Solo exhibitions

2011

Untitled, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

It Broke from Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2010

Goshka Macuga, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

2009

The Bloomberg Commission - Goshka Macuga, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Goshka Macuga – I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel

All That is Solid Melts into Air, Mechelen, Belgium

2008

Goshka Macuga: Gottessegen, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

2007

Objects in Relation, Art Now, Tate Britain

What’s In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2006

Sleep of Ulro, The Furnace Commission, A Foundation, Liverpool

2005

Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London

2003

Kabinett der Abstrakten, Bloomberg Space, London

Picture Room, Gasworks Gallery, London

2002

Friendship of the Peoples (with Declan Clarke), The Project, Dublin,

Untitled, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw

Homeless Furniture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2000

Cave, Kunstakuten, Stockholm

1999

Cave, Sali Gia, London

Group exhibitions

2012

Documenta, Kassel

2011

Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence. CACP, Bordeaux

2010

Traccia 02 (with Pinot Gallizio), curated by Francesca Comisso, Galleria Martano, Turin

Newspeak: British Art Now pt.1, Saatchi Gallery, London

The Curse of Imagination, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland

Tutto e’ connesso: ricerche e approfondimenti nell’arte dell’ultimo decennio attraverso la collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.

Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), curated by Adam Szymczyk, Istituto Svizzero, Rome; travelling to Kunsthalle Basel in 2011.

Star City, The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary

Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London

Eastbound, KAI 10, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf

2009

We’re Moving, Royal College of Art

The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St.Ives

Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

53rd Venice Biennale: Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice

Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry

2008

Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, September 2008 – January 2009

That beautiful pale face is my fate (For Lord Byron), Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire

The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein; travelling to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain

Tales of Disbelief, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France

5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie

Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery

Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

2006

We’ve Lost Our Heart and Mind, Event Gallery, London, December 2006 - January 2007

Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial, October - December

Moving in Architecture, (selected by Cyril Lepetit), Camden Arts Centre and Curzon Cinema Soho, London

Mathilda is Calling, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany

3rd Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell' Arte Contemporanea, Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola Superiore, Italy

16th Biella Prize for Engraving (curated by Jeremy Lewison), Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy,

2005

Communism, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

The British Art Show, Baltic & touring the UK

Go Between, Amt der Landeshauptstadt Kultur, Bregenz, Austria, 

Can Buildings Curate? Architectural Association, London

Spring/Summer, curated by Simon Moretti, Program, London

2004

Automn Catalog Leather Fringes, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

Perfectly Placed, South London Gallery, London

Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Mead Gallery, Coventry

Relay, PR04, Puerto Rico

Trackers, PM Gallery, London

Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London

2003

Vis á Vis, Platform, London

Ponce, The Ship, London

Creek, Cell Project, London

The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London

Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London

2002

T.O.F.U, Barts Wells Institute, London

The New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennale

London Underground, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Pause, Conception, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 1

The House of Horror, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

The New Religious Art, Henry Peacock Gallery, London

Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Project, Dublin, Ireland

2001

Zawody Malarskie, Galeria BWA Bielsko-Biala, Poland

Open Plan P 3 The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery and Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece

Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Austrian Cultural Forum, London

Skuggspel, Tullkammaren, Umea, Sweden

Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London

Forever Yours, Wooden Heart, London

Free Wahlen/Uptight out of control 3, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden

Avalanche, Hales Gallery, London

Curatorial Mutiny Part 4, Nylon, London

A very nice film club, Vilma Gold, London

1999

The Mountain and the Valley, Cubitt Gallery, London (curated with Dexter Dalwood and Matthew Leahy)

Education

1995-6 Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art

1991-5 Central St. Martins, BA Hons Fine Art

Selected Press

2010

In the Archive, Arc - The Journal of the Royal College of Art, Issue 14, Summer 2010, pp.37-41

Art Propaganda and Politics: Goshka Macuga, Didem Yaziki, Res Magazine, March 2010, pp.130-3

2009

Making Worlds- Goshka Macuga, Miriam Mirolla, L’Uomo Vogue, May/June 2009

Goshka Macuga: Kunsthalle Basel, Eva Scharrer, Modern Painters, May 2009, p.70

Images from the region of Nowhere, Milovan Farronato, Mousse magazine (IT), April- May 2009, pp. 19-24

East Meets Best, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 3 April 2009 pp. 4 – 5

Tapestry of Picasso’s Guernica marks Whitechapel gallery reopening, Stephen Adams, telegraph.co.uk, 01 April 2009

The Meta-Artist Goes Radical: Goshka Macuga’s complex and multilayered practice, Chris Sharp, Kaleidoscope magazine (IT), March – April 2009, pp. 73-9

Whitechapel Gallery reopens with Picasso and anthrax, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 31 March 2009

Goshka Macgua at the Whitechapel Gallery, Michael Glover, The times, 30 March 2009, pp. 9

Picasso’s fury screams out still, Michael Glover, The Independent, 24 March 2009, pp. 17

Goshka Macuga: The way I see it, Newstatesman, 19 March 2009

Clash of Symbols, Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, March 2009

Friendship of the Peoples: On the work of Goshka Macuga, Grant Watson, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp.64–70

Knowing This… Goshka Macuga in conversation with Monika Szewczyk about Projects in progress, London 14 October 2008, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp. 72–80

Great Transformations: On the Spiritual in Art, Again, Dieter Roelstaete, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp. 5-15.

