Born in Warsaw, Goshka Macuga lives and works in London. Macuga’s solo show Born From Stone is on view through January 18, 2025 at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE, and her work is included in Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, Hudson, NY, on view through October 27, 2024. Earlier this year, she was elected as a member of the Royal Academy, London. In 2021, she was selected as a finalist for the Fourth Plinth Commission, London, and in 2019, Macuga was commissioned to make a large-scale tapestry for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The work re-stages a well-known photograph of Andre Malraux taken in 1954, featuring Macuga surrounded by images that are intrinsically linked to MoMA’s history and collection. Past solo exhibitions include In Flux, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2022 and MUSAC, León, Spain, 2021, Stairway to Nowhere, Kestnergesselchaft, Hannover, 2019, What Was I ?, Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, 2019, Intellectual Co-operation, Neues Museum, Nüremberg, Germany, 2018, To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2016, Now this, is this the end... the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? (part 1), Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin, 2016, Time as Fabric, New Museum, New York, 2016, Exhibit A, MCA Chicago, 2012, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2011, It Broke from Within, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, 2011, The Bloomberg Commission, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 2009, I Am Become Death, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland, 2009, and Objects in Relation, Tate Britain, London, 2007.
Recent group exhibitions include ImPOSSIBLE, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2024, Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2023-4, HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna, 2023 Public Matters: Contemporary Art in the Belvedere Garden, Vienna, Austria, 2023, Everybody Talks About the Weather, Fondazione Prada, Venice, 2023, Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 2022, Supernatural, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Germany 2020, and Like Life: Sculpture, Colour and the Body (1300-Now), The Met Breuer, New York 2018. Macuga was included in Documenta 2012 and nominated for the Turner Prize in 2008.
Her work is held in permanent collections of Aishti Foundations, Beiruit, Lebanon; Arts Council Collection, London, UK; The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Collezione La Gaia, Italy; The Cranford Collection, London, UK; Contemporary Art Society, London, UK; Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK; Government Art Collection, UK; Kadist Foundation, Paris, France; KAI 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Marciano Art Foudation, Los Angeles, CA; Monsoon Collection, London, UK; Muhka, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland; Ocean Tichy Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Saatchi Collection, London, UK; Tate Collection, London, UK; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, Vienna, Austria; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; World Chess Hall of Fame, Saint Louis, MO; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK.