The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka, Tate Modern, London, 13 Oct - 5 Apr

Exhibition Description:

Polish artist Miroslaw Balka will undertake the tenth commission in The Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.

Balka was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958, and lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. His work includes installation, sculpture and video, and explores themes of personal history and common experience, drawing on his Catholic upbringing and the fractured history of Poland.

Intimate and self-reflective, his works demonstrate his central concerns of identifying personal memory within the context of historical memory.

This annual commission invites an artist to make a work of art especially for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. The Series has resulted in some of the most innovative and significant sculptures of recent years.

Description:

Image: Miroslaw Balka
detail from: Dawn 1995
Tate. Presented by the Patrons of New Art through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1996 © The artist

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