Miroslaw Balka
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Miroslaw Balka

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Celan in der bildenden Kunst der Gegenwart // Celan in Contemporary Art

conference
Freie Universität Berlin
March 2-3, 2023

RAINBOW Colors and wonders between myths, arts and science

group exhibition
MUDEC The Museum of Cultures, Milan
February 17 – July 2, 2023

La Nube

solo exhibition
Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City
February 7 – March 18, 2023

The Borders of Art. 30 years of Polityka’s Passports

group exhibition
The State Gallery of Art in Sopot
January 28 – April 16, 2023

SCHLAFBROCKEN,

solo exhibition
Dvir Gallery Paris
December 8, 2022 – January 26, 2023

Crushes

Koji Kamoji, Mirosław Bałka exhibition
Foksal Gallery
December 1, 2022 – January 21, 2023

nehtyM viewing room

vrtual viewing room of the NehtyM exhibition
Galleria Raffaella Cortese
September 22 – November 12, 2022

nehtyM

solo exhibition
Galleria Raffaella Cortese
September 22 – November 12, 2022

Central European Institutions, New Worlds and Old Mythologies

International conference
September 15-16, 2022
Museum of Modern Art Olomouc

Black Milk

group exhibition
Dvir Gallery Brussels
June 11 – July 14, 2022

Croque morts

group exhibition
June 2 – July 7, 2022
Dvir Gallery Paris

The Wellbeing Summit

art installation
June 1-3, 2022
Bilbao, Spain

End of History?

group exhibition
May 19 – June 18, 2022
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Light and Memory

group exhibition
Coimbra Contemporary Art Center
May 14 – August 20, 2022

Politics in Art

group exhibition
Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow
April 26, 2022 – February 26,2023

Salon de Paris

group exhibition
Dvir Gallery Brussels
April 21 – June 4, 2022

Refugees Welcome

group exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
April 8 – May 15, 2022

Espèces d’espaces

group exhibition
Dvir Gallery, Paris
April 7 – May 19, 2022

Almond shaped eyes for circles and dots

group exhibition
Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City
March 17 – April 16, 2022

Home and Abroad

group exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, Olomouc
March 3, – September 11, 2022

A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020

group exhibition
Whitechapel Gallery, London
February 24 – June 5, 2022

Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2022

group exhibition
Osaka
January 28 – February 13, 2022

Artist Focus

viewing room
online
Dvir Gallery

Conversation

exhibition Miroslaw Balka/Yudith Levin
Dvir Gallery, Brussels
January 8 – February 19, 2022

Humans Nature Politics, Joseph Beuys in the Context of the Collection

group exhibition
Kunstmuseen Krefeld
October 8, 2021 – February 13,2022

 

My i psy, psy i my

group exhibition
Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot
October 15, 2021 – January 16,2022

NOTHINGTOSEENESS

group exhibition
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
September 15 – December 12, 2021

Glasstress. Window to the Future

group exhibition
The State Hermitage Museum, Sankt Petersburg
September 11 – 31 October, 2021

Mame-Loshn Yiddish – Body – Language

group exhibition
Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
September 3 – November 7, 2021

Schule und Haus

Artist Talk
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
July 27th, 2021

Transforming Archives

group exhibition
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
June 17 – September 19, 2021

Trees for memories

group exhibition
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
June 4 – October 24, 2021

Conversation between Miroslaw Balka and Juan Vicente Aliaga

The Faculty of Fine Arts of Sant Carles, Polytechnic University of Valencia

May 18, 2021

Reconstrucción

solo exhibition
Juana de Aizpuru Gallery, Madrid
April 15 – May 30, 2021

Host

online exhibition
Edel Assanti, London

Caramel

Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
April 10 – May 22, 2021

All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921

group exhibition and site-specific project
Wawel Royal Castle, Krakow
March 18 – October 31, 2021

5 Weeks: On time

Daniel Marzona, Berlin
March 12 – April 16, 2021

Collective Memory

White Cube
West Palm Beach, Florida
March 5 – April 3, 2021

The night will drive a heart

Wrocław Contemporary Museum
February 19 – 31 May, 2021

architektura pamięci/fragmenty

online lecture [PL]
Warsaw Pavilion of Architecture
November 26, 2020

Still Fripon

education project
Collection Lambert
Avignon

Architecture into Art: a Dialogue

Centro Botín
Santander
October 10, 2020 – March 14,2021

Works on paper

online exhibition
Dvir Gallery

Lot Ikara

in memoriam of Zenon Polus
BWA Zielona Góra
September 12 – October 4, 2020

‘Lacrimae Rerum’, homage to Gustav Metzger

Dvir Gallery
Brussels
Septemeber 3 – October 24, 2020

Fear

Galeria Arsenał
Białystok
August 21 – October 18, 2020

Exibition expanded: Miroslaw Balka

viewing room
L’orecchio di Dionisio
Galleria Raffaella Cortese

We Are People

Galeria Labirynt
Lublin
June 24 – August 14, 2020

L’orecchio di Dionisio

Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Milan
June 23 – September 5, 2020

