MoMu+Friends is organizing an exclusive preview of the exhibition Living Fashion on Saturday March 17th from 2PM until 3.30PM. Wim Mertens, curator of the expo will guide you around during the set-up of the expo that will open officially on March 21st. Limited capacity and reservation obligatory via friends@momu.be (admission €10,00)
When we do a photoshoot of MoMu collection pieces for an exhibition catalogue, it nearly feels like a real fashion shoot: there’s a studio, a photographer, people who arrange the costume (a bit like stylists) and an art-director (or two). The only person missing is a model: we use mannequins instead because the clothes in [...]
MoMu is proud to present its upcoming exhibition ‘Living Fashion. Women’s Daily Wear 1750-1950. From the Jacoba de Jonge Collection’, a historical exhibition about the influence of fashion on the everyday lives of middle-class women in Western Europe between 1750 and 1950. In the 19th century, the growing social importance of the middle classes brought [...]
Kaat Debo, director of the MoMu is invited to participate in the symposium ‘The Discipline of Fashion between the Museum and Curating’, which will take place at the University of Venice on March 10th. Organized by the Università Iuav di Venezia and the London College of Fashion (University of the Arts London) in collaboration with [...]
February 25, 2012 – 22:56
MoMu is looking for a production coordinator to join the MoMu-team and to manage the production of the scenography of its upcoming exhibitions. Click here for the details and to apply (attention: text is only available in Dutch).
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!
