Goshka Macuga, Goshka Macuga. In Flux
March 16 - September 25, 2022, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Goshka Macuga, Goshka Macuga. In Flux
March 16 - September 25, 2022, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Goshka Macuga, Goshka Macuga. In Flux
March 16 - September 25, 2022, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Public Figure #2, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp May 14, 2021 - May 1, 2022
Public Figure #2, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp May 14, 2021 - May 1, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
IN FLUX, MUSAC, Leon
July 10, 2021 - February 20, 2022
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Atlas, Torre – Fondazione Prada, Milan
Permanent installation
Goshka Macuga
GoNoGo “And pray that there’s intelligent Life somewhere up in space ‘Cause it’s bugger all down here on Earth”, 2021
Model, estimated 10 meters tall (393.7 inches, 100 cm.)
stairway to nowhere, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany May 24 - August 4, 2019
stairway to nowhere, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany May 24 - August 4, 2019
stairway to nowhere, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany May 24 - August 4, 2019
stairway to nowhere, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany May 24 - August 4, 2019
stairway to nowhere, Kestner Gesellschaft, Germany May 24 - August 4, 2019
Goshka Macuga
1919/1933, 2019
Tapestry
114 1/8 x 81 1/8 in (290 x 206 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York October 2019
Goshka Macuga
Make Tofu Not War, 2018
Tapestry
115 3/8 x 176 in (293.1 x 447 cm)
Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Germany
July 13 - September 16, 2018
Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Germany
July 13 - September 16, 2018
Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Germany
July 13 - September 16, 2018
Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Germany
July 13 - September 16, 2018
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Breuer
March 21 - July 22, 2018
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and The Body, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Breuer
March 21 - July 22, 2018
Hello World: Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof
April 28 - August 26, 2018
Machines à penser, Fondazione Prada
May 26 - November 25, 2018
Machines à penser, Fondazione Prada
May 26 - November 25, 2018
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, Configuration 28, Technology’s Awakening: Francis Fukuyama, Ray Bradbury, Aaron Swartz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Monster of Frankenstein, Ray Kurzweil, 2016
Bronze
72 3/4 x 159 x 118 in (184.8 x 403.9 x 299.7 cm)
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, Configuration 28, Technology’s Awakening: Francis Fukuyama, Ray Bradbury, Aaron Swartz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Monster of Frankenstein, Ray Kurzweil (DETAIL), 2016
Bronze
72 3/4 x 159 x 118 in (184.8 x 403.9 x 299.7 cm)
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, Configuration 30, End of Time: Andrei Linde, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Crutzen, Carlo Rovelli, Ibn Khaldun, Jared Diamond, 2016
Bronze
72 3/4 x 159 x 118 in (184.8 x 403.9 x 299.7 cm)
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, Configuration 30, End of Time: Andrei Linde, Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Crutzen, Carlo Rovelli, Ibn Khaldun, Jared Diamond (DETAIL), 2016
Bronze
72 3/4 x 159 x 118 in (184.8 x 403.9 x 299.7 cm)
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
Before the Beginning and After the End: Artists’ Systems (in collaboration with Patrick Tresset), 2016
Blue table with vitrines, biro drawings by system “Paul-n” on paper scrolls, artworks and objects
Dimensions variable
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
Before the Beginning and After the End: Artists’ Systems (in collaboration with Patrick Tresset) (DETAIL), 2016
Blue table with vitrines, biro drawings by system “Paul-n” on paper scrolls, artworks and objects
Dimensions variable
On the other side of tomorrow, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
September 15th - October 15th, 2016
Now this, is this the end... the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
June 3rd - June 29th, 2016
Now this, is this the end... the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
June 3rd - June 29th, 2016
Now this, is this the end... the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
June 3rd - June 29th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
Preparatory Notes, 2014
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York
May 4th - June 26th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
Preparatory Notes, 2014
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York
May 4th - June 26th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
Preparatory Notes (DETAIL), 2014
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York
May 4th - June 26th, 2016
Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York
May 4th - June 26th, 2016
Goshka Macuga
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, 2016
Android, plastic coat, handmade shoes (shoe 1: expandable foam; show 2: cardboard, linen)
Dimensions variable
Goshka Macuga
Before the Beginning and After the End: Artists’ Systems (in collaboration with Patrick Tresset), 2016
Blue table with vitrines, biro drawings by system “Paul-n” on paper scrolls, artworks and objects
Dimensions variable
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
February 4 - June 19, 2016
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
