He takes part in exhibitions since 1976: personal ones in 1987, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 (Minsk);[15] 1992 – Gdansk (Poland); 1995 – Eindhoven (Netherlands); 1998 – Copenhagen (Denmark); 2017 – Ravne na Koroškem (Slovenia).
[25] Alisa Mikhailova in the reportage on the Belarus-1 channel from a regular Balenok's exhibition stressed that the features of abstraction, surrealism, and realism are organically put on display in the artist’s works.
[26] Art critic Larisa Finkel’steyn in 2014 identified paintings of the artist as “very unexpected and lyrical, in which there is a free movement of color.”[27] At the opening of the solo exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of engraver, Belarusian art historian Natalla Sharangovich praised him with the words, “This is really a fine artist.
I have been familiar with his oeuvre for many years, and he is always unpredictable for me.”[28] “The author has a rare quality for a modern creator – the ability to surprise,” Kamila Januškievič assessed the work on the pages of the magazine “Mastactva” following the results of the artist’s exhibition in 2014.
[30] Art critic Alesya Romanyuk called his works as “the most somber ones among all seen, as they show a rotten parallel world, in whose existence you don’t want to believe, even if it is the fruit of the author’s imagination.”[30] He is married and has two children.