GOSIA MACHON
Strange Attraction, 2024
ink on paper
9 1/2 x 7 in
24 x 18 cm
Strange Attraction, 2024
ink on paper
9 1/2 x 7 in
24 x 18 cm
Strange Attraction, 2024
ink on paper
9 1/2 x 7 in
24 x 18 cm
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 (Design Department) 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, Kyoto, and New York. 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.