Alina Szapocznikow Fiancée folle blanche; 1971
Polyester, plastic net; 46 x 25.5 x 22 cm
Annette Messager Hotel / Fiction; 2010
Installation view
Annette Messager Hotel / Fiction; 2010
Installation view
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled (Prototype); 1966
Coloured Polyester; 14 x 10 x 8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Portrait Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz; 1955 -1956
Plaster, pigmented; 45 (31) x 19 x 20,5
Alina Szapocznikow Ponytail (Portrait of Mexican Women); 1955 – 1956
Plaster; 45 x 20 x 38 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Femme de ménage; 1965
Plastic cement, auto parts, metal, plaster; 140 x 59 x 54 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Vowel; 1962
Sandstone, lost wax bronze cast; 49 x 55 x 32 cm
Alina Szapocznikow La Ronde; 1968
Polyurethane; 120 x 117 x 20 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Portrait Barbara Kusak; 1955
Plaster, pigmented; 64 x 38 x 56 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Seins; 1968
Coloured polyester; 46 cm high
Alina Szapocznikow
Installation view
Alina Szapocznikow Bouches en Marche; 1968
Coloured polyester; 52 cm high
Alina Szapocznikow Plongée; 1968
Polyester, polyurethane; 150 x 86 x 14 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Shattered; 1960
Unsaturated polyester, pigmented by the artist, metal bars; 83 x 60 x 38 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; 1963
Felt-tip on paper; 31,3 x 24,4 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Sketch of the Sculpture “Lead V”; 1964
Felt-tip on paper; 31,3 x 24,3 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Femme de ménage; 1965
Plastic cement, auto parts, polyester; 144 cm high
Alina Szapocznikow Religieuze; 1967
Bronze, polyester; 63 x 42 x 22 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Ponytail-Portrait of an Mexican Woman; 1955/1956
Plaster; 45 x 20 x 38 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Lamp (Bouche I); 1967
Polyester, electric light; about 44 cm high
Alina Szapocznikow Grand Tumeur III; 1969
Polyester, photographs; 70 x 80 x 40 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Lamp (Bouche I); 1967
Polyester, electric light; about 44 cm high
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1971 – 1972
Pencil and watercolour on cardboard; 65 x 49,8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1971 – 1972
Pencil and watercolour on cardboard; 65 x 49,8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1970 – 1971
Ink on laid paper watermarked “Arches Ecoles Ingres”; 62,9 x 48 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1970 – 1971
Ink on laid paper watermarked “Arches Ecoles Ingres”; 63 x 48 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Sketch of the Sculpture with Car Shock Absorber; 1965
Ballpoint on paper perforated along the left edge; 26,9 x 20,8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Study of Forms with Elements of Industrial Origin 4; 1964
Ink and felt-tip pen on paper; 31,2 x 23,4 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1964 – 1968
Felt-tip pen on paper; 65 x 48 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; c. 1964-1968
Felt-tip pen on paper; 65 x 50 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; 1963-1968
Ink on paper; 27 x 21 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1961
Monotype and ink on blue laid paper watermarked “INGRES”; 64,6 x 48 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Untitled; about 1959
Pencil on laid paper; 27,7 x 20,8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Sketch for the Sculpture Woman – Rose; about 1959
Pencil on paper; 27,8 x 20,8 cm
Alina Szapocznikow Sketch of Growths on a Leg 1; 1970
Felt-tip pen on paper perforated along the left edge; 33,9 x 26,7 cm
14.10.2016 - 26.03.2017
07.10.2016 - 15.01.2017
01.02.2014 - 29.03.2014
26.04.2013 - 29.06.2013
11.03.2011 - 09.04.2011
24.09.2009 - 21.11.2009
12.05.2007 - 28.07.2007
1926
born in Kalisz, Poland
1973
died in Praz-Coutant, France
education
1948 – 1950
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1946 – 1947
Artistic Industrial College, studio Josef Wagner, Prague
1945 – 1946
Training at studio Otokar Velímsky, Prague
solo exhibitions
2016
Alina Szapocznikow, Paysage(s) humain(s), Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris (FR)
2015
Alina Szapocznikow, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (US)
2014
Alina Szapocznikow: Body Traces, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
2013
Alina Szapocznikow: … apokryfy, imponderabilia, Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot (PL)
Alina Szapocznikow: Art of memory, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.