February 4 - June 19, 2016
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
February 4 - June 19, 2016
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
February 4 - June 19, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 11, Last Man: Noam Chomsky, Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mikhail Gorbachev, Francis Fukuyama, 2015
Bronze
83 7/8 x 128 3/4 x 115 3/8 in (213 x 327 x 293 cm)
To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan
February 4 - June 19, 2016
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 1, End of Memory: Ray Kurzweil, Giordano Bruno, Socrates, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Alan Turing, Sigmund Freud., 2015
Bronze
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 118 in (200 x 200 x 299.7 cm)
Goshka Macuga
International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation, Configuration 1, End of Memory: Ray Kurzweil, Giordano Bruno, Socrates, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Alan Turing, Sigmund Freud. (DETAIL), 2015
Bronze
78 3/4 x 78 3/4 x 118 in (200 x 200 x 299.7 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Madness-Insane, 2014
Wool tapestry
114 x 170 in (289.6 x 431.8 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Aby Warburg on Madness and Ritual, set for Scene 2, 2014
Tapestry
106 3/8 x 144 1/8 in (270 x 366 cm)
8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
May 29 - August 8, 2014
8th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
May 29 - August 8, 2014
Public Address: Goshka Macuga Tapestries, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
June 14 - August 31, 2014
Goshka Macuga
Death of Marxism, Women of All Lands Unite, 2013
Wool tapestry
220 1/2 x 114 1/4 in (560 x 290 cm)
Public Address: Goshka Macuga Tapestries, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
June 14 - August 31, 2014
Goshka Macuga
Pattern for Tichý 4, 2013
Colored pencil on paper
42 5/8 x 32 7/8 in (108.4 x 83.4 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Death is not the end , 2013
Collage on hand printed silver gelatin print
14 7/8 x 16 3/4 in (37.6 x 42.6 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that it is not 1, 2012
Wool tapestry
204 3/4 x 685 in (520 x 1740 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Anti-Collage (Anda Rottenburg), 2011
Silkscreen on hand-printed photograph
78 3/4 x 54 3/4 in (200 x 139 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Anti-Collage (Julita Wojcik), 2011
Silkscreen on hand-printed photograph
70 7/8 x 49 3/8 in (180 x 125.5 cm)
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds Venice Biennale, Corderie dell'Arsenale, Venice
June 7 - November 22, 2009
Fare Mondi/Making Worlds Venice Biennale, Corderie dell'Arsenale, Venice
June 7 - November 22, 2009
Untitled, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
December 3, 2011 - February 19, 2012
Untitled, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
December 3, 2011 - February 19, 2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel
June 9 - September 16, 2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel
June 9 - September 16, 2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kunsthalle Fredericianum, Kassel
June 9 - September 16, 2012
It Broke From Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
April 14 - August 14, 2011
It Broke From Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
April 14 - August 14, 2011
It Broke From Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
April 14 - August 14, 2011
It Broke From Within, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
April 14 - August 14, 2011
Goshka Macuga
Noticeboard, 2011
Noticeboard with leaflets
47 1/4 x 472 3/8 in (120 x 1200 cm)
Goshka Macuga
Colin Powell, 2009
Bronze on wooden plinth
22 1/4 x 37 x 21 in (56.5 x 94 x 53.3 cm)
The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London
April 5, 2009 - April 4, 2010
The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London
April 5, 2009 - April 4, 2010
The Nature of the Beast, Whitechapel Gallery, London
April 5, 2009 - April 4, 2010
Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
January 16 - March 8, 2009
Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
January 16 - March 8, 2009
Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
January 16 - March 8, 2009
Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
January 16 - March 8, 2009
Art – a public matter? Ever since their opening to the general public in the 1780s, the Belvedere Gardens have been used extensively as places for recreation and communality. The occasion of the 300th anniversary of the completion of the Upper Belvedere is a good opportunity to emphasize that they are clearly also places of art.
The work of Goshka Macuga (Warsaw, 1967) addresses the relationships between art, power and inherited narratives around historical facts and characters. Her work connects different fields and research methods, and is often based on an investigation of institutional accounts. Macuga proposes unconventional associative readings of social and political events.
Inside 6 exhibition levels of Torre, project “Atlas”, emerged from a dialogue between Miuccia Prada and Germano Celant, is unveiled. It hosts works from the Prada Collection displayed in a sequence of environments incorporating solos and confrontations, created through assonances or contrasts, between artists such as Carla Accardi and Jeff Koons, Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer and Pino Pascali, William N. Copley and Damien Hirst, John Baldessari and Carsten Höller.
From Thursday 17 June the fourth floor of Torre reopens to the public with a new display featuring works by artists Goshka Macuga and Betye Saar.
