Goshka Macuga
1967
Geboren in Warschau | Born in Warsaw
Lebt und arbeitet in London | Lives and works in London
Studium an | Studied at
Wojciech Gerson School of Art, Warsaw
Central St. Martin's School of Art, London
Goldsmith College, London
2011
Arnold-Bode-Preis
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl) | Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024 – 2025
Born From Stone, London Mithraeum Bloomberg Space, London
2024
When ice melts in a glass of water, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2022
Goshka Macuga: In Flux, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Beton Und Geistige Zusammenarbeit: Goshka Macuga & SFB 1288: «Praktiken des Vergleichens» Miteinander Gegenüber #4, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
2021
Figures of Absence, public sculpture in Antwerp, Belgium, commissioned by Public Figure #2: Goshka Macuga, Middelheim Museum
Family Module 2021, public sculpture in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, commissioned through a collaboration between Beaufort, Westtoer and the Municipality of Nieuwpoort
Smierc Marksizmu (Death of Marxism), Gdansk Municipal Gallery, Gdansk
2020
Goshka Macuga, Natural Transformation, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2019
Exhibition M, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
100 Years of Bauhaus, Bauhaus Association, Weimar Freud Museum, London
Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination, Bildmuseet, Umeå
What Was I?, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2018
Goshka Macuga: Intellectual Co-Operation, Neues Museum, Nuremberg
2017
Goshka Macuga & Ahmet Ögüt Episode 2, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, RotterdamGoshka Macuga & Ahmet Ögüt Episode 1, Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Galerie Rüdiger Schottle, Munich
2016
On the Other Side of Tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Now this, is this the end… the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
To the son of man who ate the scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
New Museum, New York
2014
Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy, 8th Berlin Biennale, Museen Dahlem, Berlin
Public Address: Goshka Macuga Tapestries, Lunds Konsthall
Madness and Ritual, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2013
Non-Consensual Act (in progress), Stockholm
Anna Boghiguian & Goshka Macuga, Iniva, London
Sexuality of Atoms, Andrew Kreps, New York
2012
Goshka Macuga, Andrew Kreps, New York
Exhibit A, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London
Untitled, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2011
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
It Broke from Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2010
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2009
I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London
All That is Solid Melts into Air, Mechelen
2008
Turner Prize 2008, exhibition of the nominees, Tate Britain, London
Gottessegen, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2007
Objects in Relation, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
What's In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2006
Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th Sao Paulo Biennial
Sleep of Ulro, A Foundation, Liverpool
2005
Kate MacGarry, London
2003
Kabinett der Abstrakten, Bloomberg Space, London
Picture Room, Gaswork 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
Gruppenausstellung (Auswahl) | Group exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Tales & Tellers (Project conceived by Goshka Macuga & Elvira Dyangani Ose during Art Basel Paris), Miu Miu, Paris
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Survival in the 21st Century, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Le monde comme il va, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
CONDO hosting Bureau New York, Kate MacGarry, London
ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden Baden
Friends in Love and War – L’Éloge des meilleur·es ennemi·es, British Council Collection / macLYON, Lyon, France / Birmingham, UK
2023 – 2024
Archive Highlights, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
HARD/SOFT. Textil und Keramik in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, MAK, Vienna
Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan
Menschheitsdämmerung. Kunst in Umbruchzeiten, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2023
Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Venice
Reaching for the Stars, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
40th EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
Divided Selves: Legacies, Memories, Belonging, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
Alea Lacta Est Vistamare, Milan
Public Matters. Zeitgenössische Kunst im Belvedere-Garten, Belvedere, Vienna
2022 – 2023
Backwards Ahead, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2022
Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Reroute–Reorient, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
2021 – 2022
Primary Forms, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
2021
Portraits, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
Age of You, Jameel Arts Centre, Al Kabisi, Dubai
„Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler“. Kosmopolitische Übungen mit Joseph Beuys, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
Kosmos Emma Kunz. Eine Visionärin im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
2020
Supernatural, Kunsthalle Tubingen
2019
100 Years of Bauhaus, Bauhaus Association, Weimar
Freud Museum, London
Entangle / Physics and the Artistic Imagination, Bildmuseet, Umeå
2018
What Is Enlightenment: 200 Years of the University of Warsaw Library Print Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Machines à Penser, Fondazione Prada, VeniceHello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof– Museum für Gegenwart, BerlinLike Life: Sculpture, Colour and the Body (1300 – Now), The Met Breuer, New York
Still Life, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2017
Fifteen, Kate MacGarry, LondonAntigona, Stage design: Goshka Macuga , Staatsthearter Kassel,The Absent Museum, WIELS, Brussels
Perpetual Movement, Contemporary art, dance and ideas, The Lowry, Manchester
2016
States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, Wellcome Collection, LondonThe Artist's Museum, ICA Boston
Accrochage, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Punta della Dogana, VeniceShow Window, Kate MacGarry, London
2015
Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
