Aurèlia Muñoz. Entes

Barcelona, Spain

Contemporary textile art, fiber art, macramé, expanded sculpture, installation, and experimental craft.

Aurèlia Muñoz “Pájaros-cometas B2”, 1982

Image credit

Aurèlia Muñoz “Pájaros-cometas B2”, 1982. Colección MACBA. Depósito de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Archivo Aurèlia Muñoz. Foto: Josep Gri

Meet the artist

The Movement

Art Installation, Contemporary Art, Textile

ArtLovers Tip

Stand beneath or beside the suspended works and let them change your sense of scale. The magic of Aurèlia Muñoz is that she makes thread feel like a living force — something that can hold memory, space, movement, and breath.

Exhibition Highlights - What you’ll see

Part of the Aurèlia Muñoz Year, marking the centenary of the artist’s birth.

Aurèlia Muñoz was initially connected to Nouvelle Tapisserie and the Catalan School of Tapestry, but her work moved far beyond traditional textile categories. Over time, thread became structure, tapestry became space, and craft became a radical contemporary language.

Entes offers a broad journey through more than fifty years of Aurèlia Muñoz’s practice, from early collages and assemblages to large-scale macramé structures, kite-like sculptures, paper works, drawings, and models.

You’re watching:

  • Early works with surrealist and gothic echoes
  • Pictorial embroideries and textile experiments
  • Monumental macramé pieces from collections in Spain, Europe, and the United States
  • Her iconic suspended kite and bird-like forms
  • Late installations made with handmade paper
  • Drawings and models that reveal the thinking behind the works

The exhibition shows an artist who treated textile not as decoration, but as architecture, body, movement, and atmosphere.

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you want to understand textile art as one of the great languages of contemporary art.

Because Aurèlia Muñoz helped move textile practice into a more sculptural, spatial and conceptual field. Her works don’t simply use fiber; they rethink space through knots, suspension, tension, lightness, and material intelligence.

It also matters because the exhibition repositions Muñoz internationally: she participated in major textile events such as the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennials, the São Paulo Biennial, Fiber Works in Kyoto, and the Venice Biennale.

This is not just a retrospective. It is a chance to see how an artist transformed ancestral techniques into forms that still feel futuristic.

How to experience it

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

Move around the works slowly: many pieces behave more like bodies than images

Notice how textile becomes architecture, and how craft becomes structure

Pay attention to the drawings and models: they reveal the artist’s spatial thinking

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

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