Mirosław Bałka, How It Is, 2009, Installation view Tate Modern,Turbine Hall
Photo: Tate photography



MIROSŁAW BAŁKA
TURBINE HALL COMMISSION, TATE MODERN


Galerie Nordenhake congratulates Miroslaw Balka on the commission for the prestigious Unilever Series for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London.

The installation How It Is consists of a giant steel structure encasing a cavernous unlit dark area in which visitors are invited to walk. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1958, Balka lives and works in Warsaw and Otwock. Including installation, sculpture and video, his works explore themes of personal history and common experience, drawing on his Catholic upbringing and the fractured history of Poland.

Balka’s works always convey a bare and elegiac quality that is often connected with traumatic historical events or religious experiences. His memory does not aim at objectivity but is always subjective and emotional. In 1997 the city of Stockholm commissioned him the Memorial for the victims of the Estonia ferry disaster.

The collaboration between Galerie Nordenhake and Balka started in 1990 by presenting his first solo exhibition in Western Europe.

The installation at Tate Modern will be on view until April 5, 2010.





 







NEWSLETTER 

CHRISTIAN ANDERSSON
Fortino1/Christian Andersson
/ solo show / The Brodbeck Foundation, Catania, Sicily /
November 1, 2009—January 16, 2010

Pendulum / permanent public sculpture / LTU, Luleå /Opens January 2010

Look Again / group show / Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina / Opens February 2010


MIROSŁAW BAŁKA

The Unilever Series: Mirosław Bałka
/ solo show / Tate Modern, London / October 13, 2009—April 5, 2010

Miroslaw Balka: Topography / solo show / Modern Art Oxford, Oxford / December 12—March 7, 2010


ANN BÖTTCHER
Caspar David Friedrich—den besjälade naturen och åtta samtida kommentarer / group show / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm / October 2, 2009—January 10, 2010


GERARD BYRNE
In the Making / group show / ICA— The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston / July 29, 2009—July 18, 2010

Little Theatre of Gestures / group show / Malmö Konsthall, Malmö / October 10, 2009—January 10, 2010
 
Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art / Multiple Venues, Glasgow / April 16—May 3, 2010


ANN EDHOLM
The Façades Project / public installation for the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial / Multiple Venues, Tirana / Opened October 2, 2009


SPENCER FINCH

The River that Flows Both Ways / public installation / The Highline, New York, commissioned by Friends of the Highline and Creative Time, New York / Opened June 2009

The Brain—is wider than the Sky / solo show / Postmasters Gallery, New York / October 24—November 28, 2009

Dutch Grey / solo show / Wall House #2, Groningen / October 24—December 6, 2009

Earth: Art of a Changing World / group show / Royal Academy of Arts, London / December 3—January 31, 2010

Violin Concerto No. 2 "The American Four Seasons" / light installation to accompany violin composition by Philip Glass, performed by Robert McDuffie / Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto / December 9, 2009 (world premier; additional presentations to follow)

Three Atmospheric Studies / collaboration with the Forsythe Company / Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden and Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main / Opens Fall 2010

solo show / Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin / Opens April 30, 2010

solo show / Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou / Spring 2010


HREINN FRIDFINNSSON
solo show / Elba Benitez, Madrid / Opens December 2, 2009

solo show / i8 Gallery, Reykjavik / Opens February 5, 2010


GUNILLA KLINGBERG
solo show / Skellefteâ Konsthall / October 25—November 22, 2009

Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious / festival / Multiple locations, Philadelphia / January—April 2010

Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst (Biennial for International Light Art) / Multiple venues, Bergkamen, Bönen, Fröndenberg/Ruhr, Hamm, Lünen and Unna / March 28—May 27, 2010

HELEN MIRRA
Life Forms / group show / Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm / September 16, 2009—January 10, 2010

Le jardin aux sentiers qui bifurquent / group show / La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse / September 17—November 15, 2009

