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Interview with Amanda Ballen, September 2025. Amanda Ballen : In your sixty-year career you have developed a unique and distinctive aesthetic called the “Ballenesque.” […]…

Grounded in the chaotic, absurd psychological space of the Ballenesque, Spirits and Spaces reveals Roger Ballen’s creative vision in colour. Having previously worked solely […]…

Dante’s Inferno, written at the dawn of the fourteenth century, has nourished the imagination of artists and poets for seven hundred years, having been […]…

The Inside Out Centre for the Arts, founded by Roger Ballen in 2022, is a non-profit space in Johannesburg’s Forest Town that explores African […]…

Opened in 2025, just across the threshold from the Inside Out Centre for the Arts, Roger Ballen established the Roger Ballen Centre for Photography, […]…

“Roger Ballen.! drawing meets photography” opened at Museum Gugging on the 25th of September. Curated by Nina Ansperger, the photography-based exhibition acts to shift […]…

Roger Ballen: Shadows of the Mind is a retrospective exhibition of photographic works by South African based photographer and visual artist, Roger Ballen. Curated […]…