Goshka Macuga

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1967 in Poland
Lives: and works in London

Education
1995-6 Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art
1991-5 Central St. Martins, BA Hons Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions
2011
Goshka Macuga, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Goshka Macuga, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

2010
Goshka Macuga, Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle, Munich

2009
The Bloomberg Commission - Goshka Macuga, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Goshka Macuga � I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel
All That is Solid Melts into Air, Mechelen, Belgium

2008
Goshka Macuga: Gottessegen, Galerie R�diger Sch�ttle, Munich,

2007
Objects in Relation, Art Now, Tate Britain
What�s In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

2006
Sleep of Ulro, The Furnace Commission, A Foundation, Liverpool

2005
Goshka Macuga, Kate MacGarry, London

2003
Kabinett der Abstrakten, Bloomberg Space, London
Picture Room, Gasworks 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

Group Exhibitions
2010
Traccia 02 (with Pinot Gallizio), curated by Francesca Comisso, Galleria Martano, Turin
Newspeak: British Art Now pt.1, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Curse of Imagination, The Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow, Poland
Tutto e� connesso: ricerche e approfondimenti nell�arte dell�ultimo decennio attraverso la collezione, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), curated by Adam Szymczyk, Istituto Svizzero, Rome; travelling to Kunsthalle Basel in 2011.
Star City, The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary
Use & Mention, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London
Eastbound, KAI 10, Raum f�r Kunst, D�sseldorf

2009
We�re Moving, Royal College of Art
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St.Ives
Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
53rd Venice Biennale: Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Corderie dell�Arsenale, Venice
Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry

2008
Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, September 2008 � January 2009
That beautiful pale face is my fate (For Lord Byron), Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire
The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein; travelling to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
Tales of Disbelief, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie
Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery
Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

2006
We�ve Lost Our Heart and Mind, Event Gallery, London, December 2006 - January 2007
Mula sem Cabe�a (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th S�o Paulo Biennial, October - December
Moving in Architecture, (selected by Cyril Lepetit), Camden Arts Centre and Curzon Cinema Soho, London
Mathilda is Calling, Institut Mathildenh�he, Darmstadt, Germany
3rd Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell' Arte Contemporanea, Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola Superiore, Italy
16th Biella Prize for Engraving (curated by Jeremy Lewison), Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy.

2005
Communism, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
The British Art Show, Baltic & touring the UK
Go Between, Amt der Landeshauptstadt Kultur, Bregenz, Austria,
Can Buildings Curate? Architectural Association, London
Spring/Summer, curated by Simon Moretti, Program, London

2004
Automn Catalog Leather Fringes, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Perfectly Placed, South London Gallery, London
Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Expo 21: Strategies of Display, Mead Gallery, Coventry
Relay, PR04, Puerto Rico
Trackers, PM Gallery, London
Tonight, Studio Voltaire, London

2003
Vis � Vis, Platform, London
Ponce, The Ship, London
Creek, Cell Project, London
The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art, London
Chockerfuckingblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London

2002
T.O.F.U, Barts Wells Institute, London
The New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennale
London Underground, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Pause, Conception, Gwangju Biennale 2002, Project 1
The House of Horror, Outline Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
The New Religious Art, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Project, Dublin, Ireland

2001
Zawody Malarskie, Galeria BWA Bielsko-Biala, Poland
Open Plan P 3 The Marathon, Alphadelta Gallery and Artio Gallery, Athens, Greece
Woof Woof, Becoming Animal, Austrian Cultural Forum, London
Skuggspel, Tullkammaren, Umea, Sweden
Teeth & Trousers, Cell Project Space, London
Forever Yours, Wooden Heart, London
Free Wahlen/Uptight out of control 3, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden Baden
Avalanche, Hales Gallery, London
Curatorial Mutiny Part 4, Nylon, London
A very nice film club, Vilma Gold, London

1999
The Mountain and the Valley, Cubitt Gallery, London (curated with Dexter Dalwood and Matthew Leahy)

Bibliography
2010
In the Archive, Arc - The Journal of the Royal College of Art, Issue 14, Summer 2010, pp.37-41
Art Propaganda and Politics: Goshka Macuga, Didem Yaziki, Res Magazine, March 2010, pp.130-3

2009
Making Worlds- Goshka Macuga, Miriam Mirolla, L�Uomo Vogue, May/June 2009
Goshka Macuga: Kunsthalle Basel, Eva Scharrer, Modern Painters, May 2009, p.70
Images from the region of Nowhere, Milovan Farronato, Mousse magazine (IT), April- May 2009, pp. 19-24
East Meets Best, Tom Lubbock, The Independent, 3 April 2009 pp. 4 � 5
Tapestry of Picasso�s Guernica marks Whitechapel gallery reopening, Stephen Adams, telegraph.co.uk, 01 April 2009
The Meta-Artist Goes Radical: Goshka Macuga�s complex and multilayered practice, Chris Sharp, Kaleidoscope magazine (IT), March � April 2009, pp. 73-9
Whitechapel Gallery reopens with Picasso and anthrax, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 31 March 2009
Goshka Macgua at the Whitechapel Gallery, Michael Glover, The times, 30 March 2009, pp. 9
Picasso�s fury screams out still, Michael Glover, The Independent, 24 March 2009, pp. 17
Goshka Macuga: The way I see it, Newstatesman, 19 March 2009
Clash of Symbols, Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times, March 2009
Friendship of the Peoples: On the work of Goshka Macuga, Grant Watson, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp.64�70
Knowing This� Goshka Macuga in conversation with Monika Szewczyk about Projects in progress, London 14 October 2008, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp. 72�80
Great Transformations: On the Spiritual in Art, Again, Dieter Roelstaete, Afterall, Spring 2009, pp. 5-15.
Essay: The New Modernism, Sitting Defunct Modernity in Search of Something Useful, Martin Herbert, Tate Etc, Spring 2009, pp. 62 � 6
Controversial tapestry to star in Whitechapel reopening, Martin Bailey, The Art Newspaper, 26 January 2009

