Current Exhibitions

SOLO SHOWS

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Helsinki Art Museum | Helsinki, Finland
May 6, 2026–August 30, 2026

The Polish icon of sculpture, Magdalena Abakanowicz, will make her large-scale debut in Finland as her organic textile sculptures fill HAM’s grand arched halls in all their height and breadth. Renowned as a pioneer in creating fibre-based sculptures and installations, Abakanowicz’s impressive “Abakans” will dominate the exhibition space with a striking presence.

Magdalena Abakanowicz emerged as a pioneer in creating organic, fibre-based sculptures and installations in the 1960s and 1970s. HAM’s grand arched halls will be filled with the artist’s iconic textile sculptures, “Abakans”, as well as impressive jute sculptures.

GROUP SHOWS

Terminal Piece

Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (mumok) | Vienna, Austria
June 20, 2026-February 7, 2027

Terminal Piece is an inaugural exhibition and a vision for the future, marking the start of a new chapter for the mumok. It also proposes a new way of considering the museum, its collection and, the experience of both in their entirety and complexity. Conceived as an exhibition in several acts, Terminal Piece takes a straightforward yet decisive curatorial approach, bringing together works from the collection alongside new productions and external loans. One specific artwork is taken as a starting point to consider the museum as a whole: the first acquisition made under the directorship of Fatima Hellberg. The choice of work entails an engagement with notions of viewership, prompting reflection on which side of the work we occupy and demanding our participation.

Terminal Piece will be accompanied by an extensive event program and a publication co-edited with Camilla Wills of Divided Publishing, which will include an existing text by Kate Millett and new writing by Ariana Reines, and other authors.

Mistrzowie rzeźby

Muzeum Miasta Pabianic | Pabianice, Poland
May 23 - September 30, 2026

Two Part exhibition in Pabianice Municipal Museum and Aflopark Gardens presenting sculptures by masters such as Abakanowicz, Mitoraj, Chromy, Szapocznikow, and Beksiński.

Abakanowicz/Czełkowska

Pracownia Wandy Czełkowskiej | Warsaw, Poland
February 14 - October 18, 2026

Magdalena Abakanowicz and Wanda Czełkowska participated in the Atelier’ 72 during Edinburgh International Festival, where they were among a group of Polish artists invited to Scotland by Richard de Marco. One presented "Rope," the other "Conceptual Information about the Table"—instead of the originally planned "Table."

When else did their artistic paths intersect? What connects their artistic approaches? What motifs and formal devices connect their work?

Costume Art

Metropolitan Museum | New York
May 10, 2026-January 10, 2027

The Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition explores depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.

Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art presents connections between garments from The Costume Institute and objects from the Museum’s other collecting areas. Pairings between fashions and artworks will present a spectrum of connections and experiences: from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound. These pairings are organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their pervasiveness and endurance through time and cultures.

Costume Art is the inaugural exhibition in the new, nearly 12,000-square-foot galleries adjacent to the Great Hall. This space will display The Costume Institute’s annual spring show and, at times, shows from the Museum’s other curatorial departments, including those that explore the intersection of fashion and art.