Magdalena Abakanowicz

Magdalena Abakanowicz
General
• 2010Permanent outdoor installation; titled "Crossroads," four stainless steel figures, Warsaw, Poland 

• The artist lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. 

• 2009Created "Birds," stainless steel fish, Warsaw, Poland 

• 2006Agora, a large permanent monument consisting of 106 cast-iron figures, is installed at Chicago Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois (each about 280 cm tall) 

• 2004Big Figures, 20 bronze walking figures, is installed in front of Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey (2001 – 2002; on loan from a private collector) 

• 2003Inauguration of Space of Stone, 22 granite blocks installed at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey; Open Air Aquarium, 30 stainless steel fish, is permanently installed and situated along the riverfront on Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

• 2002The Unrecognized, 112 larger-than-life, cast-iron figures, is permanently installed at Citadel Park, Poznán, Poland (each figure is over 83 inches high) 

• 2000Created Crowd of 95 Figures, bronze figures of adults and children standing and walking 

• 1994 - 1997Created Hurma, 150 figures of children and Backward Standing, 60 figures of adults; created drawings and choreographies inspired by her sculptures – taken to the stage by Asbestos, a Japanese Butoh dance group 

• 1980 - 1989Created series of monumental sculptures using bronze, stone, wood, and iron; installed permanent outdoor installation, Spaces to Experience, in Italy, Israel, South Korea, Germany, and America 

• 1970 - 1979Changed scale and material; created huge cycles of figurative and non-figurative sculptures made out of burlap and resins called Alterations 

• 1965 - 1990Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań, Poland 

• 1960 - 1969Created monumental three-dimensional forms called Abakans, which were personally hand-woven in her own technique 

• 1954 - 1960Painted a series of large gouaches on paper and canvas 

• 1950 - 1954Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland 

• 1930Born in Falenty, Poland 

Awards
• 2010Grand Cross of Merit with Star, Federal Republic of Germany, Germany, Germany 

• 2005Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient, The International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, New Jersey, United States 

• 2004Commandeur de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, The Republic of France, Paris, France 

• 2000Cavaliere nellOrdine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, The Italian Republic, Rome, Italy 

• 2000Orden Pour le Mérite fur Wissenschaften und Künste, Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin, Germany 

• 1997Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Leonardo da Vinci World , Mexico City, Mexico 

• 1993Award for Distinction in Sculpture, The Sculpture Center, New York, New York, United States 

• 1965Grand Prix, Săo Paolo Biennale, Săo Paolo, Brazil 

Biennials
• 2012Beaufort04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Schore, Belgium 

• 2005Vancouver Sculpture Biennale: Open Spaces, Vancouver, Canada 

• 2004Sculpture Quadrennial Riga 2004, Riga, Latvia 

• 199747a Esposizione Internazionale dArte, Venice, Italy (Hand-like Trees installed on Rive degli Schiavoni upon the invitation of the Major of Venice) 

• 1995Esposizione Internazionale dArte, Venice, Italy 

• 1993The Fujisankei Biennale, International Exhibition for Contemporary Sculpture, Nagano, Japan 

• 1986VI Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 

• 1985Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland 

• 1983International Open Air Sculpture Biennale, Antwerp, Belgium 

• 1980Esposizione Internazionale dArte, Venice, Italy 

• 1968XXXIV Esposizione Internazionale dArte, Venice, Italy 

• 1965VIII Biennale de Săo Paolo, Săo Paolo, Brazil 

• 1962Biennale Internazionale de la Tapisserie, Lausanne, Switzerland 

Solo Exhibitions
• 2014Magdalena Abakanowic: New York Avenue Sculpture Project, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., United States. 

• 2014Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Winda, Kielce, Poland. 

• 2013Magdalena Abakanowicz: Opus et Fabulas, Miejsca Galeria Sztuki, Lodz, Poland. 

• 2013Magdalena Abakanowicz: Retrospective, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko, Poland. 

• 2013Abakanowicz? Abakanowicz!, The House of the Visual Artist, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 2013Magdalena Abakanowicz: A Survey 1987-2009, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2012Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul , Turkey. 

• 2012Magdalena Abakanowicz: Walking Figures, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2011Magdalena Abakanowicz : Life and Work, The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic. 

• 2010Abakanowicz. In Warsaw at last! , Royal Castle Gardens, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 2010Magdalena Abakanowicz, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina, United States. 

• 2010Abakanowicz, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland. 

• 2010Magdalena Abakanowicz: Recent Sculpture, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz: Space to Experience, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy. 

• 2009elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. 

• 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany. 

• 2008 - 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz, Institute Valenciá dArt Modern, Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valenciá, Spain. 

• 2008 - 2009La Corto del Rey Arturo, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. 

• 2008 - 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz: Reality of Dreams, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States. 

• 2008 - 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz: Hurma, 1994-1995, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida , Miami, Florida , United States. 

• 2008 - 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz: Where are the areas of calm?, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. 

• 2008 - 2009Magdalena Abakanowicz - Birds, Conglomerates, Ghosts, Spirits, Beck and Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany. 

• 2008 - 2009King Arthur’s Court, Stiftung museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• 2007 Magdalena Abakanowicz "Sculptures and Drawings" Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago USA
• 2007Magdalena Abakanowicz, Coexistence - Dream, Gruby and Kozio, Taguchi Fine Art, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan. 

• 2007Magdalena Abakanowicz - Sculptures et Dessins, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France. 

