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Bill Balaskas 
is an artist, theorist and educator.

VOID, 2023

RECENT, CURRENT & UPCOMING

Lecture

'Kunst – Ausstellung – Diskurs'

documenta, Fridericiaum, Kassel

25 – 27 June 2026

 

Lecture

'VISION_E – Drawing a Vision for Every Extended Intelligence'

Castello del Valentino, Turin

Politecnico di Torino & Unione Italiana Disegno

5 June 2026

 

Publication

'The Second Coming of the Creative Director: Redefining the Role of the Artist in the Age of AI'

Pvblica Press

June 2026 (forthcoming)

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Lecture

'(Re)alignment: rethinking familial ties in the Visual Arts'

National Gallery, London

28 May 2026

 

Article

'Bill Balaskas in conversation with Lora Sariaslan'

Stedelijk Studies #15: Audiences for Contemporary Art Museums

Summer 2026 (forthcoming)

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Exhibition

'Always the Sun'

Riga Contemporary Art Space

2 October 2026 – 10 January 2027

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Lecture

'Climate – Crisis – Collaboration'

Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

5 – 7 October 2026

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Publication

'The exhibition that no one will ever see: the rise (and fall?) of the mega-exhibition format'

The Routledge Companion to Art Biennials

Edited by Panos Kompatsiaris

March 2026

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Panel discussion

'From "Flying Rivers" to water justice: the cultural sector as a model for climate action'

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

19 November 2025

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Lecture-performance

'As Below, So Above'

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

13 November 2025

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Screening & panel discussion

'Heritage in Focus: Negotiating Cultural Heritage'

Goethe Institut, Athens

6 November 2025

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Press

'Heritage in Focus at Goethe-Institut Athen: Negotiating Cultural Heritage'

LIFO

31 October 2025

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Conference

'Understanding the new research landscape for funding artists and curators'

Tate Modern, London

7 July 2025

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Press

'Whose Game? – Impressions from Identity Crisis Network Conference at MSU Zagreb'

Loophole

8 June 2025

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Workshop

'Water as a Global Common Good: Building Coalitions between Art, Science, and Architecture'

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

5 June 2025

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Article

'Scanning the Horizon in Turbulent Times: Participatory Public Art as a Counter-space'

Bill Balaskas in conversation with Or Tshuva and Stephen Walker 

OnCurating, Issue 60, edited by Ronald Kolb and Dorothee Richter

June 2025

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Lecture-performance

'Will my crisis identity fix my identity crisis?'

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

23 May 2025

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Conference

'51st Association for Art History Annual Conference'

University of York

9 – 11 April 2025

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Conference

'Interweaving Climate, Water(s) and Communities'

Exposed Arts Projects, London

22 March 2025

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Lecture

'The Anthropocene as a Veil of Catastrophic Capitalism: Reflections Through Visual Culture'

University of Essex, Colchester

6 February 2025

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Public art commission

'This sky is your sky'

422 Arts Manchester

27 August 2024 (permanent)

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Press

'Contemporary art and important collections'

To Vima

25 July 2024

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Panel discussion

'Practice Now: Research in the Arts'

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

10 July 2024

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© Bill Balaskas 2026

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