The complete story of Magdalena Abakanowicz’s (1930-2017) work, life and legacy will be told at three locations in Brabant this spring: Het TextielMuseum, Het Noordbrabants Museum and the provinciehuis Noord-Brabant. ‘Everything is made of fibre’ is part of this triptych titled ‘ Great, greater, greatest – Magdalena Abakanowicz’.

Abakanowicz was fascinated by the texture of textiles and the structure of natural fibres. She used this fascination as a basis for her weavings, but also to depict the human body. She travelled all over the world to set up her exhibitions herself and placed the sculptures in the middle of the space to create an ‘environment’, a world of her own. With this spatial concept, she was one of the forerunners of installation art.

The TextielMuseum collaborated for this exhibition with co-curator Marta Kowalewska, chair of the advisory board of The Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation and expert on Abakanowicz’s oeuvre.

The exhibition ‘Magdalena Abakanowicz – Everything is made of fibre’ has been organised in collaboration with the Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.