GOSHKA MACUGA

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Selected Works

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Born 1967 in Warsaw, lives and works in London

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019	Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London
	Kestnergessellchaft, Hanover, Germany
	What Was I?, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China
2018	Goshka Macuga: Intellectual Co-Operation, Neues Museum, Nüremberg, Germany
2017	Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Ögüt Episode 2, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Ögüt Episode 1, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Galerie Rüdiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
2016	On the Other Side of Tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, U.S.A
	Now this, is this the end… the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? (part 1),Schinkel Pavilion, INDEX Berlin, Berlin, Germany
	Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York, U.S.A
	To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
2014	Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy, 8th Berlin Biennale, Museen Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
	Public Address: Goshka Macuga Tapestries, Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
	Madness and Ritual, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2013	Goshka Macuga: Non-consensual act (in progress), Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
	Sxuality of Atoms, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2012	Goshka Macuga, Andrew Kreps, New York, U.S.A
	Exhibit A, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, U.S.A
	Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
	Untitled, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
	Goshka Macuga. Untitled, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
	It Broke from Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A
2010	Goshka Macuga, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2009	The Bloomberg Commission – Goshka Macuga, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
	Goshka Macuga – I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Germany
	All That is Solid Melts into Air, Mechelen, Belgium
2008	Goshka Macuga: Gottessegen, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
2007	Objects in Relation, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK
	What’s In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2006	Sleep of Ulro, The Furnace Commission, A Foundation, Liverpool, UK
2005	Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2003	Kabinett der Abstrakten, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
	Picture Room, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
2002	Friendship of the Peoples (with Declan Clarke), The Project, Dublin, Ireland
	Untitled, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
	Homeless Furniture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2000	Cave, Kunstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
1999	Cave, Sali Gia, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019	Goshka Macuga, Exhibition M, commission for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A
	100 Years of Bauhaus, Bauhaus Association, Weimar, Germany
	The Enigma of the Hour, Freud Museum, London, UK
2018	What Is Enlightenment: 200 Years of the University of Warsaw Library Print Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
	Machines à Penser, Fondazione Prada, Venice
	Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof– Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
	Like Life: Sculpture, Colour and the Body (1300-Now), The Met Breuer, New York, U.S.A
2017	FIFTEEN, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
	Antigona, Stage design: Goshka Macuga , Staatsthearter Kassel, Germany
	The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
	Perpetual Movement, Contemporary art, dance and ideas, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
2016	States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, Wellcome Collection, London
	The Artist’s Museum, ICA Boston, MA. U.S.A
	Accrochage, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Punta della Dogana, Venice
	Show Window, Kate MacGarry, London
2015	Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
	Dead: A Celebration of Mortality, Saatchi Gallery, London
	Ladies’ Knight: The Female Perspective on Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, MO
2014	Report from the Exhibition Goshka Macuga & Eustachy Kossakowski, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2013	Tagore’s Universal Allegories (with Anna Boghiguian), Iniva, London, UK
	Busted, The High Line, New York, U.S.A
	Revolution from Within, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2012	dOCUMENTA (13), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany and Queen’s Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan
2011	Secret Societies: To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, CACP, musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
2010	Traccia 02 (with Pinot Gallizio), curated by Francesca Comisso, Galleria Martano, Turin, Italy
	Newspeak: British Art Now pt.1, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
	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, 2010, Italy
	Star City, The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
	Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, UK
	Eastbound, KAI 10, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009	We’re Moving, Royal College of Art, London, UK
	The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St.Ives, St. Ives, UK
	Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
	53rd Venice Biennale: Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy
	Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry, London, UK
2008	Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, London, UK
	That beautiful pale face is my fate (For Lord Byron), Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, UK
	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, Berlin, Germany
	Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
	Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
	Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2007-06	We’ve Lost Our Heart and Mind, Event Gallery, London, UK
2006	Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
	Moving in Architecture, (selected by Cyril Lepetit), Camden Arts Centre and Curzon Cinema Soho, London, UK
	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, Ireland
	The British Art Show, Baltic & touring the UK
	Go Between, Amt der Landeshauptstadt Kultur, Bregenz, Austria
	Can Buildings Curate? Architectural Association, London, UK
	Spring/Summer, curated by Simon Moretti, Program, London, UK
2004	Automn Catalog Leather Fringes, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
	Perfectly Placed, South London Gallery, London, UK
	Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
	Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK
	Relay, PR04, Puerto Rico
	Trackers, PM Gallery, London, UK
	Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
2003	Vis á Vis, Platform, London, UK
	Ponce, The Ship, London, UK
	Creek, Cell Project, London, UK
	The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London, UK
	Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
2002	T.O.F.U, Barts Wells Institute, London, UK
	The New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
	London Underground, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
	Pause, Conception, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 1, Gwangju, South Korea
	The House of Horror, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
	The New Religious Art, Henry Peacock Gallery, London, UK
	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, UK
	Skuggspel, Tullkammaren, Umea, Sweden
	Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London, UK
	Forever Yours, Wooden Heart, London, UK
	Free Wahlen/Uptight out of control 3, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden, Germany
	Avalanche, Hales Gallery, London, UK
	Curatorial Mutiny Part 4, Nylon, London, UK
	A very nice film club, Vilma Gold, London, UK
1999	The Mountain and the Valley, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK (curated with Dexter Dalwood and Matthew Leahy)

