Thanks to The Artists Residence in Herzliya
Kenneth A. Balfelt (1966) is a visual artist based in Denmark, works with Kenneth Balfelt Team to use art as a platform for rethinking and developing new methods for urban development, user involvement, development of urban situations and inclusion of socially marginalised. KBT does public projects, exhibit and publish normative rapports to share new developed methods. Balfelt has art works in the National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst), KØS Museum for Public Art, Malmö Museum and Göteborg Museum and has exhibited at Rooseum (Malmö), Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), ZDB (Portugal), Arnolfini (UK), Museum of
Contemporary Art Roskilde (Museet for Samtidskunst Roskilde) and has done a number of public art projects like The injection room project, Home of the men - Radical horizontality, Café Heimdal, Enghave Minipark - relocation of beer drinkers and Rethinking and renovating Park of the People. His early works was investigated in the book Art as Social Practice by Matthias Hvass Borello.
At his first research tour in June 2016 he interviewed 10-15 people from Jessy Cohen and got especially interested in a communal regeneration project going on and their effort to educate 20 community leaders. They are local residents that wishes to contribute more to their community.
For his second research tour in January 2019, Balfelt plans to engage with the community and find a topic he will work on - for an Art Urban Development intervention. The production of the project is planned to take place in April 2019.
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