC Handelsblad, April 24, 1998 • NRC Handelsblad, Eddie Marsman, 17 June 1995

New Zealand

• Roger Ballen: What I Know Now. Anita Totha. ProPhotographer Magazine. June/July 2016

• Metaphors for states of emotion. Adam Gifford. NZ Weekend Herald, May 9, 2009

• Roger Ballen St. Paul St. Gallery. Heather Rutherford. Debate Magazine, #10, 2009

• Roger. Angela Crane. No, Spring 2010

Poland



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• Pozytyw, Krzysztof Miękus, Winter 2003 Russia • Tatyan Sochiva. On the Dark side. The St. Petersburg Times, Issue # 1734, November, 7, 2012,

www.sptimes.ru • Ann Tolstova. “I went to quite some separate place”, Kommepcaht.ru, April 11, 2014,

www.kommersant.ru • Ann Tolstova. Still Psychology, Kommepcaht.ru, April 11, 2014, www.kommersant.ru • Ballen’s borders of outland reach Moscow. Valeria Paikova. Russian Times, September 15, 2010

www.rt.com • Quixotic chickens: Roger Ballen “Documentary fiction”. Elena Kirillova. Moscow News,

September 16, 2010 www.mn.ru • South African photo art on show. Anastasia Solovieva. Moscow times, October 4, 2010

www.themoscowtimes.com Sardinia

• Roger Ballen: Dietro l’ombra. Antonio Mannu. Manifesto Sardo, August 1, 2008 • Slovenia • Izolirani umetnik črno-bele generacije. Jela Krecic. Delo, March 24, 2009 South Africa • Depth of Field. Debbie Hathway. Financial Mail. March 16, 2017 • Roger Ballens Bilderwelten. Rita Schafer. Afrika Sud. September / October 2016 • The Boundary of Insanity. Danny Shorkend. Cape Times. April 8, 2016 • A conversation with Roger Ballen: The Repressive Nature of Society. Lwandile Fikeni. Artthrob.

March 8, 2016 • Notes from Roger Ballen. On Route Magazine, April 2013 • The White English-speaker who went ‘native’ – and global. Adam Haupt. Mail and Guardian,

October 5 to 11, 2012, www.mg.za/arts • Die Antwoord get freeky in US. Andile Ndlovu. The Times, February 7, 2012, www.timeslive.co.za • The light and the dark. Grethe Koen. Dossier, winter 2012, www.dossier.co.za • Pushing boundaries. Steyn du Toit. The Sunday Independent, October 14 2012,

www.thesundayindependent.co.za • The white English speaker who went “native” – and global. Article in The Mail and Guardian,

Friday October 5 to 11, 2012.

• An editied extract from Adam Haupt’s book Static:Race and Representation in Post Apartheid Music, Media and Film, p 8 and 9 , 2012

• Wat kyk jy? Article in The Times, Thursday September 20, 2012, p 1

• Die Antwoord uit Ballenskap. Article in Rapport, September 30, 2012, p V.

• Roger Ballen Interview. Grethe Koen. Dossier: The Photo Issue Winter 2012, p112-115



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• Here. Where it’s at. Design Indaba Publication. Ballen (image featured as part of catalogue layout) 2012.

• Die Antwoord get freaky in US. Andile Ndlovu. The Times, February 7, 2012 www.timeslive.co.za

• Die vrae: Die Antwoord. Magdaleen Snyman. Perdeby, Feb. 20, 2012

• Ballen se boek weer op rakke. Die Beeld, Kuns en Vermaak, January 17, 2011

• Geoloog fotograaf wat in donker tonnels grou. Bettie Lambrecht. Rapport, March 7, 2011

• Photographer Roger Ballen on inspiration, the common cold and Die Antwoord. Reney Warrington. Litnetvisual, April 12, 2011 www.litnetvisual.co.za

