aktuelle Ausstellungen

The Art of Transformation

Oslo (N) > Dauerausstellung

Discover treasures from our collection of costumes and stage design models, spanning from 18th century Christiania through interwar Paris and up to our own time. On stage, anything is possible! Through the illusions made by the actors and the audience’s imaginations, time and space are transformed: an ordinary woman becomes a supernatural being, and decorative buttons turn into gems. In this exhibition, you can see original props and costumes used in historical plays by well-known writers such as Ludvig Holberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Original stage design models from productions of Ibsen and Shakespeare plays demonstrate how scenography has changed over time.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite ( Foto : © Mari Rosenberg )

The Theatre Museum
Halvdan Svartes gate 58
Oslo
Norwegen

weitere Infos: www.oslomuseum.no/en/whats-on/the-art-of-transformation/

The Goldberger

Budapest (H) > Dauerausstellung (ab Mai 2025)

The new permanent exhibition "Goldberger ..." demonstrates the plant that once began as manufactory with only a few people working there, which successive generations of the family constantly modernized and developed unti l products from the factory were world-renowned. Only the name was preserved the same after decades of nationalization and not the factory's former splendour. The exhibit offers numerous interactive elements for the visitors while visiting the factory. We hope to make textile printing technology and the development of the textile industry more understandable to them. The selection commemorates the Goldberger Company via documents, sample books, photos and paintings. The choice of topic was given: the first workshop owned by the family opened in the present museum building at the end of the 18th century.  The exhibition presents the technical development of textile press from the guilds to nowadays. Textile pressing means the coloring and patterning of textile with tools. It all goes back to primitive traditions: primitives colored and ornamented their own bodies with tools made of pumpkins, wood etc.Pressed textile was already made in the antiquity in the East. They applied pigment grains mixed with glue on the textile. Nevertheless, textile pressing first appeared in 1702 in Europe.The first blue dyer workshop opened at the end of the 17th century in Hungary. By the 18-19th century, blue dyers were present in many towns of the country. They used press stilts: They put a kind of mash on the textile which was removed after the coloring dried. Thus, the pattern remained on the textile. The products of blue dyer workshops are still very popular nowadays. Howe, handiwork was taken over by the so-called perr¬otin machine. It moves the textile and the stilt in varied order. This type of machine is still in operation in a few of the workshops. Industrial textile was revolutionized by the invention of Thomas Bell, England, 1783. Textile production became unbroken. The cylinder press machines first came to Hungary in the end of the 19th century and were in operation until 1980's. A new invention concerning textile coloring came in the 20th century. The silk industry in Lyon applied a Japanese technology. It was realized in the 1930-40's. This technology dispersed around the 1960’s in Hungary. The demand, however, required new inventions. The rotation film press was invented around the 1950's. The technique that is applied nowadays dispersed in the 1960's in Hungary. The store of the Fibre Museum holds several large machines used in textile production. They will be shown in the exhibition ward to be reconstructed. In the meantime, scale models, original sewing machines and authentic copies will present techniques used in textile production continue

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Museum of Textil And Clothing Industry (Textilmuseum)
1036, Budapest Lajos u. 138.
Ungarn

weitere Infos: www.museum.hu/museum/85/Museum_of_Textil_And_Clothing_Industry_Textilmuseum/actual

Rico Puhlmann. Fashion Photography 50s - 90s

Berlin (D) > 27.06.2025 - 15.02.2026
Eröffnung: 26.06.2025, 19.00 Uhr

Rico Puhlmann (1934 - 1996) zählte international zu den renommiertesten Modefotograf*innen und prägte über die letzten vier Dekaden des 20. Jahrhunderts das Modebild seiner Zeit. Die Ausstellung würdigt Puhlmanns Werdegang und insbesondere seine zeichnerische und fotografische Arbeit für Modejournale der 1950er- bis in die 1990er-Jahre. Dabei nimmt sie verschiedene Aspekte der Mode-, Fotografie-, Presse- und Kulturgeschichte in den Blick. Die Ausstellung bietet einen umfassenden Einblick in das zeichnerische und fotografische Schaffen Rico Puhlmanns, der über 40 Jahre, erst als Illustrator und dann als Modefotograf, für bedeutende Magazine wie „Brigitte“, „petra“, „Constanze“ oder international „Vogue“, „Harper’s Bazaar“, „Glamour“ oder „GQ“ arbeitete. Die gefragtesten Fotomodels ihrer Zeit standen vor seiner Kamera: Gloria Friedrich und Gitta Schilling, Cheryl Tiegs und Jerry Hall, Cindy Crawford und Naomi Campbell. Seine Fotos erschienen auf zahlreichen Magazincovern, seine Bildstrecken auf Hochglanzpapier füllten mehrere Doppelseiten in Folge. Das Gros der Exponate stammt aus dem umfangreichen Nachlass Rico Puhlmanns, das von seinem Bruder Klaus Puhlmann und dessen Frau Anne Puhlmann verwaltet und für die Ausstellung großzügig zur Verfügung gestellt wird.

