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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.
Sivdem Amenge. Ich nähte für uns. I sewed for us.

26. June to 
3. September 2023

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Baba Józefa Kiereł Te Hał, 2022, Courtesy of the artist and Foksal Gallery Foundation. Photo: Marek Gardulski

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Akie Sam, 2020, Courtesy of the artist and Foksal Gallery Foundation. Photo: Marek Gardulski

Preparations for the exhibition Re-enchanting the World in the studio of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Zakopane, 2021. Photo: Daniel Rumiancew.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Out Of Egypt (Wyjście z Egiptu), 2021, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Work in Progress

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, O Fotografis, 2015, Wojciech Szymanski and Robert Kusek collection. Photo: Marcin Tas

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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978 in Zakopane, Poland) creates large-scale, brightly coloured textile collages and paintings. Her first solo exhibition in Germany sees the artist embarking on an artistic dialogue with the Brücke-Museum Collection.

Her works explore historical narratives as well as contemporary experiences faced by the Roma people. The artist often depicts scenes from their everyday lives, breaking with external stereotypes and countering them with a new, self-confident Roma iconography. Community, family, sisterhood and gender relations are core themes in her artistic oeuvre. Its protagonists are often people who are close to the artist: family members, artist friends and other important figures from the Roma community. 

The Bergitka-Roma artist grew up in a Roma settlement in Czarna Góra, Poland. Her artistic practice is closely linked to her activism on behalf of the Roma community. For centuries, they have been portrayed through the eyes of non-Roma artists, whose depictions often reproduce unconsidered racist clichés – as in Otto Mueller’s paintings.

In her works, Mirga-Tas refers to these problematic historical images and renegotiates them. Several such artistic responses to the museum’s collection can be found in this exhibition.

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas studied Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Since then, she has presented her works internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2020) and Göteborgs Konsthall (2023). In the last year, she represented Poland at the Venice Biennale and was featured at documenta fifteen. She is currently a scholarship holder of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme.

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Lisa Marei Schmidt, Curator

Melanie Roumiguière, Co-Curator

Magdalena Syen, Assistant Curator

Valentina Bay, Research and curatorial Assistant

Daniela Bystron, Curator of Outreach

Hamze Bytyci, Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Co-Curators Public Programme

Philipp Lange, Fee Wüstenberg, curatorial assistant