• Fixed on the past. Mary Corrigall. Sunday Independent, May 29, 2011

• Broers se stille roem. Johannes de Villiers. Rapport, August 13, 2011

• Roger Ballen: Aesthetic & Existential. Camera & Image, Volume 1, 2010

• A light without representation: on the Thing in Roger Ballen’s. Boarding House. Gerhard Schoeman. Opening speech: University of the Free State, February 9, 2010

• Roger Ballen in conversation with Pam Warne. Pam Warne. Catalogue, November 06, 2010 www.iziko.org.za

• Level nine. Tymon Smith. Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine, November 28, 2010

• Otherness explored through shade. Robert Greig. Cape Times, December, 2010

• Vaults in the mind. Mary Corrigall. Sunday Independent Life, December 5, 2010

• Challenging depth of focus. Chad Rossouw. Mail & Guardian, December 10, 2010 www.mg.co.za

• Fotografie wen meer veld. Bettie Lambrecht. Die Beeld Plus, April 22, 2009 \The space behind life. Shaun de Waal. Mail & Guardian, May 22, 2009

• Roger Ballen. Migrate, Ego Issue 09, 2009

• Don’t ever underestimate the animals. Darius Himes. Art South Africa, Spring 2009

• Understanding Ballen’s disturbing fiction. Alex Dodd. Business Day, June 2009

• The stuff of nightmares. Robert McKay. The Times, June 4, 2009 www.thetimes.co.za

• The edge of darkness. Peter Machen. Sunday Tribune, June 14, 2009

• Art or reality. Bruce Dennill. Citizen, June 25, 2009

• Surreal. Bettie Lambrecht. De Kat, July/August 2009



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• Light through darkness. Bruce Dennill, The Citizen, July 2009

• The language of the visual. Graham Wood. The Weekender, July 25, 2009

• Ballen tref maag, kop, gewete. Bettie Lambrecht. Die Beeld Plus, August 7, 2009

• Intellectually and visually thrilling work. Mary Corrigall. The Sunday Independent, August 9, 2009

• Out of sight artworks now out in the open. Mary Corrigall, The Sunday Independent, November 29, 2009

• Unflinching empathy. Mail and Guardian, March 2007

• Druppels in die emmer oor dieper siel. Bettie Lambrecht. Die Beeld, March 20, 2007

• Disturbing, potent lens of Ballen in mid-life. Mary Corrigall. Sunday Independent, March 18, 2007

• From photographer to artist: Roger Ballen’s bleak images. Monique Verduyn. The Weekender, March 24-25, 2007

• Ballen’s work replete with unanswerable questions. Robyn Sassen. SA Jewish Report, April 20, 2007

• Voorste fotograaf seevier in Karoo Art House. Bettie Lambrecht. Die Beeld Plus, July 27, 2007

• Roger Ballen (Johannesburg Art Gallery). Johan Thom. Art South Africa, v.5, #4, Winter 2007

• Pushing the boundaries with some real treats for art lovers. Mary Corrigall. The Sunday Independent, December 30, 2007

• Unnerved in black and white. Tanya Farber. The Star, January 1, 2006

• The decisive moment. Shaun de Waal. Mail & Guardian, February 24, 2006

• Probing the dark rooms of the psyche. Cobus van Bosch. South African Art Times, February 2006

• Dark and Lovely. Sean O’Toole. Sunday Times Lifestyle, March 5, 2006

• Foto’s wat in mense se koppe kyk. Bettie Lambrecht. Die Beeld, March 26, 2006

• Roger Ballen. Contempo, June/July 2006

• Some sort of place: recent work by Roger Ballen. Bronwyn Law-Viljoen. ArtSouthAfrica, March 2005

• Moving in a new direction (An artist’s life: Roger Ballen). Jonathan Katzenellenbogen. Business Day, July 2005

• Prepare to be disturbed. Peter Bendheim. Metro, November 11, 2005



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• Big Picture: Cut rose. Sean O’Toole. Sunday Times Lifestyle, November 27, 2005

