Sarah Wilson

Already during her lifetime, Alina Szapocznikow enjoyed widespread recognition in her native Poland. Today, she is considered one of the most important and innovative post-war artists in Poland. Alina Szapocznikow’s reception in the context of international artistic discourse received a fundamental impulse through the exhibition Awkward Objects (2009) at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Institutional solo exhibitions followed (selection): »Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972«, WIELS Centre d’art contemporain, Brüssel, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011–2013) , »Alina Szapocznikow: Du dessin à la sculpture«, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013); »Alina Szapocznikow: Body Traces«, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (2014); »Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscapes«, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, und Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden (2017/2018). For the second time in Germany, the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Ravensburg offers the rare opportunity to get to know the work of Alina Szapocznikow.