February 20, 2012 – 13:31
From October until January 2012, FoMu, the photo museum in Antwerp organized an exhibition at its Gallery on Visionaire, in collaboration with MoMu since both museums have a substantial collection of Visionaire magazines. The exhibition is closed since a few weeks now, meaning that the Visionaire copies can be consulted again in the MoMu library. [...]
February 20, 2012 – 10:00
Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream the World Awake and the Dreamsuits expo at the MoMu Gallery is closed as of today. Thanks for everyone who made this exhibition possible, in particular Walter Van Beirendonck and Dirk Van Saene and of course everybody who visited the expo! The MoMu exhibition space and the Momu gallery is [...]
February 17, 2012 – 10:30
MoMu is very happy with the review of the Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream the World Awake catalogue by New York Journal Books. You can read the full review of Jeffrey Felner on the website of New York Journal Books, but here are a few excerpts: “For those who are fashion devotees/historians, these are names [...]
February 10, 2012 – 20:15
Mairi MacKenzie, lecturer at GSA and curator of the Dreamsuits exhibition at MoMu Gallery and author of ‘Dreamsuits: The Wonderful World of Nudie Cohn’, will present a lecture on this charismatic figure on February 29th at the Mackintosch Lecture Theatre in the Glasgow School of Art. Under consideration will be Nudie’s biography, his relationship with [...]
The exhibition ‘Walter Van Beirendonck – Dream The World Awake’ is going into its last days this month. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to discover this unique retrospective! The exhibition is open until February 19th!
German ELLE magazine did a special on fashion curators for their February 2012 issue, selecting 6 curators worldwide responsible for the most visually inspiring exhibitions of the last years! MoMu is very happy that our director Kaat Debo was featured together with Valerie Steele from FIT New York, Pamela Golbin from Musée de la Mode [...]
On the occasion of the Momu Gallery expo Dreamsuits, the MoMu organized a series of workshops for youngsters in collaboration with Lee. Starting from the spectacular outfits from Bobbejaan Schoepen, the group of children reworked outfits by Lee in true country & western style!
Happy New Year! Looking forward to welcome you at our upcoming exhibitions in 2012!
MoMu and BEElite present Walter’s Wonder Wall, a 60-meter-long construction made out of high-quality honeycomb strong-boards, which is the central focal point in the Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream The World Awake exhibition. The Wonder Wall brings together the diverse themes that have inspired Van Beirendonck’s work and are covered by the exhibition. It is, as [...]
Gram Parsons (1946-1973) was a pioneer within the history of American music. With his groups The International Submarine Band, The Byrds and, in particular, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram fused his love of country music with rocj, soul and blues to articulate a new musical genre, country-rock (an epithet he allegdly disliked preffering to use the term [...]
