Goshka Macuga

Goshka Macuga (born 1967, Poland) is a London-based artist who combine the roles of archivist, curator, and scenographer. Macuga has worked in a variety of media over the last decade, from collages and photographs to tapestries and site-specific installations. Many of the artist’s projects begin with sustained research in the libraries of her sponsoring institution and result in works that recover and reframe forgotten or controversial moments from her host’s past. Some of Macuga’s projects concern historical acts of censorship, others the competing claims made on art by artists, governments, and the public. 

Macuga was a finalist for the 2008 Turner Prize, and her work has been featured in dozens of group exhibitions, including the 2009 Venice Biennale, the Berlin Biennial, the Liverpool Biennial, the São Paolo Biennial, and Documenta 13, among others. Solo exhibitions and commissions have been held at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate in London; the Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland); Kunsthalle Basel; the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN); and Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York, NY). Her first retrospective show was hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Macuga studied at the Wojciech Gerson School of Art, Central Saint Martin’s School of Art, and Goldsmiths College.