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Fondation Toms Pauli wishes you a very good year!

Fondation Toms Pauli has entered the year 2025 with renewed vigour, exciting projects and a large number of works on loan to Swiss and other European institutions

Olga de Amaral
Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
12 October 2024 - 16 March 2025

The Paisaje de calicanto y rocas tapestry by the Colombian artist Olga de Amaral, is presented in a minimalist setting, playing on the building’s transparency and the garden outside. Loaned by Fondation Toms Pauli for this ongoing, highly successful retrospective exhibition, the tapestry is a perfect representation of the poetic universe of this internationally acclaimed major textile artist.

Alice Pauli. Gallerist, Collector, Art Patron
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts
14 February - 4 May 2025

A prominent figure on the Lausanne arts scene and an amazing personality, Alice Pauli was closely connected with tapestry and with Fondation Toms Pauli. In this major exhibition that pays tribute to her, those special connections are illustrated in the Fondation’s loans to the MCBA. Among the more than 130 pieces on display, there are ten works by artists, Alice Pauli had either supported or was close friends with, such as Jean Lurçat, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Jagoda Buić, Wojciech Sadley, Maria Łaszkiewicz, Sheila Hicks and Mariette Rousseau-Vermette.

Textile Manifestos - From Bauhaus to Soft Sculpture
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
14 February - 13 July 2025

By creating a dialogue between materials and techniques, the Textile Manifestos exhibition highlights the textile medium as a “global sensory experience”. Fondation Toms Pauli has loaned eleven works including an ensemble of embroideries by Lissy Funk and works by Helen Frances Gregor, Kazimiera Gidaszewska, Lia Cook, Shigeki Fukumoto and Sonia Delaunay. Each of these artists has a distinctive manner of approaching the textile medium in all its diversity.

A penchant for things beautiful, precious and exotic ?

For the very first time, an ancient tapestry from the Toms Collection will be integrated, for one year, into the permanent collection of the MCBA in Lausanne. Woven in the late 17th century, this example of a so-called ‘Japan’ or ‘Indian manner’ piece draws its inspiration from the lacquerware imported by the East India Company in the 17th century. Titled The Concert, the tapestry combines both quality of composition and fineness of execution.