EDUCATION

1995-96	Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art
1991-95	Central St. Martins, BA Hons Fine Art

ARTIST PUBLICATIONS

2013	Roelstraete, Dieter, Szymczyk, Adam; Macuga, Goshka; Grynsztejn, Madeleine, Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A, Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Monographs,
2011	Eleey, Peter, and Bartholomew Ryan, Goshka Macuga: It Broke From Within, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center
	Brewinska, Maria (ed.), Goshka Macuga: Untitled, Warsaw: Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki
2010	Macuga, Goshka; Roelstraete, Dieter, The Nature of the Beast, London: Whitechapel Gallery
2007	Bond, Bryony; Boundy, Fiona; Macuga, Goshka, Sleep of Ulro, Liverpool: A Foundation, Liverpool, London: Kate MacGarry & Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

2012	dOCUMENTA (13), Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
2010	Pirovano, Stefano, Forma e informazione – nuove vie per l’astratto nell’arte del terzo millennio, Monza: Johan & Levi Editore
	Farquharson, Alex, and Lukasz Ronduda (ed.), Star City: The Future Under Communism, Nottingham: Nottingham Contemporary
	Contemporary Eastern European Art, London: Black Dog Publishing
	Creamier – Contemporary Art in Culture, London: Phaidon
2009	The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, London: Tate
	Herbert, Martin, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009- 2010, London: Frieze
	Roelstraete, Dieter, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, Antwerp: MuHKA & Tielt: Lannoo Publishers
	Birnbaum, Daniel, Fare Mondi/Making Worlds: 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice: Marsilio Editori
	Ellegood, Anne (intro.), Vitamin 3D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, London: Phaidon
2008	Turner Prize, London: Tate Britain
	Morton, Tom, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9, London: Frieze
	Fables du Doute/Tales of Disbelief, La Galerie centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec
	Filipovic, Elena & Adam Szymczyk (ed.), 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art: When Things Cast No Shadow, Zürich: JRP/Ringier & Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art
	Manacorda, Francesco, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, London: Merrell Publishers
	Watson, Grant & Will Bradley, Anshuman Dasgupta, Monika Szewczyk (ed.), Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, Antwerp: MuHKA
2006	Beil, Ralf, Mathilda is Calling, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz
	Lewinson, Jeremy, 16th Biella Prize for Engraving: Art in the Age of Anxiety, Milan: Skira
2005	Morton, Tom, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-6, London: Frieze
	Fetz, Wolfgang & Peter Lewis, Go Between, 2005, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver
2003	Patten, Eliza, The Straight or Crooked Way, London: Royal College of Art

SELECTED PRESS

2013	Janeczko, Janice. “Goshka Macuga’s “Exhibit A”, The Northwestern Chronicle, 2 April
	Diaz, Eva. “Goshka Macuga”, Artforum, January, p. 208
	Gronvall, Andrea, “Collage Therapy”, Chicago Reader, 4 February
	Waxman, Lori. “Artist as prosecuter”, Chicago Tribune, January 30
	Weinberg, Lauren, “Goshka Macuga at the Museum of Contemporary Art,” Time Out Chicago, 14 February

2012	“Goshka Macuga,” Frieze, November/December, 176
	“Goshka Macuga,” Art in America, December, 148-155
	Lequeux, Emmanuelle, “Une Documenta historique”, Beaux Arts, August, 26-29
	Arend, Indo, “Rosen fur Kabul”, Das Kunstmagazin, August, 40-44
	“Goshka Macuga: of what is, that is; of what is not, that is not,” Numero Tokyo, September, 144
	Harms, Ingeborg, “Weiter Blick,” Vogue Deutsch, August, 200-201
	Fritsch, Werner, ” Was Kassel mit Kabul verbindet”, HNA, 12 June, KU1
	Rosenau, Mirja, “Goshka Macuga”, Das Kunst Magazine, June, 84
	Viliana, Andrea, “Momentary Monuments and Half-Truths,” Mousse Magazine, Issue 34, Summer, 186-195
	Ankerman, Door Karel; Bouma, Hilda, ” Aha!”, Persoonlijk, 16 June, 26-30
	Arend, Ingo, “City with K:Documenta in Afgan”, Goethe Institute, online only
	Phongsathorn, Thomas, “My V&A Goshka Mazuga,” V&A Magazine, Summer, 66-69
	Luke, Ben, “Documenta Opens to Critical Acclaim”, The Art Newspaper, 12 June
	Redzisz, Kasia, “Goshka Macuga,” Frieze, March, 148
	Volk, Gregory, “documenta 13: Books, Afghanistan, and Both,” Art in America, June, online only
	Volk, Gregory, “Goshka Macuga,” Art in America, January, online only

