Goshka Macuga

Born:
1967
Residence:
London, United Kingdom
Nationality:
Polish
Trust:
APT London
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  • Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich presents an exhibition of works by artist Goshka Macuga which is currently on view at the gallery space.

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  • As The Marciano Foundation opens in Los Angeles, we look at 11 exceptional private collections open to the public — from a chain of art malls to a museum built into a rock face

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  • The private collection-turned-public museum may not be a new phenomenon, but it is one that keeps growing. Museums grab headlines with splashy new buildings by star architects or impressive renovation projects of historic industrial buildings. But beyond their often-impressive exteriors, each private museum functions as an extension of its founder’s personality and taste, in how the collection is presented, and how the museum engages with its surrounding community.

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  • Artist Jim Shaw has a cold. Curator Philipp Kaiser is jetlagged, having just flown in from Venice, Italy, the night before.

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  • Documenta 14 is so vast, dispersed, and enigmatic, that it is literally impossible to experience all of it (not to mention that the other half of the quinquennial exhibition has yet to take place, in Kassel, Germany). Yet the earnest visitor should make the effort, while in Athens, not only to take in what he or she can of the international offerings of documenta, but to wander off the beaten path of the biennial map, and sample what the local art scene of Athens has to offer.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • A curator curating artists who curate other artists. It doesn’t get any more meta than that. The artworks collected in “The Artist’s Museum,” a nesting box of an exhibition organized by Dan Byers, are, in essence, collections themselves.

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  • In an age where irreproducibility pretty much means invisibility, the one-upmanship between artists could perhaps now be more accurately characterized

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  • When I was small, I hated museums. They seemed less like repositories of past genius and more like mausoleums where objects that once had a life now sat embalmed for display.

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  • From putting androids in the Fondazione Prada to choreographing a dance performance on top of a conveyor belt, artist Goshka Macuga's upcoming projects push her practice further than ever before.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The ShanghART Gallery is presenting works by Zeng Fanzhi and 19 other major artists at the Frieze Sculpture Park, London that will be on view through January 8, 2017.

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  • Although the art world hysteria of Frieze and Frieze Masters is over for another year, the Frieze Sculpture Park remains open until January 8, 2017, giving you plenty of time to see the best of contemporary sculpture in the beautiful Regent’s Park.

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  • It’s reported that 80% of the visitors to Frieze—that usually caps 68,000—are there to observe, not to buy. In fact, it may be that Frieze Week is less about selling art than ever. Since 2006, Frieze magazine have not released any sales figures, so even if you want to know what’s selling, you won’t be able to find out. What Frieze is still good at is fashion: from the well-heeled guests to good-looking gallery booths, you can expect to find the bleeding-edge of the art world in London. Whether you’re attending to participate, spectate, or purchase, we’ve made a pick of the best fairs, talks, exhibitors, and auctions for each day.

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  • David Breslin is the Whitney Museum’s new director of the collection, replacing Dana Miller.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • This week, it’s Berlin’s turn to do a pirouette across the global art world stage. Until 18 September, commercial galleries, institutes, and non-profit art spaces will put on their best-in-show, giving the outside world a projection of what art is selling, but also, what kind of ideas are mobilizing local artists, curators, and audiences now. So what does the city’s art week say about them this year?

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  • Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition “A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster,” the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery.

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  • Punta della Dogana presents “Accrochage”, a collective exhibition curated by Caroline Bourgeois.

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  • The exhibition “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll” at Milan’s still new Fondazione Prada in Milan explores time, past, present and future with a tr

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  • The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana presents “Over you / you”, the 60th-anniversary edition of the Biennial. Founded in 1955 in Yugoslavia, it is not only one of the world’s oldest biennials, but the first dedicated to the graphic arts.

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  • The ICA opens a comprehensive survey of the artist Walid Raad, a pivotal figure in contemporary art whose work across various mediums investigates the ways in which we represent, remember, and make sense of history.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • It seems as if this spring is a moment for sculpture, and, in particular, women sculptors. Following a two-year refurbishment, the Whitechapel

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  • It seems as if this spring is a moment for sculpture, and, in particular, women sculptors.

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  • Four Liverpool-born artists and one Chester-born artist have been selected to exhibit in the UK’s biggest painting prize.

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  • Following the announcement earlier this year of the two-day sale of The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art at Sotheby’s in London

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  • Picasso, Serra, Miró, Chamberlain, Opie, Monet, Hockney, West, Cage and many more.

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  • In the year 2015, the Walker Art Center will celebrate the 75th anniversary of its founding as a public art center with a series of WALKER@75

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  • Late fall in the United Kingdom affords the opportunity to take stock of the current art climate, and 2014 marks two significant anniversaries for two annual exhibitions that offer concise but different perspectives on the state of contemporary British art: the Turner Prize, and New Contemporaries.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1967 in Warsaw, Poland, Goshka Macuga lives and works in London. Macuga’s practice encompasses a broad range of media, including installation, drawing, sculpture and photography. Using strategies borrowed from exhibition design, Macuga creates environments that establish a series of poetic correspondences between different objects, images and artists’ works as a means of re-contextualizing them and loosening the historical narratives and systems of classifications that shape their conventional readings. Often organized site-specifically, Macuga’s installations and exhibition projects are usually the result of an investigation into a particular location, individual or group. For her show “Picture Room” at Gasworks Gallery (2003), Macuga examined the structure of the Sir John Soane collection while her exhibition “Objects in Relation” at Tate Britain, London (2007), was inspired by the spirit of the artistic group Unit 1, founded by British landscape artist Paul Nash.

Goshka Macuga has recently presented solo exhibitions and projects at Whitechapel, London (2009), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2009), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008), Tate Britain, London (2007), Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York (2007) and the 27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2006). Her work has been shown in numerous museums and international exhibitions, including “Fare Mondi/Making Worlds” at the Corderie dell'Arsenale in the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009), the 5th Berlin Biennial, Berlin (2008), “The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art” at Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008) and “The Great Transformation: Art and Tactical Magic” at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt and MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporeana de Vigo, Vigo (2008). She was nominated for the 2008 edition of the Turner Prize, presented at Tate Britain, London.

Goshka Macuga is represented by Kate MacGarry, London, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.


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