SELECTED WORKS BY Goshka Macuga
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Goshka Macuga
A Time to Live, A Time to Die
2005
hand tooled leather in tray frame
52 x 146 cm |
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Taking her sourced images from publications, and reactivating them in tooled leather, Goshka Macuga’s A Time To Live, A Time To Die replicates the authoritative material of book covers. Creating a double entendre ‘cover version’, Macuga’s drawing is a composite of other artists’ work, establishing a new context for image interpretation via juxtaposition of chance selection: the girl taken from Picasso, the book from Max Ernst, and birds from images from the 1905 Russian Revolution. Appropriating and reordering these disparate elements, Macuga constructs her own suggestive narrative based on an eclectic and disjointed history. Indelibly engraved on skin, A Time To Live, A Time To Die literally frames the ingrained fabric of memory as tractile experience. |
Goshka Macuga
Library Table
2005
oak table, leather bound books, customised lamps
140 x 206 cm |
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Goshka Macuga
Madame Blavatsky
2007
Carved wood, fibreglass, clothes, chairs
114.3 x 190.5 x 73.6 cm |
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Goshka Macuga
Study for a portrait of Lord Byron (Lord Byron Table)
2006
Wood, paint, ink, pen nibs, scissors, paper and glass
100 x 150 cm |
 
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Goshka Macuga's BIOGRAPHY
1967
Born in Poland
Lives and works in London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Bloomberg Commission - Goshka Macuga, Whitechapel Gallery, London, April 2009 – April 2010
Goshka Macuga – I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel
Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, September 2009 – January 2010
2008
Goshka Macuga: Gottessegen, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, May - June
2007
Objects in Relation, Art Now, Tate Britain, London, June – October
What’s In a Name, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, February – March
2006
Mula sem Cabeça (Headless Mule), How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial, October - December
Sleep of Ulro, The Furnace Commission, A Foundation, Liverpool, September - November
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, Ireland
Untitled, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
Homeless Furniture, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2000
Cave, Kunstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
Cave, Sali Gia, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St.Ives, October 2009 - January 2010
Textile Art and the Social Fabric, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, September 2009 – January 2010
53rd Venice Biennale: Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Corderie dell’Arsenale, Venice
Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry, February – April 2009
2008
Turner Prize 2008, Tate Britain, September 2008 – January 2009
That beautiful pale face is my fate (For Lord Byron), Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, July - August
The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein, June – September; travelling to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain, September 2008 – January 2009
Tales of Disbelief, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France, May – July
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Neue Nationalgalerie, April - June
Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, March - April
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, March - May
Santhal Family: Positions Around an Indian Sculpture, MuHKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, February - May
2006
We’ve Lost Our Heart and Mind, Event Gallery, London, December 2006 - January 2007
Moving in Architecture, (selected by Cyril Lepetit), Camden Arts Centre, London, July, and Curzon Cinema Soho, London, September
The Past is a Foreign Country: They do Things Differently There, Mathilda is Calling, Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, July – October
3rd Attese Biennale di Ceramica nell' Arte Contemporanea, Museo della Ceramica Manlio Trucco, Albissola Superiore, Italy, July -September
16th Biella Prize for Engraving (curated by Jeremy Lewison), Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy, March - June
2005
Communism, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
The British Art Show, Baltic & touring the UK, 2005 - 2006
Go Between, Amt der Landeshauptstadt Kultur, Bregenz, Austria, July – September
Can Buildings Curate? Architectural Association, London, April
Spring/Summer, curated by Simon Moretti, Program, London, May - June
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 á 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
2000
Sexy, Houldsworth Fine Art, London
1999
A mountain and a valley, Cubitt , London
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