Art Basel Unlimited | Booth U3: Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga’s Exhibition M: A Re-enactment (2023-2026) is a mixed-media installation comprising jacquard sculptures and activated through live performance presented as a collaborative project by Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Kate MacGarry and Vistamare at Art Basel Unlimited 2026.

The project is inspired by André Malraux’s 'Le Musée Imaginaire', activating historical imagery through sculpture, choreography, and institutional critique in order to initiate a dialogue about the history and future of museums. The installation originates from Goshka Macuga’s Exhibition M (2019), a monumental tapestry woven on a jacquard loom. Originally commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the work was conceived in dialogue with the museum’s history, collection and institutional narratives.

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, questioning historiography, political structures, and the pressing issues of our time. Over the past years, Macuga has created a series of large-scale 3-D tapestries that weave her ideas in assembly mind maps, presentations, and panoramic scenes. The artist takes up the historical medium of Gobelin tapestries, a portable textile often emblazoned with political messages, immersing the viewers inside the scenario.

Solo exhibitions include Born From Stone, London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, London (2024); 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).