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Goshka Macuga
Artist's Name: Goshka Macuga
Preferred medium: installation
birth year: 1967
Nationality: PL
City: London

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Somnambulism (sleepwalking), dreaming, and spirituality are central themes in What's In a Name. Madame Blavatsky (2007) is a carved wooden figure depicting a sleeping Madame Blavatsky, levitating between two chairs. Blavatsky was one of the founders of the Theophysical Society, widely considered the first example of New Age thinking. She theorized that somnambulism is a unique spiritual state that is simultaneously a subconscious dream state and a conscious state where our senses are activated. The second carved figure depicts the somnambulist from the 1920 Expressionist film by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. In the film, Dr. Caligari presents a sleepwalking man as a sideshow attraction by putting him in a wooden box in his half-conscious state for twenty years. However, as the film progresses, it is revealed that this plot is actually the fantasy of a patient in a mental institution run by Dr. Caligari. The layering of narratives and various states of consciousness used in Caligari echo the way Macuga's organizes information in her exhibitions. What's In a Name also includes several wall mounted display cases, which hold Macuga's alchemical arrangements of objects, as well as a table sculpture, and a large etched mirror entitled Devil's Sonata (2006). Devil's Sonata is named after a composition by 18th Century Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini. (Andrew Kreps Gallery)

important exhibitions from Goshka Macuga

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Documenta 13 documenta Kassel DE 09.06.2012
Goshka Macuga It Broke from Within Walker Art Center Minneapolis US 15.04.2011
53. Biennale Venedig 2009 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 07.06.2009
Art Now - Goshka Macuga Tate Britain London GB 30.06.2007
The Bloomberg Commission: Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast Whitechapel Art Gallery London GB 05.04.2009
Goshka Macuga - I Am Become Death Kunsthalle Basel Basel CH 16.01.2009
Nature of the Beast Whitechapel Art Gallery London GB 05.04.2009
Turner Prize 2008 - shortlist Tate Britain London GB 30.09.2008
5th Liverpool Biennial 2008: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2008 Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art Liverpool GB 20.09.2008

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Galleries representing
Goshka Macuga:

Andrew Kreps Gallery
Kate MacGarry
Rüdiger Schöttle Galerie

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Goshka Macuga

Saatchi Gallery