Tag: Magdalena Abakanowicz

Material Resistance: Anna Barlik, Marlena Kudlicka, Magdalena Abakanowicz and Agnieszka Kurant

Two sculptures, a video and a non-fungible token, by four female Polish artists, have much to say about the times in which we live
Uncanny

Louise Bourgeois, Sheida Soleimani and Gillian Wearing are among the 30 female artists contributing to a show that is challenging, unsettling and sometimes downright uncomfortable
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
Antigone: Women in Fibre Art

This small show celebrating the eastern European textile art tradition focuses on Jagoda Buić and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska, but Magdalena Abakanowicz and other pioneers of the movement are here, too, alongside contemporary makers
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Every Tangle of Thread and Rope

This show covers the full span of the Polish artist’s career and the extraordinary sculptures, called Abakans, that she fashioned from organic material, alongside films, archival images and extensive quotations from Abakanowicz herself
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Presence, Essence, Identity

Magdalena Mielnicka, an expert on Abakanowicz, talks about the irrepressible Polish artist’s extraordinary life and her uncanny sculptures, currently on show at Stara Kopalnia Science and Art Centre, Wałbrzych
José Parlá: ‘It challenges me to work against the grain of the status quo’

For his most ambitious project to date, commissioned by the Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin, Parlá transforms a 4,000-sq-foot site into a panoramic landscape evocative of Austin’s natural and urban environment
Chiharu Shiota: Dialogues

New Art Gallery, Walsall 17 January – 30 March 2014