is an artist who creates sculptures, performances, objects, compositions, and sound installations that explore the languages of  architecture description. She holds a PhD from the Academy  of Fine Arts in Warsaw and a habilitation from the Academy of  Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Her aim is to create acoustic environments  in which viewers-listeners can become part of the artwork and  encounter architecture through sound. Exploring architecture’s  boundaries, Krakowiak-Bałka builds large-scale installations  from architectural structures. Her current concerns include  articulating architecture in linguistic terms—as an imperfective  verb and a space of becoming, taking different forms according  to the function it performs—as well as the sonic manifestations  of human–nonhuman relations.

She has received numerous distinctions, including awards from  St John’s College, University of Oxford, Polish Minister of Science  and Higher Education, Polish Minister of Culture and National  Heritage, and American Trust for Mutual Education. In 2012  she received a Special Mention for her solo exhibition Making  the Walls Quake as if They Were Dilating with the Secret Knowledge  of Great Powers (curator: Michał Libera) at the Polish Pavilion at  the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di  Venezia. In 2020 she created It Begins with One Word. Choose  Your Own at the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der  Rohe. Her 2022–23 installation Where Does Any Miracle Start?,  shown at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, drew inspiration from insect  sounds often inaudible to human ears, and from insects’ strange  presence and resilience. From 2019 to 2022 she led the Sound  Space Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; since 2022,  she and Prof. Mirosław Bałka have jointly led the Interdepartmental Action Studio. She lives and works in Otwock and Oliva,  Spain. She also identifies as a gardener: day by day, she attunes  herself to the soil and plants, and learns from them.

Selected works: All.FM, series of performances and radio  interventions in public space (2008–11), Human Antenna.  Gdańsk Shipyard Radio 94 FM, radio project at Gdańsk Shipyard (2011), Who Owns the Air?, installation at Foksal Gallery  (2011), Making the Walls Quake as if They Were Dilating with  the Secret Knowledge of Great Powers, project at the Polish Pavilion at the 13th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2012), The Rise and Fall of Air, exhibition and  sound installation at Zachęta National Gallery of Art (2013), Best  to the Best, sound sculpture and performance (2015), Tomorrow  Will Never Come, light and sound installation (2016–17), It Begins  with One Word. Choose Your Own, sound and architectural installation (2020), It Is Not Night Yet, sound project (2021), Where  Does Any Miracle Start?, acoustic and architectural installation  (2022–23), Cleaning Zachęta, sound performance (2024), Nest,  site-specific installation (2026).