Nördlich der Zukunft / North of the Future, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin.
Alina Szapocznikow, Du dessin a la sculpture, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
2012
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone, 1955 – 1972, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Menschenzellen / Human capsules, Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone, 1955 – 1972, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone, 1955 – 1972, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
2011
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone, 1955 – 1972, WIELS, Brussels.
Alina Szapocznikow, Drawings (1959 – 1971), Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin.
Alina Szapocznikow, Dessins, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris.
2010
Alina Szapocznikow, My American Dream, Broadway 1602, New York.
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculptures and Drawings 1955-1971, Kunstparterre, Munich.
Out of My Mouth: chewing gum sculptures. The Photosculptures of Alina Szapocznikow, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK.
2009
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculptures and Drawings 1955-1971, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin.
2008
Alina Szapocznikow: Don’t cry baby – work!, with Lisa Becker, Vera Lehndorff/Holger Trülzsch, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin.
Broadway Gallery 1602, New York.
2000
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz.
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland.
1999
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, National Museum, Cracow.
1998
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Polish Library, Paris.
1990
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Polish Library, Paris.
1989
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, KUL, Lublin, Poland.
1978
Alina Szapocznikow, Photo sculptures. 1971, Foto Medium Art, Wroclaw, Poland.
Salon Krytykow, BWA, Lublin, Poland.
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, Muzeum Okregowe Ziemi Kaliskiej, Kalisz.
1977
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, Lunds Konsthall, Lund.
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, Salon Wystawowy, BWA, Bialystok, Poland.
1976
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, BWA, Poznan, Poland.
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, Palac Sztuki i Galeria Pryzmat, Cracow.
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, BWA, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, National Museum, Gdansk, Poland.
1975
Alina Szapocznikow.1926-1973, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, National Museum, Warsaw.
Alina Szapocznikow, Dessins, Galerie Aurora, Geneve.
1974
Alina Szapocznikow, Drawings, Galeria Wspolczesna, Warsaw.
1973
Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeur, Herbier, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
1971
Instant et Chose, Galerie Aurora, Geneve.
1970
Envahissement de Tumeurs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
No. 1 Cycle of Envahissement de Tumeurs, artist studio, Malakoff, France.
1969
Alina Szapocznikow, Port-Barcares, France.
1968
Alina Szapocznikow. 1968, Galerie Cogeime, Brussels.
1967
Alina Szapocznikow, Sculptures, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Alina Szapocznikow, Galerie Florence Huston Brown, Paris.
1962
XXXI Biennale d’Arte di Venezia.
1961
Alina Szapocznikow, Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw
Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti, Rijeka (with Roman Cieslewicz).
1960
II exhibition of the sculptures by Alina Szapocznikow, BWA Arsenal, Poznan, Poland.
Alina Szapocznikow (Dessins), Galerie Falsetti, Prato, Italy.
Alina Szapocznikow, Confrontations 1960, Galeria Krzywe Kolo, Warsaw.
Sculptures by Alina Szapocznikow, BWA, Sopot, Poland.
1957
Exhibition of the works by Alina Szapocznikow and Jerzy Tchorzewski, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
group exhibitions
2017
documenta 14, Athens (GR) / Kassel (DE)
2016
Postwar – Art between the Pacific and Atlantic 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich (Germany)
Medicine in Art, Mocak, Cracow (Poland)
From the Collection: 1960–1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Bittersüße Transformation. Alina Szapocznikow, Kateřina Vincourová und Camille Henrot, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (Austria)
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao (Spain), travels to: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterry (Mexico); ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj (Denmark)
2015
They, Schinkel Pavillion, Berlin
2014
Grazyna Kulczyk Collection: Everybody is Nobody for Somebody, Santander Art Gallery – Fundacíon Banco Santander, Madrid.
2013
Biographical Forms. Construction and individual mythology. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. (until March 31, 2014).
Tetsumi Kudo, Paul Thek, Alina Szapocznikow, Hannah Wilke, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
2012
Andrzej Wróblewski, Alina Szapocznikow, Tadeusz Kantor, Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin.
2010
The Reality of The Lowest Rank – A Vision of Central Europe, Musea Bruges, Belgium, curated by Luc Tuymans.
