Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is a Polish-Romanian artist and activist. She tackles antigypsyist stereotypes and is committed to building an affirmative and situated iconography of the Roma community from a feminist minority perspective. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow (2004).

Her works have been shown in several dozen solo and group exhibitions, including the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), the Moravian Gallery in Brno (2017), the Centre for Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2020), the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), the Art Encounters Biennale in Timişoara (2019) and the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum – Cultures of the World in Cologne. Since 2011, she has been organising the international artistic residency programme Jaw Dikh! in Czarna Góra, which is aimed at Roma and non-Roma artists.

Mirga-Tas received an award at the 42nd and 44th Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale (2015, 2019). She is also a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2018) and has been awarded the Polityka Pass for the best female artist from Poland (2020) and the Maria Anto and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Art Prize for a young Polish artist (2021) to counteract marginalisation, racial discrimination and xenophobia. She currently lives and works in Czarna Góra in Spisz, Poland.

Mirga-Tas’s was representing the Polish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale.

Małgorzata Mirga. Einzelausstellungen

2023

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. Przeczarowując świat, Galeria Zacheta, Polonia (PL)

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. Sivdem Amenge. Ich nähte für uns. I sewed for us., Brücke- Museum, Berlin (DE)

BARVALO, Mucem, Marseille (FR)

2022 – 2023

Stipendium im DAAD, Berlin (DE)

2022

Woman to Woman. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Eugen Raportoru, ERIAC, Berlin, DE

Re-enchanting the World. Polish Pavilion. 79th Venice Biennale, IT

2021

Out of Egypt/Aresnał Gallery/ Białystok/ Poland

2020

The stories we become/ Szydłowski Gallery/Warsaw/Poland 29. Ceroplastic Excercises/Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko/Poland

2019

Side thavenca/Rząsa Gallery/Zakopane/Poland GATE art zone 10/Düsseldorf/Germany

2018

Medzi Svetmi/Diera do sveta Galllery/Liptowski Mikułasz/Slovakia

2017

On the Road – AndroDrom/Mathare Art Gallery/Nairobi/Kenya Na pomedzi/On the border/The Polish Institute/Bratislava/Slovakia

2016

Małgorzata Mirga Tas/National Theater/Skopije/Macedonia

2015

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas/C. K. Norwid Cultural Center/Krakow/Poland

Małgorzata Mirga. Gruppenausstellungen

2021

2nd Roma Biennale/Berlin/Germany

2020

RESIST! Die Kunst des Widerstands/ Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum/Cologne/Germany

Die sonne does not shine the same as słońce/TRAFO Trafostacja Sztuki/Szczecin/Poland

Warsaw Under Construction/Museum of Modern Art/Warsaw/Poland

11. Berlin Biennale/KW Institute for Contemporary Art/Germany

The Kids Aren’t Alright!/La Rada/Locarno/Switzerland

2019

Art Encounters Biennial/Timișoara/Romania

Roma Women Weaving Europe/European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture – ERIAC i Rumänisches Kulturinstitut/Berlin/Germany

Speaking in One’s Own Voice/Promocyjna Gallery/Warsaw Poland

2018

Young Romani Artist/Kai Dikhas Galerie/Berlin/Germany

Hidden Roma Masterpieces/Palais of the Council of Europe/Strasbourg/France

Romani Art/ The Ethnography Museum/Tarnów/Poland

The right to look/Szara Kamienica Gallery/Krakow/Poland

2017

Transcending the Past, Shaping the Future/Ministry of Foreign Affairs/ERIAC/Berlin/Germany

Kosmoshinokalo/Vesmír je černý/The Universe Is Black, Morawska Gallery/Brno/Czech Republic

Kali Berga/Kai Dikhas Galerie/Berlin/Germany

2016

masters peasants peasants masters/BWA Sokół Art Gallery/Nowy Sącz/Poland

Kali Berga/Bookstore Gallery/Krakow/Poland

2014

Zalikierdo Drom/Interrupted road/Association of Polish Visual Artists Art Gallery/Warsaw/Poland

2011

Dialogues-Wakerpipen/Jatki Art Gallery/Nowy Targ

Jaw Dikh!/JCC Jewish Community Center/Krakow/Poland

Romani Art/Museum of Ethnography/Warsaw/Poland

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