2011	“Goshka Macuga: It Broke from Within”, Walker Magazine, March/April, 33
	Macuga, Goshka & Julian Gastelo Gastelo, “Snake Society,” Konteksty, Warsaw: Polska Sztuka Ludowa
	Roelstraete, Dieter, “Forest for the Trees,” Artforum, September, 322-327
	Burley, Isabella, “The Nature of The Beast”, Tiger Magazine, September, 48-53
	Sutton, Kate, “Critics’ Picks: Goshka Macuga at Walker Art Center,” Artforum, online only
	Watson, Grant, “Antimateria,” Flash Art, May-June, 142-145

2010	“In the Archive,” Arc: The Journal of the Royal College of Art, Issue 14, summer, 37-41
	Noble, Kathy, “The New Décor,” Frieze, October, 241
	Yaziki, Didem, “Art, Propaganda, and Politics: Goshka Macuga,” Res Magazine, March, 130-3

2009	Adams, Stephen, “Tapestry of Picasso’s Guernica marks Whitechapel gallery reopening,” telegraph.co.uk, 01 April
	Bailey, Martin, “Controversial tapestry to star in Whitechapel reopening,” The Art Newspaper, 26 January, 31-32
	Farronato, Milovan, “Images from the region of Nowhere,” Mousse magazine, April- May, 19-24
	Glover, Michael, “Goshka Macuga at the Whitechapel Gallery,” The Times, 30 March, 9
	Glover, Michael, “Picasso’s fury screams out still,” The Independent, 24 March, 17
	“Goshka Macuga: The way I see it,” New Statesman, 19 March
	Herbert, Martin, “Essay: The New Modernism, Sitting Defunct Modernity in Search of Something Useful,” Tate Etc, Spring, 62-6
	Januszczak, Waldemar, “Clash of Symbols,” The Sunday Times, March
	“Knowing This… Goshka Macuga in conversation with Monika Szewczyk,” Afterall, Spring, 72–80
	Lubbock, Tom, “East Meets Best,” The Independent, 3 April, 4-5
	MacKenzie, Florence, “Modern Ruins,” Frieze, March, online only
	Mirolla, Miriam, “Making Worlds – Goshka Macuga,” L’Uomo Vogue, May/June
	Roelstraete, Dieter, “Great Transformations: On the Spiritual in Art, Again,” Afterall, Spring, 5-15
	Scharrer, Eva, “Goshka Macuga: Kunsthalle Basel,” Modern Painters, May, 70
	Searle, Adrian, “Whitechapel Gallery reopens with Picasso and anthrax,” The Guardian, 31 March
	Sharp, Chris, “The Meta-Artist Goes Radical: Goshka Macuga’s complex and multilayered practice,” Kaleidoscope Magazine, March – April, 73-9
	Watson, Grant, “Friendship of the Peoples: On the work of Goshka Macuga,” Afterall, Spring, 64–70
	Wolinski, Michal, “Okiełznać bestię,” Piktogram, October

2008	Akbar, Arifa, “Shortlist for Turner Prize promises end to male domination,” The Independent, 14 May, 12-13
	Adams, Stephen, “Shortlist for Turner is dominated by women,” The Daily Telegraph, 14 May, 13
	Coulson, Amanda, “The Great Transformation,” Frieze, October, 137
	Cumming, Laura, “Shhh…it’s the Turner Prize,” The Observer, 5 October, 17
	“Goshka Macuga,” The Times, 1 October, 3
	Searle, Adrian, “Nurses and Curses,” The Guardian, 30 September, 27-29
	Smith, Roberta, “Frieze Art Fair Feels a Big Chill,” The New York Times, 18 October, C1
	Sumpter, Helen, “Turner Prize 2008,” Time Out, 9-15 October, 49

