Museum Wiesbaden:

The internationally renowned sculptor Stephan Balkenhol is opening a special kind of time window for us. Part of the art family he has created gathers for a museum visit and honors the collection of Old Masters at the Museum Wiesbaden. As at an important family celebration, the closest members of the family and their extended circle, including their animal companions, come together to see each other again and discuss what they have seen. This creates an informal dialog between current contemporary art and its artistic predecessors. The visitors enter the resulting spatial image and become part of the shared art viewing experience. Traditional viewer relationships are broken up, set in motion and unite all participants.

Balkenhol's artistic work is deeply rooted in European art history and its humanistic aspirations. At times, Balkenhol draws directly on this cultural heritage, transfers it into his very own style and gives us a modern, contemporary variation of the goddess, as in the Venus de Milo, for example. His figures represent our everyday lives in a very lively way and thus create a great closeness to ourselves. Balkenhol's figures are always also ourselves.