Mirosław Bałka

Miroslaw Balka is a sculptor also active in the field of experimental video and drawing, born in Warsaw, Poland.

[3] In 2009, Balka installed How It Is, the 10th Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London, which opened on 13 October of that year.

The sculptor's work is influenced by family background: his grandfather was a gravestone cutter while his father engraved names on tombstones.

These remained related to the subject of the human existence - the body in life, death and decay, personal and collective memory.

He is the author of the Memorial to the Victims of the Estonia Ferry Disaster in Stockholm (1997), and numerous spatial works including AUSCHWITZWIELICZKA, Cracow (2010), and HEAL, University of California, San Francisco (2009).