Clermont-Ferrand, Art Museum Roger-Quilliot

Beauté(s). Biennale textile

What is beauty? To explore this question, the Clermont-Ferrand Textile Biennial is inaugurating its flagship exhibition, Beauté(s), in a few days. This exhibition, both critical and sensitive, combines classical masterpieces, ethnographic objects and contemporary art. The Foundation associates itself with enthusiasm with this unprecedented event by lending one of the jewels of its collection: the emblematic Red Abakan III by the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz.

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.

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

Holding the largest collection of works by Magdalena Abakanowicz outside of Poland, the Toms Pauli Foundation is pleased to see the artist's tapestries, soft sculptures and installations showcased in remarkable exhibitions, such as the one taking place at the Textile Museum in Tilburg.

Zürich, Museum für Gestaltung (Ausstellungstrasse)

Textile Manifestos - From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture

By creating a dialogue between materials and techniques, the Textile Manifestos exhibition highlights the textile medium as a “global sensory experience”. Fondation Toms Pauli has loaned eleven works including an ensemble of embroideries by Lissy Funk and works by Helen Frances Gregor, Kazimiera Gidaszewska, Lia Cook, Shigeki Fukumoto and Sonia Delaunay. Each of these artists has a distinctive manner of approaching the textile medium in all its diversity.

Textile Manifestos—From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture | MfGZ

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