Studied at Lodz Academy of Fine Arts. Diploma work in the Painting Department and Decorative Print Department in 1966. Awarded a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (1994). Participated in group exhibitions: The Most Dangerous Brushes, Krolikarnia Gallery (2000); International Young Art 2002, Art Link, New York, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam (2002); Within Four Walls, Biennial of Lodz Art, Lodz (2004); EGO Winners’ exhibition of W. Strzeminski’s Contest during the celebration of the 60’th anniversary of Lodz Academy of Fine Arts Lodz (2005); Correspondences, Hall des Chars, Strasbourg, France (2006); Breakfast in the Museum, Collection of the Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Lodz, Lodz Museum of Art (2006); Behind the Reality Principle, Collection of Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Lodz Museum of Art, Poland (2008); Kiraly Gabor + Magda Moskwa, Platan Gallery, Polish Institute in Hungary (2008); Der katholische Faktor, Historisches Museum Minoritenkirche, Regensburg, Germany (2009).

Individual exhibitions: Nomana Opus Gallery Lodz (2004) Scena Plastyczna KUL Gallery, Lublin (2006); Artinfo.pl Gallery in Fabryka Trzciny, Warsaw (2006); Wizytujaca Gallery, Warsaw (2007); Piekary Gallery, Poznan (2008).

Magda Moskwa’s clothing is her self-portrait, a mental cover-all, embodying her various moods. Their material record of the sewing process itself, is as important to the artist as the reaction of the viewer. Moskwa frequently uses old worn fabrics, often worn by herself, to design clothes. It gives an additional particularly personal feature to her composition. Everyone who wears Magda Moskwa’s clothes must ‘paste themselves into’ them often by means of an uncomfortable posture, needing to let himself or herself be “sewn in” with no possibility to breathe normally, being restrained and oppressed by clothing, causing discomfort, claustrophobia, and fear. This is both a physical and mental approach used by the artist to design theater costumes. The actors wearing them admit that clothing has a big influence on how they play their roles.

compiled by Agnieszka Gniotek
on the basis of artist’s statement.