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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'

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)

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)

Exhibition

'Always the Sun'

Riga Contemporary Art Space

2 October 2026 – 10 January 2027

Lecture

'Climate – Crisis – Collaboration'

Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

5 – 7 October 2026

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

Panel discussion

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

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

19 November 2025

Lecture-performance

'As Below, So Above'

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

13 November 2025

Screening & panel discussion

'Heritage in Focus: Negotiating Cultural Heritage'

Goethe Institut, Athens

6 November 2025

Press

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

LIFO

31 October 2025

Conference

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

Tate Modern, London

7 July 2025

Press

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

Loophole

8 June 2025

Workshop

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

19th Venice Architecture Biennale

5 June 2025

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

Lecture-performance

'Will my crisis identity fix my identity crisis?'

Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

23 May 2025

Conference

'51st Association for Art History Annual Conference'

University of York

9 – 11 April 2025

Conference

'Interweaving Climate, Water(s) and Communities'

Exposed Arts Projects, London

22 March 2025

Lecture

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

University of Essex, Colchester

6 February 2025

Public art commission

'This sky is your sky'

422 Arts Manchester

27 August 2024 (permanent)

Press

'Contemporary art and important collections'

To Vima

25 July 2024

Panel discussion

'Practice Now: Research in the Arts'

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

10 July 2024

© Bill Balaskas 2026

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