Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
‘It is hard to separate activism from art. These two activities merge, permeating and affecting each other… I can’t shout. I thought that what I can do is talk about my community, show how we see ourselves. And the tool I use is art.’
The work of Romani artist, educator, and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978, Zakopane) addresses anti-Roma stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. Her work depicts everyday life: relationships, alliances and shared activities. Mirga-Tas’s vibrant textile collages are created from materials and fabrics collected from family and friends, which imbues them with a life of their own and a corresponding immediacy. Patchworks made of curtains, jewellery, shirts, and sheets, are sewn together to form so-called 'microcarriers' of history, just as resulting images revise macro perspectives.
Mirga-Tas’s portrayals take the perspective of 'minority feminism', which consciously advocates for women's strength while acknowledging the artist's cultural roots. Mirga-Tas was the official Polish representative at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 – the first Roma artist to represent any country. Her vibrant works offer a rare opportunity to see the Roma on their own terms, both as a contemporary community and as a people with a rich heritage.
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s first UK exhibition will take place at Frith Street Gallery in September 2023.
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I Have a Dream / Suno Mangie Dzialas, 2023
Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
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Re-enchanting the World: Homecoming, 2022
Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy
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Travelling Images, 2022International Cultural Centre, Kraków
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In Conversation: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas & Delaine Le Bas
Frith Street Gallery, Golden Square 12 Oct 2023Thursday 12 October 2023, 6–7pm On the occasion of the artist's exhibition at Frith Street Gallery, and her first presentation in the UK, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Remembrance and Resignification
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville 29 Sep 202329 September 2023 – 31 March 2024 Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) is pleased to present the artist's first solo exibition in Spain, Małgorzata...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Interview
The Guardian 21 Sep 2023Mirga-Tas, through the vigorous clarity of her art, is a force for change. She is speaking loud and clear in her own voice- and with...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Artist Talk
Brücke Museum, Berlin 6 Aug 2023Sunday 6 August | 2–3pm Rom*nja Contemporary Arts and the Practice of Decolonizing Representations (EN) Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is joined in conversation by curators Melanie Roumiguière...Read more
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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Sivdem Amenge. Ich nähte für uns. I sewed for us.
Brücke Museum, Berlin 26 Jun 202326 June–3 September 2023 Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (b. 1978 in Zakopane, Poland) creates large-scale, brightly coloured textile collages and paintings. Her first solo exhibition in Germany...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas joins Frith Street Gallery
23 May 2023Frith Street Gallery is pleased to announce representation of artist, educator and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas. Mirga-Tas’s work addresses anti-Roma stereotypes and engages in building an...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Threads of Life
Forum for living history, Stockholm 6 May 20236 May–31 August 2023 Threads of Life is the first ever exhibition in Stockholm of Małgorzata Mirga-Tas's extraordinary oeuvre. It prersents two recent threads, or...Read more -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas: Conjuring the World
National Gallery of Art, Warsaw 24 Apr 202324 April – 23 July 2023 For the first time in the more than 120-year history of the Venice Biennale, the national pavilion was represented...Read more
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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
I Have A Dream/ Suno Mangi Działać Jag Har en Dröm 2023Hardback, 87 pagesRead more
Publisher: Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg
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Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Travelling images 2022Hardback, 240 pagesRead more
Publisher: ICC Publishing House, Krakow
ISBN: 979-83-66419-47-6
Dimensions: 23.5 x 27.6 -
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Re-enchanting the World 2022Hardback, 260 pagesRead more
Publisher: Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Archive Books, and European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC), Warsaw
ISBN: 978-83-66979-01-7
Dimensions: 16.5 x 22 cm