Une Idée, une Forme, un Être – Poésie/Politique du corporel, Migros Museum, Zurich.
Augenschmaus. Vom Essen im Stillleben, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna.
XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy.
The Mass Ornament, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Mind and Matter: Alternative Abstractions, 1940s to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The promises of the Past 1950 – 2010, A discontinuous history of art in former easter Europe, Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists 1958 – 1968, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
2009
Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, After Awkward Objects, Hauser & Wirth, London.
Awkward Objects, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw.
The Photographic Object, The Photographer’s Gallery, London.
2008
Art comes before gold, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo.
Three Woman Sculptors, Prague Castle, The Royal Summer Palace, Prague.
Martin Kippenberger / Alina Szapocznikow, 4Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne.
2007
Documenta XII, Kassel.
2005
Egocentric, Immoral, Outmoded. Contemporary Images of Artists, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
2004
Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.
2001
Zacheta – National Gallery Art, Warsaw.
2000
National Museum, Cracow.
National Museum, Warsaw.
Aspekte/Positionen. 50 Jahre Kunst aus Mitteleuropa. 1949-1999, Palais Liechtenstein, Wien; Kortárs Múvészeti Múzeum – Ludwig Múzeum, Budapest; Foundation Miró, Barcelona; Hansard Gallery; City Gallery, Southampton.
Sun and other stars, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Collection of Modern Art in National Museum in Wroclaw, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
1999
Figure in the Polish sculpture of XIX and XX century, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
1998
Figure in the Polish sculpture of XIX and XX century, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.
1997
Poland Art 1945 – 1996, Nemzeti Múzeum, Musarnok, Budapest.
1996
I like it, Palac Sztuki, Cracow.
Art about 1956, National Museum, Poznan, Poland.
Polish sculpture of XX century in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum, Warsaw.
Painting and sculptures from the collection of the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Gniezno, Poland.
Polish sculpture of XX century in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.
1995
The Rift in the Space. Positions of the art since 1945 in Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Czechia, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.
1994
Europa, Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungsshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.
Ars Erotica, National Museum, Warsaw.
1993
Polish sculpture in the 60th, Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko, Poland.
1992
Polish women artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington.
Lodz – Lyon, Museum of Modern Art, Lyon.
Presence III, Muzeum Etnograficzne, Poznan, Poland.
Polish modern sculpture 1955-1992, Centre of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko.
1991
Polish women artists, National Museum, Warsaw.
Zacheta – Gallery of Modern Art, Warsaw.
1990
Galeria Krzywe Kolo, National Museum, Warsaw.
1989
Portrait of war in the works of contemporary polish artists, Polish Cultural Institute, London.
1987
National Museum, Warsaw.
1984
Polish sculpture 1944-1980, Galeria BWA, Poznan.
La part des femmes dan l’art contemporain, Galerie Municipale, Ville de Vitry-sur-Seine, France.
1983
Presences Polonaises, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
1981
Lieux de l’imaginaire, Galerie Municipale, Vitry-sur-Seine, Théatre d’Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
1980
Polish modern sculpture, BWA, Wroclaw, Poland.
Sculptures Polonaises Contemporaine, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
Galeria Warexpo, Warsaw.
Figures de l’enfermement, Lyon.
1979
Erotyka, Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw.
Muzeum Okregowe in Lodz, Muzeum Okregowe, Jelenia Gora, Poland.
Galeria „Foto Medium Art“, Wroclaw, Poland.
Escultura Polaca Contemporanea, Palacio de Velasquez, Madrid.
1978
Chemins de la Création. Dessins de Peintres – Dessins de Sculptures, Chateau d’Ancy-le-Franc, Yonne.
Peinture au beurre, Galerie Jean Briance, Paris.
Muzeum Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego, Warsaw.
1977
Regard’77, Caen.
Zyjnia, Galeria Stu, Cracow.
Mythologies Quotidiennes II, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
1976
Format: Czlowiek, Galeria Stu, Cracow.
La Peur, Galerie Lacloche, Paris.
Trait pour Trait, Galerie Jean Briance, Paris.
1975
Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Espaces intuitifs. Maison pour tous, Saint-Quentin en Yvelines.
