Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A accompanies the Polish-born, London-based artist’s first museum survey exhibition. Macuga’s practice is located at the intersection of two strands that have done much to define the landscape of contemporary art in the last decade: on the one hand, an increasing interest in research—specifically of the archival, historical kind—and on the other, a growing concern with strategies of display and the blurring of boundaries between art making and curating. Many of her large-scale, research-intensive projects have been collaborative in nature, and the resultant installations regularly incorporate the work of other artists, both living and dead. The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is the first to map the artist’s trajectory since the early 2000s and presents a selection of works that emphasize collage as the central medium of her practice.

The third in the museum’s Monographs series, Exhibit, A is the most comprehensive documentation of Macuga’s work to date and features newly commissioned essays by curator Dieter Roelstraete, Adam Szymczyk, and Grant Watson.

Published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and ARTBOOK | D.A.P. Semi-clothbound hardcover, 112 pages. 8 1/2 x 10 in.

Detail Installation view, Goshka Macuga: Exhibit, A, MCA Chicago, December 15, 2012–April 7, 2013.