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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
2010
Wir Sehen Dich, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Auslöschung, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
2009
Topography, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
How it is, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
Und Akupunktur, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Gravity, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
Miroslaw Balka, Kunst Parterre, Munich
2008
La Salida, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Entering Paradise, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Miroslaw Balka, White Cube, London
Landschaftsabfälle, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Miroslaw Balka, WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland
Nothere, White Cube, London
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, UK
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
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
Building Memory, Four Films about Architecture, Monuments and Community, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund
Building Memory, Four Films about Architecture, Monuments and Community, Museum Stzuki, Lodz
2009
Building Memory, Four Films about Architecture, Monuments and Community, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Vilnius
Banana Republic, Polish Expressive Art of the Eighties, MODEM, Debrecen
Twenty Flashes of Freedom, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
Summer Show, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
Dank An, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin
A Pair of Left Shoes/Reality Check in East Europe, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum
Lichtzwang, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Invasion of Sound, Music and the Visual Arts, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Wasser und Wein – Der Katholische Faktor In Der Zeitgenössichen Kunst, Städtischen Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg
I Could Live in Africa - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
Edition Copenhagen - Retrospective 1959 - 2009, Den frie udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark
Unsaturation, Sektor I, Katowice
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, Museu 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
Minimal-Maximal, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Ars Aevi, Sarajevo
Lost Paradise, Galeria Presença, Porto
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
Umedalen Skulptur 98, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå
Privacy, The Serralves Foundation, Porto
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
Out-door sculptures
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Steven Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, USA
Umedalen Sculpture, Umeå, Sweden
Estonia Memorial, Stockholm, Sweden
Hanaskog, Sweden
Memorial for the victims of the ferry Estonia, Stockholm, Sweden
Activity in consciousness Neue Bieriemiennost
(Series of exhibitions and active vernissages done in collaboration with Miroslaw Filonik och Marek Kijewski)
1989
Keine NEUE BIERIEMIENNOST, Galeria BWA, Bravstok
1988
xxx, Galeria Rzezby, Warszawa
1987
For Jean Bedel Bokassa, Galeria Stodola, Warszawa
1986
One Night Flower, Galeria Dziekanka, Warszawa
After Holiday Presentation, Galeria Wieza, Warszawa
For Peace, Galeria Wieza and Galeria Dzienkanka, Warszawa
For All Saints, Galeria Wielka, Posnan*
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