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Miroslaw Balka (born 16 December 1958) is a Polish contemporary sculptor and video artist.

Mirosław Bałka
Born	(1958-12-16) 16 December 1958 (age 63) Warsaw, Poland
Nationality	Polish
Education	Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts
Known for	sculptor, video artist
Awards	Order of Polonia Restituta (2014)[1]

Life and career

Balka was born in Warsaw in 1958. He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.[2]

From 1986 to 1989, Balka worked in the group Consciousnes Neue Bieriemiennost.

He was the 1991 winner of the Mies van der Rohe Stipendium from the Kunstmuseum Krefeld[3] and he is a member of Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Balka runs the Spatial Activities Studio at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.

In 2009, Balka installed How It Is, the 10th Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, which opened on 13 October of that year.[4][5][6]

He currently works in Otwock and Warsaw, Poland.

Work

The work of Mirosław Bałka is interdisciplinary but centres around sculpture and installation. The sculptor's work is influenced by family background: his grandfather was a gravestone cutter while his father engraved names on tombstones. The themes of many works revolve around historical traumatic events and memories, particularly the memory of World War II.[7][8]

Initially Bałka created figurative works; later the artist shifted towards more abstract, monumental forms. These remained related to the subject of the human existence - the body in life, death and decay, personal and collective memory.[9] The artist frequently uses steel, cement, salt, foam rubber and felt in his sculptures.[7]

He designed the scenery for Paweł Mykietyn's composition: The Magic Mountain (opera, 2015[10]) and Herr Thaddäus (2017).[11]

Collections

• Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
• Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Modern Art, New York[12]
• Museu Serralves, Porto
• Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
• SFMOMA, San Francisco[13]
• Tate Modern, London[14]
• Art Institute of Chicago
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• The National Museum of Art, Osaka
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
• Tel Aviv Museum of Art
• National Museum, Wrocław

References

External links

• Official web site
• Miroslaw Balka's solo exhibition at White Cube Mason's Yard London, review by art critic Kostas Prapoglou for Aesthetica Magazine, May 2014

На других языках

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[de] Mirosław Bałka

Mirosław Bałka (* 16. Dezember 1958 in Warschau) ist ein polnischer Bildhauer und Videokünstler, der in Otwock lebt und arbeitet.[1]

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- [en] Mirosław Bałka

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[fr] Mirosław Bałka

Mirosław Bałka est un artiste polonais né en 1958 à Varsovie.

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