• 2006Magdalena Abakanowicz, Trondheim Art Museum, Trondheim, Norway. 

• 2006Magdalena Abakanowicz - Sculptures et Dessins, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco. 

• 2006Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Drawings, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. 

• 2005Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2005Magdalena Abakanowicz - Im Dialog VI, Stadtkirche Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany. 

• 2005La Foule V, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France. 

• 2005The Gigant and The Son of Gigant, The Fields Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Park Art Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, New York , United States. (created in 2003) 

• 2005Magdalena Abakanowicz: Confessions, Sculpture and Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2005Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. 

• 2005Space to Experience: The Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida , United States. 

• 2004Magdalena Abakanowicz - Melchior, Jonas, and the Eight White Faces, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan. 

• 2004Mutation and Crystallization, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, United States. 

• 2004 - 2005Magdalena Abakanowicz: Backward Seated Figures, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, United States. 

• 2004Magdalena Abakanowicz, Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre dArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. 

• 2004Hurma, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpętričre, Paris, France. traveled to LEspace dArt Contemporain André-Malraux, Colmar, France 

• 2004 LEspace dArt Contemporain André-Malraux, Colmar, France. 

• 2004 Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. 

• 2004Magdalena Abakanowicz, Danubiana-Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

• 2004Sculptures, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland. 

• 2003Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Skulls, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. 

• 2003Abakanowicz, Museum Beelden aan zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands. 

• 2003Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museo Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy. 

• 2003Dancing Figures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England. 

• 2003Coexistence, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2003Magdalena Abakanowicz - Tanzende und Schreitende, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Düsseldorf, Germany. 

• 2003Magdalena Abakanowicz - The Long Wait, MacLaren Art Cenre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. 

• 2002 Museum Narodowe, Poznán, Poland. 

• 2001 Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany. 

• 2001Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Crowd IV and Infantes, William Benton Museum of Art, , University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States. 

• 2001Magdalena Abakanowicz, About the Human Condition, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California, United States. traveled to Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Pillsbury Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas 

• 2001Space to Experience, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, United States. 

• 2000Working Process, Guiliano Gori Collection, Spazi dArte, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy. 

• 2000Ninety Five Figures from the Crowd of One Thousand Ninety Five Figures, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 2000Abakanowicz, Warsaw Opera House, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 1999Abakanowicz on the Roof, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1999Camminando, 30 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. 

• 1999Abakanowicz dans les Jardins du Palais Royal, Palais Royal, Paris, France. 

• 1999Wild Flowers, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, United States. 

• 1999Wild Flowers, 30 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. 

• 1998 Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland. 

• 1998Magdalena Abakanowicz – Recent Works, Sculpture, Centrum Szutki Wspolczesnej Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 1997Mutants, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1997 Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France. 

• 1997 Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, United States. 

• 1996 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales. 

• 1996Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France. 

• 1996 Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark. ; traveled to Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden 

• 1996 - 1997 Doris Freedman Plaza, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1995 Els Jardins de Can Altamira, Barcelona, Spain. 

• 1995 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, England. 

• 1995 Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland. 

• 1995Magdalena Abakanowicz, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 1994 Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland. ; traveled to Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland 

• 1994 Galeriá Marlborough, Madrid, Spain. 

• 1994 Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Millorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 

• 1993 Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Krakow, Poland. 

• 1993 Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1993War Games, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, United States. 

• 1993Recent Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. ; traveled to Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 

• 1992 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States. 

• 1992Magdelena Abakanowicz: Arboreal Architecture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1992Installation, , Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. 

• 1991Retrospective exhibition, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan. ; traveled to The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan; Art Tower, Mito, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland 

• 1991Abakanowicz, Marlborough Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. 

• 1990Sculpturen, Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin, Germany. 

• 1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States. 

• 1990 Marlborough Fine Art, London, England. 

• 1989 Städtliche Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 

• 1989Magdalena Abakanowicz: Recent Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1988 Mücsarnok (Palace of Exhibitions), Budapest, Hungary. 

• 1988 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, United States. 

• 1986 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,, Virginia, United States. 

• 1985 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

• 1985Abakanowicz: About Men, Sculpture 1974-1985, Xavier Fourcade Inc, New York, New York, United States. 

• 1983Magdalena Abakanowicz, Musée dart contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 

• 1982 ARC/Musée dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. 

• 1982 - 1984Retrospective exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States. ;traveled to Musée dArt Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC; De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas; Portland Art Museum and Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon; Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska; Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery of the University of California, Los Angeles, California 

• 1977Organic Structures, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden. 

• 1977Sonia Henies og Niels Onstads Stifteiser, Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway. 

• 1976 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. ; traveled to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 

• 1975Abakanowicz - Organic Structures and Human Forms, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. 

• 1975 Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 1974Abakanowicz, Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland. 

• 1973Rope Structures, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England. 

• 1972Magdalena Abakanowicz - Textile Strukturen und Konstruktionen, Environments , Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany. 

• 1972 Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland. 

• 1971The Fabric Forms of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, United States. 

• 1970 National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. 

• 1969 Stedelijk Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands. 

• 1969 Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland. 

• 1969 Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany. 

• 1968 Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. ; traveled to Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Schiedam Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland 

• 1967 Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway. traveled to Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, Norway; Stavanger Kunstforening, Stavanger, Norway; Kunstforening, Trondheim, Norway 

• 1965 Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland. 

• 1962 Tapisseries, Magdalena Abakonowicz, Pologne, Galerie Dautzenberg, Paris, France. 

• 1960 Wystawa prac Magdaleny Abakanowicz - Kosmowskiej, Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland. 


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