Public talks
2022
September 15-16
International Conference – Central European Institutions, New Worlds and Old Mythologies
Museum of Modern Art Olomouc
2021
July 27
Conversation between Miroslaw Balka and Julian Heynen
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
watch here
May 18
Conversation between Miroslaw Balka and Juan Vicente Aliaga
The Faculty of Fine Arts of Sant Carles, Polytechnic University of Valencia
watch here
2020
November 26
architektura pamięci/fragmenty [PL]
lecture online, Warsaw Pavilion of Architecture
watch here
2019
November 21
Krok w Przyszłość. The 25th Anniversary of “Architektura-murator”
panel talk with Martha Thorne, Ivan Blasi and Denis Leontiev moderated by Miroslaw Balka
watch here
July 3
Ironia i prawda. Co znaczy dzisiaj autentyczność w kulturze? [PL]
panel talk with Miroslaw Balka, Zbigniew Mikołejko and Krzysztof Kozłowski
moderated by Grzegorz Brzozowski
Międzynarodowe Spotkania Nieprzypadkowe “Oko Nigdy Nie Śpi”
Centre for Contemporary Art Torun
January 23
The Human Element
Miroslaw Balka in conversation with Fatos Ustek and Marlies Augustijn
DRAF David Roberts Art Foundation
Walmer Yard, London
2018
July 18
Miroslaw Balka in conversation with Frances Morris
BBC Radio 4
>>listen here
4 May
Arte, memoria e identita nazionali
Public talk with Tobia Bezzola, Eugenio Tibaldi
moderated by Ludovico Pratesi, introduction by Laura Quercioli
Instituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, Rome
25 April
Miroslaw Balka on the Studio of Spatial Activities – performative presentation
Conference “Imagery as the foundation of reality. Identity of an artist and social collective memory”
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
2017
25 November
Symposium Nature: Attention History !
Artist Talk with Christian Cosmas Mayer and Tatiana Lecomte
chaired by Noit Banai
mumok, Vienna
28 October
Public talk with Jacqueline Burckhardt, Susanne von Falkenhausen and Kasper König
chaired by Mareike Dittmer
Disputaziuns Susch, Museum Susch
5 October
Public talk with Lizaveta German
Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, Lviv
15 September
Public talk with Julian Heynen
Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
26 June
How do art and architecture shape the politics of memory around conflict?
Public talk with Joseph Rykwert
Royal Academy of Arts, London
>>listen here
10 May
Artist talk with Ewa Łączyńska-Widz
BWA Tarnów
27 April
From one to infinite
Public talk with Julian Heynen
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
2016
17 November
Spatial Interventions
Lecture
Beaux Arts de Paris
17 October
Memory and Responsibility
Public talk with Joseph Rykwert and Pippo Ciorra
British School, Rome
1 September
As if, at home
Public talk with Valerie Favre, Ali Kaaf and Jurriaan Benschop
Box Freiraum, Berlin
5 June
How It Is
Public talk with Anja Rubik
IST. Festival, Istanbul
21 May
In varietate concordia
Lecture during panel discussion DE MO KRA CJA
Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
11 March
Nerve. Construction
Conversation with Andrew Nairne
Museum of Art, Lodz
4 March
How to construct the meaning?
Lecture by Miroslaw Balka and Anda Rottenberg
Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
2015
6 December
Représenter l’irreprésentable?
Lecture
Passage de Retz, Paris
18 November
Who will be the Artist?
