Artúr van Balen

b 1983 Budapest, Hungary. Lives and works in Berlin.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am fascinated with the confrontation between our dreams and the sober reality, the tensions between the imagination presented in consumer culture and our demystified experiences.

The range of the work varies from a microscopic small obstacle course for amoebas to large scale inflatable sculptures, used for interventions in public space.

Vita

  • Education
  • Master of Arts - Fine Arts - Berlin University of Arts - Berlin - DE
  • Environmental Art & Ceramic Design - Glasgow School of Art - Glasgow - UK
  • Bachelor of Arts - Philosophy - University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam - NL
  • Philosophy & Cultural Studies - Humboldt University - Berlin - DE
  • Exhibitions (Selected)
  • 2017
  • Monumente des Augenblicks - Museum of Air - Amberg - DE
  • Barrikade Ballet - Hartware MedienKunstVerein - Dortmund - DE
  • 30 Contemporary Artists by Enter Art Foundation– Multipolster – Berlin – DE
  • 2016
  • After the Rally - Palace of Culture and Science - Warsaw - PL
  • Cross-Cuts - Alternative Art Fair - Copenhagen - DK
  • Barrikade - IG Metall - Haus am Lützowplatz - Berlin - DE
  • Making Use : Life in post-artistic Times - Museum for Contemporary Art - Warsaw - PL
  • 2015
  • Hypervital - Design Biennale - Saint Etienne - FR
  • 2014
  • Disobedient Objects - Victoria & Albert Museum - London - UK
  • 2013
  • MediaImpact - ArtPlay - Moscow - RU
  • Blow Up Media Spectacle - Künstlerhaus Held - Leipzig - DE
  • Special Thali of Resistance - Jaaga Artspace - Bangalore - IN
  • 2012
  • De Etende Mens - Designmuseum Eindhoven - Eindhoven - NL
  • 2011
  • World without Us - Gallery Kap Pur - Tilburg - NL
  • MediaImpact - ArtPlay Gallery - Moscow - RU
  • 2010
  • Battle of the Spectacle - Organ Kritischer Kunst - Berlin - DE
  • Publications
  • 2015
  • Die Erndung der laufende Barrikade - Theater trifft Aktion - Heinrich Böll Foundation
  • In atable Props - Beautiful Trouble
  • 2014
  • Disobedient Objects - Victoria & Alberts Museum Publishing
  • Truth is Concrete - Steirischer Herbst - Sternberg Press
  • In atables for protest: An interview with Artúr van Balen
  • Tools for Action - blog of Victoria and Alberts Museum
  • 2012
  • The El Martillo Project - Eclectic Electric Collective - Minor Compositions
  • The Story of the Hungarian Orange - Dossier Ungarn - Heinrich Böll Foundation
  • You can not give instructions to an in atable - Truth is Concrete

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