Between 26 April and 10 May 2019, ARTCO Gallery and Salon Wellenmaschine are presenting the exhibition "BILDER & BRETTER“ (Pictures and Boards) with works by South African photographer and artist Roger Ballen.
The exhibition shows hand signed skateboards, next to the relating original photography by Ballen.
The skateboards were produced in collaboration with Roger Ballen and The Skateroom.
A part of the sales proceeds will go to the international NGO Skateistan.
Skateistan is an international non-profit organization that uses skateboarding and education to empower children. Over 2,500 children attend Skateistan’s programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. 50% of students are girls. Next to their innovative programs, Skateistan found a Back-to-School program.
Roger Ballen was born in New York. He moved to Johannesburg in 1982 where he lives and works.
He is one of the most influential and important photographic artists of the 21st century; his photographs span over forty years. Ballen’s strange and extreme works confront the viewer and challenge them to come with him on a journey into their own minds as he explores the deeper recesses of his own.
His contribution has not been limited to stills photography. Ballen has been the creator of many acclaimed and exhibited short films that dovetail with his photographic series’. The collaborative film I Fink You Freeky, created for the cult band Die Antwoord in 2012, has garnered over 125-million hits on YouTube.
Roger Ballen’s work is included in more than forty prestigious museum collections, among which Tate Britain, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne; and Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, to name a few.