Les Artistes et l’Année Internationale de la Femme, UNESCO, Paris.
1974
L’homme et son empreinte, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Bourges.
Ni fleurs, ni Couronnes, Galerie Philippe Demay, Paris.
Wool Art in Soft Art, Camden Arts Centre, London.
L’homme et son empreinte, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
entre d’Art, Chateau de Saint-Susanne, La Mayenne.
Polish sculpture 1944-1974, BWA Lublin, Poland.
Museum – for the people, National Museum,Warsaw.
Hommage à 6 Flamboyants, Galerie L’Oeil de Boeuf, Paris.
Aidez l’Espagne, Paris.
1973
WOOLART, Galerie 21, Saint-Etienne.
L’Expression, Galerie Claude Bollack, Strasbour.
Symposion Europäischer Bildhauer, St. Margarethen.
Hommage á Alina Szapocznikow, XXV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
XXIX Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris.
Hommage á Alina Szapocznikow, XXV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
1972
Les Chroniques de l’Oeil de Boeuf, Galerie L’Oeil de Boeuf, Paris.
Cendriers et projects de cendriers, Galerie Atelier A, Paris.
Formes pour en Espace, Jardins des Arts, Place M.Bertaux, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Noir d’Humour, Galerie Art du Monde, Paris.
Inter-étrennes, Galeria Lara Vinci, Paris.
Sculptur’s, Sculptur´s Galerie, 206 Bd St. Germain, Paris.
Impact II, Musée d’Art Moderne, Ceret.
III International Exhibition of Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka.
XXIV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins de l’Unesco, Center Jeanne Hachette, Ivry-sur-Seine.
Raccoltá Henraux, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara.
Formes Actuelles, Jardins des Arts, Place M. Bertaux, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
XXVIII Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.
Operazione Vezuvio, Galleria Il Centro, Neapol, Centro Domus, Milano.
La Femme, Galerie Cogeime, Brussels.
36 Artistes et la Laine, Galerie Boutique-Germain, Paris.
Travaux d’Aujourd’hui, Rue la Boetie, Paris.
1971
Monumentalplastik, Neue Berliner Galerie, Berlin.
XXVII Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
XXIII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Le Parc Floral, Bois de Vincennes, Paris.
Art Actuel, XII Salon de Jeunes et Grandes d’Aujourd’hui, Paris.
Muzeum Architektury,Wroclaw, Poland.
1970
Contemporary Ar Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, Yokohama, Galeria Kavatoku, Marioka, Museum of Fine Arts, Sendai.
Arte Irritante, Galleria Milano, Milano.
L’Art dans la Ville, Salle de Jeu de Paume, Chateau de Fontainebleau.
XXII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Orangerie et Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
II International Exhibition of Drawings,Moderna Galerija, Rijeka.
Recontre Internationale, Vela Luca.
Mahnung, Weimar.
Against war and fascism, Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
Art Concept from Europe, Gallery Bonino, New York.
1969
Kunstmarkt ’69, Salle Arlequin, Galerie Louise, Brussels.
Vystava Socha Pestanskych Parkow ‚’69, Piestany.
Comparaisons ‘69, Paris.
1968
Design, Gallery Design, Bd St. Germain, Paris.
L’Object 3, Hotel Hilton, Orly.
Vision ’68, Chateaux Fontainebleau, Paris.
II Salon „L’Art pour la paix du Vietnam“, Theatre de la Commune d’Aubervilliers, Aubervilliers.
Holland Festival, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Haag.
I International Exhibition of Drawings, Moderna Galerija, Rijeka.
XX Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris.
1967
Le Jouet, Galerie Saint-Luc, Paris.
V Biennale „Citta die Carrara“, Palazzo Comunale, Carrara.
XIX Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris.
La nature moderne, Salles du Rond Point des Champs Elysées, Palais de Glace, Paris.
Fonds de Solidarité avec Israel, Exposition – Vente, IV 1967,Rue Bonaparte, Paris.
18ème Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Salle Wilson, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
1966
Orientacje, Dom Artysty Plastyka, Warsaw.
Comparaisons ’66, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
XVIII Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Place de Vosges, Paris.
L’Object 2, Galerie Lacloche, Paris.
1965
Zacheta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw.
XX Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris.
