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In Shape
Den Bosch ( NL ) 07.02.2026 -14.06.2026
At a time when fitness routines, beauty filters and cosmetic procedures are ubiquitous, the body seems to have become something that is manufacturable and improveable. The body is no longer a given, but more and more a project. We work on it, knead and correct it to meet an ideal that is often unreachable.
That search for the ideal body is not new. For centuries we have been using all kinds of means to change our contours and adapt them to the prevailing beauty image. While the fashion kings and queens determined the silhouette, it was the underwear that actually shaped the body. Corsets strapped into the waist, bustles enlarged the buttocks, bras flattened the bosom or lifted it up, and briefs and belts made everything smooth.
In the exhibition In Shape, the body is central as a field where design, fashion and social norms intersect, and we show the role that underwear has played in it. The exhibition shows how we have shaped our bodies over the centuries, not only with textiles and technique, but also by power, identity and desires. Using underwear for different areas of focus such as shoulders, chest, waist, buttocks and hips, legs and cross, we show how attention shifted over time and what means were used for this.
Sometimes it is about forming the body about power and discipline, sometimes about temptation and consumption, often about both at the same time. Women's bodies, men's bodies, and all the bodies in between are treated differently in this process, but constantly touch each other in visual culture, fashion and desire. The exhibition In Shape makes it visible that design not only shapes our clothing, but also our bodies and challenges visitors to think about the strength, temptation and the risks of that manufacturability.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
Design Museum den Bosch
The Mortar 4
5211 HV Den Bosch
Niederlande
weitere Infos: designmuseum.nl/tentoonstelling/inshape/#:~:text=Voor%20In%20Shape%20werken%20we,aspect%20van%20lichaam%2Dvormende%20kleding.
NIGO: from Japan with Love
London ( GB ) 01.05.2026 - 04.10.2026
From the back streets of Harajuku, Tokyo, to the global stage, this is the first-ever museum retrospective and exhibition outside of Japan that will chart the career and life of the Japanese creative director, NIGO, one of the first creatives to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. Over a 30-year career, NIGO has helped define some of the most influential trends in contemporary fashion, successfully crossing fashion, music, architecture and interior design.
Open from 1 May 2026, this landmark exhibition will feature over 700 objects, with highlights including a recreation of NIGO’s teenage bedroom, rare designs, ceramics hand-thrown by NIGO himself, and a life-size glass tea house made especially for the exhibition. His work draws on influences spanning vintage Americana, streetwear, hip-hop, traditional Japanese craft and growing up in 1980s Tokyo.
Working across street style, fashion, music, and more, NIGO has been behind some of the most influential designs, ideas and trends in recent streetwear and fashion history. From founding his first fashion brand, A Bathing Ape, in the ‘90s to his current role as artistic director of KENZO, his impact remains as wide-reaching and relevant as ever.
The exhibition will give visitors a glimpse into NIGO’s world, from his personal collection of vintage clothing and objects to his close network of collaborators, and showcase his practice and ability to draw on wide-ranging disciplines and cultural references, which have given rise to some of the most iconic brands.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
Design Museum
224 – 238 Kensington High Street
London W8 6AG
Großbritannien
weitere Infos: designmuseum.org/exhibitions/nigo-from-japan-with-love
Fashion in the 18th Century. A Fantasized Legacy
Paris ( F ) 14.03.2026 - 12.07.2026
The Palais Galliera is hosting an exhibition titled Fashion in the 18th Century. A Fantasized Legacy that looks at the characteristics of women’s fashion during the Age of Enlightenment and its numerous reinterpretations throughout fashion history up until the present day. Often perceived as a distant, even dusty epoch, the eighteenth century nevertheless constitutes a major stage in the evolution of the female appearance that continues to influence the world of fashion and popular culture today.
Textquelle : Museumswebsite
Palais Galliera
0 av. Pierre 1er de Serbie
75116 Paris
Frankreich
weitere Infos: www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/en/exhibitions/fashion-18th-century-fantasized-legacy
Revealing the feminine Fashion and Appearances in the 18th Century
Paris ( F ) > 25.03.2026 - 20.09.2026
Portraits, gallant scenes and historical textile pieces dialogue to explore the diversity of representations of femininity as they unfold in the stagings of the eighteenth century. The exhibition highlights the rise of a French style whose elegance then seduces European courses and aristocracy, revealing a history of the costume both rooted in a material reality and nourished by the imaginary.
At the heart of this time, France is the unavoidable theatre of refinement and prestige. Artists such as Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-Marc Nattier, Adelaide Labille-Guiard, or Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun excellent to translate the brilliance of fabrics like the depth of souls, offering their models an aura of grace and power.
The course of the exhibition, which highlights these virtuoso works, is enriched with portraits marked by a new psychological dimension, where intimacy and the natural take a central place, under English influence. In parallel, the pastoral care of François Boucher and the gallant feasts of Antoine Watteau shape an idealized and poetic femininity.
