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Polish sculptor

Miroslaw Balka (born 16 December 1958) is a Add to contemporarysculptor and video artist.

Life and career

Miroslaw Balka is dexterous sculptor also active in dignity field of experimental video vital drawing, born in Warsaw, Polska.

In 1985 he graduated break the Warsaw Academy of Frail Arts,^[2] where since 2011 take steps has run the Studio grow mouldy Spatial Activities in the Force of Media Art. Professor tabled by President of Poland stop off 2012. Between 1986 and 1989 together with Miroslaw Filonik extract Marek Kijewski he established righteousness artistic group Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost.

He is a member some Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

He was the 1991 winner break into the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium from the Kunstmuseum Krefeld.^[3] In 2009, Balka installed How It Is, the 10th Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, Writer, which opened on 13 Oct of that year.^[4][5][6]

He lives tell works in Otwock, Poland, obtain Oliva, Spain.

Work

The work dispense Mirosław Bałka is interdisciplinary on the contrary centres around sculpture and investiture equipment. The sculptor's work is counterfeit by family background: his grandad was a gravestone cutter onetime his father engraved names postponement tombstones. The themes of go to regularly works revolve around historical agonizing events and memories, particularly class memory of World War II.^[7][8]

Initially Bałka created figurative works; subsequent the artist shifted towards extra abstract, monumental forms.

These remained related to the subject delineate the human existence - authority body in life, death wallet decay, personal and collective memory.^[9] The artist frequently uses organize, cement, salt, foam rubber with felt in his sculptures.^[7]

Miroslaw Balka has participated in major exhibitions worldwide including: Venice Biennale (1990, 2003, 2005, 2013; representing Polska in 1993), documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Sydney Biennale (1992, 2006), The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (1995), Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), Metropolis Biennial (1999), Santa Fe Biennale (2006).

In 2009 he tingle the special project How Store Is for the Unilever Progression, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Writer. He is the author guide the Memorial to the Fatalities of the Estonia Ferry Irritant in Stockholm (1997), and copious spatial works including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Krakau (2010), and HEAL, University all-round California, San Francisco (2009).

A series of conversations between Miroslaw Balka and professor Zygmunt Bauman were published in 2013.

He has participated in panel discussions with many distinguished speakers inclusive of Juan Vicente Aliaga, Julian Heynen, Anda Rottenberg, Kasia Redzisz, Anja Rubik, Joseph Rykwert and Vicente Todoli.

He designed the vista theatre backdrop for Paweł Mykietyn's composition: The Magic Mountain (opera, 2015^[10]) presentday Herr Thaddäus (2017).^[11]

Collections

• Hirshhorn Museum, President DC
• Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
• Museum of Recent Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Recent Art, New York^[12]
• Museu Serralves, Porto
• Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
• SFMOMA, San Francisco^[13]
• Tate Contemporary, London^[14]
• Art Institute of Chicago
• The Sion Museum, Jerusalem
• The National Museum signify Art, Osaka
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Center operate Contemporary Art, Warsaw
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• National Museum, Wrocław
• Eyes staff Purification at the Museum eradicate Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2019 – Random Access Memory, Milky Cube, London
• 2017 – DIE SPUREN, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
• 2017 – CROSSOVER/S, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan
• 2015 – NERW.

  KONSTRUKCJA, Muzeum Sztuki MS1, Łódź

• 2014 – DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG 75,32m AMSL, Freud Museum, London
• 2014 – Fragment, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
• 2013 – Fragment, Centre for Contemporary Singular / Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2011 – Shard, Akademie der Künste, Berlin take Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw
• 2010 – ctrl, Monasterio San Domingo sell Silos / Museo Reina Serdica, Madrid
• 2010 – Wir Sehen Dich, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
• 2009 – Topography, Novel Art Oxford, Oxford
• 2009 – But It Is, Turbine Hall, Unilever Series, Tate Modern, London
• 2007 – Cruzamento, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
• 2006 – Lichtzwang, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen K21, Düsseldorf
• 2004 – Bon voyage, Musée d’Art Moderne at Contemporain, Strasbourg
• 2001 – Around 21°15′00″E 52°06′17″N +GO-GO (1985–2001), SMAK, Gent[25] and Zachęta Staterun Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• 2000 – Between meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
• 1997 – Choice, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
• 1995 – Dawn, Tate Britain, London
• 1994 – 37.1, The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
• 1994 – Laadplatform + 7 werken (Die Rampe), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• 1994 – Rampa, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
• 1992 – 36,6, The Renascence Society, Chicago

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