Goshka Macuga
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Goshka Macuga (born 1967 in Warsaw, Poland as Małgorzata Macuga) is an artist based in London. She was one of the four nominees for the 2008 Turner Prize.[1]
Life and work
Goshka Macuga was born in Poland. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art and Design and Goldsmiths, University of London, she makes installations which incorporate other artists’ work alongside a variety of disparate objects.[2] She uses techniques and styles common in archiving and museum display.[3]
Goshka Macuga is represented by Kate MacGarry (London), Rüdiger Schöttle (Munich) and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York).
Exhibitions
- 2012 Exhibit,A, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
- 2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany and Queen's Palace, Kabul, Afghanistan
- 2011 Untitled, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
- 2011 It Broke from Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
- 2010 Newspeak: British Art Now pt.1, Saatchi Gallery, London
- 2010 Star City, The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary
- 2009 The Bloomberg Commission The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- 2009 I am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
- 2009 The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St.Ives
- 2009 Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
- 2009 53rd Venice Biennale: Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
- 2008 Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, London
- 2008 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie
- 2007 What’s In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
- 2006 3rd Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell’ Arte Contemporanea, Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola Superiore, Italy
- 2006 Sleep of Ulro, A Foundation, Liverpool
- 2006 Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial
- 2006 The Past is a Foreign Country:They do Things Differently There, Mathilda is Calling, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
- 2005 Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London
- 2005 Go Between, Amt der Landeshauptstadt Kultur, Bregenz, Austria
- 2005 The British Art Show, Baltic and touring the UK
- 2004 Autumn Catalog Leather Fringes, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
- 2003 Kabinett der Abstrakten, BloombergSpace, London
- 2002 Homeless Furniture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2002 Untitled, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
- 2002 Friendship of the Peoples (with Declan Clarke), The Project, Dublin, Ireland
- 2000 Cave, Kunstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
Awards
- 2013 Polish Ministry Of Culture and National Heritage Award
- 2011 Arnold Bode Prize
See also
- List of Turner Prize winners and nominees
- Goshka Macuga at dOCUMENTA 13
- Exhibit, A at MCA Chicago
Notes and references
- ↑ "Four artists up for Turner Prize", BBC, 13 May 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
- ↑ "Art Now. Objects in relation: Goshka Macuga", Tate. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
- ↑ "Goshka Macuga", PilotLondon. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
External links
- Goshka Macuga at Kate MacGarry
- Turner Prize 2008
- work at the Saatchi Gallery
- Work at Andrew Kreps Gallery
- Video interview from Tate Britain
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