Finally, contemporary photographs by Steven Meisel, Esther Ségal, or Valérie Belin, as well as a creation Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld, suggest in counterpoint a reflection on the persistence of codes and the legacy of the eighteenth century in the current fashion, between social and imaginary requirement of beauty.
Cognacq-Jay Museum
8 Elzévir Street
75003 Paris
Frankreich
weitere Infos: www.museecognacqjay.paris.fr/expositions/reveler-le-feminin
Vivienne Westwood - Rebel - Storyteller - Visionary
Newgate ( GB )) > 28.03.2026 - 06.09.2026
A multi-gallery exhibition honouring one of fashion’s most provocative and imaginative British designers, Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022). Spanning the early 1980s to 2000s, the show charts Westwood’s extraordinary journey following the rebellious energy of punk from her early partnership with Malcolm McLaren (1946–2010), to her reinvention of historical dress and couture in the 1980s and ’90s.
Featuring many pieces from rarely seen private collections, Vivienne Westwood: Rebel – Storyteller – Visionary offers an unprecedented glimpse into Westwood’s artistry, one that defied convention and challenged the fashion world. Uncover the making of Westwood’s work through mock-up calico toiles and digitally deconstructed garments, alongside complete ensembles that unfold chronologically, paired with historic objects from The Bowes Museum’s own collection.
Following the museum’s success of A Collector’s Story: A Private Collection of Vivienne Westwood (2023 – 2024) and Framing Fashion: Art and Inspiration from a Private Collection of Vivienne Westwood (2024 – 2025), this is The Bowes Museum’s most ambitious Westwood exhibition to date — a new and exclusive fusion of rebellion with tradition.
This exhibition is the result of a collaboration between The Bowes Museum, Peter Smithson and other private collectors. It is not an institutional partnership with the Vivienne Westwood brand.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8NP
Groß Britannien
weitere Infos: thebowesmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/vivienne-westwood-rebel-storyteller-visionary/
Obsessed: Fashion and Nostalgia in the ‘90s
Los Angeles ( USA) > 20.02.2026 - 27.06.2026
Obsessed: Fashion and Nostalgia in the ‘90s looks back at a pivotal moment when analog culture met the dawn of the internet, through the work of designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Anna Sui, Franco Moschino and Gianni Versace, among others. The exhibition highlights how ‘90s fashion continues to inspire today’s creatives, acting as a counterpoint to our digital age.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
The ASU FIDM Museum
ASU California Center Grand
919 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles,
California, 90015
USA
weitere Infos: asuevents.asu.edu/event/obsessed-fashion-and-nostalgia-90s
Chic nach Plan & individuelle Eleganz. Bekleidungskultur in der DDR"
Meyenburg ( D ) > 28.03.2026 bis 28.06.2026
Mode war in der DDR ein beliebtes Mittel um im sozialistischen Saat Individualität zu demonstrieren. Zwar lieferte das Modeinstitut anspruchsvolle Entwürfe, doch wurden sie in der Massenproduktion stark vereinfacht. Nur wenige Menschen wollten diese Kleidung tragen. Stattdessen entwickelte sich im Laufe der Jahre eine breitgefächerte Bekleidungskultur - von VEB-Mode über Selbstgeschneidertes, Kleidung aus Westpaketen, Exquisit-Mode, individuelle Boutiquemode, Privatmodemarken bis zu gegenkulturellen Modeperformances.
In der Sonderausstellung werden rund 50 Outfits und Designobjekte präsentiert, deren Auswahl es ermöglicht einen repräsentativen Einblick in die Bekleidungspraxis, die Mode und die Ästhetik der DDR zu gewinnen. Die Kleidungsstücke, Accessoires und Gebrauchsgegenstände stammen überwiegend aus der eigenen Sammlung. Ergänzend werden verschiedene Leihgaben gezeigt. Einige der Leihgaben verdeutlichen, wie die modischen Impulse, die insbesondere in der Hauptstadt Berlin und den urbanen Zentren entwickelt wurden, in Meyenburg und der Region interpretiert wurden. Die Ausstellung wird von Barbara Schrödl, Kerstin Casburg und Kornelia Kockegei kuratiert.
"Chic nach Plan & individuelle Eleganz. Bekleidungskultur in der DDR" wird durch ein Begleitprogramm ergänzt.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
Modemuseum Schloss Meyenburg
e. V.