• From the shadows. Dylan Muhlenberg. GQ, December 2005

• Bleak images make an exhilarating exhibition. Robert Greig. Sunday Independent, December 4, 2005

• We are family. Peter Machen. Independent on Saturday, May 1, 2004

• Ties that bind. Shirley Jones. Weekend Witness (Weekend Leisure), May 22, 2004

• Big Picture: Michael, 1999. Sean O’Toole. Sunday Times Lifestyle, November 21, 2004

• Roger Ballen – aesthetic and existential. Robert Scott, Camera and Image, Feb/March 2003

• Photographs which straddle fact and fiction. Rita Lewis. SA Jewish Report, October 1-11, 2002

• Surreal sensation. Maggie Davey Mail & Guardian, March 23, 2001

• Tragedy and comedy emerge from unusual encounters. Robert Greig, The Sunday Independent, March 25, 2001

• Foto's speel met feit, fiksie. Cobus van Bosch, Die Burger, April 21 2001

• A camera between sensibilities and subject matter. Robyn Sassen, Jewish Report, April 27, 2001

• Enjoy the rush of voyerurism. Lucinda Jolly, Tonight The Argus, April 30 ,2001

• Priemende waarheid. , Melvyn Minaar, Die Burger, May 6, 2001

• Moon for the misbegotten. , Lloyd Pollack, Cape Times, April 20 2001

• A stranger in a strange place. , Brent Stirton, SA Photo June/July 2000

• People are living there. Brenda Atkinson. Mail & Guardian, May 28, 1999

• Leave Ballen alone to practise his great art : letters Lionel Murcott Mail & Guardian, June 25, 1999

• Shades of White: the photographs of Roger Ballen. Sally Gaule, de Arte60, September 1999

• Poor, white, South African. Sally Gaule. Afterimage, January/February, 1997

• Not just another documentary photographer. SA Photo, April/May 1996

• In the Margins. Reid Skinner, Douglas. SA Times, April 5, 1995.

• Locals loathed Ballen’s photography but foreign gurus praise it now. Greig, Robert. The Sunday Independent, October 22, 1994

• The people modern SA left behind. Dumbutshena, Tendai. Sunday Times Metro, October 23, 1994.



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• Bohaai oor ‘agterlike’ Afrikaners in fotoboek. Hough, Barrie. Nuus, 6 November 1994

• Platteland, Images from Rural South Africa. Living, November 1994

• Small Town Blues, Excellence Volume 11 # 1994

• Unique view of the world. Kerr, Douglas. Rosebank Killarney Gazette, November 25, 1994

• My beste vriende is Afrikaners. Swart, Magda. Beeld, November 20, 1994

• Hierdie Marlene ken werkersbuurt. Van Reenen, Rykie. Boekwêreld, November 17, 1994

• Stark face of SA. Waite, Jean. Weekend Star, November 12, 1994

• Rural reality vs multimedia experience. Witthaus, Michele. Business Day, November 5, 1994

• Empathy in the eye of the beholder. Alfred, Luke. The Weekly Mail & Guardian, November 18-24, 1994.

• Exposing the Platteland. Friedman, Hazel. The Star, November 22, 1994.

• Try the empty art galleries. Garner, James. Sunday Times Cape Metro, December 18, 1994

• New Yorker photographs rural S Africa. Gordon, Julie. SA Jewish Times, December 16, 1994

• Ballen getakel oor armes soos prooi voor die lens. Nolte, M.A. Die Burger, December 23, 1994

• Pictures that surprise their creator. Linda Polonsky. 1982

• Focus on simplicity. John van Zyl. The star, November 24, 1982

Spain

� Roger Ballen. C.G. 2010

� Realidad difusa. Victor Zarza. 2010

� Roger Ballen: a darker shadow / una sombra mas oscura Exit Magazine, #40, 2010

� Roger Ballen: Magia Africana. Elena Vozmediano. El Cultural (Arte), December 24, 2010 � Interview with Roger Ballen. Photoespana, June 2009 www.photoespana.es

