STEPHAN BALKENHOL

KÖNIG GALERIE | CHAPEL
ALEXANDRINENSTRASSE 118–121, 10969 BERLIN

10 SEPTEMBER – 9 NOVEMBER 2025

BERLIN ART WEEK OPENING
TUESDAY, 9 SEPTMEBER 2025 | 5 – 9 PM

KÖNIG GALERIE is proud to present a solo exhibition by Stephan Balkenhol in the Chapel of St. Agnes. Balkenhol is one of the most renowned German sculptors of our time and famous for his coloured wood sculptures. Since the 1980s, Balkenhol has dedicated his artistic practice to investigating the human figure in all its complexity and ambivalence, using wood and bronze media to realize his contemporary mode of anonymous portraiture or, as he playfully calls it “Mr. Everyman”.

Stephan Balkenhol, MANN VOR HOCHHÄUSERN / MAN IN URBAN LANDSCAPE, 2017

FEATURED ARTIST

STEPHAN BALKENHOL

Stephan Balkenhol (b. 1957 in Fritzlar, Germany) is one of the most renowned German sculptors of our time and famous for his coloured wood sculptures, as well as drawings and prints.

Balkenhol’s public bronze sculptures, some of which are of monumental dimensions, often entail an element of surprise, appearing in unusual places. Back in the early 1980s, Balkenhol resolutely turned his back on prevailing trends to embrace figuration. Working at the intersection between a minimalist and a concrete visual language as well as the rise of the Neue Wilde, he has made the human figure and fundamental questions around human existence the cons...