Education
He graduated from Warsaw"s Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.
He graduated from Warsaw"s Academy of Fine Arts in 1985.
He currently works in Otwock and Warszawa, Poland. From 1986 to 1989, Balka worked in the group Consciousnes Neue Bieriemiennost. Balka runs the Spatial Activities Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warszawa.
In 2009, Balka installed How lieutenant Is, the 10th Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, which opened on October 13th of that year.
Solo exhibitions of Balka"s work include: De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam Galeria Foksal, Warsaw Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld The Renaissance Society, Chicago Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz Tate Gallery, London Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo IVAM, Valencia The National Museum of Art, Osaka Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw SMAK, Gent Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg. K21, Düsseldorf Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Modern Art, Oxford Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid Chromated Copper Arsenate, Warsaw Akademie der Kunste, Berlin.
Balka is represented by Dvir Gallery in Tel Aviv, Galería Juana de Aizpuru in Madrid, Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin, Gladstone Gallery in New York, Raffaella Cortese Gallery in Milano, White Cube in London.