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Woven Histories:
Textiles and Modern Abstraction
April 20 – September 13, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, an in-depth exhibition that delves into the dynamic intersections between weaving and abstraction. On view April 20 through September 13, 2025, the exhibition will include approximately 150 works in a range of mediums—from textiles and basketry to painting, drawing, sculpture, and media works—exploring the overlap between abstract art, weaving, craft, and fashion. Woven Histories challenges long-held notions of the weave as a function of textile alone, exploring the many forms both warp and weft have taken when explored by abstract artists over the past 100 years. Previously on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the exhibition’s final presentation will be at MoMA, with numerous works not seen at earlier venues.
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The exhibition is curated by Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art. The Museum of Modern Art presentation is organized by Esther Adler, Curator, with Emily Olek, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawing and Prints, and Paul Galloway, Collection Specialist, Department of Architecture and Design.
Leadership support for the exhibition is provided by the Sandra and Tony Tamer Exhibition Fund.
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Images
Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Untitled, c.1918. Cotton on canvas in historical frame, 4 3/8 x 3 1/4″ (11.1 x 8.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder. © 200_ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Anni Albers. Design for Wall Hanging, 1926. Gouache on paper, 12 1/8 x 8 3/4″ (30.8 x 22.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the designer. © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers. Wall Hanging, 1927. Cotton and silk, 58 1/4 x 47 3/4″ (147.9 x 121.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the designer in memory of Greta Daniel. © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Gunta Stölzl. Weaving, c.1928. Wool, 60 1/2 × 39 1/4″ (153.7 × 99.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Ted Chung and Committee on Architecture and Design Funds. © 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Anni Albers. Tapestry, 1948. Handwoven linen and cotton, 16 1/2 x 18 3/4″ (41.9 x 47.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. Purchase Fund. © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Anni Albers. Free-Hanging Room Divider, 1949. Cellophane and cord, 94 x 32 1/2″ (238.7 x 82.5 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the designer. © 2024 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Hannah Höch. Collage II (On Filet Ground) (Collage II [Auf Filetgrund]), c.1925. Cut-and-pasted printed and painted paper on printed paper, 9 3/4 x 7 5/8″ (24.5 x 19.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of the artist and of Rose Fried. © 2024 Hannah Höch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
Ed Rossbach. Constructed Color Wall Hanging, 1965. Synthetic raffia, 57 x 71″ (144.8 x 180.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Emery Fund
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Square Reticularea 71/11, 1971. Stainless steel, copper, lead, and plastic, 80 11/16 x 55 1/8 x 21 5/8″ (205 x 140 x 55 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Alexis Lowry. © 2024 Fundación Gego
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Weaving 89/21 (Tejedura 89/21), 1989. Cut-and-woven paper, 9 × 8″ (22.9 × 20.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Jeanne Collins. © 2024 Fundación Gego
Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt). Weaving 90/36, 1990. Pencil on cut paper woven with plastic packaging, 6 1/4 × 5″ (15.9 × 12.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Patty Lipshutz. © 2024 Fundación Gego