Beck & Eggeling Düsseldorf


1930	Born in Warsaw in Falenty
1950 - 1954	Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
1955 - 1959	monumental gouache on cardboard and canvas
1960 - 1969	Development of their own weaving technique using three-dimensional, monumental, soft shapes called Abakany
1965	Grand Prix of the Biennial of São Paulo
1965 - 1990	Professor at the University of Fine Arts, Poznan
1970 - 1979	known alterations occur, non-figurative and figurative sculptures great cycles of burlap and resin publication metaphorical texts that deal with the human condition, the structure of the brain, mythology and religion
1972	Honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London and Iceland the Rhode School of Design, Providence
1979	G. Herder Prize, Vienna
1980 - 1989	Realizations in stone, ceramic and wood
1980	Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1982	Jurzykowski A. Price, New York
1985	Katarsis - 33 bronze figures, collection of Giuliano Gori, near Florence
1986	Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters, France
1987	Negev composition of seven stone disks, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1988	Space of Dragon - ten metaphorical bronze animal heads, Olympic Park, Seoul
1988 - 1993	War Games-cycle horizontal sculptures from tree trunks and welded iron
1989	Sagacious Heads - four bronze sculptures, John Kluge Collection, Virginia
1990	Nine-figure space, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
1991	Arboreal Architecture - Project management of the city, Paris
1991 - 1992	The amount - 36 figures and two metaphorical bronze animal heads, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1992	Award for Distinction in Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York / Hand Like Trees - five large bronze figures, collection Runny-Made Sculpture Farm, CA
1993	Becalmed Beings - a group of 40 bronze figures, Art Museum, Hiroshima
1994	Member of the Academy of Fine Arts
1996	Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1997	Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico
1998	The Space of Unknown Growth, Europos Parkas Sculpture Park, Vilnius honorary Doctor of Wladyslaw Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts, Dresden
1999	Admission into the Order of Arts and Letters, Paris
2000	Member of the Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana, an honorary doctorate from the Pratt Institue, New York, a member of the Order Pour le Merite of Science and Arts, Berlin
2005	The artist received the 'Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award of the International Sculpture Center in New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2009	Space to Experience, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mailand, Italy
2008	Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
	Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
	Space to Experience, Beck & Eggeling new quarters, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007	Sculptures et Dessins, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France
2006	Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
	Sculptures et Dessins, Marlborough Monaco, Montecarlo, Monaco
2005	Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
	La Foule V, Galerie Saint Severin, Paris, France
	Stadtkirche Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
	Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2004	Hurma, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpetriere, Paris, France
	Espace d'Art Contemporain Andre-Malraux, Colmar, France
	Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA
	Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
	Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Germany
2003	Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Rovereto, Italy
	Dancing Figures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, Great Britain
	Beck & Eggeling, International Fine Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
2001	Grant - Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
	Abakanowicz at Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, USA
	Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
	Kunst - Station, Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
	Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
	The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, , USA
	MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
	Landesmuseum Schloss Gottorf, Gottorf, Germany
	Museum Beelden aan Zee, Haag, Netherlands
	Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland
	Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2000	Giuliano Gori collection, , Italy
	Marlborough, New York, USA
	Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland
1999	Abakanowicz on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
	Les Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, France
	Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
	Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1998	Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland
1997	Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
	Miami Art Museum, Miami Florida, USA
	Display of the Hand like Trees, Doris Freedman Plaza, New York Manhattan, USA
1996	Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France
	Oriel Mostyn Gallery, North Wales, Great Britain
	Copenhagen, Denmark; travelled to Kulturhuset Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
1995	Els Jardins de Can Altamira, Barcelona, Spain
	Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland
	Ujazdowski Castle, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
	Yorkshire Sculpture Park, , Great Britain
1994	Galeria Kordegarda (also travelled to Muzeum Sztuki Lodz), Warszawa, Poland
	Galeria Marlborough S.A., Madrid, Spain
	Fundacio Pilar i Joan Miro a Mallorca, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2007	Blickachsen 6 - Skulpturen im Kurpark Bad Homburg, Galerie Scheffel in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bad homburg, Germany
	Femme y es-tu? ARTSENAT, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France
2006	Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2005	Blickachsen V, Fondation Beyeler in Reihen, Basel, Switzerland
	Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
	Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, Salamanca, Spain
	Summer show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
	Summer installation, Taguchi Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
	Sculptures Monumentales à Saint-Tropez, Saint-Tropez, France
	Vancouver Sculpture Biennale: Open Spaces, Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
2004	Monochromos de Malevich al presente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2003	me&more, Kunstmuzeum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
	From Picasso to Warhol: master prints 1964 2003, The Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2002	La Parade des Animaux, Monte Carlo, Monaco
	Les Jeux dans l'Art du XXeme siecle, Biarritz, France
	Los Juegos en el Arte del siglo XX, Zaragozza, Spain
	OPEN2002 International Exhibition of Sculptures and Installations, Venice Lido, Italy
2001	Japan Europalia 2001, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Liege, France
	Den Haag Sculptuur, Carnaval des Animaux, Hague, Netherlands
2000	L'autre moitié de l'Europe, Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
	L' Homme qui Marche, Les Jardins du Palais Royale, Paris, France
	Verteidigung der Moderne Positionen der Polnischen Kunst nach 1945, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany
1999	Eight Artists in an Archive, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York, USA
	Art Cologne, Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Köln, Germany
1997	Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, USA
	, Luxembourg Ville de la Sculpture, Luxembourg
	, 47 Biennale d'arte di Venezia, Italy
	A Century of Sculpture - The Nasher Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
	Spoleto Festival, Charlston, South Carolina, USA
	Inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
	Koln Skulptur 1, Sculpture Park, Koln, Germany
1996	Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris, France
	Horizons, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
1995	, Biennale di Venezia, Italy
	After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall, London, Great Britain
	Unser Jahrhundert - Our Century, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
	After Hiroshima, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1994	Europa das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel -und Osteuropa, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
	Itinere - Camino e Caminantes, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	Itinere - Camino e Caminantes, Santiago de Compostela, Spain