Essay: The New Modernism, Sitting Defunct Modernity in Search of Something Useful, Martin Herbert, Tate Etc, Spring 2009, pp. 62 – 6

Controversial tapestry to star in Whitechapel reopening, Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper, 26 January 2009

2008

Frieze Art Fair Feels a Big Chill, Roberta Smith, The New York Times.com, 18 October 2008

Turner Prize 2008, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, 9-15 October 2008, p.49

Shhh…it’s the Turner Prize, Laura Cumming, The Observer, 5 October 2008, p.17

Goshka Macuga, The Times2, 1 October 2008, p.3

Nurses and Curses, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 30 September 2008, pp.27-29

The Great transformation, Amanda Coulson, frieze, October 2008, p.137

Shortlist for Turner Prize promises end to male domination, Arifa Akbar, The independent, 14 May 2008, pp.12-13

Shortlist for Turner is dominated by women, Stephen Adams, The Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2008, p.13

ReTurner of women artists, Louise Jury & Rashid Razaq, Evening Standard, 13 May 2008, p.3

Female artists dominate Turner shortlist, Andrew Dickson, Guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2008

Mannequin on toilet bids for Turner Prize, Sherna Noah, Independent.co.uk, 13 May 2008

The Simpsons become art for this year's Turner Prize, Polly Corrigan, Telegraph.co.uk, 13 May 2008

Goshka Macuga Talked to Declan Clarke and Paul McDevitt in Clärchens Ballhaus, Berlin, on the 8^th January, 2008, printed project, Issue 9, Visual Artists Ireland, April 2008

2007

Goshka Macuga, frieze, July 2007, Jonathan Griffin

Goshka Macuga, Time Out London, July 18-24 2007, Gabriel Coxhead, p.36

Putting Relations in Perspective, The Independent, 30 June 2007, Jonathan Evans

Goshka Macuga FlashArt, May-June 07, Armelle Pradalier, pp.133-4

Goshka Macuga: The New Museum, ArtReview, April 07, Skye Sherwin, pp.62-5

Goshka Macuga, Artforum, April 2007, Michael Wilson, pp.258-9

Die Watchlist de luxe für 2007, Monopol, n.1, Jan 07, Tirdad Zolghadr, p.87

Looking Back: Emerging Artists, frieze Jan/Feb 07, Alex Farquharson, p.136

2006

Liverpool Biennial, frieze, Nov-Dec 06, Jonathan Griffin, p.158

Belgian Artist, Presumed Dead, Alive in Brazil, Marcel Broodthaers Resurrected at the São Paulo Biennial, Modern Painters, October 2006, Martin Herbert, pp.81-85

Not All Ha, Ha, Hee, Hee: Liverpool Biennial, Art Review, Mark Rappolt, Sept 06, p.25

Das brüllende Lachen des Großherzogs Ernst Ludwig, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18.8.06, Kostanze Cruwell

Beuys, Böcklin, Kippenberger und Co., Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14.7.06

Focus: Goshka Macuga, frieze, June 06, Jonathan Griffin, p.236

Dazed & Confused, Issue135, March06, Iphgenia Baal, p.123

British Art Show 6, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, January-February, p.100

British Art (does It) Show? Neil Mulholland and Andrew Hunt, frieze, January- February, pp.132-7

Dazed & Confused, Iphgenia Baalp, Issue 135, March, p.123

2005

London Critics’ Picks, Goshka Macuga, Artforum website, March, 2005

Goshka Macuga, Frieze, issue 92, June/July/August, Peter Suchin, pp.168-9

Goshka Macuga, The Guardian Guide, March 5-11 2005 p.37

Dazed & Confused, N258, Charles Danby, p.60

2004

Goshka Macuga, Contemporary, nr.64, Sacha Craddock

I am a curator, Art Monthly, April 2004, Paul O’Neill

2003

Time Out, 12-19 November 2003, Martin Herbert

Untitled, Nr 30, Summer 2003, Goshka Macuga, Gasworks, Pablo Bronstein

Flash Art, Vol XXXVI, May- June 2003, Sculpture Forever

Frieze, Issue 75, May 2003, Goshka Macuga and Declan Clarke, Sally O’Reilly

100 Reviews, April, Creek

Time Out, 26-2 April 200, Martin Herbert

Flash Art, March – April 2003, Goshka Macuga at Gasworks, Lee Triming

Dziennik Polski, (The Polish Daily), 14 March 2003, Prosta lub kreta droga, K.Bany

