Miroslaw Balka

CV

Born 1958 in Warsaw, Poland
Works and lives in Warsaw

Education: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw

Selected solo exhibitions

1985 Remembrance of the First Holy Communion, Zuków
Wolves, nowolves, TPSP, Warsaw

1986 Percepta Patris Mei Servivi Semper, Galeria Pokaz, Warsaw*

1989 Installation Abel, Galeria PO, Zíelona Góra
River, Galeria Labirynt 2, Lublin

1990 Good God, Galeria Dziekanka, Warsaw
xxx, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

1991 xxx, Stitching, De Appel, Amsterdam
April/My body cannot do everything I ask for, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
IV/IX My body cannot do everything I ask for, Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Köln
XI/My body cannot do everything I ask for, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles

1992 No body, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
bitte, Museum Haus Lange Krefeld
36,6, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago

1993 37,1, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
36,6, List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge
37,1, (cont.), Polish Pavilion, 45th Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
Die Rampe, Galerie Marc Jancou, Zürich
Sculpture, The MIT List Visual Center, Cambridge, Mass.

1994 Laadplatform, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Rampa, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz
Buenas Noches, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
37,1 (cont.), Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Rampen, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Winterhilfsverein, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana

1995 J’ai en ma possession, un certificat de vaccination contre le cholera, la fièvre janne, le typhus, la variole, Le Creux de L’Enfer, Centre d’art contemporain, Thiers
Un Dia, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Sevilla
When you wet the bed /1987, Galeria Miejsce, Cieszyn
Dawn, Tate Gallery, London

1996 Pause, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
Pax, Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice

1997 Selection, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
a,e,i,o,u, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
Revision (1986-1997), IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia
a,e,i,o,u, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Ordnung, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Out, London Projects, London

1998 Hygiene, Galeria Labirynt 2, Lublin
Privacy, The Serralves Foundation, Porto (with Luc Tuymans)

1999 Be Good, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Mañana, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Sza, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw

2000 Polish Culture Institute, Budapest
Quit, White Cube, London
Between Meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka

2001 Around 21°15’00”E 52°06’17”N + GO-GO (1985-2001), The Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, SMAK, Gent*
Eclipse, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo*
Sweep, swept, swept, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Pureza, Galería Juana de Azipuru, Seville

2002 Nachtruhe, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Dundee Contemorary Art, Dundee
Dig, Dug, Dug, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

2003 Still, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Winterreise, Starmach Gallery, Krakow*
Element die Exaktheit, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano

2006 Force of Light, K21, Düsseldorf

2007 Miroslaw Balka, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Schmerzstillend, Raffaella Cortese, Milan

Selected Group Exhibitions

1986 Expressions of the Eighties, Galeria BWA, Sopot
Figures and Objects, Galeria BWA, Pulawy

1987 II Biennale of the New Art, Zielona Góra

1988 Sculpture in the Garden, SARP, Warsaw
B.K.K., Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, Den Haag
Polish Realities, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow

1989 Middle Europe, Artists Space, New York
Dialog, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warsaw
Feelings, Dziekanka, Warsaw

1990 Aperto, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
Possible Worlds, ICA/Serpentine Gallery, London

1991 Sculpture, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Metropolis, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Miller-Nordenhake, Köln
Kunst, Europa, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Le Monde Critique, Kunstverein Hamburg
Europe Unknown, Palac Sztuki, Kraków
Kolekcja Sztuki XX wieku w Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
Borealis V, Kunstmuseum Pori, Pori
Körper und Körper, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Rosa e Giallo, Galeria Pieroni, Roma
Von Angesicht zu Angesicht, Stadt Galerie, Kiel

1992 Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Köln
Documenta IX, Kassel
Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi 1931-1992. Collection - Documentation - Actualité, Musée d’Art Contemporain + ELAC, Lyon
Galeria Foksal, Warszawa
Polnische Avantgarde 1930-1990, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney

