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About
Maria Loboda, born in 1979 in Krakow, Poland, composes installations and sculptures to investigate cultural codes, represented by pictorial signs and the grammar of various materials and objects. Throughout her work, Loboda engages with the historical narratives attributed to certain objects and juxtaposes them with contemporary interpretations and modern references in order to address the transformation of meaning of objects and images, tracing their paths from conveyance to encounter. Her research stems from the fields of poetry and history and leads to a formal equation of language and materiality, whose interactions she examines and uses in order to question what they express beyond their common readings. Thus, through the deconstruction and reorganization of common forms and symbols, Loboda has become a unique voice in what is described as contemporary archaeology. As a kind of re-enacting of semiotics, Loboda’s works are subversive as well as critical towards power structures.
Maria Loboda studied at the renowned Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M., where she was a student of Mark Leckey from 2003 to 2008. In 2020/2021 she was a guest lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts in Poznan, Poland. From 2015 to 2016, she taught as a guest lecturer at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Zurich. She is the first awardee of the Otilie Roederstein Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture in Hessia in 2022. She also was one of the artistic leaders to Volcano Extravaganza 2019. In 2012, she received the Edward Steichen Award, comprised of a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York City. In the same year she also participated in the International Residency at Les Recollets in Paris. She received a scholarship of the Hessian Cultural Foundation for London in 2009/2010 as well as a scholarship of the Cultural Foundation of Dresdner Bank in 2010. Loboda’s wide-ranging exhibition activities encompass Art Basel Parcours (2022), the 58th Venice Biennale (2019), Taipei Biennial (2014), and documenta 13 (2012). Important solo exhibitions include Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M. (2018/19), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2019), Kunsthalle Basel (2017), Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne (2017), The Power Plant, Toronto (2016), and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012). Furthermore, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Contemporary Art Center, Singapore (2018), MADRE, Naples (2018), Modern Art Oxford (2016), Sprengel Museum Hannover (2015), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (2015), Ludlow 38, New York (2012), MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst (2010). Loboda lives and works in Berlin and Krakow.
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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LISTEN TO ME, LITTLE PIG!
MARIA LOBODA 17 July TO 4 September 2021Maria Loboda’s exhibition Listen to me, little pig! at Galerie Thomas Schulte explores the failures,...View Exhibition -
LISTEN TO A HEART BEAT
GROUP SHOW 23 May TO 11 July 2020The group exhibition Listen to a heart beat at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works...View Exhibition -
HAPTIC FEEDBACK
GROUP SHOW 18 January TO 29 February 2020As the first exhibition in 2020, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a group exhibition featuring works...View Exhibition -
WOMAN OBSERVING THE ALPHA PERSEI CLUSTER
MARIA LOBODA 16 November 2019 TO 11 January 2020Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present Woman observing the Alpha Persei Cluster, Maria Loboda’s...View Exhibition
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Artist News
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MARIA LOBODA / Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Niddatal, Germany
Group Exhibition 29 March 2023On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its scholarship program, the Hessische Kulturstiftung presents the second exhibition of its anniversary year at the Kunstverein...Read more -
Maria Loboda / Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Solo Exhibition 1 March 2023At the center of Maria Loboda's installation is her film 'The Machine' - it is the artist's first film. The main role is played by...Read more -
MARIA LOBODA / ART BASEL PARCOURS
16 June 2022A kind of readymade: Debris, flotsam, stranded items on a beach. Maria Loboda occupies a strip on the banks of the Rhine to install a...Read more -
Maria Loboda / Amden Atelier, Berggemeinde am Walensee, Switzerland
Solo exhibition 21 August 2021Maria Loboda’s exhibition An exhausted Dr. John Dee enjoys the view towards the lake, is to open with a performance at the Amden Atelier on...Read more -
DIETER APPELT, MARIA LOBODA, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, MICHAEL MÜLLER, JOÃO PENALVA / STÄDTISCHE GALERIE WOLFSBURG, GERMANY
Group exhibition 17 July 2021In 2019, the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg invited Berlin-based artist Michael Müller to curate an experimental new presentation of its collection. In the currently presented fifth...Read more
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