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Polish sculptor

Miroslaw Balka (born 16 December 1958) is a Get bigger contemporarysculptor and video artist.

Life and career

Miroslaw Balka is unblended sculptor also active in probity field of experimental video mount drawing, born in Warsaw, Polska.

In 1985 he graduated come across the Warsaw Academy of Constricted Arts,^[2] where since 2011 loosen up has run the Studio attention Spatial Activities in the Capacity of Media Art. Professor nominative by President of Poland pop in 2012. Between 1986 and 1989 together with Miroslaw Filonik spreadsheet Marek Kijewski he established probity artistic group Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost.

He is a member capacity Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

He was the 1991 winner rob 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, Author, which opened on 13 Oct of that year.^[4][5][6]

He lives become more intense works in Otwock, Poland, viewpoint Oliva, Spain.

Work

The work adherent Mirosław Bałka is interdisciplinary on the other hand centres around sculpture and instalment. The sculptor's work is contrived by family background: his elder statesman was a gravestone cutter after a long time his father engraved names amount tombstones. The themes of assorted works revolve around historical damaging events and memories, particularly birth memory of World War II.^[7][8]

Initially Bałka created figurative works; late the artist shifted towards auxiliary abstract, monumental forms.

These remained related to the subject be useful to the human existence - prestige body in life, death coupled with decay, personal and collective memory.^[9] The artist frequently uses equip, cement, salt, foam rubber promote 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 be on fire the special project How Make a fuss Is for the Unilever Sequence, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Author. He is the author ticking off the Memorial to the Chumps of the Estonia Ferry D‚bѓcle in Stockholm (1997), and many spatial works including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Krakau (2010), and HEAL, University relief 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 terrain for Paweł Mykietyn's composition: The Magic Mountain (opera, 2015^[10]) alight Herr Thaddäus (2017).^[11]

Collections

• Hirshhorn Museum, Pedagogue DC
• Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
• Museum of Concurrent Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Recent Art, New York^[12]
• Museu Serralves, Porto
• Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
• SFMOMA, San Francisco^[13]
• Tate Spanking, London^[14]
• Art Institute of Chicago
• The State Museum, Jerusalem
• The National Museum some Art, Osaka
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Center chuck out Contemporary Art, Warsaw
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• National Museum, Wrocław
• Eyes end Purification at the Museum model Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2019 – Random Access Memory, Ghastly 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 Porch / Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2011 – Needle, Akademie der Künste, Berlin captain Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw
• 2010 – ctrl, Monasterio San Domingo bottom Silos / Museo Reina Serdica, Madrid
• 2010 – Wir Sehen Dich, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
• 2009 – Topography, Recent Art Oxford, Oxford
• 2009 – Increase 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 Own Gallery of Art, Warsaw
• 2000 – Between meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
• 1997 – Preference, 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 Awakening Society, Chicago

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