Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum

Metamorphoses

Fondation Toms Pauli is loaning three ancient tapestries for the Rijksmuseum’s Metamorphoses exhibition. Among them, two remarkable tapestries stand out for their exceptional state of preservation as well as for their artistic and historical significance. They are part of the Story of Apollo series, also called the Barberini Metamorphoses, and depict Latona Transforming the Lycian Peasants into Frogs and Apollo and Daphne. Both tapestries were woven in the workshops established in Rome by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, nephew of Pope Urban VII and a great patron of tapestry.

Art Genève

At the 2026 edition of Art Genève, Fondation Toms Pauli featured in the Sur-Mesure selection for distinctive monumental artworks and installations. It presented a spectacular work by Jagoda Buić, Hommage à Pierre Pauli (1970–1971), an emblematic piece that bears witness to the expressive force and sculptural ambition of textile creations in the second half of the 20th century.

Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne

The collection invites

After being on display for nearly a year in the permanent collection of the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, The Concert is making way for another treasure from the Toms Pauli Foundation's collections: a 17th-century Brussels tapestry depicting Vespasian and Titus being acclaimed.

Paris, musée Bourdelle

Magdalena Abakanowicz, the Thread of Existence

Following presentations in London, Lausanne, Oslo, Warsaw, and more recently in Tilburg and ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Musée Bourdelle in Paris will host a major exhibition devoted to Magdalena Abakanowicz. Through the loan of eight significant works—reliefs and spatial forms—Fondation Toms Pauli contributes to the curatorial ambition of emphasising the sculptural dimension of the Polish artist’s oeuvre. The Paris exhibition is staged in the home-workshop of Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor and drawing teacher at the Gobelins manufactory, whose pupil Maria Łaszkiewicz enabled Abakanowicz to realise her first large-format tapestries for the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication in French.

Magdalena Abakanowicz, the Thread of Existence

Lausanne, mudac Musée Cantonal de Design et d'Arts Appliqués Contemporains

Times in Tapestry: Goshka Macuga x Grayson Perry x Mary Toms

On the occasion of their respective twenty-fifth anniversaries, Fondation Toms Pauli and mudac explore tapestry as a vector of storytelling and propaganda by presenting a selection of exceptional works, remarkable both for their expressive power and their monumental scale. Through a dialogue between baroque wall hangings from the Mary Toms Collection and contemporary tapestries by Goshka Macuga and Grayson Perry, Times in Tapestry presents the medium as a mirror of political and social intentions, and as a tool for critical commentary. By confronting ancient and contemporary works, Times in Tapestry highlights the timeless power of tapestry: through its rich visual language it has the capacity to convey complex messages and spark reflection on universal issues. 
A publication, with contributions by eight authors who address tapestry as a narrative medium from different perspectives, accompanies the exhibition. It is presented in a boxed set together with 23 loose-leaf plates of the monumental works displayed at Times in Tapestry: Goshka Macuga x Grayson Perry x Mary Toms.

Times in Tapestry: Goshka Macuga x Grayson Perry x Mary Toms

Tilburg, TextilMuseum

Magdalena Abakanowicz - Everything is made of fiber

Die Fondation Toms Pauli besitzt den größten Bestand an Werken von Magdalena Abakanowicz außerhalb Polens und freut sich, dass mehrere Wandteppiche, weiche Skulpturen und Installationen der Künstlerin in bemerkenswerten Ausstellungen gezeigt werden, wie z. B. derzeit im Textilmuseum Tilburg mit acht historischen und unverzichtbaren Leihgaben. 

Abakanowicz - Everything is made of fiber - TextielMuseum

Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts

Alice Pauli. Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron

A prominent figure on the Lausanne arts scene and an amazing personality, Alice Pauli was closely connected with tapestry and with Fondation Toms Pauli. In this major exhibition that pays tribute to her, those special connections are illustrated in the Fondation’s loans to the MCBA. Among the more than 130 pieces on display, there are ten works by artists, Alice Pauli had either supported or was close friends with, such as Jean Lurçat, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jagoda Buić, Wojciech Sadley, Maria Łaszkiewicz, Sheila Hicks and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette.

Alice Pauli. Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron – MCBA

Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Olga de Amaral

The Paisaje de calicanto y rocas tapestry by the Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, is presented in a minimalist setting, playing on the building’s transparency and the garden outside. Loaned by Fondation Toms Pauli for this ongoing, highly successful retrospective exhibition, the tapestry is a perfect representation of the poetic universe of this internationally acclaimed major textile artist. 

Olga de Amaral - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain