The Four Domes Pavilion, the Museum of Contemporary Art – a branch of the National Museum in Wrocław is presenting the artistic achievements of Magdalena Abakanowicz – one of the most famous contemporary Polish artists in the world. The Wrocław museum, which boasts the largest and most representative collection of Abakanowicz’s works, displayed all the artist’s works.

In addition to abakans, sculptures, graphics and paintings, the exhibition Abakanowicz.Total” will also show documentary presenting the sculptor’s activity over several decades in various places around the globe. The main exhibition is complemented by an educational part and a rich program of accompanying events such as guided tours of the exhibition, lectures, workshops, and performances.

In cooperation with the Interactive Center Cognitive Collect foundation, the Wroclaw Museum created the Abakanowicz 3D project including 22 digitized unique sculptures of the artist that are available on the abakanowicz3d.pl website and in the AR application.

The National Museum in Wrocław looks after the artistic heritage of Magdalena Abakanowicz. The Wrocław collections document her creative activity almost from her debut to works from the beginning of the 21st century. They include famous large-format spatial compositions – abakans and sets of figural sculptures realized in the following decades within the series Crowd, Back, Seated Figures, as well as unique works such as War Games or Circle with a Rope.

Magdalena Abakanowicz is one of the most outstanding Polish artists of the 20th century, a sculptor, author of works of artistic fabric. From the mid-1960s, she created monumental spatial compositions in fabric, called abakans, which she showed for the first time at the Biennial of Textiles in Lausanne in 1962. Abakans, developed as spatial, semi-sculptural compositions, were an example of innovative and original use of traditional materials.

Since the 1970s, the artist has made large figural ensembles and works with an organic structure made of resin-hardened fabric, as well as compositions of wood, metal and stone, including series: Alterations, Back, Crowd, Embryology, War Games. In 1992, in a competition to extend the Great Axis of Paris, the jury awarded her design Arboreal Architecture presenting the concept of an ecological city.

After 2000, the artist started experimenting with a new material, using metal plates for compositions with allusions to the world of animals. She made outdoor sculptures made of stone or metal in Poland, Italy, Israel, Japan and the USA. Her works were exhibited on worldly art reviews.

Arkadiusz Słomczyński