aktuelle Ausstellungen

CELEBRATING FASHION Talbot Runhof in Paris

Augsburg ( D ) >17.04.2026 - 25.10.2026

AUF DEN CATWALKS IN PARIS 2006–2019

Die beiden Münchner Modeschöpfer Johnny Talbot und Adrian Runhof gehören zu den wenigen deutschen Designern, die mit ihren Kreationen mehr als zwei Dutzend Male auf der Pariser Fashion Week präsent waren. Gefeiert vor den Augen der Weltpresse machten ihre 25 Shows deutlich, wofür ihre beeindruckenden Entwürfe stehen: Opulente Eleganz, handwerkliche Präzision und die Kunst, besondere Momente sichtbar zu machen.

MODE, DIE DAS LEBEN FEIERT

Feste schaffen Freiräume jenseits des Alltags – Räume für Sinnlichkeit, Emotion und Gemeinschaft. Genau diese Atmosphäre übersetzen Talbot Runhof in ihre Mode. Ihre Kreationen laden dazu ein, Schönheit zu erleben, Individualität und Selbstbewusstsein auszudrücken und das Leben zu feiern.

DIE ÄSTHETIK DES BESONDEREN AUGENBLICKS

Raffinierte Draperien, außergewöhnliche Silhouetten, kraftvolle Farben, Schwarz-Weiß- Optiken, florale oder grafische Muster: Die Designs des Duos formen den Körper und eröffnen »good times« für alle, die sie tragen. Jedes Kleid macht aus einem Anlass ein Ereignis.

INSPIRATION und HALTUNG

Musik, Film, Kunst, gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und inspirierende Persönlichkeiten fließen in die Arbeiten von Talbot Runhof ein. Die Haltung ist klar: offen, empathisch und verantwortungsbewusst. Das Designerduo feiert Vielfalt und hinterfragt Konventionen – ohne moralischen Zeigefinger, aber mit Stil.

DIE AUSSTELLUNG IM TIM

Mit Celebrating Fashion zeigt das tim die erste museale Retrospektive zur Couture von Talbot Runhof. Die Schau beleuchtet ihre kreativen Quellen, ihre unverwechselbare Designsprache und die besondere Rolle, die ihre Mode in der internationalen Fashionlandschaft spielt. Tauchen Sie ein in eine opulente Ausstellung und eine inspirierende Feier der Eleganz. Erleben Sie, was Hollywood-Diva Mae West meinte, als sie sagte: „Zuviel von einer guten Sache kann wundervoll sein!“

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tim | Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg
Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei (AKS)
Provinostraße 46
86153 Augsburg
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.timbayern.de/ausstellungen/celebrating-fashion/

GESCHMACK UND STIL - MODE UND MODEGRAFIK 1890-1930

Bad Nauheim ( D ) 13.09.2025 - 26.07.2026

Jugendstilverein e.V.
(Badehaus 3 im Sprudelhof)
Nördlicher Park 3
61231 Bad Nauheim
Deutschland

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weitere Infos: www.jugendstilverein.de/ausstellungen

A celebration of over 100 years of catwalk history

Dundee ( GB ) > 03.04.2026 - 17.01.2027

A UK exclusive to V&A Dundee, Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show charts the dramatic evolution of the catwalk, from the private salons of the late 19th century to today’s immersive, live-streamed runway experiences.

Celebrating the creativity and energy of the fashion show, Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show brings together landmark examples from renowned houses including Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Maison Margiela, Vivienne Westwood, Mary Quant, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Charles Jeffrey, among others.

Through a rich mix of film, photography, original garments, and archival materials, the exhibition marks seminal moments from iconic runway presentations throughout the last century and explores their lasting cultural impact. Join us to discover the spectacle, innovation and artistry behind some of fashion’s most legendary moments.

Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion Show is a new exhibition by V&A Dundee and the Vitra Design Museum.

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V&A Dundee
1 Riverside Esplanade
Dundee, DD1 4EZ
Schottland
Großbritannien

weitere Infos: www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson/exhibitions/catwalk-the-art-of-the-fashion-show?srsltid=AfmBOor9oMDXyrZX2VNFXY-NybMUQ1QLxbavqoyeBJxsysuQWGM29j1O

Art she crafted

Rotterdam ( NL) > 26.01.2026 - 27.09.2026

Art She Crafted presents and celebrates the ways women around the world, from ancient times to the present, have shaped art and culture. Their names are often absent from dominant art history. This exhibition brings to light the vital role women have played across all eras and continents in the development of artistic and cultural movements. It demonstrates their structural contributions to periods of cultural flourishing. In doing so, class also becomes evident: not all women had equal access to artistic opportunities or resources.

Guest curator Rajae El Mouhandiz selected dozens of stories, from paintings and manuscripts to textiles, fashion, design, photography, and installations. They reveal how women, despite structural exclusion, have always played an essential role as creators, patrons, collectors, donors, and innovators. The exhibition Art She Crafted invites visitors to rediscover art history through the eyes of women.

From textiles, embroidery, and ceramics to contemporary fashion, art, and photography, Art She Crafted reveals how women have shaped art and culture throughout the centuries. From queens to activists, from independent artists to collectors, women have played a vital role at every level of artistic development.

The exhibition takes a broad and inclusive look at art history. It explores who was able to create, for whom, and under what conditions. Visitors are invited to discover a richer, more diverse, and more truthful understanding of art and culture through the eyes of women.

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Wereldmuseum Rotterdam
Willemskade 25
3016 DM Rotterdam
Niederlande

weitere Infos: rotterdam.wereldmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/art-she-crafted

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.

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Design Museum
224 – 238 Kensington High Street
London W8 6AG
Großbritannien

weitere Infos: designmuseum.org/exhibitions/nigo-from-japan-with-love

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.

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Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8NP
Groß Britannien

weitere Infos: thebowesmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/vivienne-westwood-rebel-storyteller-visionary/

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.

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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.

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MOMU
Modemuseum Antwerpen
Nationalstrat 28
2000 Antwerpen
Belgien

weitere Infos: www.momu.be/de/exhibitions/the-antwerp-six

Schwerer Stoff Frauen – Trachten – Lebensgeschichten

Berlin ( D ) > 24.04.2026 - 29.03.2027

Poppige Farben auf goldenem Grund neben tiefschwarzer Brautkleidung: Donauschwäbische Trachten geben überraschende Einblicke in die einstigen Lebenswelten von Frauen und Mädchen. Diese Welt war eng, weil von dörflichen und kirchlichen Regeln bestimmt, aber auch weit, weil sie die Vielfalt einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft bot.

Die Ausstellung schlägt Brücken zwischen Tradition und Moderne, Ideologie und Realität, einstigem und heutigem textilen Upcycling. Sie gibt Einblicke in das Leben von Donauschwäb*innen, die sich als Nachkommen deutschsprachiger Ausgewanderter vom späten 17. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert im Königreich Ungarn niederließen. Dort lebten sie als eine ethnische Gruppe unter vielen.

20 Kleiderensembles, zahlreiche Fotografien, Zeichnungen von Erna Piffl und weitere Objekte machen deutlich: Persönliche Erinnerungen sind in Textilien eingewebt, Lebensgeschichten untrennbar mit ihnen verbunden. Sie laden die Besucher*innen ein, in europäische Geschichte(n) über Ankommen, Existenz, Abgrenzung und Integration, Ver- und Entwurzelung einzutauchen

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Museum europäischer Kulturen MEK
Arnimallee 25
14195 Berlin
Deutschland

weitere Infos: www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/schwerer-stoff/