Bachelors of Fine Arts, School of New Media, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California
Benjamin Langholz is a California native who worked in Berlin 2018-2022. He is interested in the process of collecting and transmitting feelings. Benjamin’s work explores a variety of ways for visitors to experience feelings and emotional states in the body.
Benjamin works primarily at an epic scale using stones, steel, and kinetic elements. He is well known for his sculptures Beam - Burning Man 2022, Stone 40 - Radical Horizons the Art of Burning Man, Chatsworth House UK 2022, and Stone 27 - Burning Man 2019, now in a private collection in Marin, CA. His works are on display in Las Vegas, Germany, France, South Africa, California, and Washington, and he has shown in Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, and Colorado. His work has won CODAAwards Meric for the Landscape Category, CODAWorx Top 100 in 2023 and 2020. In 2023 he was awarded the Reno Tahoe Artist Award in the category of Mixed Media 3D. Benjamin has collaborated with Israili-Berlin-based engineer Amihay Gonen since 2019.
“My work focuses on creating epic-scale, interactive sculptures that allow the visitor to physically experience and engage with specific emotions and states of the body.
Sculpture provides a high-resolution, and nuanced means of communicating complex emotions and experiences. My work creates a set of circumstances that provide the visitor with a highly immersive and sensory experience. Leveraging elegant engineering to create a sense of disbelief and impossibility that requires visitors to explore their limits of trust, and relinquish control. Interactivity is at the core of my work, the feeling created by the experience is the artwork, itself rather than the visual or appearance. Sculpture is a way to bridge the gap between the inner world of emotions and the external world of physical experience. In service to this pursuit, I restrain my materials and visuals to those that are honest, as well as minimal.
Additionally, my sculptures collaborate with, borrow from, and request the visitor to enter a deeper conversation with nature, inviting visitors to reflect on their own relationship with the natural world, and encouraging them to see the environment around them in new and meaningful ways.
In the coming years, I intend to continue my series of experiments in collecting feelings. To guide as many people as possible towards moments in which they encounter themselves. Work more directly with land itself. As well as to widen the breadth of emotion that I expect to convey in my work.”