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Portrait de fille endormie, 2000 - Roger Ballen, photographe américain vivant en Afrique du Sud. Son œuvre intègrent également les médiums du cinéma, du théâtre, de la sculpture, de la peinture et du dessin.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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@ikrisley.bsky.social

The fantastic artist and photographer Roger Ballen guides through his exhibition “drawing meets photography” at the Museum Gugging. #museumgugging #rogerballen #photography #exhibition @bskyphotos.bsky.social #bskyphoto #EastCoastKin #ballenesque #austria

Auf dem Foto sieht man eine Person in einem Ausstellungsraum oder Museum.

Die Person steht an einer Wand, betrachtet oder erklärt ein gerahmtes Bild.

Sie trägt eine dunkle Jacke und hält vermutlich ein Mikrofon oder einen kleinen Gegenstand in der Hand.

An der Wand hängen mehrere gerahmte Werke.

Die Szene ist stark von Lichtreflexen und Bewegungsunschärfen überlagert, was dem Bild eine träumerische, fast geisterhafte Wirkung verleiht.

Links und rechts sind helle Lichtschleier zu sehen, die das Bild wie einen Schleier oder eine Aura überziehen.

September 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM

Head On Photo Festival

@headonphoto.bsky.social

Roger Ballen’s dark, surreal world is unlike anything else in contemporary photography - and we’re thrilled to be bringing his work to Sydney Contemporary 2025. Read about the lasting impact of his unmistakable “Ballenesque” stylenow at headon.org.au/magazine/rog...

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August 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM

Victor de Nikita

@zeveto.bsky.social

#RolandGarros #TennisFéminin #AndreevaBoisson
#RogerBallen #Vétograffito

🎾 Le match opposant Mira Andreeva et Loïs Boisson me met en PLS. Elle servent le plomb, cognent comme des sourdes, se déplacent avec vélocité. Du beau tennis, n'en déplaise aux rageux. 👊

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En septembre 2019, la Halle Saint-Pierre à Paris présentait « Le Monde selon Roger Ballen », une rétrospective majeure consacrée à l'artiste américain Roger Ballen. Cette expo offrait une immersion dans son univers singulier et troublant. Le style « ballenesque » se caractérise par des compositions énigmatiques et dérangeantes, souvent peuplées de personnages marginaux, d'animaux, de dessins et d'objets insolites. Ses œuvres plongent dans l'inconscient collectif, évoquant des atmosphères oniriques et troublantes.

In September 2019, the Halle Saint-Pierre in Paris presented « The World According to Roger Ballen », a major retrospective dedicated to the American artist Roger Ballen. This exhibition offered an immersion into his singular and unsettling world. The « ballenesque » style is characterized by enigmatic and disturbing compositions, often populated by marginal characters, animals, drawings, and unusual objects. His works delve into the collective unconscious, evoking dreamlike and unsettling atmospheres.

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June 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM

Kevin O Mooney

@kevinomooney.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Roger Ballen #RogerBallen

April 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM

Dorcy Norris

@dorcyann.bsky.social

I love Photography Artist @rogerballen #RogerBallen

Laurent Peraldi @tintamarre.bsky.social · Sep 29

#RogerBallen

February 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM

YOGURT

@yogurtmagazine.bsky.social

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Roger the Rat
by Roger Ballen

see more of the project:
yogurtmagazine.com/portfolio/ro...

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February 3, 2025 at 8:54 PM

Ed Buziak / Photographer

@buzzed44.bsky.social

The South African 'white male' is a common theme in his photo monographs - and which I knew of many years ago - but his "Singular / Outsider" is a recent discovery and his artwork constructions are bizarre. If you ever get the chance to visit such an exhibition, take it!

#RogerBallen #ArtBrut

Roger Ballen image of rather dirty, possibly inbred, South African white male with a wire cage around his head holding a cat by th escruff of it's neck in his left hand.

One example of the extraordinary Roger Ballen "Outsider Art" exhibition at the Halle Saint-Pierre 'Art Brut' gallery in Montmartre, Paris in late 2019/20. the scene depicts a collection of undressed dolls and maquettes assembled on boxes with a back-cloth painted with child-like drawings of scary faces. This was one of perhaps three dozen settings by Ballen and which must have taken at least a month to assemble.

January 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM

PSYCHIC LOG

@psychicknowlege.bsky.social

#ZEF:TheStoryofDieAntwoord. Controversial South African-alt Electronic group's doc feat #Ninja & #Yo-Landi. But it's compelling marriage of black/white cartoons & (freak)photography by surrealist #RogerBallen that makes the film an Art Form. #Basquiat & #DianeArbus got there 1st,but wo the #hip-hop.