Alina Szapocznikow : langage du corps

Exhibition at the Grenoble Museum, 20 September 2025 - 4 January 2026

Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) was a Jewish teenager who survived the Holocaust and imprisonment in concentration camps. She produced most of her mature work in France, where she settled permanently in 1962.

Influenced by Surrealism and a contemporary of the New Realism movement, the Polish sculptor made an independent contribution to the revival of sculpture in just two decades. Disturbing, bizarre, baroque, existential, formless and erotic, her work, devoted to the body, expresses both the power of eroticism and the fragility of our existence.

This exhibition catalogue presents nearly 150 works by Alina Szapocznikow created between 1947 and 1973. It provides an overview of the artist's entire career, with a particular focus on her mature period in the 1960s and 1970s.