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GROUP EXHIBITION

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art Stedelijk Museum 14 September 2024–5 January 2025 Amsterdam
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In Unravel, artists from around the world present extraordinary artworks, from large-scale, colourful and expressive installations, to delicate and intimate pieces about love, resilience, power, and resistance. The group show features over a hundred works by 45 artists, including such famous names as Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, and Tracey Emin, but also younger artists.

Textiles are a vital part of everyday life. They cover and protect you, stimulate your senses, trigger memories, represent your tastes and beliefs. Textiles have always been an under-examined medium in art history, but have recently been rediscovered by artists as a way to tell tales of love, resilience, power, and resistance. The colourful and extraordinary artworks in the group exhibition Unravel are radical in both form and content, showcasing a wide range of forms, scales, techniques, and perspectives. Some draw on age-old techniques, while others utilize new and experimental processes. Each of these artists uses fabric and thread to tell their personal histories, which also speak to current socio-political themes.

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Artists Exhibiting

Sheila Hicks contemporary artist
Sheila Hicks b. 1934 Follow +
Tracey Emin contemporary artist
Tracey Emin b. 1963 Follow +
Louise Bourgeois contemporary artist
Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010 Follow +
Pacita Abad contemporary artist
Pacita Abad 1946-2004 Follow +
Magdalena Abakanowicz contemporary artist
Magdalena Abakanowicz 1930-2017 Follow +
Igshaan Adams contemporary artist
Igshaan Adams b. 1982 Follow +
Mounira Al Solh contemporary artist
Mounira Al Solh b. 1978 Follow +
Ghada Amer contemporary artist
Ghada Amer b. 1963 Follow +
Arpilleristas contemporary artist
Arpilleristas Follow +
Mercedes Azpilicueta contemporary artist
Mercedes Azpilicueta Follow +
Kevin Beasley contemporary artist
Kevin Beasley Follow +
Sanford Biggers contemporary artist
Sanford Biggers b. 1970 Follow +
Diedrick Brackens contemporary artist
Diedrick Brackens b. 1989 Follow +
Jagoda Buic contemporary artist
Jagoda Buic Follow +
Margarita Cabrera contemporary artist
Margarita Cabrera b. 1973 Follow +
Feliciano Centurion contemporary artist
Feliciano Centurión Follow +
Judy Chicago contemporary artist
Judy Chicago Follow +
Myrlande Constant contemporary artist
Myrlande Constant Follow +
Cian Dayrit contemporary artist
Cian Dayrit b. 1989 Follow +
Jeffrey Gibson contemporary artist
Jeffrey Gibson b. 1972 Follow +
Antonio Jose Guzman contemporary artist
Antonio Jose Guzman Follow +
Iva Jankovic contemporary artist
Iva Jankovic Follow +
Harmony Hammond contemporary artist
Harmony Hammond b. 1944 Follow +
Teresa Margolles contemporary artist
Teresa Margolles b. 1963 Follow +
Georgina Maxim contemporary artist
Georgina Maxim b. 1980 Follow +
Magorzata Mirga-Tas contemporary artist
Małgorzata Mirga-Tas b. 1978 Follow +
Violeta Parra contemporary artist
Violeta Parra Follow +
Antonio Pichilla contemporary artist
Antonio Pichilla Follow +
Antonio Pichilla Quiacain contemporary artist
Antonio Pichillá Quiacaín b. 1982 Follow +
Faith Ringgold contemporary artist
Faith Ringgold 1930-2024 Follow +
LJ Roberts contemporary artist
LJ Roberts Follow +
Zamthingla Ruivah contemporary artist
Zamthingla Ruivah Follow +
Hannah Ryggen contemporary artist
Hannah Ryggen Follow +
Tschabalala Self contemporary artist
Tschabalala Self b. 1990 Follow +
Angela Su contemporary artist
Angela Su b. 1958 Follow +
Lenore Tawney contemporary artist
Lenore Tawney 1907-2007 Follow +
Cecilia Vicuna contemporary artist
Cecilia Vicuña b. 1948 Follow +
T. Vinoja contemporary artist
T. Vinoja Follow +
Yee I-Lann contemporary artist
Yee I-Lann b. 1971 Follow +
Billie Zangewa contemporary artist
Billie Zangewa b. 1973 Follow +
Sarah Zapata contemporary artist
Sarah Zapata Follow +
About the Gallery

The Stedelijk Museum is the place where everyone can discover and experience modern and contemporary visual art and design 365 days a year. The Stedelijk Museum was founded in 1874 by a group of private citizens in Amsterdam, led by C.P. van Eeghen, who donated funds and their art collections to establish a museum in the capital of the Netherlands that would be devoted to modern art. The collection, housed at first at the Rijksmuseum, was moved in 1895 into the Museum’s own building, designed by A.W. Weissman.

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Museumplein 10
Amsterdam
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Daily, 10am – 6pm
*25 Dec and 1 Jan, 11am – 6pm
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Amsterdam Museumplein 10
Stedelijk Museum contemporary art institution in Amsterdam Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum
Museumplein 10, Amsterdam, Netherlands
https://www.stedelijk.nl/nl

Opening hours
Daily, 10am – 6pm
*25 Dec and 1 Jan, 11am – 6pm
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