Tapta 1926-1997

SOLO EXHIBITONS

 

1966

Gallery Le Métiers, Brussels

1969

Gallery Angle Aigu, Brussels

1971

Tapta, Textile Forms, Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent

1971

Gallery Alfa, Brussels

1971

Gallery Estro Armonico, Zeebrugge

1971

Gallery Toebosch, Antwerp

1971

Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent

1972

Tapta, Tapestries, Textile Structures, Botanical Studies, Gallery Dario Boccara, Paris

1973

Gallery Imago, Tielt

1973

Tapta, Saint Peter's Abbey, Ghent (cat.)

1974

Tapta, Textile Structures, Static and Mobile, Gallery Les Trois Portes, Mons

1975

Gallery Contour, Brussels

1975

Tapta, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1976

Tapta, Flexible Sculptures, Gallery De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp

1977

Gallery Contour, Brussels

1979

Tapta, Soft Spaces, Gallery Gérard Laubie, Paris

1979

Gallery Richard Foncke, Ghent

1982

Tapta. Tension, Museum of Tapestry, Aix-en-Provence (cat.)

1984

Gallery J.L., Ostend

1986

Gallery l'Autre Musée, Brussels

1986

Museum of Verviers, Verviers

1987

Neoflexibles, Museum of Fine Arts, Verviers

1988

Galerie De Buck, Ghent

1988

Tapta, Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve, Louvain-la-Neuve

1989

De Werf Cultural Centre, Aalst

1990

Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem

1991

Gallery Ephémère, Montigny-le-Tilleul

1994

Tapta, Botanique, Brussels

1994

Gallery ITS.ART.ITS, La Hulpe

1995

Citadel of Montmédy, Montmédy

1996

Gallery Etienne Tilman, Brussels

1997

Gallery La Cité, Luxembourg

1997

Zacheta Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw

2011

Tapta, Former Slaughterhouses of the City of Mons, Mons (cat.)

2019

Homage to Tapta Wierusz-Kowalski (1926–1997), TAMAT, Tournai

2019

Tapta, Former Slaughterhouses, Mons

2022

TAPTA, Arton Foundation, Warsaw

2023

Tapta, Soft Spaces, WIELS, Brussels

2024

Tapta: Flexible Forms, Muzeum Susch, Switzerland

 


 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

1969

4th International Biennial of Tapestry, Lausanne (cat.)

 

Contemporary Tapestry Days, Paris

 

International Congress of Experimental Tapestry, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid

1970

International Tapestry Exhibition, Grenoble

1971

Contemporary Belgian Textile and Poster, Museum of Textile History, Łódź (cat.)

1972

'From Permeke to the Present Day', Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1973

Biennial of Critics, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi & ICC Antwerp (cat.)

 

'Tapta Souply', Château de Beloeil (cat.)

1974

4th Contemporary Art Fair, Casino Knokke

 

3rd Triennial, Informative Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Belgium, Bruges (cat.)

 

Image – Magic – Imaginary, Gallery Georges Buysse, Sint-Martens-Latem (cat.)

 

Tapestry Exhibition, Mulhouse

1975

1st International Tapestry Triennial, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź

1976

Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem

 

Biennial of Critics (cat.)

 

International Exhibition of Miniature Textiles, London

 

'Fête 76 Jambes' (cat.)

 

'7+7 Creators of La Cambre', Gallery Sin'Paora, Paris

 

5th Contemporary Art Fair, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

1977

'Sculpture is a Celebration', Gallery G. Laubie, Paris

 

Summer at Seny, Seny (cat.)

1978

International Tapestry Triennial, Łódź

 

6th Current Art Fair, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

 

'Tapestries of Today', Château Malou, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert

1979

50 Years of La Cambre, Ixelles Museum, Brussels

 

International Symposium 'Textile Art Encounter', Cannes

 

FIAC with G. Laubie, Paris

 

EURE International Sculpture Exhibition, Vaudreuil

1980

'Anti-Tapestries?', Belgian House, Cologne (cat.)

 

10th Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial

 

Vision 80, Kortrijk

1981

Art and Textile Creation, Paris & Lausanne (cat.)

