Anna Goebel

Anna Goebel (b. 1951) is a visual artist and Professor of Fine Arts affiliated with the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznań. She graduated from the studios of Professor Magdalena Abakanowicz and Professor Jan Węcławski. Since 1977, she has taught at the university, where she co-led the Artistic Textile Studio and currently serves as a consultant. 

Her artistic practice encompasses spatial installations, objects, ephemeral interventions in open space, and experimental textile works situated at the intersection of multiple disciplines. Working with organic and impermanent materials, she investigates the relationships between nature, time, and process, often developing site-specific projects within natural landscapes. 

She has participated in numerous international land art projects, including those in Skoki (Poland), Sulwald (Switzerland), Ružomberok (Slovakia), Lake Mungo (Australia), Casaterra (Italy), and Salina (USA). She has represented Polish textile art at major international exhibitions and biennials in Lausanne, Kyoto, Pittsburgh, Como, Manchester, Mexico City, Be'er Sheva, Buenos Aires, and at the International Triennial of Tapestry in Łódź. 

Goebel is the author of numerous solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She has received multiple scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 1997. She has also served as a visiting professor at art schools in Australia, the United States, and Israel. Her work expands the field of textile art by combining the legacy of the Polish textile school with conceptual and process-based approaches.