Lecture
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
10 September
Spatial interventions in search of alternative zones
Lecture
Paradox Biennial Conference, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan
19 May
przejscia, kierunki, punkty
Lecture
Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow
5 February
Representations of Shoa after 1989
Lecture
Sorbonne University, Paris
2014
19 December
Otwock
Lecture by Miroslaw Balka and Kasia Redzisz
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre at Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
18 December
Otwock
Lecture by Miroslaw Balka and Kasia Redzisz
Rupert at National Gallery of Art, Vilnius
24 June
Art and visual perception
Lecture
Centre for Contemporary Art, Torun
25 April
fragment
Panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka and Marek Gozdziewski
Galeria Labirynt, Lublin
11 April
Flujos y permananencias
Panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka, Anda Rottenberg and Fernando Castro Flores
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
29 March
Drawings and Environs
Lecture by Miroslaw Balka and Kasia Redzisz
Art Stations Foundation, Poznan
19 March
DIE TRAUMDETUNG 75,32 m AMSL
Conversation with James Putnam
Freud Museum, London
8 March
Memory of the place
Conversation with Kasia Redzisz
International Cultural Centre, Cracow
2013
11 October
fragment
Panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka, Anda Rottenberg and Marek Gozdziewski
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
23 June
Conversation with Zygmunt Bauman
National Cultural Centre, Wroclaw
21 June
UNI-JA /UNI-ON
Open City Lublin
Panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka and Anda Rottenberg
Festival of Art in Public Space, Lublin
13 April
Signals
IHME Project
Conversation with Juan Vicente Aliaga
Pro Arte Foundation, Helsinki
18 January
The Future of Europe
Conversation with Anda Rottenberg
XXXVI Symposium on Contemporary Economy and Public Administration, Zawiercie
2012
2 October
‘transition, directions, points’
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
14 September
Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2012
Miroslaw’s Balka laudation for Douglas Gordon
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
16 June
‘21°15’00”E 52°06’17”N and surroundings – Project: Otwock
Lecture and panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka, Kasia Redzisz
Pawilon Wyspianskiego, Wszystkich Swietych 2 Square, Cracow
17 May
‘21°15’00”E 52°06’17”N and surroundings – Project: Otwock
Lecture and panel discussion by Miroslaw Balka, Kasia Redzisz
The Penzance Convention, Penzance
11 May
Lecture for students
Institute of Art Education, Warsaw
23 February
transition, directions, points
Conversation with Anda Rottenberg
Krytyka Polityczna, Warsaw
2011
13 December
Conversation with Paweł Althamer and Suzanne Cotter
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
1 September
Conversation with Luc Tuymans
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
19 June
How It Is
Conversation with Sodja Lotker
Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space, National Gallery, Prague
16 June
Miejsce mimo siebie
Lecture by Georges Didi-Huberman about Miroslaw Balka
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
17 March
fragment
Panel discussion with Julian Heynen, Piotr Krajewski, Marek Gozdziewski
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw
20 January
Conversation with Declan Long
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2010
3 November
Melancholia sprzeciwu
Conversation with Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Agnieszka Sabor,
Conrad Festival, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
31 July
Space, Health Care, Art
Lecture and panel discussion
Kyoto City University of Arts / Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
18 June
Conversation with Dorota Jarecka
Gazeta Café, Cracow
9 June
Politics of Memory
Lecture
Imperial Museum, London
19 May
Conversation with Julian Heynen
Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
17 May
Hipokretyna
Panel discussion with Agata Siwak, Paweł Leszkowicz
Collegium Maius, UAM, Poznan
13 May
Topography
Lecture
Galeria Entropia, Wroclaw
24 April
Institutional Attitudes
Panel discussion (via Skype) and Miroslaw’s Balka video performance
Comite Van Roosendaal, Brussels
21 April
Conversation with Marek Wasilewski
Galeria Arsenal, Białystok
15 April
Conversation with children
Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
18 March
Conversation with Angela Vetesse
Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan
28 January
Conversation with Frances Morris
Modern Art, Oxford
2009
5 November
Panel discussion
The Oxford Union Debate, University of Oxford
24 October
How It Is
Conversation with Marek Wasilewski
Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan
20 October
How It Is
Conversation with Paulo Herkenhoff
Tate Modern, London
8 February
An evening with Miroslaw Balka
MoMA’s Modern Mondays
Lecture
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
5 February
In conversation
Lecture by Miroslaw Balka, Barbara London, Barton Byg
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2008
3 October
Akademia Nowej Sztuki, nowatorski cykl warsztatów i wykładów z nowoczesnych form sztuki, czyli sztuka spoko jest
Lecture and workshops
BWA Galeria Awangarda, Wroclaw
2001
13 June
Na przykład Sevilla, 8 kwietnia 2001
Lecture
Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw