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-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)
Stipendium im DAAD, Berlin (DE)
Woman to Woman. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas and Eugen Raportoru, ERIAC, Berlin, DE
Re-enchanting the World. Polish Pavilion. 79th Venice Biennale, IT
Out of Egypt/Aresnał Gallery/ Białystok/ Poland
The stories we become/ Szydłowski Gallery/Warsaw/Poland 29. Ceroplastic Excercises/Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko/Poland
Side thavenca/Rząsa Gallery/Zakopane/Poland GATE art zone 10/Düsseldorf/Germany
Medzi Svetmi/Diera do sveta Galllery/Liptowski Mikułasz/Slovakia
On the Road – AndroDrom/Mathare Art Gallery/Nairobi/Kenya Na pomedzi/On the border/The Polish Institute/Bratislava/Slovakia
Małgorzata Mirga Tas/National Theater/Skopije/Macedonia
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas/C. K. Norwid Cultural Center/Krakow/Poland
2nd Roma Biennale/Berlin/Germany
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
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
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
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
masters peasants peasants masters/BWA Sokół Art Gallery/Nowy Sącz/Poland
Kali Berga/Bookstore Gallery/Krakow/Poland
Zalikierdo Drom/Interrupted road/Association of Polish Visual Artists Art Gallery/Warsaw/Poland
Dialogues-Wakerpipen/Jatki Art Gallery/Nowy Targ
Jaw Dikh!/JCC Jewish Community Center/Krakow/Poland
Romani Art/Museum of Ethnography/Warsaw/Poland