Gosia Machon

Overview

Portrait of the artist in front of Heimweh (homesickness), an installation from her solo-exhibition at Lyra-Raum in Hamburg 2022.

Born 1979, Poland

Lives and works is Hamburg, Germany

Gosia Machon's figurative abstract paintings and drawings are created with intuitive processes and are driven by an inner archive. Her work draws from unconscious, autobiographical and collective experiences and memories. It repeatedly revolves around the longing for untouched nature. This nature can be a biotope or a plant, and refers equally to the unfathomable meanders of our human psyche and body – the piece of wilderness within ourselves.

Machon graduated from HAW Hamburg (Department Design) in 2008. She has since exhibited her work and projects internationally at galleries and art institutions in Berlin, Paris, Antwerp, Warsaw, Istanbul, Vienna, Tel Aviv, and Kyoto. Her recent exhibitions include Nominees at Kunsthaus, Hamburg 2023; A room for ones own at Clint Roehnisch Gallery, Toronto, 2022; Lieb Lieb Leid Lied at HilbertRaum, Berlin, 2021; and Durch das Getümmel at Kunstverein Ellwangen, 2020.

She is a lecturer for drawing and painting at German art schools, including HAW Hamburg and Burg Giebichtenstein Kunstchochschule Halle; and the recipient of art awards and grants, most recently the Hamburg Grant for Contemporary Art, Ministry of Culture and Media 2023; and the Heitland Honneur Celle 2023.
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Publications
- LIEB LEIB LEID LIED
  Gosia Machon 2021
  Hardcover - color, offset, 216 pages
  Publisher: THE BOOKS THE BOOKS
  ISBN: 978-3-9821996-3-4
  Dimensions: 8 x 6 in (20 x 15 cm)
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Exhibitions
- Gosia Machon
  The World Would Be Nothing June 8 - July 5, 2023
  MEPAINTSME is pleased to present the forthcoming exhibition 'Gosia Machon: The World Would Be Nothing', a solo presentation of paintings by Polish artist Gosia Machon that celebrates her reverence for non-human-beings, and the fascinating experience we share. Aliens, gods and ghosts -- the artist views the beings that cohabitate our world as enchantingly otherworldly, while intuitively feeling, at the deepest level, our shared experience (the will to live, the fear of death, the shared air we breathe, and our origin on earth…..).
  
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- Green Minds
  September 8 - October 24, 2022
  MEPAINTSME is pleased to present Green Minds, a group exhibition featuring artworks that depict the imagined landscape.
  
  Featured Artists: Benjamin Butler, Martyn Cross, Elliott Green, Megan Greene, Joshua Hagler, Jen Hitchings, Laura Lopez Balza, Rob Lyon, Gosia Machon, Michael McGrath, Holly Mills, Joan Nelson, Heidrun Rathgeb, Benjamin Turrell, Ping Zheng
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