� Las hurdes sudafricanas. Carlos Garrido. Sinfin Verano (La Opinion), August 30, 2009

� El fotografo de la Surafrica blanca. Begona Gomez. Barcelona, 2007

� Shadow Chamber. La Vanguardia Culturas, February 2007

� Yo no separo luz de oscuridad. Ima Sanchis. La Vanguardia, February 2, 2007

� Roger Ballen. F.M. Exit Express, February 2007 � El loco del pez quiza muero. Juan Bufill. February 4, 2007



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� Roger Ballen expone su teatro de personajes miserables. Juan Bufill, Cultura, February 24, 2007

� Es pot somiar per un altre?. Angela Molina, El Pais, February 2007

� La Galeria Senda reune las perturbadoras imagines forograficas de Roger Ballen. V. Fernandez. March 2007

� Inside the shadows. Tim Clark. Metropolitan Barcelona, March 2007

� Roger Ballen estetica del mal. Jaume Vidal Oliveras. El Cultural (Vie), March 2, 2007

� Outland. , Vanidad, Juan Gallego, April 2001

Sweden

• Graham, M. The light comes from the dark. M Graham. Arterritory, http://www.arterritory.com/en/texts/interviews/3516-the_light_comes_from_the_dark/

• Gaisma rodas no tumsas. M Graham Arterritory, http://www.arterritory.com/lv/teksti/intervijas/3521-gaisma_rodas_no_tumsas/

• Vitt artiskt sönderfall. , Paul Frigyes, Expressen, May 2001 • Vår tids rdsla för vaghet. , Av Aase Berg, Lyrikvännen, 5/01, 2001 • Samstämmigt dreglande. , Dan Jönsson, Dagens Nyheter, June 2001 • Nebendarsteller der Gesellschaft. , Christoph Wilden, Esslinger Zeitung, July 25, 2001

Switzerland

• Bis zum bitteren Ende. Carl von Siemens. Das Magazin, September 2, 2011

• Die Suche nach dem verloorenen Leben. Melanie Thernstrom. Die Weltwoche, 23 June 2005

• Die Zukunft der Fotos. Woerdehoff, Esther, Die Weltwoche, 6 April 2000

• Geschlossene Gesellschaft. Zürich Next, December 98 bis 28 February 99 / Nr 17

• Beschadigtes Menschsein. Maass Angelika. Der Landbote Nr 289, December 12, 1998

• Utopie da - Horror dort. Näf Agathe. Argus, P.S., December 5, 1998

• Intime Bilder einer . Geschlossenen Gesellschaft. , Aargauer Zeitung, December 4, 1998

• Fotoreise in zwei Welten. Bergflodt Torbjorn. Zürichsee-Zeitungen, December 3, 1998

• Bilder geschlossener Gesellschaften. Von Niklaus Oberholzer. Mittwoch, December 2, 1998

• Leben in . Geschlossenen Gesellschaften. Frey Lilith. Sonntags Blick, November 2, 1998.

• Trostlose Verlierer. Von Hans Brandt. Züri-Tip, November 27 – December 3, 1998

• Eintauchen in fremde Welten. Annäherung Behutsame Die Südostschweiz, November 28 1998



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• Verwahrloste Eroberer. Grill Bartholomäus. Die Weltwoche Nr 48, November 26, 1998

• Schlagschatten auf Südafrikas Platteland. Werner Vogt. Zürcher Kultur, November 23, 1998

• Schlagschatten auf S:udafrikas Platteland. Werner Vogt. Neue Burcher Beitun, November 23, 1998

Turkey

• Belgesel Tadinda Fotograflar. Istanbul Magazin. 29 December 2016 • Roger Ballen sergisi Instanbul Modern’de. Siyasi. 29 December 2016 • ‘Modern’ Uclu. Istabnbul Magazin. 29 December 2016 • Retrospective of South African photo artist lays his career bare. Daily Sabah. 29