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite (Foto: Rico Puhlmann Archive © Klaus Puhlmann, Berlin)

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Veranstalter
Kunstbibliothek
Sammlung Modebild - Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ort
Museum für Fotografie
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Jebenstr. 2
10623 Berlin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/rico-puhlmann-berlin-new-york/

Paul Poiret. La mode est une fête

Paris (F) > 25.06.2025 - 11.01.2026

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs presents its first major monograph dedicated to Paul Poiret (1879-1944), a key figure in Parisian haute couture at the beginning of the 20th century. Paul Poiret, regarded as the liberator of the female body for removing the corset, revolutionized fashion. The exhibition Paul Poiret. Fashion is a Feast is an immersive journey into the creator’s rich universe, from the Belle Époque to the Roaring Twenties. It explores his creations in the fields of fashion, decorative arts, perfume, celebration, and gastronomy. Through 550 works (clothing, accessories, fine and decorative arts), the exhibition highlights his lasting influence and reveals the extent of his creative genius. It is a fascinating journey into the world of a man whose legacy continues to inspire contemporary fashion designers, from Christian Dior in 1948 to Alphonse Maitrepierre in 2024.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Musee Les Arts decoratif
107, rue de Rivoli
75001 Paris
Frankreich

weitere Infos: madparis.fr/Paul-Poiret-Fashion-is-a-Feast

Our Colonial Inheritance

Amsterdam (NL) > Dauerausstellung

Colonialism is not a thing of the past. It has shaped the world: our physical, mental and personal world. Colonialism lives on to this day. In the exhibition 'Our Colonial Inheritance', we look at the Dutch colonial history and presence, in Indonesia, Suriname, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and many other countries. You will not get to see and hear the 'known' history, there is more to see and learn. The exhibition shows how colonialism shaped the world of today, and how people endured colonialism. Learn how people tried to create their own lives, rebelled and remained in charge. Are you open to a multivoiced perspective?

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Wereldmuseum Amsterdam
Linnaeusstraat 2
1092 CK Amsterdam
Niederlande

weitere Infos: amsterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/our-colonial-inheritance

Ist Mode politisch? Raum „Mode“ in der Berlin Ausstellung BERLIN GLOBAL im Humboldtforum

Berlin (D) > Herbst 2024, offenes Ende

Wie kleidet sich die Berlinerin? Was zieht sie an, wenn sie ins Berghain geht? Was trägt die ökologisch Bewusste? (...) Was ist Berliner Chic? Schüler:innen des Oberstufenzentrums Mode und Bekleidung haben sich auf den Straßen der Stadt umgeschaut und verschiedene Typen ausgemacht. Zu sehen sind sie im Raum Mode in der Ausstellung BERLIN GLOBAL.

Themen:

• Typologie Berliner Mode
• Geschichte der Modeindustrie
• Interviews mit Aktivist:innen und NGO-Vertreter:innen im Kampf gegen Missstände in der Textilwirtschaft
• Geschichte des Ortes: Arbeitskleidung im Palast der Republik

Text- und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Humboldtforum
Schloßplatz
10178 Berlin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.stadtmuseum.de/artikel/raum-mode

The Art of Transformation

Oslo (NO) > Dauerausstellung

On stage, anything is possible! Through the illusions made by the actors and the audience’s imaginations, time and space are transformed: an ordinary woman becomes a supernatural being, and decorative buttons turn into gems. In this exhibition, you can see original props and costumes used in historical plays by well-known writers such as Ludvig Holberg and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Original stage design models from productions of Ibsen and Shakespeare plays demonstrate how scenography has changed over time. Discover treasures from our collection of costumes and stage design models, spanning from 18th century Christiania through interwar Paris and up to our own time. 

