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]
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[edit] Life and work
Goshka Macuga was born in Poland. 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).
[edit] Exhibitions
- 2009 The Bloomberg Commission The Nature of the Beast', Whitechapel Gallery, London
- 2009 I am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
- 2009 Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry, London
- 2008 Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, London
- 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
[edit] See also
[edit] 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.