1993 Zeichnungen Setzen Zeichen. 44 Künstler der Documenta IX: Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Raymond Bollag, Zürich
Rosa e Giallo, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Thiers
Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem
De La Main a La Tête, L’objet théorique, Domaine de Kerguehennec and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Locmine
Douze Oeuvres Dans L’espace, Domaine de Kerguehennec and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Locmine
Baltic Sculpture Gotland 93, Visby
Artificial Paradises, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles
Rosa e Giallo, La Criée, Halle d’Art Contemporain, Rennes
Restaurant, la Bocca, Paris

1994 Till Brancusi, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Europa, Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BED, Bonn
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
The Little House on the Prarie, Marc Jancou Gallery, London
Tuning Up #2, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

1995 ARS 95, Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki
Incidentes Sets visions dende Europa, Casa da Parra, Santiago de Compostela
Where is Abel, thy brother?, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
Rites of Passage. Art for the End of the Century, Tate Gallery, London
Ripple across the Water, Watari Museum, Tokyo
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh

1996 City Space, Copenhagen
Distemper, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington DC
Horizons, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju
Styki/Contact Prints, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
For the Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 2000, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
Betong, Malmö Konsthall
For the Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 2000, Moderna Galerija, Ljublana
Pax, Studio Tucci Russo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Torre Pellice
Panoramas (1981 – 1996), La Collection du FRAC-Bretagne, Chateaugiron

1997 Sztuka z Polski/Art from Poland 1945-1996, Mucsarnok, Budapest
Niemandsland, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
Art from Poland 1945-1996, Konsthall, Tallin
Umedalen Skulptur 97, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå
1997 Wounds: between democracy and redemption in contemporary art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Displacements, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (with R. Whiteread and D. Salcedo)
Umedalen Skulptur 98, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå
Privacy, The Serralves Foundation, Porto (with Luc Tuymans)
XXIV Biennale de São Paulo, São Paulo
Art and Environment, Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka
10 – Intnsitá in Europa, Pecci Museo, Prato

1998 Three Stanzas, ICA, Philadelphia (with Robert Gober and Seamus Heaney)
Minimal-Maximal, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Ars Aevi, Sarajevo
Lost Paradise, Galeria Presença, Porto (with Zhang Huan)
Distant Similarities. Something Better than Cosmetics, Narodni Galerie, Prague
Fauna, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
Trace:Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

1999 Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
L’autre moitié de l’europé, Galerie Jeu de Paume, Paris
Between Cinema and the Hard Place, Tate Modern, London
The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen
The Wanås Foundation, Knislinge
The Vincent, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Amnesia, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Still, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Uwazaj wychodzac z wlasnychych snow. Mozesz sie znalezc w cudzych, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw

2000, Centrum Stuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
In Between, The Art Institute of Chicago & Cultural Center, Chicago
Negocjatorzy Sztuki, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow

2001 Conversation ?, from the collection of Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Athens school of Fine Art, Athens, Greece
The Thought Unknown, White Cube, London
Negotiators of Art, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
Oblicza smierci, BWA, Katowice
Lugares de la Memoria, EACC, Castellon
Milano Europa 2000, PAC e La Triennale de Milano, Milan
Postawy, BWA, Lublin
Absolut Secret, Espace Tajan, Paris
Biurokracja / Bureaucracy, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw

2003 Rituale, Akadamie der Künste, Berlin
Geljik het leven is, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
The Anxious Creation, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona
Absolut Generations, La Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice
A Body / A Cialo, ex. with John Coplans, Center of Contemporary Art, Gdansk
Galeria Labyrint 2 at the University Gallery, University Gallery, Hertfordshire
Dog in Polish Art, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok

2004 Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London

2006 Sublime Embrace: Exploring consciousness in contemporary art, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario
Ideal City – Invisible Cities
Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Still Points of the Turning World, SITE Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennale, New Mexico

2007 Mirosław Bałka, Rafał Jakubowicz, Marzena Nowak, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal

2008 Contemporary Graphics, Galerie & Edition Bode, Nuremberg
Still / Motion - Liquid Crystal Painting, NMAO, Osaka
Minimum – maximum, BWA Lublin, Poland

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