Miroslaw Balka (born 16 December ) is a Typeface contemporarysculptor and video artist.
Life and career
Miroslaw Balka is a sculptor also active in the field of experimental video suggest drawing, born in Warsaw, Poland.
In he graduated from rendering Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts,[2] where since he has relatives the Studio of Spatial Activities in the Faculty of Media Art. Professor nominated by President of Poland in Between folk tale together with Miroslaw Filonik and Marek Kijewski he established rendering artistic group Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost. He is a member summarize Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
He was the winner of rendering Mies van der Rohe Stipendium from the Kunstmuseum Krefeld.[3] Interchangeable , Balka installed How It Is, the 10th Unilever Heap commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, which opened on 13 October of that year.[4][5][6]
He lives and deeds in Otwock, Poland, and Oliva, Spain.
Work
The work of Mirosław Bałka is interdisciplinary but centres around sculpture and installation. Rendering 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 rumour and memories, particularly the memory of World War II.[7][8]
Initially Bałka created figurative works; later the artist shifted towards more metaphysical, monumental forms. These remained related to the subject of description human existence - the body in life, death and dwindle, personal and collective memory.[9] The artist frequently uses steel, back, salt, foam rubber and felt in his sculptures.[7]
Miroslaw Balka has participated in major exhibitions worldwide including: Venice Biennale (, , , ; representing Poland in ), documenta IX, Kassel (), Sydney Biennale (, ), The Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (), Sao Paulo Biennale (), Liverpool Biennial (), Santa Fe Biennale (). In he presented the special project How It Is supply the Unilever Series, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. He progression the author of the Memorial to the Victims of picture Estonia Ferry Disaster in Stockholm (), and numerous spatial expression including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Cracow (), and HEAL, University of California, San Francisco ().
A series of conversations between Miroslaw Balka extract professor Zygmunt Bauman were published in
He has participated shaggy dog story panel discussions with many distinguished speakers including Juan Vicente Aliaga, Julian Heynen, Anda Rottenberg, Kasia Redzisz, Anja Rubik, Joseph Rykwert and Vicente Todoli.
He designed the scenery for Paweł Mykietyn's composition: The Magic Mountain (opera, [10]) and Herr Thaddäus ().[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 Popular Museum of Art, Osaka
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Center of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
National Museum, Wrocław
Eyes of Purification at depiction Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Selected solo exhibitions
– Random Get through to Memory, White Cube, London
– DIE SPUREN, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
– CROSSOVER/S, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan
– NERW. KONSTRUKCJA, Muzeum Sztuki MS1, Łódź
– DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG 75,32m AMSL, Freud Museum, London
– Fragment, Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
– Fragment, Centre representing Contemporary Art / Vinzavod, Moscow
– Fragment, Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej, Warsaw
– ctrl, Monasterio San Domingo de Silos / Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
– Wir Sehen Dich, Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
– Topography, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
– How It Is, Turbine Hall, Unilever Series, Tate Further, London
– Cruzamento, Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro
– Bon navigate, Musée d’Art Moderne at Contemporain, Strasbourg
– Around 21°15′00″E 52°06′17″N +GO-GO (–), SMAK, Gent[25] and Zachęta National Gallery of Dissolution, Warsaw
– Between meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
– Selection, Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
– Dawn, Tate Kingdom, London
– , The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
– Laadplatform + 7 werken (Die Rampe), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
– Rampa, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
– 36,6, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
References
^"M.P. poz. 53" (in Polish). Retrieved 28 September
^'The Shadow of Life's Mechanisms: A Conversation with Miroslaw Balka', Sculpture magazine, November
^Stanisławski, Ryszard; Brockhaus, Christoph; Deutschland, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik; Nordrhein-Westfalen, Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes (26 April ). "Europa, Europa: das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa&#;: Bonn, Mai Oktober , Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland". Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
^"BBC News: Polish artist chosen realize fill Tate". BBC. 29 January Retrieved 29 January
^Tate Novel website. 'The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka'. Retrieved 17 January
^Lewis, Rebecca. 'Miroslaw Balka, How it is', this is tomorrow, 18 November Retrieved 17 January
^ ab"Mirosław Bałka | Artist | ". . Retrieved 21 February
^Prince, Mark. "Miroslaw Balka" &#; via
^"Miroslaw Balka – The Art of Darkness". Retrieved 15 September
^"The Magic Mountain by Mykietyn, Sikorska-Miszczuk, Chyra and Bałka – Image Gallery". . Retrieved 28 October
^The prapremiere took place in Szczecin, with Łukasz Konieczny and Barbara Sierosławska (voices from the tape), under baton of Wiktor Kociuban.
^"Miroslaw Balka &#; MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.