December 2016 • Yalcinkaya, Fisun. Taze Aciliyor. Roger Ballen Instanbul Modern’de. Haftalik Ulusal

Gazette. 24 December 2016 • Roger Ballen Istanbul Modern,de. Istanbul Siyasi. Yurt Gazetesi. 22 December 2016 • Fotograf Sanatunda yenu solukl. Yurt Gazetesi. 22 December 2016 • Roger Ballen. Robert Cook. Fotografevi Iz, Issue # 21, 2009 • Roger Ballen. Refik Akyuz. Genis Aci, May-June, 2006

United Kingdom

• Roger Ballen: Archetypal Compositions. Aesthetica Magazine. 7 April, 2017 • Roger Ballen: Theatreical Mechanics. Aesthetica Magazine. 4 April 2017 • D’Aliesio, S. Roger Ballen’s new show: The Theatre of Apparitions. British Journal of

Photography. 22 March, 2017

• Li, Charmaine. Delving into the Subconscious with Ballen and Carlsen. AnOther Mag. 28 September 2016

• Hughes, Barry W. Theatre of Apparitions: It took me 30 years. HotShoe. Aug/Sept, 2016

• Kinsella, Ray. Exploring the subconscious with outsider artists Roger Ballen and Asger Carlsen. Hero Magazine. 15 September 2016

• Asylum of the Birds (Photo essay). Life Force magazine. August 2016 • King, Alex: Exploring the darkest corners of the psyche. Huck Magazine. 8 May 2016 • Carl-Emil Gabrielsen, Carl-Emil. Exploring the voids of the mind with Roger Ballen.

www.dazeddigital.com 4 May 2016 • Provocative Photographer Roger Ballen Delves into the abyss of the psyche. Huck

Magazine. 26 October 2015 • Is this photographer exploiting the mentally ill? Huck magazine. 20 April 2015

• Rosen, M. Roger Ballen: Asylum of the Birds. L’oeil de la Photographie, 29 May 2014,

http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/2014/05/29/book/24984/roger-ballen-asylum-of-the-birds--2

• Williams, E. An interview with Roger Ballen. Creative Review. 1 May 2014, http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2014/may/an-interview-with-roger-ballen



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• Heidi Erdmann and Ivor Powell. Roger Ballen/Die Antwoord. Dante Magazine, February, 14, 2013, www.dantemag.com

• Lucy Davies. Enter the Asylum. The British Journal of Photography. April 2012, www.bjp-online.com

• Susan Connie. A conversation with Roger Ballen. Under the Influence, November 2012, The African Issue F/W 2012, www.undertheinfluence.com

• Imaginary realism. Colin Herd. Aesthetica, April/May 2012, p. 60 - 65. • My best pictures are the ones I don’t understand: A conversation with Roger Ballen. Ben

Krewinkel. GUP Magazine, 2011 Concerned Photo Books, May 9, 2011 www.concernedphotobooks.com www.hetdomein.nl

• Roger Ballen. Tiffany Jones. FLIP (For London Independent Photography) #19, Fantasy, Summer 2011 www.londonphotography.org.uk

• Jansen, Charlotte. Interview with Roger Ballen. The Art Journal, March 31, 2011 http://the-art-journal.blogspot.com

• Smith, Diane. Truth or Lies? Diane Smith. The British Journal of Photography, Vol 158, May 2011 • Aloi, Giovanni. Roger Ballen: Uncanny animals. Antennae, January 2009 www.antennae.org.uk • Federico, Celeste. Releasing forces within the human psyche. Celeste Federico, Aesthetica,

Feb/March 2009 • Kouwenhouven, Bill. Roger Ballen: Boarding House. HotShoe, Issue 158, Feb/March 2009

www.hotshoeinternational.com • Benedictus, Leo. Roger Ballen’s best shot. The Guardian, April 2, 2009 • McClemont, D. Roger Ballen in conversation with Doug McClemont. April 2009