“…and music” project by Galerie Nordenhake

Playlist by Miroslaw Balka

‘Corona’, Paul Celan, 1948

an online group exhibition, Dvir Gallery
March 20, 2020

Thief and destruction

Galeria Arsenał
Białystok
February, 21 – April, 9 2020

A step into the future – Debate during Gala for the 25th Anniversary of the Architektura- murator

A video from the debate moderated by Miroslaw Balka with Martha Thorne, Ivan Blasi and Denis Leontiev

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Galeria Labirynt 2

Lublin

November 28, 2019 – February 24, 2020

Two works donated to Galeria Arsenal and Galeria Labirynt

October 2019

read here

Drawing Room Play of Miroslaw Balka

interview with Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte, illustration by Robert Wilson

September 6, 2019

red nerve

Castello di Ama
October 12, 2019

Ironia i prawda. Co znaczy dzisiaj autentyczność w kulturze?

Miroslaw Balka in panel talk with Zbigniew Mikołejko, Krzysztof Kozłowski
moderated by Grzegorz Brzozowski
CCA Toruń
July 3 at 7.00 PM

Sweets of Sin

MAN_Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro
Nuoro
June 16 – July 7, 2019

Translations, création avec la Collection Lambert

Composed by Pascale Jakubowski
Christophe Mangou and l’Orchestre Régional Avignon-Provence
May 29 at 6.30 PM & June 9 at 5.00 PM, Collection Lambert Avignon

Wasserzeichen. Drawings for the Harbour for Culture

Trieste Contemporanea, Studio Tommaseo
Triest
May 2 – July 3, 2019

Action Lublin! Chapter 3. Operations on places

Galeria Labirynt
Lublin
April 6 – May 12, 2019

The Collection (1) | Highlights for a Future

S.M.A.K.
Ghent
March 16 – September 29, 2019

FOGHORN. THE THEME OF THE TRANSFORMATION IN WORKS FROM COLLECTION II OF THE ARSENAL GALLERY

Arsenal Gallery
Białystok
March 15 – May 5, 2019

Random Access Memory

White Cube Mason’s Yard
London
January 25 – March 9, 2019

DRAF artist talk

The Human Element
Miroslaw Balka in conversation with Fatos Ustek and Marlies Augustijn
DRAF David Roberts Art Foundation
Walmer Yard, London

January 23 at 6.30 PM

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

Muzeum Susch
curated by Kasia Redzisz
January 2 – June 30, 2019

Labyrinth. Works from the CoCA collection in Toruń

Kulturpark Kosice, Slovakia
November 15 – December 7, 2018

Shadow of Freedom

BWA Katowice
November 14, 2018 – 31 January, 2019

TRUE STORIES A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA – THE EIGHTIES: PART II

curated by Peter Pakesh
Galerie Max Hetzler
Berlin
November 9 – December 22, 2018

Operations on Places

curated by Waldemar Tatarczuk
Petach Tikva Museum of Art
Tel Aviv
November 8, 2018 – January 5, 2019

1914–1918. Damals nicht, jetzt nicht, niemals!

Bundestag, Berlin
November 7, 2018

1/1/1/1/1

curated by Anda Rottenberg
Op enheim
Wroclaw
October 19, 2018 – October 31, 2019

a, e, i, o, u at Unsound

unsound
Kamienna 12, Cracow
October 7 – 14, 2018

Catastrophe and the Power of Art

curated by Kondo Kenichi
Mori Art Museum
Tokio
October 6, 2018 – January 20, 2019

Herr Thaddäus

composed by Paweł Mykietyn
stage design by Miroslaw Balka
Beethoven Academy Orchestra
Warsaw Autumn – International Festival of Contemporary Music
September 24th, 2018
ATM, Warsaw

The Magic Kingdom

Uri & Rami Nehoshtan Museum
Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov
curated by Avi Lubin
September 15 – December 29, 2018

Tatsuno Art Project

Manggha
Cracow
curated by Akiko Katsuya and Masakazu Miyanaga
September 8 – October 28, 2018

