roger ballen! drawing meets photography
Exhibition
museum gugging Am Campus 2, 3400 Klosterneuburg
25.9.—15.2.2026
Artists: Ballen Roger
Curator: Nina Ansperger
Roger Ballen, who was born in New York in 1950, has been living and working in South Africa for decades, and he is one of the twenty-first century’s most influential and important fine-art photographers. Roger Ballen’s photographs encompass a span of over fifty years, and many of them exist in a realm between painting, drawing, installation and photography. His provocative and enigmatic works confront viewers and challenge them to come along on a journey into the personal and profound depths of their own thoughts.
Drawing provides the focus of attention in this show curated by Nina Ansperger, and drawing is of central significance to the “Ballenesque” aesthetic. Over the last decades, Ballen’s oeuvre has developed from a form of narrative photography to a body of work that has become increasingly dominated by drawing and also has an affinity to the ideas of Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut.
It is particularly fascinating to present an exhibition on Roger Ballen with a focus on drawing at the museum gugging—as the most direct and spontaneous means of artistic expression, drawing is the most frequently used medium in art from Gugging.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Drawing provides the focus of attention in this show curated by Nina Ansperger, and drawing is of central significance to the “Ballenesque” aesthetic. Over the last decades, Ballen’s oeuvre has developed from a form of narrative photography to a body of work that has become increasingly dominated by drawing and also has an affinity to the ideas of Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut.
It is particularly fascinating to present an exhibition on Roger Ballen with a focus on drawing at the museum gugging—as the most direct and spontaneous means of artistic expression, drawing is the most frequently used medium in art from Gugging.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Tue10 AM–5 PM
Wed10 AM–5 PM
Thu10 AM–5 PM
Fri10 AM–5 PM
Sat10 AM–5 PM
Sun10 AM–5 PM
9.00 € Barrier-free
Artists: Ballen Roger
Curator: Nina Ansperger
Roger Ballen, who was born in New York in 1950, has been living and working in South Africa for decades, and he is one of the twenty-first century’s most influential and important fine-art photographers. Roger Ballen’s photographs encompass a span of over fifty years, and many of them exist in a realm between painting, drawing, installation and photography. His provocative and enigmatic works confront viewers and challenge them to come along on a journey into the personal and profound depths of their own thoughts.
Drawing provides the focus of attention in this show curated by Nina Ansperger, and drawing is of central significance to the “Ballenesque” aesthetic. Over the last decades, Ballen’s oeuvre has developed from a form of narrative photography to a body of work that has become increasingly dominated by drawing and also has an affinity to the ideas of Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut.
It is particularly fascinating to present an exhibition on Roger Ballen with a focus on drawing at the museum gugging—as the most direct and spontaneous means of artistic expression, drawing is the most frequently used medium in art from Gugging.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
Drawing provides the focus of attention in this show curated by Nina Ansperger, and drawing is of central significance to the “Ballenesque” aesthetic. Over the last decades, Ballen’s oeuvre has developed from a form of narrative photography to a body of work that has become increasingly dominated by drawing and also has an affinity to the ideas of Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut.
It is particularly fascinating to present an exhibition on Roger Ballen with a focus on drawing at the museum gugging—as the most direct and spontaneous means of artistic expression, drawing is the most frequently used medium in art from Gugging.
Attention: For details on accessibility, please contact the program partner directly.
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Roger Ballen, who was born in New York in 1950, has been living and working in South Africa for decades, and he is one of the twenty-first century’s most influential and important fine-art photographers. Roger Ballen’s photographs encompass a span of over fifty...
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