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk • Documentary photographer Roger Ballen recalls a bloody moment. Dazed & Confused, May

2009 • No place like home. AG The International Journal of Photographic Art & Practice, Summer 2009 • Pinsent, Richard. Strange but nearly true: life in the Boarding House. The Art Newspaper,

September 2009 • Smyth, Diane. Ballencing act. The British Journal of Photography, September 3, 2009 www.bjp-

online.com • Roger Ballen. Sean O’Toole. Frieze, October 22, 2009 www.frieze.com

• The medium, the message. Claire Holland. Financial Times, January 10, 2008 www.ft.com

• Going fishing, metaphorically speaking. Richard Pinsent. The Art Newspaper, # 167, March 2006

• Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber. David Land. Royal Photographic Society, November 2005

• A stitch in time. Diane Smyth. The British Journal of Photography, September 28, 2005

• Roger Ballen: Shadow Chamber. Anna Kiernan. Pluk, #27, November/December 2005

• Chamber of horrors. Andrew Mueller, The Sunday Review, December 2005

• Dresie and Casie. Joana Pitman, The Times Magazine, July 2004



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• Photo Finish. , Oliver Bennett, Design Week, January 2002 • Roger Ballen. , Katie Kitamura, Contemporary, February 2002

• Photos that ask questions. , Elizma Nolte, South African Times UK, February 2002

• Roger Ballen. The Guardian, February 2002

• Other places, other voices - Johannesburg. Contemporary, June July August 2002

• Freeze framed emotion. Joana Pitman, Times Online, September 18th, 2002

• Unusual figures emerging from the Shadow Land. Roger Ballen talks

• White watching. The Sunday Review, 18 February 2001

• The white man's burden. The Sunday Review, 18 February 2001

• The undiscovered country. Esther Addley, The Guardian, 24 February 2001

• Top of the formalists. , Kevin Jackson, The Independent, 6 March 2001

• Dazed and confused, March 2001

• Outland, the fringe of South African society. Simon Bainbridge. Ag Darkroom Practice & Photography, Volume 23 2001

• Searching for an explanation. Colin Jacobson. Creative Review, April 2001

• Outland. , Simon James, RPS Journal, April 2001

• Freak show or apartheid victims?. Van Niekerk. The Observer, 26 February 1995

• Alien nation. The Independent, March 31, 1995.

• Platteland. Mack, Michael. The Art Book, Volume 2 No. 3 1995

• Platteland, Images from rural South Africa. Whitehead, Brian. 1995

• Small Towns, South Africa. Colin Osman The British Journal of Photography, 26 September 1986

United States of America

• Tarley, Phil. Photographer Boger Ballen: Art from the Outland. Fabrik. Issue 35, 2017 • Weingart, K. Interview with Roger Ballen. www.kenweingart.com 27 April, 2017

• Tannenbaum, B. Acquisition Highlights: Photography. Cleveland Art. March/April 2017

• McCaffrety, Georgia. Life after death captured in photos by Roger Ballen. CNN.com. 28

December 2016 • South Africa: The Art of a Nation. Roger Ballen, World of Interiors. November, 2016



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• Head Trip. VMan Magazine. October 2016 • Mufson, Beckett. Enter Roger Ballen’s Dark Subconscious in ‘Theatre of Apparitions’.

Vice.com. 19 September 2016 • Theatre of the Mind. (Edited extract from Theatre of the Apparitions). Roger Ballen.

B+W Photographer Magazine. August 2016 • Palatucci, Marc: We Really Are in the Dark. Marc Palatucci. Office Magazine. May 23,

2016 • Roger Ballen & Didi Bozzini: The Home as Tomb. Americansuburbx.com. 21 January, 2016 • Sansom, Anna. Roger Ballen: Asylum of the Birds, No 47,

http://www.damnmagazine.net/en/article/roger-ballen-asylum-of-the-birds • Colberg, Jorg. Roger Ballen: Outland (Photobook review). Conscientious Photography

Magazine. 2015 • Hu, Caitlin. Photos: Iconically weird, strangely tender images of South Africa’s outcasts.

