Ronald Bal

Ronald Bal is a Netherlands based visual artist mainly focusing on live art, storytelling, installation and lens-based media. His work deals with distance and proximity in intimate systems and natural events. Inspired by social exchange, cyborg, history and ecology in the field of anthropology, he is currently focusing on the organic body and a digital text. Simulating the physical and the virtual by re-animating personal data combined with live events, on the border of theatre and visual art. His work often leads to installations where repetition of images and body movement are combined to support its narrative structure.

2022-2024 Master, Interior Architecture, The Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Den Haag, The Netherlands
2011-2012 Bachelor Philosophy, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2006-2010 Bachelor of Fine Art, ArtEZ Zwolle, The Netherlands

Biënnales
2023 BIENALSUR, Virtual Venue, Argentinië
2022 Re-connect, Prague Biennale 2022, Praag
2019 Dhaka Live Art Biennale, Edge Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Museum exhibitions
2023. Stories. , Mazovian Museum, Płock, Polen
2020 Co-creation Live Factory Prologue 2, European Culture Centre - Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2019 RHI-Talks, Museum MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 Terytoria, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland
2017 Co-creation Live Factory Prologue 1, European Culture Centre - Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
2015 Museum night, Museum Slager, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2016 Inner Conflicts, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2014/ 2015 Sounds of Silence, Museum CODA, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
2013 Absurdity, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany