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Goshka 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; Of what is, that it is; of what is not, that is not I, a two-part tapestry, one part shown in Kassel, Germany at dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), the other in Kabul, Afghanistan, never to be exhibited together; Exhibit, A (2012-13), a survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and The Nature of the Beast (2009) at Whitechapel Gallery, London, a 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; and Fondazione Prada, Milan.

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