Contre tout Espoir

Dvir Gallery
Brussels
September 6 – October 20, 2018

Hope Against Hope

Dvir Gallery
Tel Aviv
September 1 – October 20, 2018

Behind The Scenes: Miroslaw Balka

Miroslaw Balka in conversation with Frances Morris
BBC Radio 4
July 18
9.00am-9.45am

Contexts 2018

The 8th International Sokolovsko Festival of Ephemeral Art
26 – 30 July 2018

Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives

White Cube
Hong Kong
18 July – 25 August 2018

Memory Palace

White Cube Bermondsey
London
11 July – 2 September 2018

Irina Kulik lecture on Monika Sosnowska and Miroslaw Balka

Garage, Moscow
June 27, 2018
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Sculpture in the City

Hartshorn Alley, London
27 June 2018 – May 2019

Inbox: Joyce in Art

M HKA
Antwerp
15 June – 1 July 2018

Arte, memoria e identita nazionali

May 4th, 2018 at 5 PM
Public talk with Tobia Bezzola, Eugenio Tibaldi
moderated by Ludovico Pratesi, introduction by Laura Quercioli
Instituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome

Der Aufbruch

Dvir Gallery
Brussels
19 April – 2 June 2018

Unexchangeable

Wiels
Brussels
19 April – 12 August 2018

“Otwock” Season 7: Lawrence Weiner

April 7, 2018
1 PM
Otwock

DIE SPUREN catalogue published

Published by DISTANZ VERLAG, Berlin
Edited by Stefanie Kreuzer for Museum Morsbroich
With texts by Stefanie Kreuzer and Klaus Theweleit

Miroslaw Balka awarded the 100 years anniversary award from ZAiKS

That Obscure Object of Desire

Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith
Fortes Vilaça
São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
17 March – 28 April 2018

JAN KARSKI (MON NOM EST UNE FICTION)

Yannick Haenel / Arthur Nauzyciel
video by Miroslaw Balka
28 March — 07 April 2018
Accompanying the spectacle, the works from the collection of FRAC BRETAGNE  “2 x (216 x 35 x 65)” and “190 x 83 x 48” will be exhibited at the TNB
Théâtre National de Bretagne, Rennes

How do art and architecture shape the politics of memory around conflict?

Recording of the public talk with Joseph Rykwert
chaired by Tim Marlow
June 2017
Royal Academy of Arts, London

CROSSOVER/S among The New York Times’ The Best Art of 2017

Chosen by Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago

Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown

participation in Karin Sander’s project “ZEIGEN. An Audio Tour through the collection of NMAO”
The National Museum of Art
Osaka
21 January – 6 May 2018

Herr Thaddäus

composed by Paweł Mykietyn
set design by Miroslaw Balka
December 19th 2017 Slowacki Theater Cracow

Juana de Aizpuru. Extracto de una Colección

Patio Herreriano Museum
Valladolid
18 December 2017 – 4 March 2018

Herr Thaddäus

composed by Paweł Mykietyn
set design by Miroslaw Balka
December 17th 2017 Philharmonic Hall Szczecin

The Noise of Time

Dvir Gallery
Tel Aviv
16 December 2017 – 21 January 2018

Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation

The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia
15 December 2017 – 25 March 2018

The Haunted House

exhibition within the project The Human Condition
Session III: TIME AND SENSES. Trauma, Memory, Oblivion, Knowledge
curated by Viktor Misiano
Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
1 December 2017 – 28 January 2018

Der Nachthauseweg

House of Art České Budějovice
Budweis
29 November – 31 December 2017

Symposium Nature: Attention History !

November 25 at 6 PM
Artist talk with Christian Cosmas Mayer, Tatiana Lecomte, chaired by Noit Banai
mumok, Vienna

Anda Rottenberg on Miroslaw Balka’s „[(.;,:?!–…)]”

Sorry, this entry is only available in Polish.

