Stephan Balkenhol is a german sculpturor. As a young boy he lived in Kassel and joined the European School in Luxemburg for a couple of days. Balkenhol graduated at the Kasseler Friedrichsgymnasium. He studied from 1976 tot 1982 at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg in Hamburg.
Afterwards he teached at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. From 1991 he is professor at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe.

Balkenhol makes sculptures, reliefs, drawings and printings. His maakt beelden, reliëfs, tekeningen en zeefdrukken. His wooden sculptures are most famous.