XXI Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
IV Biennale „Citta di Carrara“, Palazzo Cumunale, Carrara.
8 Sculptures parisienne, Botanical Garden, Montreal, Quebec.
1964
XVI Salon de la Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris.
La boutique d’été, Galerie Lambert, Paris.
Polish external sculpture, Muzeum Slaska Opolskiego, Opole, Poland.
Profile IV, Bochum, Kassel.
1963
Never again, National Museum, Warsaw.
Galeria MDM, Warsaw.
XV Biennale d’Arte, V Concors Intoernationale del Bronzetto, Padva.
1962
Exposition internationale du petit bronze, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
Warsaw in the Arts, PKiN, Warsaw.
III Biennale „Citta die Carrara“, Palazzo Comunale, Carrara.
1961
XIV Biennale d’Arte, IV Concorso Internationale del Bronzetto, Padva.
Polish Painting, Gres Gallery, Washington.
1960
Polish sculpture 1945-1960, CBWA, Warsaw.
The Palais of Art (Mücsarnok), Budapest.
1959
International Exhibition of Sculpture, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Belfast.
Pologne 50 ans de peinture, Musée d´Art ei d´ Histoire, Geneve.
XIII Biennale d’Arte Triventa, III Concorso Interantionale del Bronzetto, Padva.
Premiére Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
Auschwitz Monument, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Roma, Rome.
Ausstellung Junger Polnischer Künstler, Messepalast, Vienna.
III Exhibition of Modern Art, CBWA, Warsaw.
Warsaw in the Modern Art, Warsaw Historical Museum , Warsaw.
Warsaw sculpture 1945-1958, CBWA, Warsaw.
1958
Internationale Beeldenteentoostelling in de Open Lucht, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem.
XI Festival of Fine Art, BWA, Sopot, Poland.
1957
II Exhibition of Modern Art, CBWA, Warsaw.
Sculpture in the Garden, Garden of SARP, ul. Foksal, Warsaw.
Moderna Polijska Umetnost, Belgrad, Lubljana, Zagreb.
X Festival of Fine Art, BWA, Sopot, Poland.
1956
Polish Art Exhibition in India1956, New Delhi, Madras, Calcutta, Bombay.
Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris<.
Junge Generation-Polnische Kunstausstellung, Berlin, Leipzig.
1955
VI OW ZPAP, CBWA, Warsaw.
V Exposition internationale de l´art des junes, CBWA Zacheta, Warsaw.
1954
IV OWP, CBWA; Warsaw.
1953
Jewish Institute , Warsaw.
IV OW ZPAP, CBWA, Warsaw.
III OWP, CBWA, Warsaw.
1951
II OWP, CBWA, Warsaw.
1950
VI Exposition des Artistes Juifs, Paris.
In Berlin leuchten die Prothesen by Marcus Woeller
Sie rührt an, regt auf, stößt ab, Alina Szapocnikow irritiert in jedem Fall. Völlig ungeniert stapelt sie Extremitäten, lässt Geschlechts- und Hinterteile leuchten, stellt feministische Objekte wie Einrichtungsgegenstände in den Raum. Ihre Körperkunst ist fordernd, fast aufdringlich. Und in ihrer Wirkung so nostalgisch wie zeitgemäß. Eigenartig, dass die 1972 mit nur 46 Jahren verstorbene polnische Künstlerin noch immer so wenig bekannt ist.
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Szapocznikow in Tel Aviv by culture.pl
Artworks by Alina Szapocznikow have only recently become more widely known and their outstanding achievement is being discovered 40 years after the artist’s death. After last year’s success, with exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Brussels and Paris, Szapocznikow’s work goes to Israel. The exhibition Body Traces in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art is the next step in exploring this Polish sculptor of Jewish origin, and presenting it for an international audience.
