Ronald Bal

Written line of thought about art, technology and what it means to be a person is coming soon.

I am very delighted to invite you to the BIENALSUR Virtual Venue show on the 1th of September 2023! Where I will show my work Folding in Reverse! More information is coming soon.

Link: BIENALSUR

I would like to welcome you to the exhibition “Stories. The world is more complicated than our truths about it” Where I will perform my new performance “When the Colours of the Mind Turn to Reflex-Resist-Reset”. The exhibition is curated by: Małgorzata Sady and Ingrid Blekastad, together with VestAndPage , who will support and define a Performance Opera of talented live artists during the festival.

My performance is related to the body as a product – or primary source of consumption – in data capitalism. Therefore, I performance gradually questions forms of surveillance and objectification based on the proposition of “witnessing” as phenomenological truth and historical fact. The performance is part of my overall project “World in a Cocoon”.

The exhibition “Stories. The world is more complicated than our truths about it” is from July 19 – 23, 2023

More information: Mazovian Museum

You are cordially invited to the  PRAGUE BIENNALE 2022 | Re-Connect Art Festival at Prague, from the 15th to the 19th of September. During the festival I will show my performance-installation Error in Defoliation – Act 1 and 2, which relate to the overall theme of “virtual identity”. 

The performance-installation Error in Defoliation creates a surreal doubling effect that plays with questions of truth and fiction. Act 1 talks about the replica of body parts and act 2 will play with ideas of fiction in nature.

More information: https://www.praguebiennale.cz/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/PragueBiennale

You are cordially invited for the exhibition program RE- at the Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) in New York City, USA. During the exhibition, I will present my film Catalysis and artist talk on the 30th of April at 7pm. I like to express my gratitude to curator and artist Hector Canonge and PAUSA for making the exhibition possible. The works shown will be Performance Art-based works form New York-based artists and abroad.

PAUSA is an platform for PERFORMANCE ART in the USA.

More information: Bronx River Art Center

This year (2022) two publications of my work will come out. Goethe-Institut Niederlande has published my work in februari and CBK Rotterdam will publish my work in june.

For my project Cyber Story | Series, the film Catalysis, an interview will be hosted by Pavlos Paraschakis Art Club in Greece in May. The film Catalysis has reserved 2 awards as of now: the Merit Award Luxembourg Art Prize (2021) and the One Earth Award for Short Film – Fiction (2022)

Exhibition date: 25-02- 2022 until 18-03-2022

You are cordially invited to the opening of ‘Wat ons betreft/ Was uns betrifft at Galerie Ursula Walter on February 25th 2022 in Dresden, Germany. During the exhibition I will show my new film-installation CYBER STORY – CROSSING.

Participating artists: Judy van Luyk, Marielle Buitendijk, Ronald Bal, Su-Ran Sichling, Patricia Westerholz, Antje Seeger, Paul Elsner, Philip Gloger 

The exhibition is supported by: Goethe-Institut Niederlande, The City of Dresden and CBK Rotterdam.

My work is supported by: STROOM Den Haag

Honored to be part of the Jury for the exhibition “Fall Term @ECC Performance Art” together with Claudia Brazzale and Laine Kristberga.

The exhibition “Fall Term @ECC Performance Art” will showcase a selection of participants’ work created during the practice-based courses of our fall term 2021 while giving insights into the dynamics of our programs, as for example Performance Art: From Idea to Execution, Performing the Memory, On Camera: Performing Identity in the Digital Age, or Identity, Ritual, Resistance: Performing the Body in Southeast Asia.

The exhibition will be curated by Anja Foerschner, director of ECC Performance Art, and built and designed by Francesca Albrezzi from FADAC.

Goethe-Institut / Westersingel 9, Rotterdam (Mon, Tues, Thu and Fri 10:00 – 14:30)
Het Archief / Robert-Fruinstraat 52, Rotterdam (Thu, Fri , Sat and Sun 13:00 – 18:00

For ten years now, the twin cities of Rotterdam and Dresden have been linked by an artist exchange program that has enabled more than two dozen Dresdeners and Rotterdammers to spend a few months in the other city. A wealth of artistic work has emerged as a direct or indirect result of the residencies, and new creative partnerships have emerged across national borders. Reason to ask: What has emerged in these ten years? What themes, what impulses did the other, new city bring with it?

Participating artists:
Alaa Abu Asad, Lisa Maria Baier, Ronald Bal, Marielle Buitendijk, Oana Clitan, Philipp Gloger, Barbara Helmer, Susanne Keichel, Andreas Kempe, Simon Kentgens, Hanne Lange, Sarojini Lewis, Judy van Luyk, Johannes Makolies, Sandim Mendes, Niels Post, Guido Reddersen, Juliane Schmidt, Birgit Schuh, Antje Seeger, Otto Snoek en Patricia Westerholz.

More information Goethe-Institut Niederlande and CBK Rotterdam

You are cordely invited to This Art Fair, from 26 to 29 August, at the Kromhouthal Amsterdam. During the fair I will show my new film installation ‘Folding in Reverse’ and the performance ‘Error in Defoliation’.

The film installation is made of 3 porcelain panels with black/white film and audio. The porcelain panals were made during my artist-in-residence in Sundaymorning@EKWC (2020) and can be viewed in different ways due to the translucent effect. In this way I question the materiality of digital images. Now that we spend more time online and artworks mainly come to us digitally, I investigate the value of materials for sensory experience. The film installation shows dancers who playfully communicate in choreography through touch and feel.

The performance installation Error in Defoliation is the first act of a two-hour performance, in which the performer plays with their printed body parts. And wondering what’s real and what’s not real. Are these my body parts or is this just reproduction? The objects are made from CT- and MRI-scans, in collaboration with the TU Dresden (Germany), and printed in 3D ceramic prints. The work creates a surreal doubling effect that plays with questions about truth and fiction.

My film installation can be seen in Stand G, right-hand side of the walking route, in the middle of the fair.

Live performance will be shown in the Break Out Room on Friday, August 27, at 7:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Dancers:   Ralph öllinger and Johanna Tenga

Editing:    Ronald Bal

My work is supported by: het Mondriaan Fonds en CBK Rotterdam

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