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Magdalena Abakanowicz

(Polish, 1930–2017)

Magdalena Abakanowicz

One Seated Figure, 2011

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Biography

Timeline

1930: Born in Falenty, Poland
1950 - 1954: Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
1965 - 1990: Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
1965: Grand Prix of São Paolo Biennale, São Paolo, Brazil
1979: Gottfried bon Herder Prize, Vienna, Austria
1982: Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York, NY
1993: Award for Distinction in Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1997: Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico
1998: Commander Cross, Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1999: Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France
2000: Visionaries Award, American Craft Museum, New York, NY
: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2004: Awarded the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
2005: Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Sculpture Center, New York, NY
: Award granted by the Polish Ministry of Culture
2017: died in Warsaw, Poland, April 20th

Exhibitions

2018: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Embodied Forms, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
2016 - 2017: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
2016: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Mutations, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo exhibition)
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth and Shimmel, Los Angeles, California [cat.]
2015 - 2016: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee [cat.]; The Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida
Art_Textiles, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
2015: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Unrepeatability: Abakan to Crowd, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bambini, St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
War Games: A Group Exhibition Inspired by the Work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
2014: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Winda, Kielce, Poland (solo exhibition)
New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (solo exhibition)
Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Committed to Paper: Master Drawings and Prints by Sculptors, Frederick Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan
For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Foundationby Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland
2013: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Abakanowicz? Abakanowicz!, The House of the Visual Artist, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: A Survey 1987-2009, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul , Turkey (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Retrospective, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko, Poland (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Opus et Fabulas, Miejsca Galeria Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (solo exhibition)
2012: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Walking Figures, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Beaufort04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Schore, Belgium
2011: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Life and Work, The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic (solo exhibition)
Art on a Lake, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
The Power of Fantasy, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Sleight of Hand, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
2010: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Davidson College Art Gallery, North Carolina (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Abakanowicz, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland (solo exhibition)
Abakanowicz. In Warsaw at last! , Royal Castle Gardens, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition)
2009: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Homburg, Germany
La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Rites of Spring, Long House Reserve, East Hampton, New York
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
The 5th Edition of CCA’s International Art Collection, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Elles, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2008 - 2009: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2008-2009:
La corte del Rey Arturo, Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz - Birds, Conglomerates, Ghosts, Spirits, Beck and Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Hurma, 1994-1995, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, Florida (solo exhibition)
King Arthur’s Court, Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo exhibition)
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Paysages Urbains, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Skulptur!, Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Works on Paper, Donopoulos International Fine Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008: Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Reality of Dreams, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM), València, Spain (solo exhibition)
(Un)common threads, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York
: Wack ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
: Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculptures et Dessins, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (solo)
2007: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Taguchi Fine Art, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2006: Agora, a large permanent monument consisting of 106 cast-iron figures, is installed at Chicago Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois (solo exhibition)
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2005: Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, Salamanca, Spain
: Space to Experience: The Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
: La Foule V, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France (solo)
: Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004 - 2005: Magdalena Abakanowicz: Backward Seated Figures, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Mutation and Crystallization, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA (solo)
: Monocromos de Malevich al presente. Museo Nacioal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2003: Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
: Dancing Figures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England (solo)
: Abakanowicz, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, Netherlands (solo exhibition)
: La Parade des Animaux, Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2002: Unrecognized, 112 larger than life, cast-iron figures, is permanently installed at Citadel Park, Poznán, Poland (solo exhibition)
: Museum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland (solo)
2001: In Between - Art from Poland, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
: Space to Experience, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
2000: Working Process, Guiliano Gori Collection, Spazi d’Arte, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy (solo)
: L’Homme qui Marche, Les Jardins du Palais Royale, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1999: To the Rescue, Eight Artists in an Archive, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York, NY
: Abakanowicz on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
: 30 Bronze Standing Figures, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri (solo exhibition)
1998: Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland (solo)
1997: Summer 1997 Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1996: Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris, France
: Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France (solo)
: Els Jardins de Can Altamira, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, England (solo exhibition)
1995: Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1994: Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland; traveled to Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland (solo)
: Europa, Europa, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
1993: The Fujisankei Biennale, International Exhibition for Contemporary Sculpture, Japan
: Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Krakow, Poland (solo)
: War Games, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York (solo exhibition)
1992: …Reperti…Environment through the Eyes of 18 of the Worlds Major Artists, Museo Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1991: Magdalena Abakanowicz, 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 (solo exhibition)
1989: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Städtliche Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo exhibition)
1988: Olympiad of Art, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, South Korea
1982 - 1984: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States; traveled to Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.; 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 (solo exhibition)
1980: Polish Pavilion, 39° Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
1968 - 1969: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; traveled to Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands; Stedelijk Museum, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Schiedam Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
1965: Grand Prix, São Paolo Biennale, São Paolo, Brazil

Public Collections

: Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
: Museum Würth, Kunzelsau, Germany
: Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland
: Muzeum Sztuki, Łodzi, Lódz, Poland
: Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
: Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
: National Museum of Modern Art, Pusan, South Korea
: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C
: Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany
: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
: Noord-Brabant Provinciehuis,‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
: Phoenix Art Museum Sculpture Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
: Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
: Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
: Runnymede Sculpture Farm, California
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea
: Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
: Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
: Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
: Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, Ohio
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington D.C.
: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
: William H. Van Every Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
: Provinciehuis-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
: Woman’s Club of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, New York
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
: Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, California
: Caracas Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela
: Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
: Citadel Park, Poznań, Poland
: Chicago Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
: Fondation Toms Pauli, Lausanne, Switzerland
: Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
: Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
: Giuliano Gori Collection, Spazi d’Arte, Santomato di Pistoia, Pistoia, Italy
: Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
: Hakone Open Air Museum, The Fuji Hakone Izu National Park, Hakone, Japan
: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida
: Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
: Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
: Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
: Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Internacional Rufino Tamayo, México City, México
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
: Hess Collection, Art Museum, Napa Valley, California
: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, Virginia

Magdalena Abakanowicz

(Polish, 1930–2017)

Magdalena Abakanowicz

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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