The exhibition ‘Dress Up’ explores adornment and the creation of a look through more than 100 works of fashion and jewelry, a majority of which are new MFA acquisitions and have never been on view before. The exhibition removes the delineation between fashion and jewelry, focusing on how they play an inseparable and integral role in the act of dressing...
The International Clog Museum pays tribute to the diversity of clogs and wooden footwear in a vibrant explosion of colour and creativity. The exhibition ‘Patterns in conversation’ is a celebration of craftsmanship and artistic imagination where the down-to-earth wooden shoe becomes a canvas for boundless expression. On show from March 30 till November 3 2024, in Eelde, The Netherlands. Famous...
Eight creative collections in Tuscan veg-tanned Leather. Eight talents from prestigious international fashion and design institutes interpret Tuscan-Veg-tanned Leather throught the lens of contemporary art, craft and innovation. Vote your favourite at our stand (Hall 15-stand A02/A18) 20 to 22 February 2024 or online via Facebook and Instagram. Happy and honoured to be part of the jury again for Craft...
After the start at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in 2023 this spring the exhibition will be on show at Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. An exhibition not for the fainthearted: death and the devil sow fear and terror here. However, the uneasy feeling that some of these exhibits can trigger is countered by a pleasurable fascination, sometimes even a humorous approach. Often dismissed...
Solo exhibition at the HUB, Main Gallery in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. On show from 2 December 2023 till 17 March 2024. With a background in fashion, performance and leather craft, Jo Cope, has spent the last decade reimagining an alternative life for shoes. Her work explores the idea that shoes and feet carry deeper meanings and wisdom. Jo’s shoe...
Madeleine Berkhemer’s monograph is an initiative of the Madeleine Berkhemer Foundation, the book is published by nai010 publishers Rotterdam. Art has to tease, please and seduce and is allowed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable. Anything goes, as long as it does not leave people unmoved. Rotterdam based artist Madeleine Berkhemer (1973-2019) considered sensuality and eroticism to be fundamental parts...
Both calendars show a wide variety of well know designers and extraordinary shoes selection from the Virtual Shoe Museum collection including students from René van den Berg Academy/NL, SASK Shoe Design St. Niklaas/Belgium, FIT New York/USA, Jewelry & Fashion Department Bezalel Academy/Israel, Kolding school of Design/Denmark. The René van den Berg Academy and SASK students shoes are all photographed by...
A new exhibition at the Arch in Winchester, UK, that traces the social history of the nation through 60 pairs of shoes, on show 24 November 2023 – 6 March 2024 at The Arc in Winchester, United Kingdom. From the functional and practical to the fashionable and extravagant, shoes have played an intriguing role in our social history and modern...
The book Shoe Fantasies is the second shoe book published by Amber Ambrose Aurèle and Liza Snook. In the summer of 2023 we curated the exhibition ‘Cipőfantáziák / Shoe Fantasies’ in cooperation with Pécs Gallery, as part of the Prologue of the LOKART Festival in Pécs, Hungary. This exhibition made you wonder ‘What’s a shoe?’ If we don’t immediately identify...
The main exhibition at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf this autumn is not for the fainthearted: death and the devil sow fear and terror here. However, the uneasy feeling that some of these exhibits can trigger is countered by a pleasurable fascination, sometimes even a humorous approach. Often dismissed as shallow, the genre of horror is re-evaluated in this show, which sheds...
