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Mirosław Bałka (1958-), born in Warsaw, is a famous contemporary Polish painter and sculptor. Balka graduated from Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.[1] Balka’s solo exhibitions include those at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, Japan; the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands; the Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK) in Ghent, Belgium; Dundee Contemporary Arts in Scotland; and the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.[1] His previous works include a sculpture called 480x10x10 (1990) and an installation called Oasis (C.D.F.) (1989).[2] In 2009, Balka installed How It Is (2009), the 10th Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which opened on 13th October, 2009.[3][4][5] Balka lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License |
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