30/8/2008
Hannover Goes Fashion
Ten venues, Hannover
The art and culture of fashion. One topic
Ten museums, galleries and cultural institutions in Hannover take on the endeavour to portray the subject of fashion and its impact on cultural history, art, design and society.
One thing becomes clear through this project: Fashion is a culturally and economically universal subject. Fashion attracts everybody and everybody wears fashion.
HANNOVER GOES FASHION offers visitors the unique chance to experience the various aspects of fashion in ten different exhibitions. Exhibition visitors encounter the topic of fashion in dialogue with art, design and sculpture as well as in the context of historical and contemporary beauty standards, moral concepts and social circumstances.
At the same time, fashion is displayed as a central element in advertising, film and television. Leigh Bowery is shown as an example of using fashion for a creative self-portrayal and Helmut Lang's work proves that fashion can be the theme of a comprehensive design concept.
Exhibitions:
Mode Linie Architektur / Mode- und Architekturfotografie
The Exhibition – first time compiled for the “Laveshaus” – unites recent fashion photography from various photographers.
KörperFormen - Mode Macht Erotik & Ausgezogen - Aufgehoben
Why were “trousers” worn by women considered opposite to proper manners? The exhibition is dedicated to such and other questions.
Helmut Lang - ALLES GLEICH SCHWER
The kestnergesellschaft presents alles gleich schwer, the first institutional solo exhibition of Helmut Lang’s art work.
Kunstverein Hannover: Leigh Bowery
The Kunstverein Hannover devotes itself to a border crosser of the London club, fashion, and art scene of the 1980s and 1990s.
Museum August Kestner: Neue Kleider
At the Museum August Kestner a span of 6000 years of art history is documented and can thus be illustrated.
Ganz Dame und doch Hausfrau
How advertising experts succeed in effectively showcasing the combination of sensuous aesthetics and ready-to-use technology.
Begehrte Männer – Dresscodes, die die Welt bedeuten
The exhibition "Begehrte Männer - Dresscodes, die die Welt bedeuten" is dedicated to the rules of dressing up.
DRESSing the MESSAGE – Transformationen von Kunst und Mode
The exhibition wants to make reference to phenomenon that clothes and fashion develop a semantic dimension.
Filmkostüme! Das Unternehmen Theaterkunst
The exhibition “Filmkostüme!” is intended to sensitize a broad public for the importance of costumes in films.
Schick und Schrill. Modekarikaturen und Modezeichnungen aus drei Jahrhunderten
This exhibition centres on fashion extravagances as portrayed in fashion graphics – from illustrations to caricatures.
Press contact: Ruth Brunngraber-Malottke
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und kritische Grafik
Tel.: +49 511 16999919 Fax: +49 511 16999999 brunngraber-malottke@wilhelm-busch-museum.de