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In 2025, the Foundation embarks with renewed energy, exciting projects, and numerous loans granted to Swiss and European institutions.
Times in Tapestry: Goshka Macuga x Grayson Perry x Mary Toms mudac Musée Cantonal de Design et d'Arts Appliqués Contemporains, Lausanne
Curated by Fondation Toms Pauli and mudac
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
Magdalena Abakanowicz, la trame de l’existence Musée Bourdelle, Paris
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.
A taste for the beautiful, the precious, and the exotic?
If you have a penchant for the beautiful, the precious, and the exotic, come and discover a remarkable English tapestry (The Concert, England, late 17th century), donated by Mary Toms to the State of Vaud in 1993, now on display in the permanent collection of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne! Do not delay! From mid-December 2025, it will be the turn of the emperors Titus and Vespasian to receive public acclaim (Vespasian and Titus Applauded, Brussels, 1677–1688).