„[(.;,:?!–…)]”

Muzeum Śląskie
Katowice
11 November 2017 – 16 September 2018

Public talk at Disputaziuns Susch

Museum Susch
October 28, 2017

Kein Name

The Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum
Lviv
12-29 October 2017

Dziekanka artystyczna. Fenomen kultury niezależnej 1972–1998 na Krakowskim Przedmieściu w Warszawie

Galeria Salon Akademii
Warsaw
16 October – 21 November 2017

The Need to Forget – the Willingness to See. How Contemporary Art Addresses Contested Topics of the Past

Public talk with Lizaveta German

Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv

October 5 2017 at 6.30 PM

Die Spuren

Museum Morsbroich
Leverkusen
24 September 2017 – 7 January 2018

Natural Histories. Traces of the Political

mumok museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien
Vienna
23 September – 14 January 2018

Ein Auge, offen

Galerie Nordenhake
Berlin
16 September – 18 November

opening Friday September 15
artist talk with Julian Heynen at 6 PM

yromem

Lake District Holocaust Project

Windermere

9 September – 4 November

Attention! Border

Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
Galeria Arsenał, Białystok
31 August – 22 October

INSTALLATION ART. Walk-in and expansive works from the Museion Collection

MUSEION – the Museum of modern and contemporary art

Bolzano

6 October – 23 September 2018

Miroslaw Balka member of the jury at Transmission Festival

Fragments: memory and conflict

Miroslaw Balka and Joseph Rykwert in conversation,

chaired by Tim Marlow

Royal Academy of Arts, London

June 26th at 6.30 PM

Miroslaw Balka awarded Diamond Award from Polish Radio

Agata Zubel sings “CROSSOVER/S” by Miroslaw Balka

A concert performance by ElettroVoce
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
May 25th at 9 PM

Artist talk

BWA Tarnow

May 10th at 5 PM

In Bezug auf die Zeit

Galleria Raffaella Cortese

Milan

3 May – 29 July

The Greatest Story Ever Told ―The Collection curated by Ryan Gander

The National Museum of Art

Osaka

29 April – 2 July

Artist talk with Julian Heynen at Pirelli HangarBicocca

April 27th at 5.30 PM

Tomorrow will never come

Miroslaw Balka and Katarzyna Krakowiak
Municipal Gallery Arsenal
Poznan
24 April ? 21 May 2017

Pernicious Predilection

Galeria Labirynt

Lublin

21 April – 4 June

Miroslaw Balka on ‘CROSSOVER/S’ for White Cube

Placed someplace with intent

Dvir Gallery

Tel Aviv

18 March – 6 May

CROSSOVER/S

Pirelli Hangar Bicocca
Milan
16 March – 30 July 2017

283 x 100 x 27, 12 x 6 x 5

Atlas Sztuki

Lodz

10 March – 30 April 2017

Wielka 19

BWA Warszawa

Warsaw

4 March – 6 May 2017

Pallaksh Pallaksh (I don’t know just where I’m going)

Dvir Gallery
Tel Aviv
28 January – 11 March

Wielka 19

:SKALA

Poznan

20 January – 21 February 2017

 

Otwock Project 2016

Otwock
17 December

Tommorow will never come

Miroslaw Balka and Katarzyna Krakowiak
Arsenal Gallery
Bialystok
25 November 2016 – 5 January 2017

Spatial interventions

lecture
Beaux Arts de Paris
Paris
17 November

Circular Movements

Kunstverein KunstHaus
Potsdam
30 October -18 December 2016

PARAVENT

Dvir Gallery
Brussels
27 October – 3 December 2016

Memory and Responsibility

Public talk with Joseph Rykwert and Pippo Ciorra
British School
Rome
17 October

Ich ciał nie widzieliśmy…

lecture
Congress of Culture  2016
Warsaw
9 October 2016

EMPLACEMENT

British School
Rome
26 September – 17 October

Inbox: New Acquisitions. Edition Jacob Samuel

Museum of Modern Art
New York
8 September – 16 October

As if, at home

Publick talk
BOX Freiraum
Berlin
1 September

As if, at home

BOX Freiraum
Berlin
25 June – 31 October 2016

The People’s Cinema

Salzburger Kunstverein
Salzburg
23 July ?11 September 2016

 

IST. Istanbul Arts & Culture Festival

Instanbul
3-5 June 2016

Farewell, Arms!

National Centre for Contemporary Art,
Kaliningrad
2-5 June 2016

DE MO KRA CJA

Galeria Labirynt
Lublin
20 May – 22 May 2016

species of spaces

Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art
Ustka
8 April – 26 June 2016

Miroslaw Balka in conversation with Andrew Nairne

Museum of Art
Lodz
11 March 2016

TRANSIT

Galeria Juana de Aizpuru
Madrid
6 February – 7 March 2016

Je Tu Il Elle

Dvir Gallery
Brussels
28 January ? 5 March 2016

Représenter l’irreprésentable?

