Selected permanent collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway; Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Japan; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra; Caracas Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional Rufino, Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Arts of Design, New York, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany. Recipient: Gold Medal, American Craft Council; Distinction in Sculpture Award, Sculpture Center, New York, New York; Leonardo da Vinci, World Award of Arts, World Cultural Council, Mexico; Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters, Paris, France.

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Statement: Abakanowicz has been quoted as saying: Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind, born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality, in our minds. Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
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