Goshka Macuga (Warsaw, Poland, 1967) brings into focus the relationships between art, power, and history in her practice. Her works comprise large installations that mix her own pieces with material found in archives and collections to explore new interpretations of inherited narratives of historical events and characters. Macuga engages with continuous recycling of images and accounts, a method inspired by art historian Aby Warburg who juxtaposed thematically or aesthetically related images from different historical periods to create a visual continuum. Macuga blends together the items in her installations and builds narratives focused on a single event or on revealing relationships and connections between a priori unrelated historical characters. Her works suggests new interpretations of the political and social events.
IN FLUX is the first presentation of the artist"s work in Spanish territory. Curated by Neus Miró, the show aims to showcase some of her more renowned installations: Plus Ultra (2009), Untitled (2011), and The Nature of the Beast (2010). Each of them explores and reinterpret inherited narratives regarding historical events and characters.
Goshka Macuga’s sculpture takes influence from the status check of space missions (go/no go testing referring to a pass/fail test principle) before a rocket launch can proceed. It feels as though we are at the end of an era post-covid, but also at the beginning of a new one; a possible take-off fuelled by uncertainty.
The new work pays homage to Chantal Akerman, Belgian pioneer cineaste and visual artist; Andrée Blouin, pan-African political activist and member of the first democratically elected government of post-independence Congo; Patricia De Martelaere, philosopher, professor and author; Marie Popelin, the first woman doctor in Law in Belgium and key-figure in the international women’s movement; and Mathilde Schroyens, the first woman mayor of Antwerp and reformer of the city’s education system. Macuga contoured the profiles of these women and cast the outlines in rubber. The negative portraits that result from this process refer to the overwhelming absence of female figures in the collective memory and the public imaginary, and to the often invisible nature of intellectual and artistic labour and innovation.
Through works that bring together objects, movement, or the living body, The Paradox of Stillness explores the intersections between performance and visual art. The exhibition features some 100 artworks by successive generations of artists who test the boundaries between stillness and motion, mortality and time.
Goshka Macuga’s exhibition, The Death of Marxism, presents series of artworks that are an effect of diverse forms of creative practice – artistic research, appropriations, and collages. It focuses on the theme of the kaleidoscopic complexity of historical and personal narratives of the past.
The maquette of the Macuga’s proposed work will be exhibited at The National Gallery, London in May 2021 with two selected proposals announced this summer from the Six shortlisted artists. The works will be unveiled in Trafalgar Square in 2022 and 2024 respectively.
The other five shortlisted artists include: Samson Kambalu, Nicole Eisenman, Ibrahim Mahama, Teresa Margolles and Paloma Varga Weisz.
Exhibition M, Goshka Macuga's large-scale Jacquard tapestry, will hang in the atrium of the Cullman Education and Research Building and has been specifically produced for this space. The work re-stages a well-known photograph of Andre Malraux taken in 1954 by Maurice Jarnoux for the magazine Paris Match, featuring Macuga surrounded by images that are intrinsically linked to MoMA’s history and collection.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Kestner Gesellschaft is presenting a solo exhibition by the Polish-British artist Goshka Macuga (*1967 in Warsaw, lives and works in London). In her work, Macuga questions historiography, especially key ideas of modernism such as a belief in progress, authorship, and utopia. In detective-like research, she finds breaks, pitfalls, and ambiguities in a supposedly linear narrative. This exhibition focuses on the Bauhaus, the influential school of art, architecture, and design, and its connection to the Kestner Gesellschaft. From 24 May to 4 August 2019, installations, sculptures, textiles, and collages by Goshka Macuga will be on view throughout the building. The artist is creating new works specifically for the exhibition at the Kestner Gesellschaft in collaboration with the London lighting designer Michael Anastassiades.
Prada presents What Was I?, a new exhibition project conceived by Goshka Macuga, with the support of Fondazione Prada. On view from 23 March to 2 June 2019, it will take place in the premises of Prada Rong Zhai, a 1918 historical residence in Shanghai restored by Prada and reopened in October 2017. What Was I? is a kaleidoscopic journey in the post-Anthropocene epoch, after the collapse of humankind due to the effects of technological overdevelopment. The protagonist of this unexpected voyage is an android created by Macuga and produced in Japan by A Lab for the exhibition presented in 2016 at the Milan venue of Fondazione Prada.
The Polish-British artist Goshka Macuga (born 1967) works in the field of installations, using media as varied as photo collage, sculpture, large-format tapestry, video and performance. She is known for her diverse approach that extends to the curatorial and the narrative. Using extensive artistic research, she develops storylines for her works and exhibitions in which she combines fiction and history. Her “materials” are pivotal moments in human history, as well as works by other artists, which she stages in playful displays.Macuga is interested in the myriad connections within cultural history, especially that of the international avant-gardes of the twentieth century.
