
FAR LEFT Magdalena Abakanowicz, White, 1961, ASOM Collection. View of the exhibition Magdalena Abakanowicz. Territoires textiles. at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, 2023. Photo: MCBA, Jonas Hänggi
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Textile Territories revisits what was the time of experimentation and founding creativity for the artist, a period that ran from 1960 to 1985. In a Poland still laboring under the deadening Communist regime, Abakanowicz seized on the great potential found in working with fiber, a living malleable material, to freely express an artistic vision sustained by her observations of nature and humans.
An inescapable figure at the Biennale de la Tapisserie of Lausanne, the series of textile arts biennials held in the city between 1962 and 1979, Abakanowicz gained international recognition starting in the 1980s in the contemporary art milieu for her sculpture installations and monumental environments seen around the world.
An exhibition jointly mounted by the Tate Modern with the Fondation Toms Pauli, MCBA, and the Henie Onstad Art Center.