2007	Griffin, Jonathan, “Goshka Macuga,” Frieze, July
	Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, “Goshka Macuga,” ArtPress, October, 105
	Coxhead, Gabriel, “Goshka Macuga,” Time Out London, 18-24 July, 36
	Evans, Jonathan, “Putting Relations in Perspective,” The Independent, 30 June
	Farquharson, Alex, “Looking Back: Emerging Artists,” Frieze, January/February, 136
	Pradalier, Armelle, “Goshka Macuga,” Flash Art, May-June, 133-4
	Sherwin, Skye, “Goshka Macuga: The New Museum,” ArtReview, April, 62-5
	Wilson, Michael, “Goshka Macuga,” Artforum, April, 258-9
	Zolghadr, Tirdad, “Die Watchlist de luxe für 2007,” Monopol, January, 87

2006	Baal, Iphgenia, Dazed & Confused, Issue 135, March, 123
	“Beuys, Böcklin, Kippenberger und Co.,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14 July
	Cruwell, Kostanze, “Das brüllende Lachen des Großherzogs Ernst Ludwig,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18 August
	Griffin, Jonathan, “Liverpool Biennial,” Frieze, November/December, 158
	Griffin, Jonathan, “Focus: Goshka Macuga,” Frieze, May/June, 236
	Herbert, Martin, “Belgian Artist, Presumed Dead, Alive in Brazil. Marcel Broodthaers Resurrected at the São Paulo Biennial,” Modern Painters, October, 81-85
	Mulholland, Neil, “British Art Show 6,” Flash Art, January/ February, 100
	Mulholland, Neil and Andrew Hunt, “British Art (does It) Show?,” Frieze, January/ February, 132-7
	Rappolt, Mark, “Not All Ha, Ha, Hee, Hee: Liverpool Biennial,” Art Review, Sept, 25

2005	Danby, Charles, Dazed & Confused, Issue 258, 60
	Suchin, Peter, “British Art Show 6,” Untitled 36, 60
	“Goshka Macuga,” The Guardian Guide, 5-11 March 2005, 37

2004	Craddock, Sacha, “Goshka Macuga,” Contemporary, Issue 64
	O’Neill, Paul, “I am a curator,” Art Monthly, Issue 275, April, 7-10

2003	Arnatt, Matthew, “Creek,” 100 Reviews, April, 15
	Bany, K., “Prosta lub kreta droga,” Dziennik Polski, 14 March
	Bronstein, Pablo, “Goshka Macuga, Gasworks,” Untitled, Issue 30, Summer
	Edwards, Charlotte, “Behind the Scenes,” Art Review, February, 35
	Herbert, Martin, “Bloomberg Space East End: Goshka Macuga,” Time Out, November 12, 54
	Herbert, Martin, “Royal College of Art: The Straight or Crooked Way,” Time Out, March 26, 54
	Herbert, Martin, “Gasworks South: Goshka Macuga,” Time Out, March 5, 50
	Menin, Samuel and Valentina Sansone, “Sculpture Forever,” Flash Art, Vol. 36, May- June, 122-129
	O’Reilly, Sally, “Goshka Macuga and Declan Clarke,” Frieze, Issue 75, May, 95-96
	Triming, Lee, “Goshka Macuga at Gasworks,” Flash Art, Vol. 36 Issue 229, March – April, 50

2002	Wysokie Obcasy, Issue 47, 23 November
	Dallas, Sorcha, “Goshka Macuga and Nick Evans at Transmission,” Make 92, 12.
	Dunne, Aidan, “All the pretty horses,” The Irish Times, 17 January, 14
	Gregos, Katerina, “International News: Athens,” Contemporary, January

2001	Brown, Neal, “3 in 1 Curatorial Mutiny Part 4,” Frieze, Issue 60, 110-119
	Edwards, Charlotte,”Let’s get to work,” Art Review, Vol. 52, January, 34-39
	Kielebasiak, Lukasz, “Totalne przegiecie,” Gazeta Wyborcza, 19 November
	Kielebasiak, Lukasz, “Nowoczesnie w BWA,” Gazeta. pl:Katowice, 19 November
	O’Reilly, Sally, “3 in 1,” Evening Standard, Time Out, Art, Issue 1598, 25 March
	Sjogren, Andreas, Nar London moter Kaddis, 1,5
	Wolinski, Michal, “Goshka Macuga, Artystka ktora moze,” Fluid, Issue 10
	Wade, Gavin, and Aleksandra Mir, “Beyond Borders,” [a-n] Magazine for Artists, June, 35

2000	Andersson, Fred, “Konst,” Svenska Dagbladet, 28 October
	Forberg, Nils, “Cave,” Nojesguiden, October
	Houldswoth Fine Art, “Sexy,” The Guardian, 20 July
	Nestius, Lena, “Konst,” Nojesrepubliken Soderamal, 4 November

GOSHKA MACUGA

Selected Works

Press

Exhibitions