Schloss 1
16945 Meyenburg
Deutschland
weitere Infos: www.modemuseum-schloss-meyenburg.de/veranstaltungen/2849904/2026/03/28/sonderausstellung-chic-nach-plan-individuelle-eleganz.-bekleidungskultur-in-der-ddr.html
Wolle Seide Wiederstand
Frankfurt ( D ) > 07. 02.2026 .– 24. 05.2026
Mit der Ausstellung Wolle. Seide. Widerstand. widmet sich das Museum Angewandte Kunst nach 45 Jahren erstmals wieder ausschließlich dem Thema Teppich – in einer Zeit, in der sich das große Interesse an handgefertigten Textilien aller Art im Übrigen in einer auffallenden Anzahl an internationalen Ausstellungen widerspiegelt.
Die Ausstellung präsentiert Teppiche internationaler, zeitgenössischer Künstler:innen, die sich mit Themen des politischen Widerstands, individueller und kollektiver Resilienz sowie Resistenz befassen. Ihr Widerstand richtet sich gegen als illegitim empfundene Herrschaftsordnungen und Machtausübungen, gegen Traditionalismus, Diskriminierung, Rassismus, Traumata oder Umweltzerstörung. Die Teppiche der Künstler:innen fungieren somit als plakative Medien für gesellschaftspolitische Kommentare. In gleicher Radikalität sprengen sie mitunter die Grenzen der Flächigkeit: Sie loten die Möglichkeiten des Dreidimensionalen aus, und entfalten sich als textile Skulpturen und immersive Erfahrungsräume, die sich durch ihre affektive Qualität an gegenwärtigen Lebensprozessen beteiligen.
Dabei zielt diese Ausstellung darauf ab, Teppiche nicht aus einem stilgeschichtlichen Blickwinkel zu betrachten, sondern sie vielmehr im Interesse einer Entwicklungslinie zu zeigen, die außerhalb einer traditionellen westlichen Teppichforschung steht. Schon der Titel deutet auf neue Fragestellungen hin: Kann etwas Widerständiges in und mit textilen Materialien stattfinden? Und wenn ja, auf welche Weise verkörpern dann gerade Teppiche eine „Ästhetik textilen Widerstands“? Diesbezüglich stehen jene Perspektiven der mit jüngsten Werken aus dem ersten Viertel des 21. Jahrhunderts vertretenen internationalen Künstler:innen im Fokus der Ausstellung, die im Teppich, der zum offenen Kunstobjekt geworden ist, mit unterschiedlichen Aspekten von Widerstand einhergehen. Was aber macht dieses Medium für Künstler:innen so interessant, um über Widerstand nachzudenken, und dabei mitunter verflochtene Themen durch Knoten, die Kette und den Schuss, oder mit der Tuftpistole auszuloten?
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
Museum Angewandte Kunst
Schaumainkai 17
60594 Frankfurt
Deutschland
weitere Infos: www.museumangewandtekunst.de/de/besuch/ausstellungen/wolle-seide-widerstand/
Costume Art
New York ( USA) 10.05.2026 - 10.01.2027
The Costume Institute’s spring 2026 exhibition explores depictions of the dressed body across The Met’s vast collection, pairing garments with artworks to reveal the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.
Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art presents connections between garments from The Costume Institute and objects from the Museum’s other collecting areas. Pairings between fashions and artworks will present a spectrum of connections and experiences: from the formal to the conceptual, the aesthetic to the political, the individual to the universal, the illustrative to the symbolic, and the playful to the profound. These pairings are organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their pervasiveness and endurance through time and cultures.
Costume Art is the inaugural exhibition in the new, nearly 12,000-square-foot Galleries adjacent to the Great Hall. This space will display The Costume Institute’s annual spring show and, at times, shows from the Museum’s other curatorial departments, including those that explore the intersection of fashion and art.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite
MET
1000 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10028
Amerika
weitere Infos: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art
The Antwerp Six
Antwerpen ( B ) > 28.03.2026 - 17.01.2027
Im Jahr 2026 feiert das MoMu den 40. Jahrestag des internationalen Durchbruchs der Antwerp Six. Zum ersten Mal widmet sich eine große Ausstellung diesen sechs ikonischen Modedesigner*innen.
Die Ausstellung beleuchtet den einzigartigen Weg, der diese sechs außergewöhnlichen Talente verbindet. Alles begann mit ihrem Studium an der Modeabteilung der Königlichen Akademie der Schönen Künste in Antwerpen und mündete in sechs einflussreiche Einzelkarrieren. 1986 präsentierten Dirk Bikkembergs, Ann Demeulemeester, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dries Van Noten, Dirk Van Saene und Marina Yee ihre Kollektionen auf der British Designer Show in London – ein Moment, der Antwerpen auf die globale Modekarte setzte. Ihre unverwechselbare Handschrift prägt die internationale Modewelt bis heute.
Text - und Bildquelle : Museumswebsite ( Foto © Karel Fontayne )
MOMU
Modemuseum Antwerpen
Nationalstrat 28
2000 Antwerpen
Belgien
weitere Infos: www.momu.be/de/exhibitions/the-antwerp-six
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