United Nations extended – The Vienna Dialog, freiraum quartier21 International, Vienna
Dead: A Celebration of Mortality, Saatchi Gallery, London
2014
Report from the Exhibition, Kate MacGarry, London
Preparatory Notes for a Chicago Comedy, Museum Dahlem, 8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Tagore's Post Office, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
The New International, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2013
Tagore's Universal Allegories: Goshka Macuga & Anna Boghiguian, IINIVA, London
Busted, The High Line, New York
Revolution from Within, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
2012
United Nations Revisited, Galerie M, Berlin
United Nations Revisited, Kunstverein Bonn, Bonn
Dokumenta (13), Kassel
Positions on Conceptual Art, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
2011 – 2012
Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence, CAPC – Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux
2011
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London
Geheimgesellschaften. Wissen Wagen Wollen Schweigen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2010
Traccia 02 (with Pinot Gallizio), Galleria Martano, Turin
Newspeak: British Art Now, Eremitage, St. Petersburg
Tutto e' connesso: ricerche e approfondimenti nell'arte dell'ultimo decennio attraverso la collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), Istituto Svizzero, Rome
Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
The Curse of Imagination, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakau
East Bound, Kai 10 – Raum für Kunst, Dusseldorf
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Behind the Green Door, Harris Lieberman, New York
Star City, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Morality Act. V. Power Alone, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Morality Act. VI. Remember Humanity, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2009
We're Moving, The Sackler Building, Royal Academy of Art, London
It's You. Not Me., Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Fare Mondi, 53rd International Art Exhibition –
La Biennale di Venezia
Sniper, Galerie Biedermann, Munich
Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London
2008
Fables du doute, La Galerie. Centre d'art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec
The Great Transformation – Kunst und taktische Magie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
5. Berlin Biennale, Berlin
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Santhal Family: positions around an Indian sculpture, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
2007
The Affirmation, Chelsea Space (Chelsea College of Art and Design), London
Les Palais Des Etoiles: These Are Also Wings (performance with DADADANDY), Selfridges, London
2006
We've Lost Our Heart and Mind, Event Gallery, London
Moving in Architecture, (selected by Cyril Lepetit), Camden Arts
Centre, London; Curzon Cinema Soho, London
Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo
The Past is a Foreign Country: They do Things Differently There, Mathilda is Calling, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
3rd Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell'Arte Contemporanea, Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola Superiore
16th Biella Prize for Engraving, Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella
2005
Communism, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
The British Art Show, Baltic and touring the UK
Go Between, Magazin 4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
Can Buildings Curate? Architectural Association, London, April
Spring/Summer, curated by Simon Moretti, Program, London
2004
Autumn Catalog Leather Fringes, Kunsthalle Basel
Perfectly Placed, South London Gallery, London
Expo 21: Strategies of the Display, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Mead Gallery, Coventry
Relay, PR04, Puerto Rico
Trackers, PM Gallery, London
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London
2003
Vis à Vis, Platform, London
Ponce, The Ship, London
Creek, Cell Project, London
The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London
Chockerfukingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
2002
London Underground, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei
Pause, Conception, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Corea
The New Religious Art, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art
T.O.F.U, Barts Wells Institute, London
The House of Horror, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam
Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Project, Dublin
2001
Open Plan P3, the marathon, Alphadelta Gallery and Artio Gallery, Athens
Teeth and Trousers, Cell Project Space, London
Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
a very nice film club, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
3 in 1 – Curatorial Mutiny Part 4, Nylon Gallery, London
Avalanche, Hales Gallery, London
Forever Yours, Wooden Heart, AVCO Gallery, London
Skuggspel, Tullkammaren Umea
Zawody Malarskie, Galeria Bielska BWA, Bielska-Biala
Free Wahlen / Uptight out of control 3, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Sexy, Houldsworth Fine Art, London
1999
A Mountain and a Valley, Cubitt Gallery, London
Künstlerbuch | Artists book
Macuga, Goshka: Sleep of Ulro. Edited by Fiona Boundy & Bryony Bond, design: Fraser Muggeridge, hard cover, 248 pages + brochure, full colour, 2007. ISBN/EAN 978-90-8690-116-6
Sammlungen | Collections
Aishti Foundations, Beiruit, Lebanon
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
The Cranford Collection, London, UK
Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Fondazione per l'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Turin, Italy
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK
Government Art Collection, London, UK
Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
KAI 10 Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Monsoon Art Collection, London, UK
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
MoMA, New York, USA
Museion, Bozen, Italy
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Netherlands
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Pinault Collection, Paris, France
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, USA
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Tichy Ocean Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria
Tate Modern, London, UK
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Netherlands
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, USA
