Christoph Rupert Balzar
*1980 in Hirschau, Germany; lives and works in Berlin
Christoph Balzar has graduated in 2005 in visual communication with a project about Australia's cultural landscape (at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen). His further studies of Aboriginal Culture (at the University of Technology Sydney) was the basis for his dispute with eurocentrism, postcolonialism and critical whiteness. He currently works at the Institute for Art in the Context (University of the Arts) in Berlin on issues of presentation and representation of indigenous cultures in contemporary art and its interface with the ethnology and museology.
selected shows
january 2010 institute for art in context, Berlin "none of your business"
march 2009 "Die Botschaft der Künstler", former Danish Embassy Berlin
december 2008 Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Auktion 2008
april 2008 Europa Ladrona, Museum Künstlerkolonie, Ernst - Ludwig Haus
december 2007 Europa Ladrona, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Auktion 2007
july – september 2007 Villa Merkel, International Photo Triennial Esslingen´07
january 2007 Goethe Institut Rotterdam, Netherlands
october 2006 Land in Land, Biennial of Photography Istanbul
march 2006 Land in Land, squat show Berlin Biennale
october 2005 ART COLOGNE 2005, Epson Art Photo Award, Best Works
september 2004 blank_space gallery, Sydney, Australia
may 2003 Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
bibliography
Camera Austria #102
exhibition catalogue DTDF '08
exhibition catalogue International Photo Triennial Esslingen '07
Identity / Constructing Identity / Home
exhibition catalogue Epson Art Photo Award 05
degrees
2008 studies at the Institute for Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin)
2004 studies in Aboriginal Culture, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
2001 - 2005 studies in visual communication, University of Applied Sciences Aachen, Germany
awards
2005 Epson Art Photo Award
2004 Plug - Out Award
2003 Adobe Photoshop Award
collections
Schürmann
Dohmen
Benzner
Schofield