Exhibitions

Aurèlia Muñoz. Entes

Madrid, Spain

Contemporary textile art, fiber art, macramé, expanded sculpture, installation, handmade paper, collage, assemblage and experimental craft.

Macramé

Image credit

Ens mí­stic, 1977 Macramé. 300 x 250 x 150 cm. © Col·lecció Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona

Meet the artist

The Movement

Contemporary Art, Contemporary Sculpture, Textile

ArtLovers Tip

Stand near the suspended works and let them change your sense of space. The magic of Aurèlia Muñoz is that she makes thread feel powerful: fragile, yes — but also capable of holding memory, air, movement and a whole world of forms.

Exhibition Highlights - What you'll see

Aurèlia Muñoz was linked in her early career to Nouvelle Tapisserie and the Catalan School of Tapestry, but her work moved beyond the traditional limits of tapestry, fiber and craft.

Come and discover the visionary work of Aurèlia Muñoz (1926–2011), a key artist who completely changed the way we look at textile art. While she began her journey with the traditional Catalan School of Tapestry, her art quickly grew into something much bigger than just weaving or craft.

Entes is a major retrospective dedicated to Aurèlia Muñoz — Barcelona, 1926–2011 — and presents more than fifty years of her artistic practice. The exhibition traces her evolution from early collages and assemblages with surreal and gothic echoes to pictorial embroideries, large macramé structures, kite-like sculptures, handmade paper installations, drawings and models.

You’re watching:

  • Textile works that behave like sculpture
  • Monumental macramé structures from institutional collections in Spain, Europe and the United States
  • Suspended bird-kite forms that transform air into part of the artwork
  • Handmade paper installations from her later period
  • Drawings and models that reveal the thinking behind the works
  • An artist using ancestral techniques in a radically contemporary way

The result feels organic, architectural and atmospheric — as if thread had learned how to breathe.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you want to understand why textile art is central to contemporary art history, not secondary to it. If you love artists who break categories — between craft and sculpture, textile and architecture, object and living presence.

This exhibition matters because Muñoz helped expand textile practice into space. Her works are not “decorative objects”; they are structures of tension, gravity, air, body and material intelligence.

It is also the most ambitious retrospective dedicated to the artist to date, organized in the context of the centenary of her birth. After Madrid, the exhibition travels to MACBA in Barcelona from November 5, 2026 to March 29, 2027.

How to experience it

Don’t look only at the surface — look at knots, shadows, suspension and gravity

Move around the works slowly: many pieces need your body to activate their scale

Notice how textile becomes architecture without becoming rigid

Pay attention to the drawings and models: they show how Muñoz thought spatially

Think about ecosystems — earth, water and air — as emotional and material references in her work

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