Maria Loboda
Maria Loboda
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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 2025 she became a Professor for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nürnberg Germany. 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 Fridericianum, Kassel (2025), Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt a. M. (2023), 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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Works
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Selected works
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Inquire About Works by Maria Loboda
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Exhibitions in the gallery
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Maria Loboda14 March TO 17 April 2025POTSDAMER STRASSELore may refer to a personal backstory or a more encompassing history; it could be...View ExhibitionEVERYTHING BUT THE KITCHEN SINK
GROUP SHOW 16 November TO 21 December 2024POTSDAMER STRASSEGalerie Thomas Schulte presents Everything but the Kitchen Sink in the gallery’s recently opened space...View ExhibitionLISTEN TO ME, LITTLE PIG!
MARIA LOBODA17 July TO 4 September 2021CHARLOTTENSTRASSEMaria Loboda’s exhibition Listen to me, little pig! at Galerie Thomas Schulte explores the failures,...View ExhibitionLISTEN TO A HEART BEAT
GROUP SHOW23 May TO 11 July 2020CHARLOTTENSTRASSEThe group exhibition Listen to a heart beat at Galerie Thomas Schulte brings together works...View ExhibitionHAPTIC FEEDBACK
GROUP SHOW18 January TO 29 February 2020CHARLOTTENSTRASSEAs the first exhibition in 2020, Galerie Thomas Schulte presents a group exhibition featuring works...View ExhibitionWOMAN OBSERVING THE ALPHA PERSEI CLUSTER
MARIA LOBODA16 November 2019 TO 11 January 2020CHARLOTTENSTRASSEGalerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present Woman observing the Alpha Persei Cluster , Maria...View Exhibition
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Artist News
Maria Loboda / Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, Germany
Appointment as a Professor of Sculpture Winter Semester 2025We are delighted to extend our heartfelt congratulations to Maria Loboda on her appointment as a Professor of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts...Read moreMaria Loboda / C U at Sadka, Sadka 12, Krakow, Poland
Duo Exhibition 22 JuneFolie à deux - also known as shared psychotic disorder, is a rare and fascinating psychiatric phenomenon in which two individuals develop a mutual delusional...Read moreMaria Loboda / Peles Space, Weimarer Str. 36, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition 25 April to 30 May 2024 Read moreMaria Loboda / Monoriten Monastery, Graz, Austria
Festival participation 21 September to 15 October 2023Maria Loboda’s installation for the courtyard of Minoriten Monastery, a folly whose title references the classic puzzle game Myst (1993), is full of secrets. It...Read moreMARIA LOBODA / Kunstverein zu Assenheim, Niddatal, Germany
Group Exhibition 6 May to 4 June 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 moreMaria Loboda / Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Solo Exhibition 31 March to 16 July 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 moreMARIA LOBODA / ART BASEL PARCOURS
From 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 moreMaria Loboda / Amden Atelier, Berggemeinde am Walensee, Switzerland
Solo exhibition 21 August to 26 September 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...Read moreDIETER APPELT, MARIA LOBODA, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, MICHAEL MÜLLER, JOÃO PENALVA / STÄDTISCHE GALERIE WOLFSBURG, GERMANY
Group exhibition 17 JULY 2021 TO 19 JANUARY 2022In 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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