Quartz online magazine. www.qz.com 2015 • Jones, Daisy. Photographer Roger Ballen Shoots the Fringes of South African Society. Vice

Magazine. 2015 • Kupper, Oliver Maxwell. The Substance of Ideas: An Interview with Photographer Roger

Ballen. Autre Magazine, online. www.pasunautre.com 2015 • McManus, Austin. Roger Ballen. Juxtapoz magazine N. 166. 2015 • McWhorter, Melanie. Interview: Roger Ballen on Outland. Photo-eye blog May 9. 2015 • Sassen, Robyn. Outland by Roger Ballen. Pop Matters. www.popmatters.com 2015 • Vince Aletti. Roger Ballen’s Society on the Verge. The New Yorker online

www.newyorker.com 2015 • Anon. Roger Ballen: Outland. Lowdown Magazine. www.lowdownmagazine.com 2015

• Musèe Magazine, Roger Ballen: the mystery of reality, (10) 1, pg. 160 – 165

http://issuu.com/museemagazine/docs/musee_edition_10_vol_1_for_issuu • • Sansom, Anna. Roger Ballen: Asylum of the Birds, No 47,

http://www.damnmagazine.net/en/article/roger-ballen-asylum-of-the-birds • Gurrie, S. True Grit, Four & Sons, Issue 02, November 2014, http://fourandsons.com/ • Zeiser, John. Asylum of the Birds, The Picture Professional, Issue 2/2014,pg. 60 • Babej, Marc Erwin. Video & Interview: Roger Ballen’s Asylum of the Birds, Americanphotomag, 3

March 2014, http://www.americanphotomag.com/photo-gallery/2014/03/roger-ballens-asylum-birds

• Joseph Akel. Roger Ballen, Art Forum, http://artforum.com/words/#entry46129 • Joseph Akel. Roger Ballen’s Unsettling, Avian-themed New book is worth two in the bush, V

Magazine, http://www.vman.com/site/content/2459/birds-of-a-feather, March 26, 2014 • Jonathan Blaustein. Roger Ballen. The Shpilman Institute for Photography, March, 20, 2013,

www.thesip.org • Russell Joslin. Roger Ballen. Shots No. 119, Spring 2013 • Paul Laster. 10 Contemporary Outsider Artists Everyone Should Know. Flavorwire, February, 01,

2013, www.flavorwire.com • Roger Ballen. Portfolio by Roger Ballen: Foreign Emotions, The New Yorker, April, 29, 2013,

www.newyorker.com • Reality Blurs: Artists Statement. Hayden’s Ferry, Spring/Summer 2013 • Sarah Rhodes. Roger Ballen: On the Subconcious. Timemachine, February, 11, 2013,

www.timemachinemag.com



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• Susan Bright. Photographers-Turned –Directors: Susan Bright’s favourite on MOCAtv. Time LightBox, October, 9, 2012, www.lightboxtime.com

• Ten questions for photographer Roger Ballen. Phaidon, November, 26, 2012, www.phaidon.com • Erica Campbell. The Dark side: Roger Ballen’s ‘Asylum’. Time LightBox, March, 6, 2012,

www.lightbox.time.com • $hoot Da Freek$. Roger Ballen and Die Antwoord photo shoot. Bullett (Volume VII – The

Sin Issue) p 50 – 59.www.bullettmedia.com

• In and out of the abyss. Mary Ann Lynch. Black&White Magazine, Issue 81, March 2011 • Roger Ballen: The Asylum. Walter Guadagnini. Aperture, Winter 2010.

www.aperture.org

• Roger Ballen Gagosian Gallery Review. Brian Sholis. Artforum, February 2010

• Roger Ballen Gagosian. David Duncan. Gallery Review, Art in America, February 23, 2010 www.artinamericamagazine.com

