Select List of Solo Exhibitions

1960 Wystawa prac Magdaleny Abakanowicz-Kosmowskiej, Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw
1962 Tapisseries, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pologne, Galerie Dautzenberg, Paris
1967 Magdalena Abakanowicz' arbeider i vev, Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, and tour
1970 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Textil Skulptur, Textile Environment, Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden
Abakanowicz: en konfrontation, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
1971 The Fabric Forms of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pasadena Art Museum, California
1972 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Textile Strukturen und Konstruktionen, Environments, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Environments, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
1973 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Rope Structures, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
1975 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Organic Structures and Human Forms, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1976 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Organic Structures and Soft Forms, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and tour
1977 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Organic Structures, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, and tour
1982 Abakanowicz: Altérations, ARC Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, and tour
1991 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Sezon Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan, and tour
1993 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Recent Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, New York, and tour
Magdalena Abakanowicz: War Games, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bronze Sculpture, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England, and tour
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Hand-like Trees, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, New York
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
1999 Abakanowicz on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2000 Working Process e Non Solo, Gori Collection, Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
2008 Magdalena Abakanowicz, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Space to Experience, Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Magdalane Abakanowicz: La Corte del Rey Arturo, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
2009 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Space to Experience, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
2012 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Walking Figures, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York
2014 New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2015 Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Milan, Italy
2022 Magdalena Abakanowicz. Every Tangle of Thread and Rope, Tate Modern, London, and tour
2023 Anatomy II (SS24), Alexander McQueen Paris Fashion Week, Carreau du Temple, Paris

Select List of Group Exhibitions

1956 Wandteppiche aus Polen Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Leipzig, Germany, and tour
1962 1ère Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1965 VIII Bienal de São Paulo, Polish Pavilion, São Paulo, Brazil
1966 Contemporary European Tapestries: The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Hurschler, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, and tour
1969 Perspectief in Textiel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1969 Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, and tour
1971 Dimension of Fiber, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland
Experimental Textiles – international tapestries, Camden Arts Centre, London
Deliberate Entanglements, University of California Los Angeles, and tour
1972 Atelier’ 72: Edinburgh International Festival, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Fetisch Jugend – Tabu Tod, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, and tour
1980 Weich und Plastisch: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich
ROSC ’80: The Poetry of Vision, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Biennale di Venezia ’80, Polish Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1981 The Art Fabric: Mainstream, American Federation of the Arts, New York
Malmoe, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
1982 Kunst wird Material, Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1992 Voices of Freedom: Polish Women Artists and The Avant-Garde, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
1995 After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art, Royal Festival Hall, London, and tour
After Hiroshima: Message from Contemporary Art, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1997 Masterworks of Modern Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California
Original Visions: Shifting the Paradigm, Women’s Art 1970-1996, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 Deux Femmes dans les Jardins du Palais-Royal: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Beverly Pepper, Les Jardins du Palais-Royal, Paris
2007 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, and tour
2008 Cold War Modern: Design 1945–1970, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and tour
2009 Gender Check: Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna
2011 elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre de Création Industrielle, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Atelier. Industrie: Magdalena Abakanowicz – Laura Ford, LWL-Industriemuseum, Dortmund, Germany
2017 Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2019 Taking a Thread for a Walk, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2023 KUNST·STOFF Textil als künstlerisches Material, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany, and tour
Threads, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany
HARD/SOFT Textil und Keramik in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, MAK-Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
2024 420 Body on the Line. Collection 1950s–1970s, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Unravel. The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London, and tour

Public Projects and Commissions

1965 Forma Przestrzenna, ul. Przy Murze, Elbląg, Poland
1970-71 Bois-le-Duc, Provinciehuis, s’Hertegonbosch, the Netherlands
1972 Black Brown, Huddinge Sjukhus, Sweden (no longer extant)
1973-75 Kompozycja Munumentalna (Monumental Composition), Muzeum Początków Państwa Polskiego w Gnieźnie, Gniezno, Poland (no longer extant at original site)
1985 Katarsis, Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
1987 Negev, Billy Rose Art Garden, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1988 Space of Dragon, Olympic Park, Seoul
1990 Space of Nine Figures, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
1993 Space of Becalmed Beings, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
1998 Fish, metropolitan station Garo do Oriente, Lisbon
1998 Space of Unknown Growth, Europos Parkas, Open-Air Museum of the Centre of Europe, Vilnius
1998 The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Centrum Finansowe Puławska, Warsaw
2001 Birds of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2002 Space of Stone, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
2002 Nierozpoznani (Unrecognized), Park Cytadela, Poznań, Poland
2003 Open Air Aquarium, The Residencies at Dockside at Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Agora, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

Publicly Sited Works

1991 Sagacious Heads (1988-89), John Kluge Collection, Charlottesville, Virginia
1992 Sagacious Heads (1989), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Sagacious Heads (1989) with Black Standing Figure (1989), Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
Two on Beam (1992-97), Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, Missouri
1993 Hand-like Trees 1992-93), Runnymede Sculpture Garden, Woodside, California
One of a Crowd (1993), Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
1994 Magnus (1993-94), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
Manus (1994), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, Western Washington University, Bellingham
Sarcophagi in Glass Houses (1983-89), Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
1995 Bronze Crowd (1990-91), Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas,
1997 Cecyna (1994), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
1999 Figura Prima (1995), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Puellae (1992-93), National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Thirty Standing Figures (Thirty Figures) 1994-98, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
2000 Black Crowd (2000) and Figura Ultima (1999-2000), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, Museum Würth, Kunzelsau, Germany
Figura Rompa (1997), from the cycle Hand-like Trees, Biarritz, France
Figure on Trunk (1998), Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Figure on Trunk with Wheels (2000), Toledo Art Museum, Ohio
Two Figures on Two Trunks with Wheels (1998), Fattoria di Celle, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy
2002 Hand-like Trees (1994-95), Brea Civic Cultural Center, California
Mutant (2001), Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany
2004 Big Figures (2001-02), Princeton University, New Jersey
2005 Five Running (2001-05), Sculpture Garden, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
2006 Vancouver Ancestors, Cambie and Broadway skytrain station, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Birds (1999-2000), Big Wings Flyer II (2007) and King's Arthur Court (2005) Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, Wrocław, Poland
2010 King Artur’s Court (2005), Park Traugutta, Warsaw
Seated Figures (2010), Shanghai Sculpture Park, China
2011 The Group of Ten (2011), Davidson College, North Carolina

For inquires regarding past exhibitions contact: research@abakanowicz.foundation