 

A Moment of Brussels Sculpture, Ganshoren (cat.)

 

Integration 1, Louvain-la-Neuve Museum (cat.)

1982

Textile Structures, Vichte

1983

Presence of Forms, Angles

1984

Sculptural Surface, Atelier 340, Brussels (cat.)

 

9th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels

1985

Fibres Art 85, Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris

1986

Homage to Liliane, Galerie JL / Museum of Ostend

1987

Inside/Outside, M HKA, Antwerp (cat.)

1988

Open Studios, Groupe Néon, Brussels

1989

8th Exhibition of Contemporary Belgian Painters and Sculptors over 40, ULB, Brussels (cat.)

1990

Artelago International Exhibition, Lago di Monate

1991

35 x Sculptures, Galerie Vera Van Laer, Knokke (cat.)

 

Contemporary Resonances, Brussels

 

8th Exhibition, ULB & Brussels City Hall (cat.)

1992

Exhibition of Contemporary Belgian Painters and Sculptors, Schaerbeek City Hall, Brussels (cat.)

1993

Black in Sculpture, Atelier 340, Brussels (cat.)

1994

Confrontation, Antwerp, Brussels & Liège

1995

Atelier 340 Turns 15, Brussels

 

Artelaguna, 46th Venice Biennale

 

Citadel of Montmédy / Belgio, Carignano, Turin

1998

Thirteen Sculptors of Today, Louvain-la-Neuve Museum

2008

Tapta, Affinities, former Tapta studio, Uccle, Brussels

2017

Black & White, Maurice Verbaet Art Center, Antwerp

 

Antwerp Art Weekend

 

Sculpting Belgium, La Patinoire Royale, Brussels

2018

Private Choices N1, Maurice Verbaet Art Center, Antwerp

2019

Soft? Tactile Dialogues, Maurice Verbaet Art Center, Antwerp

2020

BRAFA, Private Bank Delen, Brussels

2021

BRAFA in the Galleries, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Knokke

 

Brins d'Herbes, Maurice Verbaet Gallery

 

OTO TO, Maurice Verbaet Gallery

 

Luxembourg Art Week

2022

BRAFA, Maurice Verbaet Gallery, Brussels

 

Belgitudes. 50 Years of the Passion of Collector Maurice Verbaet, LAAC, Dunkirk

 

Art Antwerp, Maurice Verbaet Gallery

2023

Art Brussels, Maurice Verbaet Gallery

 

Soft Spaces. With Greet Billiet, Hana Miletić & Richard Venlet, WIELS, Brussels

Various

Other group exhibitions in Ankara, Barcelona, Cape Town, Cologne, Dubrovnik, Hamburg, Liège, Limburg, Łódź, London, Lyon, Madrid, Mechelen, Mons, Montreal, Namur, Nassogne, Ostend, Paris, Pretoria, Québec, Rijeka, Stuttgart, Tunis, Warsaw, Vienna and Zagreb.

 


 

AWARDS

 

1964

Alphonse Muller Award

1968

Award of the Municipality of Forest

1975

Award of the City of Łódź

 


 

WORKS IN MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

 

LAAC – Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkirk

M HKA, Antwerp

Museum of Decorative Arts, Lausanne

Museum of Verviers

Museum of Modern Art, Villeneuve d’Ascq

Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris

Ixelles Museum, Brussels

Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Ostend

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Middelheim Museum, Antwerp

KMSKA – Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

 


 

ARCHITECTURAL INTEGRATIONS

 

 

Belgian Embassy, Helsinki

 

Entrance Hall of the Ministry of Finance, Brussels

 

Council Chamber of the Ministry of the French Community of Belgium

1979

Tension chromatique, Navigation Centre, Bütgenbach

1985

Voûtes flexibles, Veeweyde Metro Station, Brussels

1988

Niké ou Projection de forces, Museum of Louvain-la-Neuve

1992

Transit, Open-Air Museum of Sart Tilman, Liège

1992

Lieu de transition, Open-Air Museum of Sart Tilman, Liège

1995

Portail oblique, Ministry of Finance, Verviers

1995

Esprit ouvert, Reflecting Pool and Steel Sculpture, Brussels