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.

Magdalena Abakanowicz: Next is our skin

Richard Gray Gallery | New York
April 29-June 26, 2026

GRAY is pleased to announce Next is our skin, an exhibition of work by the trailblazing Polish sculptor and fiber artist Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930-2017). With a selection of work spanning four decades, from the 1960s to the 1990s, this exhibition examines the evolution of her practice and her continuous inquiry into the human condition.

From the earliest works in fiber such as Szara, an abstract weaving from 1965 whose natural sisal and horse hair protrude from the surface as if to animate the work, to the more disquieting figurative works in burlap and bronze from the 1980s and ’90s, Abakanowicz’s art represents the human struggle to maintain individuality against political and social oppression.

GROUP SHOWS

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?

Collection in Conversation with Pablo Helguera

Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, Illinois
August 2, 2025 - July 5, 2026

Can you think of a moment in your life when turmoil and darkness brought meaningful insight?

That was one of several questions that artist and educator Pablo Helguera posed to a group of 20 Chicago artists, writers, activists, and educators in the fall of 2024. The group had converged at the MCA as part of Helguera’s work on a new exhibition of the museum’s permanent collection. Their conversations, which ranged from the role of art in moments of uncertainty to the ways that confusion or misalignment can lead to creative possibilities, form the basis of Collection in Conversation with Pablo Helguera.