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite (© Mari Rosenberg)

Veranstalter/ Ort
Teatermuseet
Halvdan Svartes gate 58
0266 Oslo
Norwegen

weitere Infos: www.oslomuseum.no/en/whats-on/the-art-of-transformation/

Clothes & Couture

Borås (S) > Dauerausstellung

Clothes & Couture tells the story of the creation of Swedish everyday fashion, which was inspired by the couture exhibitions held in Paris between the 1930s and 1970s. We welcome you to a retrospective exhibition about the Borås company Bröderna Magnusson (‘the Magnusson Brothers’), and its journey through fashion history. In the ‘Clothes & Couture’ exhibition, the Textile Museum of Sweden shows how twentieth-century Paris fashion was reinterpreted to create practical clothes for women in Sweden. The exhibition how the Borås company Bröderna Magnusson Damkonfektionsfabrik AB, like many others in the business, took their inspiration from the undisputed capital of fashion: Paris. The manufacture of and trade in ready-made clothes developed during the twentieth century to become one of Sweden’s staple industries. The town of Borås and the surrounding area became a centre for the ready-made clothing industry, and the garments produced here were sold all over the country. One of the companies was Bröderna Magnusson’s, which manufactured womenswear at a somewhat higher price point, featuring advanced cuts and hand-sewn details. All clothes were designed by the company’s head of design, Ylva Segh, who regularly visited the couture shows in Paris. Bröderna Magnusson’s paid great attention to detail, and the garments were produced using a high level of craftsmanship despite being made in a factory. The Textile Museum of Sweden has created slideshows showing the details of the clothing, and developed patterns based on selected garments that have been transformed into three-dimensional animations so as to show visitors how they were constructed. For those who enjoy sewing themselves, there will be sewing patterns available for purchase. These include the useful ‘Pop-Around’ dress from 1953, which was marketed as an everyday, house and party dress. The exhibition was designed in collaboration with the paper artist Bea Szenfeld and includes both large and small installations by her, inspired by the themes of the exhibition.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Textilmuseet
Skaraborgsvägen 3A,
Borås
Schweden

weitere Infos: textilmuseet.se/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2022-03-03-clothes--couture

Wer hat die Hosen an?

Wien (A) > 25.03.2025 - 01.02.2026
Eröffnung: 24.03.2025

Ob exakt gebügelt oder im legeren Baggy-Look – sie sind ein globales Phänomen und uns allen scheinbar bestens vertraut. Sie sind Erkennungszeichen kultureller und sozialer Identität und Stoff für modische Statements: Hosen. Das Weltmuseum Wien unternimmt in einer großen Sonderausstellung ab 25. März 2025 einen Streifzug durch 3.000 Jahre Hosen-Geschichte aus aller Welt, von den ältesten Hosentypen der Bronzezeit bis in die Gegenwart.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Neue Hofburg
Weltmuseum Wien
Heldenplatz
1010 Wien
Österreich

weitere Infos: www.weltmuseumwien.at/ausstellungen/wer-hat-die-hosen-an/

SILK TREASURES. Textile masterpieces from the Falletti donation

Prato (I) > 20.12.2024 - 21.12.2025

The exhibition celebrates the first 50 years of the Prato Textile Museum. An exceptional donation, from the Florentine physician Giovanni Falletti, give birth to this exhibition. Thanks to over 50 years of passionate research, he has preserved and collected textile artefacts, embroidery, books, prints, jewellery, historical weapons and ritual masks from Europe and many Asian and African countries. Silk Treasures. Textile Masterpieces from the Falletti Donation is the first exhibition formed with works from this substantial collection that has extraordinarily enriched the Museum heritage. Exhibited in the hall specifically dedicated to historical textiles, the exhibition unfolds along a chronological path that spans four centuries of great textile manufacturing and crosses styles, productions, materials and subjects, exceptional witnesses of European production from the 15th to the end of the 18th century. These fabrics were used to make sumptuous secular robes for the aristocracies of the time. Thanks to their enormous prestige and value, they were later donated to religious institutions that reused them to make sacred vestments such as chasubles, dalmatics, copes: an extraordinary custom of reuse that allowed the conservation of textile masterpieces, some wonderful examples of which are displayed for the public in the exhibition. To facilitate an understanding of the historical and technical content, the exhibition hall includes two media tables that use different methods and languages to narrate the fabric-making process and the how the art of silk developed up to the pre-industrial period. Digital microscopes offer a closer look at the internal structure and intricacies of the woven velvet, damask, brocading and lampas (figured silk fabrics). Lastly, graphic reproductions alongside the textiles illustrate the development of the main decorative motifs used by the workshops between the 15th and 18th centuries. Reproductions of important paintings alongside textiles from the same period make the different functions of these precious silk masterpieces immediately apparent.

Text - und Bildquelle: Museumswebsite

Veranstalter/ Ort
Museo del Tessuto
Via Puccetti, 3
59100 Prato PO
Italien

weitere Infos: www.museodeltessuto.it/en/exhibitions/silk-treasures-textile-masterpieces-from-the-falletti-donation/