Goshka Macuga
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Rabindranath Tagore (Blue), 2022
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Who Gave Us a Sponge to Erase the Horizon?, 2022
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GONOGO, 2021
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NASA Delta IV Heavy Launching the Parker Solar Probe (12 August 2018) Inmate firefighters look on as an aircraft prepares to drop fire retardant ahead of the River Fire as it burns through a canyon in Lakeport, California (August 1, 2018), 2021
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Madame Helena Blavatsky, 2020
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Discrete Model 038, 2019
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1919/1933, 2019
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Exhibition M, 2019
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We are still Earthlings, 2019
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To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, 2016
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International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 12, Time's Arrow: Alain Badiou, Ibn Khaldun, Kanak Man, Albert Einstein, 2015
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To The Son of Man Who Ate The Scroll, 2015
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To The Son of Man Who Ate The Scroll (Green), 2015
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Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, 2013
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Of what is, that it is, of what is not, that is not I, 2012
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Plus Ultra, 2009
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The Nature of The Beast, 2009
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Haus der Frau 2, 2008
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Somnambulist, 2006
Goshka Macuga was born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland and lives and works in London. Macuga’s practice is based on historical and archival research, which informs her installations, sculptures, tapestries, and collages. As an artist she simultaneously assumes the role of a curator, historian, and exhibition designer. Macuga questions historiography, political structures, and the pressing issues of our time. Over the past years, Macuga has created a series of large-scale tapestries that weave her ideas in assembly mind maps, presentations, and panoramic scenes. Macuga takes up the historical medium of Gobelin tapestries, a portable textile often emblazoned with political messages. Her new series of tapestries are woven in 3-D so that the viewers themselves become part of the scenario.
In 2019, Macuga was commissioned to make a large-scale tapestry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The work re-stages a well-known photograph of Andre Malraux taken in 1954, featuring Macuga surrounded by images that are intrinsically linked to MoMA’s history and collection. Solo exhibitions include In Flux, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain (2022) and MUSAC, León, Spain (2021); Stairway to Nowhere, Kestnergesselchaft, Hannover, Germany (2019); What Was I ?, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China (2019); Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Nüremberg, Germany (2018); To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); Now this, is this the end... the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? (part 1), Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, Germany (2016); Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York, USA (2016); Exhibit A, MCA Chicago, USA (2012); Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (2011); It Broke from Within, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, USA (2011); The Bloomberg Commission, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2009); I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2009) and Objects in Relation, Tate Britain, London (2007).
Recent group exhibitions include ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (2024); Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2023-4); HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, Austria (2023); Public Matters: Contemporary Art in the Belvedere Garden, Vienna, Austria (2023); Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy (2023); Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2022); Supernatural, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Germany (2020) and Like Life: Sculpture, Colour and the Body (1300-Now), The Met Breuer, New York, USA (2018). Macuga was included in Documenta 2012 and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008. She was elected a Royal Academican in 2024.
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CONDO hosting Bureau, New York
Wojciech Bąkowski, Erica Baum, Matt Hoyt, Goshka Macuga, Ben Rivers and John Smith 20 January - 24 February 2024 -
Notes on Protesting
Marcus Coates, Peter Liversidge & Goshka Macuga 21 January - 26 February 2022 -
Goshka Macuga
10 September - 18 October 2019 -
Show Window
Céline Condorelli, Laura Gannon, Donna Huddleston, Goshka Macuga, Corin Sworn, Patricia Treib 11 November - 17 December 2016 -
A Million Times
Humans Since 1982, Peter Liversidge, Goshka Macuga, Haroon Mirza 11 June - 16 July 2016 -
Eustachy Kossawkowski & Goshka Macuga
6 June - 19 July 2014 -
Goshka Macuga
14 September - 27 October 2012 -
Modern Ruins
Abraham Cruzvillegas, Dr. Lakra, Goshka Macuga, David Maljkovic 1 March - 5 April 2009 -
Goshka Macuga
4 March - 17 April 2005
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Goshka Macuga & Francis Upritchard: Friends in Love and War, macLYON, France
8 March - 7 July 2024 6 March 2024Goshka Macuga and Francis Upritchard are included in Friends in Love and War - L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es, a group show presented by Ikon and...Read more -
Goshka Macuga: HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
13 December 2023 - 20 May 2024 31 January 2024Goshka Macuga's tapestry Who Gave us a Sponge to Erase the Horizon? (2022) is included in the group exhibition HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary...Read more -
Goshka Macuga on Rose Finn-Kelcey: Frieze Magazine
January/February 2024 3 January 2024The essay Flying Through Space Forever, written by Goshka Macuga notes that Finn-Kelcey was an artist committed to probing explorations of private and public spheres,...Read more
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Frieze London
Peter Liversidge, Goshka Macuga, Peter McDonald, Florian Meisenberg, Grace Ndiritu, Dawn Ng and Francis Upritchard 11 - 15 October 2023 -
Art Basel | Art Basel Unlimited
Chou Yu-Cheng, Marcus Coates, Goshka Macuga, Lisa Milroy and Francis Upritchard 15 - 18 June 2023Kate MacGarry is delighted to be participating in Art Basel Unlimited 2023 with a work by Francis Upritchard.Read more -
Frieze London
Rana Begum, Chou Yu-Cheng, Marcus Coates, Laura Gannon, Goshka Macuga 12 - 16 October 2022 -
Art Basel
Rana Begum, Helen Cammock, Goshka Macuga & Francis Upritchard 16 - 19 June 2022
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Frieze London
Helen Cammock, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga & Renee So 13 - 17 October 2021We are at Frieze this week stand A13 showing Helen Cammock, Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga and Renee SoRead more -
Art Basel
JB Blunk, Goshka Macuga, John Smith, Patricia Treib, Francis Upritchard 13 - 16 June 2019 -
Art Basel
Samson Kambalu, Goshka Macuga, Francis Upritchard, B. Wurtz 14 - 17 June 2018