Goshka Macuga

Photography: Kaisa Bobuba

 

Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1967, Goshka Macuga has lived and worked in London since 1989. Macuga is an interdisciplinary artist working across media including sculpture, installation, photography and video. Her practice connects different areas and methods of research. Her inquiries are often focused on institutional histories proposing unconventional associative readings of their social and political histories. Macuga’s strategic orchestration of existing materials, collectables and archival documents support the reframing of established narratives.

 

In 2019, she conceived Exhibition M, a large-scale commission for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin; Neues Museum, Nuremberg; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Tate Britain, London; Kunsthalle Basel; and the Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis. She was included in Documenta 13 in

2012, and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008. Her work is included in numerous public collections including Tate, MoMA, Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection, MCA Chicago, Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, and Castello di Rivoli