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Miroslaw Balka
CV
1958 Born in Warsaw, Poland
Lives and works in Warsaw
Education
Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Nothere, White Cube, London
GRAVITY, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2008
La Salida, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Entering Paradise, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Miroslaw Balka, White Cube, London
Miroslaw Balka: Landschaftsabfälle, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Miroslaw Balka, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland
2007
Miroslaw Balka, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rijeka
Schmerzstillend, Raffaella Cortese, Milan
Tristes tropiques, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Mirosław Bałka, Rafał Jakubowicz, Marzena Nowak Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2006
Force of Light, K21, Düsseldorf
2005
Kein Warum, Galerie Naurdenhake, Berlin
Hipnoza, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland
2004
Su Seguro Servidor, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Karma, White Cube, London
Neither, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Bon voyage, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2003
Still, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
Winterreise, Starmach Gallery, Krakow*
Element die Exaktheit, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano
2002
Nachtruhe, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Dundee Contemorary Art, Dundee
Dig, Dug, Dug, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Cekaonica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
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
2000
Polish Culture Institute, Budapest
Quit, White Cube, London
Between Meals, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1999
Be Good, Barbara Gladstone, New York
Mañana, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Sza, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1998
Hygiene, Galeria Labirynt 2, Lublin
Privacy, The Serralves Foundation, Porto (with Luc Tuymans)
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
1996
Pause, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
Pax, Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice
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*
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 *
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, MA
1992
No body, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
bitte, Museum Haus Lange Krefeld *
36,6, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago *
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
1990
Good God, Galeria Dziekanka, Warsaw *
xxx, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
1989
Installation Abel, Galeria PO, Zíelona Góra
River, Galeria Labirynt 2, Lublin *
1986
Percepta Patris Mei Servivi Semper, Galeria Pokaz, Warsaw*
1985
Remembrance of the First Holy Communion, Zuków
Wolves, nowolves, TPSP, Warsaw
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Could Live in Africa - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
2008
Contemporary Graphics, Galerie & Edition Bode, Nuremberg
Still / Motion - Liquid Crystal Painting, NMAO, Osaka
Minimum – maximum, BWA Lublin, Poland
Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland, Fundament Foundations, Tilburg, Netherlands
Involved, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai, China
2007
Mirosław Bałka, Rafał Jakubowicz, Marzena Nowak, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
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
The 80's: A Topology, Museau Serralves, Porto
2004
Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible, White Cube, London
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
2001
Conversation?, from the collection of Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Athens school of Fine Art, Athens
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
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
Scena 2000, Centrum Stuki Wspolczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
In Between, The Art Institute of Chicago & Cultural Center, Chicago
Negocjatorzy Sztuki, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
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
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*
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 *
Art and Environment, Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka *
10 – Intnsitá in Europa, Pecci Museo, Prato *
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
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 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
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 *
1990
Aperto, 44th Venice Biennale, Venice *
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
Possible Worlds, ICA/Serpentine Gallery, London *
1989
Middle Europe, Artists Space, New York *
Dialog, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf; Centrum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Warszawa *
Feelings, Dziekanka, Warsaw
1988
Sculpture in the Garden, SARP, Warsaw *
B.K.K., Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, Den Haag*
Polish Realities, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow *
1987
II Biennale of the New Art, Zielona Góra *
1986
Expressions of the Eighties, Galeria BWA, Sopot *
Figures and Objects, Galeria BWA, Pulawy *
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