Passage de Retz
Paris
8 December 2015 – 12 January 2016

NERVE. CONSTRUCTION

Museum of Art MS1
Lodz
27 November 2015 – 13 March 2016

In the Heart of the Country

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Warsaw
14 May 2013 – 6 January 2014

Glasstress Project | White Light / White Heat

Collateral project with the Venice Biennale

Berengo Studio

Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti

Venice

1 June – 24 November 2013

The Encyclopedic Palace

55th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale

Arsenale

Venice

1 June – 24 November 2013

DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG 75,32m AMSL

Freud Museum

London

18 March ? 31 May 2014

British British Polish Polish

CCA | Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle

Warsaw

7 September -15 November 2013

Touch me / Find me

Studio K
Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA
Helsinki

27 September 2013 – 19 January 2014

Fragment

The 5th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art

NCCA |  VINZAVOD

Moscow

10 October  – 17 November 2013

Tatsuno Art Project 2013

Tatsuno

15-24 November 2013

Memory. Registers and territory

International Cultural Centre
Cracow

13 December 2013 ? 6 April 2014

For Each Gesture Another Character

Art Stations Foundation
Poznan
17 January – 04 May 2014

Black Milk

Museum of Contemporary Art
Roskilde
18 January – 27 April 2014

In the Near Future

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Warsaw
14 February – 14 September 2014

As You Can See: Polish Art Today

Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Warsaw
14 February – 1 June 2014

DIE TRAUMDEUTUNG 25,31m AMSL

White Cube Mason’s Yard
London

21 March – 31 May 2014

Arena

Centre for Contemporary Art

Torun

11 April ? 31 September 2014

Les yeux seuls sont encore capables de pousser un cri

Dvir Gallery

Tel Aviv

12 April – 30 June 2014

Fragment

Galeria Labirynt

Lublin

25 April – 15 June 2014

La disparition des lucioles

Prison Sainte-Anne
Avignon
18 May – 25 November 2014

BETH HA KNESETH / The Great Synagogue. Resuscitation

Trialog. Villa Sokrates Foundation
Krynki
28 August 2014

Fragment

Museum Arnhem
6 September 2014 – 25 January 2015

LUFTZUG

Foksal Gallery
Warsaw
11 September – 31 October

La guerra che verrà non è la prima

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Rovereto
4 October 2014 – 20 September 2015

Everyone Has A Name

Dvir Gallery
Tel Aviv
18 October – 19 November 2015

Project Otwock / Duties and Pleasures

National Museum, Warsaw
Centre of Modern Design of the National Museum, Otwock Wielki
25 October 2014

Tatsuno Art Project 2014

Tatsuno

2-16 November 2014

Progress and Hygiene

National Gallery of Art Zachęta
Warsaw
28 November 2014 – 15 February 2015

Mean What You See

Daniel Marzona
Berlin
30 November 2014 – 17 January 2015

Dark Times

The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery
Tel Aviv
11 Decemeber 2014 – 17 February 2015

ROTRIXAGATZE

On Stellar Rays
New York
11 January ? 14 February 2015

Gathered Fates

Galerie Nordenhake
Berlin
17 January ? 7 March 2015

Até aqui tudo bem | So far so good

White Cube
S?o Paulo
10 February – 28 March 2015

Three Narratives. Memory

Obra Social La Caixa
Barcelona
11 March -21 June 2015

Setting

Viana Art
New York
1 May – 27 June 2015

Brief History of Humankind

Israel Museum
Jerusalem
1 May 2015 – 2 January 2016

RMMBRNC

Dvir Gallery
Tel Aviv
2 May – 27 June 2015

E Pluribus Unum

Galeria Marília Razuk
S?o Paulo
13 May – 15 July 2015

przejścia, kierunki, punkty

lecture
Academy of Fine Arts
Cracow

19 May

Poland – Israel – Germany: The Experience of Auschwitz

Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK
Cracow
15 May – 30 September 2015

Magic Mountain. Opera

Malta Festival
Poznań
26/27/28 June 2015

Shibboleth

Dvir Gallery,
Tel Aviv
4 July -5 September 2015

Patrice Chéreau. Un Musée imaginaire

Collection Lambert
Avignon
11 July – 11 October 2015

War and Peace

Labirynt Gallery
Lublin
11 September – 31 October 2015

Back to the Abyss. Art and Genocide

Musées de Belfort
Belfort
10 October 2015 – 10 January 2016

Homage to Kantor – Theatre of Death

Galeria @KCUA Kyoto City University of Arts
Kioto
10 October – 15 November 2015

Teoría del duende

Centro Federico García Lorca
Granada
30 October 2015 – 10 January 2016