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Annette Messager & Alina Szapocznikow Galerie Isabella Czarnowska, Berlin by Louisa Elderton
Alina Szapocznikow and Annette Messager were born almost 20 years apart, in Poland and France, respectively. During the 1960s, however, both lived in the district of Malakoff in Paris and, in the words of gallerist Isabella Czarnowska, ‘This show is about their friend- ship.’ ‘North of the Future’ brought together sculpture and drawing by the two artists, dating from 1955 to the present day. Curated by Messager, the exhibition comprised three rooms that established a loose formal dialogue between the artists’ works. The corporeal sculptural language employed by the two artists is disparate
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Touching from a Distance by Adam Szymczyk
It was the Mid-1980s, a bleak, depressed era in post-martial-law Poland, when I first sa Alina Szapocznikow’s 1967 sculpture Le Voyage (Journey) at Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. Strolling pretty much alone through the museum’s galleries, I came upon it suddenly: a slender waxy-white nude that seemed to recline in the air…
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Human, all too human by Chris Sharp
Encounterin the work of the late Alina Szapocznikow, I am overwhelmed by its arresting sense of the truth, by the obscure yet irrefutable relevance of what it has to say to me and to our moment. This is not to say that the work of the Polish artist, whose most significant period of production…
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Body and Soul, From the Surrealistic to the Fetishistic by Karen Rosenberg
The small but intense survey of Alina Szapocznikow at the Museum of Modern Art is in some ways the story of postwar sculpture. Classical bronzes give way to puddles of poured resin; the figure walks down off the pedestal and comes back in pieces…
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Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 – review by Jason Farago
She stands like a totem: a spindly humanoid, elongated like one of Giacometti’s women, and wrapped in clinging plastic foil. But her oversized breasts are discolored and protruding, and besides there are another four mammary glands collected at her feet. And she has eight lots of lips growing out of her plaster head, which itself…
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Alina Szapocznikow at the Hammer Museum: Sexy Sculptures of a Forgotten Polish Genius by Andrew Berardini
Though it may seem common, it’s almost impossible to get rediscovered. There is likely a handful of novels equal to Moby Dick in some fusty East Coast atheneum ready to be undusted and perhaps actually read by an intrepid librarian. Even discovery is not enough — the thing has to feel necessary and current, and a whole host of somebodies has to spend a whole lot of time…
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Art review: 'Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone' at Hammer Museum by Christopher Knight
Alina Szapocznikow, who died at 46 in 1973, is a Polish sculptor little known outside her home country. Her work ranges from traditional Expressionist figures in plaster, bronze and cement to inventively grainy images that she called photo-sculptures. It has been garnering some attention in small gallery exhibitions in Europe and New York in just…
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Alina Szapocznikow by Kasia Redzisz
‘Sculpture Undone. 1955–1972’, one of the first large surveys of Alina Szapocznikow’s oeuvre outside her native Poland, boldly intends to establish the artist’s position in art history. The modest attention Szapocznikow’s work has received in recent years has often been overshadowed by her biography, which was scarred by experiences of war, concentration camps, poor health and an untimely death from…
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Das 2,3-Millionen-Euro-Bild by Alexandra Wach
Es sind die Facetten, die den Kunstmarkt schillern lassen. Ihren ersten euphorisch stimmenden Erfolg haben die Art Cologne und insbesondere der Kölner Aussteller Klaus Benden bereits gefeiert: Für satte 2,3 Millionen Euro wechselte an seinem Stand ein Bild von Tom Wesselmann den Besitzer: „Smoker #2 (3D)“ von 1999. Der Käufer, ein rheinischer Sammler, hatte eben dieses charmante Werk bereits im Jahr 2000 erwerben wollen. Wo? Am Stand von Klaus Benden auf der Art Cologne…
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Luc Tuymans curates: A Vision of Central Europe by Phaidon
It has been suggested that, for a city with such a rich heritage, Bruges has few dedicated art institutions. But what the city lacks in permanent galleries – primarily those concerned with contemporary art – it has more than made up for with its recent series of highly successful…
