Małgorzata Mirga-Tas

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas (born 1978 in Zakopane, Poland) is a Polish-Romani artist and activist. She deals with antyziganist stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative and situated iconography of a Roma community from a perspective of a feminism of minority. Characteristic motives and forms are distinguishable in her works, and she successfully applies them on paper, fabric or sculpting materials. She is also involved in social activities, fighting discrimination, and social exclusion.
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas's works have been shown at several dozen individual and collective exhibitions, including the 11th Berlin Biennale (2020), the Moravian Gallery in Brno (2017), the Center of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2020), Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2020), at the "Art Encounters" Biennale in Timişoara (2019) or Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum – Kulturen der Welt in Cologne . Since 2011 she has been organizing the international artistic residency program "Jaw Dikh!" in Czarna Góra, intended for Roma and non-Roma artists. She received distinction at the 42nd and 44th Painting Biennale "Bielska Jesień" (2015, 2019), a scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage (2018). She was laureate of Polityka's Passport for the best artist from Poland in 2020, the Maria Anto and Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Art Prize for a Young Polish Artist (2021) counteracting exclusion, racial discrimination and xenophobia.