MoMa - Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Tue, Jun 03
|MoMA
Reframe the story of abstraction in Woven Histories, a landmark MoMA exhibition exploring how textiles have shaped modern art across centuries, cultures, and identities.
Time & Location
Jun 03, 2025, 7:00 AM – Sep 13, 2025, 10:50 PM
MoMA, 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, USA
About the event
On view through September 13, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
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“Threads were among the earliest transmitters of meaning,” wrote artist and textile pioneer Anni Albers—a belief woven into the very fabric of Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction. This major MoMA exhibition redefines abstraction through the lens of textile-based practices, bringing together over 150 works that span basketry, apparel, weaving, knotting, and more.
From early-20th-century figures like Sonia Delaunay, Hannah Höch, and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, to mid-century icons Anni Albers and Ed Rossbach, to contemporary artists Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel, and Igshaan Adams, the exhibition breaks down barriers between craft and fine art, spotlighting how materiality, labor, and identity are inseparable from the evolution of modern abstraction.
These woven, looped, and knotted pieces aren’t just aesthetic forms—they are tactile, political, and deeply personal expressions that challenge traditional art hierarchies. Woven Histories argues that textile art has always been a modern language, rich with…