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monographs
Alina Szapocznikow. From Drawing Into Sculpture, Centre Georges Pompidou, Éditions Dilecta; Exhibition catalogue
Bitterli, Konrad (ed.), Menschenzellen – Human Capsules, Acht Künstlerinnen aus der Sammlung Ursula Hauser, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg 2012
Sziewanska, Marta and Katarzyna Szotkowska-Beylin (ed.), Lovely, Human, True, Heartfelt – The letters of Alina Szapocznikow and Ryszard Stanislawski – 1948-1971, Museum of Modern Art Warsae, Warsaw 2012
Sculptural Matter, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2012; Exhibitions catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Sculpture Undone 1955-1972, The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mercatorfonds, Brussels in collaboration with WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Exhibitions catalogue
Jakubowska Agata (e.d.) Alina Szapocznikow – Awkward Objects, Museum of Modern Art Warswaw, Warsaw 2011
Les promesses du passé, Une histoire discontinue de l’art dans l’ex-europe de l’est, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010; Exhibitions catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Capturing Life. Drawings and Sculptures, IRSA, Kraków-Warszawa, Edited by: Józef Grabski, Exhibition catalogue / Catalogue raisonné of drawings
Jola Gola, Katalog rzezb Aliny Szapocznikow, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Kraków; Catalogue raisonné of sculptures
Alina Szapocznikow: ze zbiorów Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych (BWA), Kalisz; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, Ceské muzeum výtvarných umení , Dum u Cerné Matky Boží, Praha, 19 IV–4 VI 2000; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926-1973, Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu, Wroclaw, 12 III-16 V 1999; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow 1926–1973, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zacheta, Warszawa, V–VII 1998; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973. Przewodnik, Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Kraków, 15 X–20 XII 1998; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973, Musée Adam Mickiewicz, Bibliothèque Polonaise de Paris, Paris, 16 V–30 VI 1990; Exhibition catalogue with essays by: Pierre Descargues, Pierre Restany
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973, Galeria Sztuki Plastycznej KUL, Lublin, II–III 1989; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Fotorzezby (1971), Wroclawska Galeria Fotografii OKiS, Wroclaw, 6–26 VI 1978; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Fotorzezby. 1971, Salon Krytyków. BWA Lublin, VI 1978; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973. Skulpturer, Lunds konsthall, 16 IV–15 V 1977; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Rzezba, Salon Sztuki Wspólczesnej BWA, Bydgoszcz, VI 1976; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow 1926–1973, Palac Sztuki TPSP, Galeria Pryzmat, ZPAP Kraków, 1976; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973, BWA „Arsenal“, Poznan, 17 I–5 II 1976; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973. Rzezba, rysunek, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warszawa, 1975; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973, Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lódz, IX–X 1975; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973. Dessins, Galerie d’Art Moderne „Aurora“, Genéve, 10 IV–8 V 1975; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1926–1973, Galeria Wspólczesna, KMPiK, Warszawa VI 1974; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow 1926–1973, Tumeurs, Herbier, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 8 V–3 VI 1973; Exhibition catalogue
D. Chevalier, Hommage á Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973), XXV Salon de la Jeune Sculpture; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. 1968, Galerie Cogeime, Bruxelles, 12 XI–3 XII 1968; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, ZPAP, CBWA, Warszawa 1957; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Rzezba, CBWA Zacheta, Warszawa, VII 1967; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, Florence Houston Brown, Paris, Latina Gallery, Stockholm, Marya Gallery, København; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, XXXI Biennale di Venezia 1962. Section Polonaise
Catalogo della XXXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia 1962
Alina Szapocznikow, Galerija Likovnih Umjetnosti, Rijeka; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, „Kordegarda“, Warszawa XII 1961; Exhibition catalogue
Rzezba Aliny Szapocznikow, XIII Festiwal Sztuk Plastycznych , BWA Sopot VIII 1960, Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Konfrontacje 1960, Galeria Krzywe Kolo, Warszawa VII 1960; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, Galleria Falsetti, Prato 22V–2 VII 1960; Exhibition catalogue