Time Out, 5-12 March 2003, Martin Herbert

Art Review, Feb 2003, vol. LIII, Behind the scenes, Charlotte Edwards

2002

Wysokie Obcasy, 23.11.02, nr.47

Goshka kontra bialy szescian, Paulina Skirgajllo-Krajewska Circa, 102,Winter 2002

Goshka Macuga and Nick Evans at Transmission, Sorcha Dallas, Make, edition 92

The Irish Times, 17 January, Arts, All the pretty horses, Aidan Dunne

The Irish Times, 16 January, The Ticket, Visual Art, Woof Woof: Becoming Animal Contemporary, January 2002, International News, Athens, Katerina Gregos

2001

Art Review, December/January 2002, vol.LII, Let’s get to work, Charlotte Edwards

Magazyn Ratuszowy, nr 24/2001, Jakie Malarstwo

Gazeta Wyborcza, 19.11.01, Totalne przegiecie, Lukasz Kielebasiak

Gazeta. pl:Katowice, 19.11.01, Nowoczesnie w BWA , Lukasz Kielebasiak

Trybuna Slaska , 17-18.11.01, Malarstwo w nowym wieku

Vasterbottens –Kuriren, 7 September

Nar London moter Kaddis, p. 1&5, Andreas Sjogren

Fluid, Nr 10, Goska Macuga, Artystka ktora moze, Michal Wolinski

Elle (polish edition), Nr. 84, September 2001

Cool Polonia, Ewa Cieplinska – Bertini

Frieze, Issue 60, 3 in 1 Curatorial Mutiny, Part 4, Neal Brown

Flash Art, Vol. XXXIV nr.218, Art News, Curatorial Mutiny@ Nylon, Lee Triming

[a-n] Magazine for Artists, June 2001, Beyond borders

A 3 in 1 Personal Evaluation Report, Gavin Wade

The Independent on Sunday, 15 April, Pick of the Galleries, 3 in 1

Time Out, no 1598, Art, 3 in 1, Sally O’Reilly, Evening Standard, 25 March

Contemporary Visual Art Magazine, issue 33, Previews, 3 in 1 Curatorial Mutiny

2000

Nojesrepubliken Soderamal, 4 November, Konst, Lena Nestius

Svenska Dagbladet, 28 October, Konst , Fred Andersson

Nojesguiden, October, Cave, Nils Forberg

Aftonbladen, 13 October 2000, Konst

The Guardian, Space 20 July 2000, Sexy, Houldswoth Fine Art

Independent on Sunday, 14 May 2000, London Biennale, Neal Brown

1999

thegallerychannel.co.uk, Cave, Sali Gia

London Art Magazine.co.uk, Cave at Sali Gia, London, Sherman Sam

Untitled, nr 17, 1998, Show Me the Money 3, Michael Wilson

Selected Publications

Forma e informazione – nuove vie per l’astratto nell’arte del terzo millennio, Stefano Pirovano, Johan & Levi editore, Monza 2010

Goshka Macuga: The Nature of The Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2010

Contemporary Eastern European Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 2010

Creamier – Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, London 2010

The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate, 2009

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009- 2010, Martin Herbert, Frieze, London 2009

Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale exhibition catalogue, Marsilio Editori, Italy 2009.

Vitamin 3D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, introduction by Anne Ellegood, Phaidon Editors, London 2009

Turner Prize, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2008, pp.16-19

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9, Tom Morton, Frieze publishing, London 2008

Fables du Doute/Tales of Disbelief, exhibition catalogue, La Galerie centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, 2008

When Things Cast No Shadow, 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, JRP/Ringier, 2008 

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Francesco Manacorda, Merrell, 2008 

Goshka Macuga – Sleep Of Ulro, Edited by: Bryony Bond & Lucy Wilson, A Foundation, Liverpool/ Kate MacGarry/ Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007

Mathilda is Calling, exhibition catalogue, Hatje Cantz Editor, Ostfildern, 2006

3rd Attese Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art 2006, exhibition catalogue, p.105-7

16th Biella Prize For Engraving 2006, Art in the Age of Anxiety, Jeremy Lewinson, Skira, Milan 2006, p.34-5, 150-1

Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-6, Tom Morton, Frieze, London 2005

Go Between, 2005, Bregenzer Kunstverein/Magazin 4, p.150-7

The Straight Or Crooked Way, 2003, Eliza Patten, RCA, London, p.82-5

Transmission, Speaking & Listening, Vol. N4, 2005, Site Gallery-Sheffield, p.36-45