Chapter Four: Word Wraps / group show / About Change Collection, Berlin / September 19, 2009—January 2010

Pittoresk / group show / MARTa Herford, Herford / October 3, 2009—January 10, 2010

(Z)ART / group show / ABTart Gallery, Stuttgart / October 11, 2009—January 31, 2010

Conscience de Pierre / solo show / Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris / November 14, 2009—January 30, 2010

The Malady of Writing / group show / Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona / November 19, 2009—March 7, 2010


ESKO MÄNNIKKÖ
I Love Malmö / group show / Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia / September 11, 2009—January 17, 2010

Investigations of a Dog / group show / Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin / October 21, 2009—February 7, 2010 (travels to: Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, La maison rouge—Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, Magazin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, DESTE Foundation, Athens)

Harmony Sisters / solo show / Galerie Suzy Shammah, Milan / November 18, 2009—January 16, 2010


WALTER NIEDERMAYR
Verschwindende Landschafter/ Vanishing Landscapes / group show / Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg / November 14, 2009—January 9, 2010

Walter Niedermayr/HG Merz: Station Z—Memorial Sachsenhausen / book
edited by HG Merz and Walter Niedermayr, text by Andrzej Szczypiorski, epilogue by HG Merz and Walter Niedermayr / published by Hatje Cantz Verlag / 2009


MIKAEL OLSSON
Södrakull Frösakull / solo show / Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm / January 9—February 14, 2010


MARJETICA POTRČ
Heartland / group show / Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Illinois / October 1, 2009—January 17, 2010

31 Brazilian Art Panorama / group show / Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo (MAM), Sao Paulo / October 4—December 20, 2009

Best Laid Plans / group show / Drawing Room, London / November 4 —December 12, 2009 (tours to additional venues in the UK and abroad)

Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture / Shenzhen Civic Square, Shenzhen / December 6, 2009—January 23, 2010

Rainwater Harvesting / site specific project / St. Erasmo, Venice / Opens March 2010

solo show / Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm / March 25—April 30, 2010

The Promises of the Past / group show / MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris / April 14—July 14, 2010

Between the Waters: The Emscher Community Garden / public project and collaboration with Ooze Architects / emscherKUNST 2010, Essen / May 29—September 5, 2010






HÅKAN REHNBERG
Caspar David Friedrich—den besjälade naturen och åtta samtida kommentarer / group show / Nationalmuseum, Stockholm / October 2, 2009—January 10, 2010

solo show / Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö / November 27, 2009—January 23, 2010

17th Biennale of Sydney—The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age / Multimple Venues, Sydney / May 12—August 1, 2010
 

ULRICH RÜCKRIEM
Record>Again! / group show / Kusthaus Deresden Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Dresden / November 29—February 14, 2010 (travels to: Edith—Ruß— Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg, Oldenburg)


MICHAEL SCHMIDT
solo show / Haus der Kunst, Munich / May 21—August 10, 1010


JOHAN THURFJELL

Residency / Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris / Spring 2010
 

ALAN UGLOW
Arte Povera bis Minimal: Insights in the Lafrenz Collection / solo show / Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden / June 7, 2009—January 31, 2010


MAGNUS WALLIN
Instrument / solo show / Millesgården, Stockholm / September 12—November 8, 2010

The Body as Universe: Works from the Welcome Collection with Contemporary and Japanese Art / group show / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / November 28, 2009—March 7, 2010

2009 Swedbank Art Award Nominees / group show / Riga Art Space, Riga / December 9, 2009—February 2, 2010

Visceral Bodies / group show  / Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver / February 6—May 2, 2010

Göteborgs Konstmuseum / February 6 - April 25, 2009


RÉMY ZAUGG
T—Tris. A game with the collections of the Province of Hainaut, the Mudam and the Muhka / group show / B.P.S.22 Space for Contemporary Creation, Charleroi, Belgium / September 12—November 29, 2009