Mirosław Bałka, PL

Mirosław Bałka (b. 1958, Warsaw, Poland) received the Mies van der Rohe-Stipendium of the art museums in Krefeld, Germany in 1991.

Since 2010 Balka is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. His exhibition Arbeit, curated by Anda Rottenberg will be on view at Common Arts Foundation during Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2025. Bałka has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally. He participated in Documenta IX (1992), the Venice Biennial(1990, 2003, 2005 and 2013, representing Poland in 1993), Sao Paulo Biennale (1998), Liverpool Biennial (1999),Sydney Biennial (1992 and 2006), SITE Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennial (2006) and the Carnegie International,Pittsburgh (1995).

In 2009, the artist was awarded with the prestigious Unilever commission for the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, London, where he presented the installation How it is.Between 2015-2018, he presented a trilogy of retrospective exhibitions: “CROSSOVER/S” at Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan(2017), “Die Spuren” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2017/18) and “Nerve. Construction” at the Museum of Arts Łodz (2015). He presented solo exhibitions at The Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier OH (2024), Castello di Ama(2019), the Freud Museum, London (2014); Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, IHME Contemporary ArtFestival, Helsinki (all 2013); Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2011); FRAC Centre Orléans (2011); Museo Nacional Centrode Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (both 2010); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2008); Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin and Museu de Arte de São Paulo/Museu de Arte Moderna Rio deJaneiro (both 2007); K21, Düsseldorf (2006); Museum of Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (2004); The Zacheta Gallery ofContemporary Art, Warsaw and SMAK, Ghent (both 2001); National Museum of Art, Osaka (2000); Museu Serralves, Porto (1998); Tate Gallery, London (1995); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1994); Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, andRenaissance Society at the University of Chicago (both 1992).His work is owned by museums worldwide including: Tate Modern, London; Van Abbe museum, Eindhoven; MOCA, LosAngeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MOMA, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; The Art Institute of Chicago; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museu Serralves, Porto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Kiasma, Helsinki; Kröller-Müller, Otterlo; EMST The National Museum of Art, Athens; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz; Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He has been commissionedto create a number of permanent outdoor works, including the memorial to the victims of the Estonia Ferry disaster inStockholm (1997), AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Cracow (2010), and HEAL, University