• Roger Ballen Gagosian. David Duncan. Gallery Review, Art in America, March, 2010 www.artinamericamagazine.com

• Roger Ballen at the George Eastman House. Rebecca Rafferty. Rocester City Newspaper, March 24, 2010 www.rochestercitynewspaper.com

• Roger Ballen retrospective opens at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. March 5, 2010 www.eastmanhouse.org

• Roger Ballen at the George Eastman House. Rebecca Rafferty. Rocester City Newspaper, March 24, 2010 www.rochestercitynewspaper.com

• Roger Ballen. Bill Clarke. Modern Painters, April 2010 • What is real? Roger Ballen Photographs 1982 – 2009, George Eastman House,

Rochester, NY. James Rajotte. Daylight Magazine, April 24, 2010 www.daylightmagazine.org

• Photographer … Roger Ballen at Jackson Fine Art. Jason Francisco. November 10, 2010 www.artscriticatl.com

• Roger Ballen: Boarding House. Joseph Salvatore. New York Times Magazine Book Review, July 5, 2009

• Roger Ballen: Boarding House. Elizabeth Roberts. Black & White Magazine, August 2009

• Galleries-uptown, The New Yorker, November 30, 2009

• The art set: Roger Ballen at Gagosian. Lesley Hauge. December 14, 2009 www.newyorksocialdiary.com

• Roger Ballen: Boarding House. Press release, November 5, 2009 www.gagosian.com [email protected]



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• Review: Roger Ballen at Gagosian. Jorg Colberg. December 16, 2009 www.jmcolberg.com

• Roger Ballen: quality pictures. Chas Bowie. The Portland Mercury, May 2008

• Mysteries, but n resolution. DK Row. Oregonian, May 1, 2008

• Quality Pictures Contemporary Art. Richard Speer. ARTnews, September 2008 • Untitled (Vicarious). Gagosian Gallery. The New Yorker, October 20, 2008 • Complex shadows. Darius Himes. Photo-Eye, Spring 2006

• Roger Ballen Portfolio: Pluk, Photography in Europe (Issue #31 p61-65), 2006 • Charlotte, Grace, Janet and Caroline Come Home. Melanie Thernstrom, New York Times

Magazine, May 2005

• Roger Ballen. Black & White Magazine, Issue 37, June 2005

• Roger Ballen. , New Yorker, July 2005

• Selma Blair Witch Project: photographs by Roger Ballen. The New York Times Magazine, October 30, 2005 (E 2005)

• Shadow Chamber. Paris Review, # 170, 2004 • • Forlorn Oddities. W.S. Di Piero, San Diego Reader, January 23, 2003

• Roger Ballen’s world. Charles Bowden. Aperture, Winter 2003 • • Wizard of Odd, Vince Aletti, Village Voice, February 2002

• Seeing squalid despair in stark black and white, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, 15 February 2002

• Photo Book Beat, Jean Dykstra, Art on paper, March-April 2002

• Roger Ballen at Gagosian. , Max Henry, Art in America, October 2002

• Roger Ballen. Blind Spot, Issue Twenty Two 2002 • Digging up dirt. Paul Young, Angeleno, December 2002 • • • Roger Ballen: Outland. Gagosian Gallery Press Release, December 6, 2001 • • New Letters, (Photography contribution) Vol. 65 No. 4, 1999 • • Platteland. Richards, Dan. Popular Photography, July 1998

• Poor, white, South African. Gaule, Sally. Afterimage, January/February, 1997

• Society on Edge, Lyndsay Pollock, artnet.com, January 1997



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Documents

Roger Ballen CV 2017 May 11 - Jackson Fine Art · 2017-05-11 · Phaidon. Second edition Preface by Peter Weirmair, essay by Elizabeth Sussman. Phaidon. US, UK 200, 2015 • The Audience