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Study days "Weave/Create: Reinventing Textile Art from 1945 to the Present" - Monday, 8 December 2025

8 December 2025

Organized by the Bourdelle museum and the Polish Institute in Paris during the exhibition "Magdalena Abakanowicz. The Thread of Existence", these study days aim to examine the emergence, from 1945 onwards, of a European and international art scene that sought to give form to fabric.

Study day 8 December, at the Bourdelle museum

Sculpting Textiles

Chair: Jérôme Godeau

10:00 AM

Sculpture in process. Magdalena Abakanowicz on unknown films

Marta Kowalewska, Chairperson of the Board of the The Marta Magdalena Abakanowicz-Kosmowska and Jan Kosmowski Foundation

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10:30 AM

Alina Szapocznikow, une artiste textile ?

Valentin Gleyze, PhD in Contemporary Art History, Associate Researcher at Rennes 2 University

11:00 AM

De la sculpture « traditionnelle » à l’objet tissé : le parcours artistique de Maria Łaszkiewicz [primo voto Brodzka]

Ewa Ziembińska, Chief-Curator, Head of the Sculpture Collection at the National Museum in Warsaw and the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at Królikarnia

11:30 AM

Discussion

Conquering Space

Chair: Lili Davenas

1:30 PM

“I am looking for my own space”. La conquête de l’espace chez Magdalena Abakanowicz et ses contemporaines
Marie Perennès, art historian, exhibition curator

2:00 PM

Textile environments by Magdalena Abakanowicz (1960-1976)
Michał Jachuła, curator, Zachęta - National Gallery of Art (Warsaw)

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2:30 PM

Discussion

3:00 PM

La tapisserie portée au-dehors. Les projets pleinairistes d’Ana Lupas
Ileana Parvu, Professor at HEAD – Geneva (Geneva University of Art and Design, HES-SO)

3:30 PM

Tapta (1926-1997). De l'art textile à la sculpture souple.
Céline Berchiche, PhD in Art History, Head of Conservation for the Estate of Ladislas Kijno