Mirosław Bałka

Mirosław Bałka was born in 1958 in Warsaw and lives and works in Otwock, Poland and Oliva, Spain. In 1991, he received the Mies van der Rohe-Stipendium of the art museums in Krefeld, Germany. Since 2010 Balka is a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

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.

His work is owned by museums worldwide including: Tate Modern, London; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; MOCA, Los Angeles; SFMOMA, San Francisco; MOMA, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC and The Art Institute of Chicago.

Between 1986 and 1989 together with Miroslaw Filonik and Marek Kijewski he established the artistic group Consciousness Neue Bieremiennost.