2008
Frieze Art Fair Feels a Big Chill, Roberta Smith, The New York Times.com, 18 October 2008
Turner Prize 2008, Helen Sumpter, Time Out, 9-15 October 2008, p.49
Shhh�it�s the Turner Prize, Laura Cumming, The Observer, 5 October 2008, p.17
Goshka Macuga, The Times2, 1 October 2008, p.3
Nurses and Curses, Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 30 September 2008, pp.27-29
The Great transformation, Amanda Coulson, frieze, October 2008, p.137
Shortlist for Turner Prize promises end to male domination, Arifa Akbar, The independent, 14 May 2008, pp.12-13
Shortlist for Turner is dominated by women, Stephen Adams, The Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2008, p.13
ReTurner of women artists, Louise Jury & Rashid Razaq, Evening Standard, 13 May 2008, p.3
Female artists dominate Turner shortlist, Andrew Dickson, Guardian.co.uk, 13 May 2008
Mannequin on toilet bids for Turner Prize, Sherna Noah, Independent.co.uk, 13 May 2008
The Simpsons become art for this year's Turner Prize, Polly Corrigan, Telegraph.co.uk, 13 May 2008
Goshka Macuga Talked to Declan Clarke and Paul McDevitt in Cl�rchens Ballhaus, Berlin, on the 8th January, 2008, printed project, Issue 9, Visual Artists Ireland, April 2008

2007
Goshka Macuga, frieze, July 2007, Jonathan Griffin
Goshka Macuga, Time Out London, July 18-24 2007, Gabriel Coxhead, p.36
Putting Relations in Perspective, The Independent, 30 June 2007, Jonathan Evans
Goshka Macuga FlashArt, May-June 07, Armelle Pradalier, pp.133-4
Goshka Macuga: The New Museum, ArtReview, April 07, Skye Sherwin, pp.62-5
Goshka Macuga, Artforum, April 2007, Michael Wilson, pp.258-9
Die Watchlist de luxe f�r 2007, Monopol, n.1, Jan 07, Tirdad Zolghadr, p.87
Looking Back: Emerging Artists, frieze Jan/Feb 07, Alex Farquharson, p.136

2006
Liverpool Biennial, frieze, Nov-Dec 06, Jonathan Griffin, p.158
Belgian Artist, Presumed Dead, Alive in Brazil, Marcel Broodthaers Resurrected at the S�o Paulo Biennial, Modern Painters, October 2006, Martin Herbert, pp.81-85
Not All Ha, Ha, Hee, Hee: Liverpool Biennial, Art Review, Mark Rappolt, Sept 06, p.25
Das br�llende Lachen des Gro�herzogs Ernst Ludwig, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 18.8.06, Kostanze Cruwell
Beuys, B�cklin, Kippenberger und Co., Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 14.7.06
Focus: Goshka Macuga, frieze, June 06, Jonathan Griffin, p.236
Dazed & Confused, Issue135, March06, Iphgenia Baal, p.123
British Art Show 6, Neil Mulholland, Flash Art, January-February, p.100
British Art (does It) Show? Neil Mulholland and Andrew Hunt, frieze, January- February, pp.132-7
Dazed & Confused, Iphgenia Baalp, Issue 135, March, p.123
2005
London Critics� Picks, Goshka Macuga, Artforum website, March, 2005
Goshka Macuga, Frieze, issue 92, June/July/August, Peter Suchin, pp.168-9
Goshka Macuga, The Guardian Guide, March 5-11 2005 p.37
Dazed & Confused, N258, Charles Danby, p.60

2004
Goshka Macuga, Contemporary, nr.64, Sacha Craddock
I am a curator, Art Monthly, April 2004, Paul O�Neill

Publications
Forma e informazione � nuove vie per l�astratto nell�arte del terzo millennio, Stefano Pirovano, Johan & Levi editore, Monza 2010
Goshka Macuga: The Nature of The Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London 2010
Contemporary Eastern European Art, Black Dog Publishing, London 2010
Creamier � Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, London 2010
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate, 2009
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009- 2010, Martin Herbert, Frieze, London 2009
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale exhibition catalogue, Marsilio Editori, Italy 2009.
Vitamin 3D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, introduction by Anne Ellegood, Phaidon Editors, London 2009
Turner Prize, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2008, pp.16-19
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2008-9, Tom Morton, Frieze publishing, London 2008
Fables du Doute/Tales of Disbelief, exhibition catalogue, La Galerie centre d�art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, 2008
When Things Cast No Shadow, 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, JRP/Ringier, 2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Francesco Manacorda, Merrell, 2008
Goshka Macuga � Sleep Of Ulro, Edited by: Bryony Bond & Lucy Wilson, A Foundation, Liverpool/ Kate MacGarry/ Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007
Mathilda is Calling, exhibition catalogue, Hatje Cantz Editor, Ostfildern, 2006
3rd Attese Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art 2006, exhibition catalogue, p.105-7
16th Biella Prize For Engraving 2006, Art in the Age of Anxiety, Jeremy Lewinson, Skira, Milan 2006, p.34-5, 150-1
Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2005-6, Tom Morton, Frieze, London 2005
Go Between, 2005, Bregenzer Kunstverein/Magazin 4, p.150-7
The Straight Or Crooked Way, 2003, Eliza Patten, RCA, London, p.82-5
Transmission, Speaking & Listening, Vol. N4, 2005, Site Gallery-Sheffield, p.36-45