Upcoming Exhibitions

Magdalena Abakanowicz. La trame de l’existence /
Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Fabric of Existence

Musée Bourdelle | Paris
November 20, 2025 - April 12, 2026

The subtitle of the exhibition, “the Thread of Existence” combines two terms used by the artist to define her work. She considered fabric to be the elementary cell of the human body, marked by the vagaries of its destiny.

Resulting from three years of work, the project has received active support from the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation (Warsaw), the Polish Institute, and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The main lenders are the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation in Warsaw, the Toms Pauli Foundation in Lausanne, the Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź, the Tate Modern in London, the National Museum in Wrocław, and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

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.