Olga Balema
KölnSkulptur #11: Body Manoeuvres
Olga Balema
Nikola Dietrich
June 23, 2024 – June 23, 2026
Olga Balema, Geta Brătescu
September 11 – November 5, 2022
Computer
Olga Balema
Camden Art Centre
May 21 – August 29, 2021
CV
Solo Exhibitions
-
2023
- The third dimension, Bridget Donahue, New York, USA
- Loon, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Olga Balema, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-
2022
- Formulas, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
-
2021
- Computer, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
-
2019
- brain damage, Bridget Donahue, New York, USA
-
2017
- None of the beauty of the landscape can reach her pupils anymore, High Art, Paris, France
- On The Brink Of My Sexy Apocalypse, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, USA
-
2016
- One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, Nürnberg, Germany
- Cannibals, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
-
2014
- Her Curves, High Art, Paris, France
- Warm Bodies (with Jonathan Baldock), Kunstvereinigung Diepenheim, Diepenheim, Germany
-
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
-
2024
- OLGA BALEMA, JOHN MCCRACKEN, STELLA ZHONG, The Power Station, Dallas, TX, USA
- Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
- KölnSkulptur #11, Sculpture Park Cologne, Cologne, Germany
- True Colors, Trautwein Herleth, Berlin, Germany
- Duo with Anne Tallentire, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland
- La pluie d’été, GALERIE FONS WELTERS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Classical period (curated by Dora Budor),Woonhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Two To Tango (3), Sperling, Munich, Germany
-
2023
- Irradiation, What Pipeline, Detroit, USA
- Not Either Or, But And, Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, Austria
- Looking Back / The 13th White Columns Annual, Selected by Olivia Shao, White Columns, New York, USA
-
2022
- Olga Balema, Geta Brătescu, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
- Insolvency, my friend, curated by Nicholas Tammens, Charim, Vienna, Austria
- Catechism, Bridget Donahue, New York, USA
- Olga Balema, Elene Chantladze, Birke Gorm, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, and Marie Lund, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
- Manhattan, Claude Balls, New York, USA
- Olga Balema & Win McCarthy, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Olga Balema, Elene Chantladze, Birke Gorm, Ernst Yohji Jaeger, and Marie Lund, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
-
2021
- It’s Just A Phase, curated by Rhea Dall and Ingar Dragset, Trondheim Itinerarios XXVI, Centro Botín, Santander, Spain
- Moon Tent Celebration with Ei Arakawa, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
- Art-O-Rama, Maison R&C, Marseille, France
-
2020
- Around the Day in Eight Worlds. A Decentered Gaze on the CAPC Collection, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- Body. Gaze. Power. A Cultural History of the Bath, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
- Aria Dean, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker, Olga Balema, Raque Ford, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
-
2019
- YOU – Works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
- Maskulinitäten, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
- A House Is Not A Home, Fri Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland
- Whitney Biennal 2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
-
2018
- Paulo Cunha E Silva Art Prize, Galeria Municipal Do Porto, Porto, Portugal
- Oh that I had a thousand tongues, Tinos Quarry Platform, Tinos, Greece
- Give up the Ghost, Baltic Triennale, BTXIII CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania
- Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- Converter, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
-
2017
- Contingencies: Arte Povera and After, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, USA
- Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
- On Half A Tank Of Gas, Swiss Institue and Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, USA
- in awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
- I’m Nobody!, High Art, Paris, France
- Produktion. Made in Germany Drei, Kunstverein Hannover, Sprengelmuseum, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
- Ewig Weibliche, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland
- Physcal Mind Restless Hands, Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
- Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Iza Tarasewicz, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Austria
- Hours and Hours of Inactivity, n.b.k, Berlin, Germany
-
2016
- Object(ed): Shaping Sculpture in Contemporary Art, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Utah, USA
- Untitled 1989, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brachland, PEACH at W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Adhesive Products, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
- Wer Nicht Denken Will, Fliegt Raus: Handlungsanweisungen nach Beuys, Museum Kurhaus / Kleve, Kleve, Germany
- Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Pastoral Myths, La Loge, Brussels, Belgium
- Marriage, Queer Thoughts, New York, NY, USA
-
2015
- The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland
- By the Bearer in whose Name it it Issued, Center for Style, Melbourne, Australia
- Stranger than paradise, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Where The Awing Flaps, Éric Hussenot, Paris, France
- Campana I, Luis Campana, Berlin, Germany
- Function Follows Vision, Vision Follows Reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
- Surround Audience, Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA
- City, William Arnold, New York, USA
- Olga Balema & Anne De Vries: Listening, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, USA
- Towers of Dub (Live Orbient 3.9.93), Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
-
2014
- Musique Concrète, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, USA
- Doom: Surface Control, Le Magasin Grenoble – CNAC, Grenoble, France
- Puddle, pothole, portal, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
- Dylan’s lost it – maybe, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
- New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin, Germany
- From whose ground heaven and hell compare, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany
- Nature after Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- Geographies of Contamination, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
- Material Memory, Fluxia, Milan, Italy
- Apples and Pears, DREI, Cologne, Germany
-
2013
- Urschleim, Fauna, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ♥, High Art, Paris, France
- The Unpainted Landscape, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Slip, The Approach, London, UK
- 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, Duquon 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