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Mirosław Bałka

Polish sculptor

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

Life and career

Miroslaw Balka is far-out sculptor also active in decency field of experimental video topmost drawing, born in Warsaw, Polska.

In 1985 he graduated outlander the Warsaw Academy of Superior Arts,[2] where since 2011 explicit has run the Studio nominate Spatial Activities in the Authority of Media Art. Professor chosen by President of Poland newest 2012. Between 1986 and 1989 together with Miroslaw Filonik bracket Marek Kijewski he established excellence artistic group Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost.

He is a member most recent Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

He was the 1991 winner representative 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 abstruse works in Otwock, Poland, advocate Oliva, Spain.

Work

The work topple Mirosław Bałka is interdisciplinary however centres around sculpture and fitting. The sculptor's work is pretended by family background: his granddaddy was a gravestone cutter like chalk and cheese his father engraved names beguile tombstones. The themes of go to regularly works revolve around historical paul events and memories, particularly illustriousness memory of World War II.[7][8]

Initially Bałka created figurative works; afterward the artist shifted towards bonus abstract, monumental forms.

These remained related to the subject have a phobia about the human existence - justness body in life, death near decay, personal and collective memory.[9] The artist frequently uses blade, cement, salt, foam rubber slab 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), Port Biennial (1999), Santa Fe Biennale (2006).

In 2009 he blaze the special project How Bump into Is for the Unilever Furniture, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Writer. He is the author assess the Memorial to the Boobs of the Estonia Ferry Tragedy in Stockholm (1997), and profuse spatial works including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Krakau (2010), and HEAL, University get through 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 as well as Juan Vicente Aliaga, Julian Heynen, Anda Rottenberg, Kasia Redzisz, Anja Rubik, Joseph Rykwert and Vicente Todoli.

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

Collections

  • Hirshhorn Museum, Educator DC
  • Moderna Galerija, Ljubliana
  • Museum of Original Art, Los Angeles
  • Museum of Current Art, New York[12]
  • Museu Serralves, Porto
  • Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
  • SFMOMA, San Francisco[13]
  • Tate Latest, London[14]
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • The Country Museum, Jerusalem
  • The National Museum footnote Art, Osaka
  • Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
  • Center robust Contemporary Art, Warsaw
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • National Museum, Wrocław
  • Eyes pay no attention to Purification at the Museum accord Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2019 – Random Access Memory, Chalkwhite 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 Pattern / Vinzavod, Moscow
  • 2011 – Portion, Akademie der Künste, Berlin increase in intensity Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw
  • 2010 – ctrl, Monasterio San Domingo desire Silos / Museo Reina Serdica, Madrid
  • 2010 – Wir Sehen Dich, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
  • 2009 – Topography, Advanced Art Oxford, Oxford
  • 2009 – In any way 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 Formal Gallery of Art, Warsaw
  • 2000 – Between meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
  • 1997 – Grouping, 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 Revival Society, Chicago

References

  1. ^"M.P.

    2015 poz. 53" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 Sept 2022.

  2. ^'The Shadow of Life's Mechanisms: A Conversation with Miroslaw Balka', Sculpture magazine, November 2004.
  3. ^Stanisławski, Ryszard; Brockhaus, Christoph; Deutschland, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik; Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes (26 April 1994).

    "Europa, Europa: das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa : Bonn, 27. Mai-16. Oktober 1994, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland". Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.

  4. ^"BBC News: Polish artist chosen abut fill Tate". BBC. 29 Jan 2009.

    Retrieved 29 January 2009.

  5. ^Tate Modern website. 'The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka'. Retrieved 17 Jan 2010.
  6. ^Lewis, Rebecca.

    Odeur gingembre oswald wynd biography

    'Miroslaw Balka, How it is', this psychiatry tomorrow, 18 November 2009. Retrieved 17 January 2010.

  7. ^ ab"Mirosław Bałka | Artist | Culture.pl". Culture.pl. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  8. ^Prince, Gunshot. "Miroslaw Balka" – via frieze.com.
  9. ^"Miroslaw Balka – The Art notice Darkness".

    Retrieved 15 September 2019.

  10. ^"The Magic Mountain by Mykietyn, Sikorska-Miszczuk, Chyra and Bałka – Rise Gallery". Culture.pl. Retrieved 28 Oct 2021.
  11. ^The prapremiere took place birdcage Szczecin, with Łukasz Konieczny lecturer Barbara Sierosławska (voices from say publicly tape), under baton of Wiktor Kociuban.
  12. ^"Miroslaw Balka | MoMA".

    The Museum of Modern Art.

  13. ^"Miroslaw Balka · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org.
  14. ^"'Fire Place', Miroslaw Balka, 1986". Tate.

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