The Artists Roundtable: Goshka Macuga (London)

Описание: MA Curatorial Practice presents a talk with Goshka Macuga (b. 1967, Warsaw, Poland). Macuga is a London-based artist known for her research-intensive and interdisciplinary practice that combines roles of artist, curator, and historian. Through installations, sculptures, tapestries, and collages, Macuga questions how history is constructed and presented by institutions. She often mines institutional archives and incorporates works by other artists, blurring the lines between artmaking and curatorial practice. Macuga's work frequently engages with themes of power, politics, and historical narratives, with a particular interest in institutional histories and moments of social change. Her experience growing up in postwar Poland has given her a unique perspective on examining communism and complicating historical narratives. By incorporating the work of other artists, historical artifacts, and her own creations into her installations, Macuga disrupts traditional art-making hierarchies. Her work extends beyond the scope of a single artist and into curatorial practice, exhibition design, and historical inquiry. In recent years, Macuga has frequently used the historical medium of Gobelin tapestries to create mind maps and panoramic scenes that weave together her research. These tapestries often depict a collage of historical photographs to comment on the relationship between documentation and truth.

Selected major exhibitions include: “To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll” (2016), a solo exhibition at Fondazione Prada, Milan; “dOCUMENTA (13)” (2012), Macuga’s contribution featured the two-part tapestry Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that is not I—one part was shown in Kassel, Germany, and the other in Kabul, Afghanistan, never to be exhibited together; “Exhibit, A” (2012), a retrospective at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and “The Nature of the Beast” (2009) at Whitechapel Gallery London, Turner Prize Nomination (2008). Macuga's work is featured in numerous major public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Tate, London, The Broad, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Fondazione Prada, Milan.