II wystawa rzezby Aliny Szapocznikow, BWA „Arsenal“, Poznan, IV 1960; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow. Rzezba, CBWA Zacheta, Warszawa, VII 1967; Exhibition catalogue
Alina Szapocznikow, Florence Houston Brown, Paris, Latina Gallery, Stockholm, Marya Gallery, København; Exhibition catalogue
other publications
Apparitions, Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, The Menil Collection, Houston, distributed by Yale University Press, New Heaven and London; Exhibition catalogue
Luc Tuymans, The Reality of the Lowest Rank. A vision of Central Europe, Exhibition catalogue with essay by Isabella Czarnowska: A large selection of sculptures by the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is on show in Bruges
Awkward Objects. Alina Szapocznikow and Maria Bartuszowa, Pauline Boty, Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse and Paulina Olowska, Edited by Marta Dziewanska, Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Warszawa; Exhibition brochure
Tri socharky: Vera Janoušková, Eva Kmentová, Alina Szapocznikowá, Královský letohrádek, Pražský hrad, Praha, 30 VII-2 XI 2008; Exhibition catalogue
Agata Jakubowska, Portret wielokrotny dziela Aliny Szapocznikow, Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznan
Pawel Leszkowicz, G.K.Collection #1 (Art from Grazyna Kulczyk Collection), Kulczyk Foundation, Poznan
Anda Rottenberg, Sztuka w Polsce 1945–2005, Wydawnictwo Piotra Marciszuka STENTOR, Warszawa , with essay: Alina Szapocznikow i Poemat dla doroslych
Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, 19 IX-14 XII 2004; Exhibition catalogue
Prym, Galeria BWA Zielona Góra, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Revolver; Exhibition catalogue
Slonce i inne gwiazdy: Abakanowicz, Kantor, Kobro, Opalka, Stazewski, Strzeminski, Szapocznikow, Witkacy, Wojtkiewicz, Wróblewski, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zacheta, Warszawa; Exhibition catalogue
Mariusz Hermansdorfer, Miedzy ekspresja a metafora, Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu, Wroclaw; Exhibition catalogue
Figura w rzezbie polskiej XIX i XX wieku, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zacheta, Muzeum X. Dunikowskiego, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej Oronsk, Warszawa; Exhibition catalogue
Lengyelorzág Muvészet 1945–1996, Mucsarnok, Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest 20 I–23 II 1997; Exhibition catalogue
Piotr Piotrowski, Odwilz. Sztuka okolo 1956 r., Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej, Muzeum Narodowe w Poznaniu, Poznan, VI–VIII 1996; Exhibition catalogue
Wokól polskiej rzezby lat 70-tych i 80-tych XX wieku, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej, 28 X–20 XII 1995; Exhibition catalogue
Rysa w przestrzeni. Sztuka po roku 1945 w Czechach, Niemczech, Polsce i Slowacji, 13 III-23 IV 1995, Galeria Sztuki Wspólczesnej Zacheta, Warszawa, 1995; Exhibition catalogue
Der Riss im Raum. Positionen der Kunst seit 1945 in Deutschland, Polen, der Slowakei und Tschechien, Guardini Stiftung Berlin, Verlag der Kunst, Dresden, 2004; Exhibition catalogue
Europa, Europa. Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn 27 V–16 X 1994; Exhibition catalogue
Ars Erotica, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Fundacja Sztuki Pro Arte, Warszawa; Exhibition catalogue
Rzezba polska lat szescdziesiatych, X 1993 – I 1994, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej w Oronsku; Exhibition catalogue
Romuald K. Bochynski, Nowoczesna Rzezba Polska 1955–1992, CRP, Muzeum Rzezby Wspólczesnej, Oronsko; Exhibition catalogue
Lódz-Lyon. Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi. 1931-1993. Collection-Documentation-Actualite, 8 V-27 IX 1992, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon; Exhibition catalogue
Artystki polskie, Muzeum Narodowe, Warszawa; Exhibition catalogue
Kolekcja sztuki XX wieku w Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, 6 V–2 VI 1991, Galeria Zacheta, Warszawa; Exhibition catalogue
A. Wojciechowski, Konfrontacje 1960, Galeria Krzywe Kolo, katalog wystawy retrospektywnej, VII–IX
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie; Exhibition catalogue
Rzezba Polska 1944–1984, Galeria BWA „Arsenal“, Poznan, 20 IX–21 X 1984; Exhibition catalogue
Presences Polonaises. L’art vivant autour du Musée de Lódz. Witkiewicz. Constructivisme. Les Contemporains, Centre Georges Pompidou, 23 VI–26 IX 1983; Exhibition catalogue
Wspólczesna rzezba polska, BWA, Galeria „Awangarda“, Wroclaw, V 1980; Exhibition catalogue
Sculptures Polonaises Contemporaine, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 23 I–2 III 1980; Exhibition catalogue
Laureaci Nagród Panstwowych i Ministra Kultury i Sztuki przyznanych w 35 leciu PRL, Zacheta, Warszawa VII 1979; Exhibition catalogue
Janusz Zagrodzki, Alina Szapocznikow, Warszawa, Arkady