A Speculative History of Dutch Fashion Design @ HNI Rotterdam/ September 2015

A Speculative History of Dutch Fashion - Installation overview, September 2015.
Foto Johannes Schwartz/ HNI

One of the projects that kept me busy in August, was the re-creation of 13 toiles for the exhibition A Speculative History of Dutch Fashion in the Temporary Fashion Museum, just opened at Het Nieuwe Instituut/ HNI Rotterdam (to be seen till May next year).

These Simoulages, as I call them (since they are simulations of moulages; interpretations and not straight copies of originals), reflect on the design vocabulary from the so-called Arnhem School in the 1990s, now ArtEZ Fashion Design Arnhem.

A time when, especially at the fashion department of the Academy of Arts in Arnhem, the idea that fashion should present a new face every season is critically challenged. Designers start developing a reflective practice which investigates fashion itself and provide a commentary on the consumption of clothing and the fashion system. This translates into an extreme concentration on construction and a resistance to any form of decoration just for the sake of decoration.

From the catalog- "In the early nineties the School introduces a new legitimacy for the designer, namely through his cultural position. The autonomous designer moves away from the street towards the museum and, finally, the idea of 'fashion-as-communication' becomes subject of investigation."

 [photos below: Michiel Keuper]

The Temporary Fashion Museum / Article Spiegel.de, September 2016

HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT/Daniela Dostálková

The exhibition The Temporary Fashion Museum at Het Nieuwe Instituut / HNI Rotterdam, for which I created an installation, made it in the German press. 

From the article:
[English] "The unusual transformation of the whole museum follows the path of the product from the designer to the user and puts the user perspective into focus. The house celebrates the eternal creative renewal power of fashion and writes simultaneously - often casually, sometimes deliberately speculative, sometimes clearly evaluated - their history anew."

[German:] "Die ungewöhnliche Umwandlung des ganzen Museums verfolgt den Weg des Produktes vom Designer zum User und stellt dessen Perspektive in den Fokus. Das Haus zelebriert kreativ die ewige Erneuerungskraft der Mode und schreibt gleichzeitig - oft nebenbei, bisweilen bewusst spekulativ, bisweilen sauber evaluiert - deren Geschichte neu."

Click here to read the full article in Spiegel.de.

Ad Lib / Upcoming exhibition

Berlin Gallery Weekend / Close to Home, group exhibition

Close to Home, april 2012 - overview

During Berlin Gallery Weekend from 27 till 29 april, I took part in the group exhibition 'Close to Home' hosted by Mr. & Mrs. Cameron at MadeMyDay Studio, Torstrasse 66 in Berlin-Mitte.

Karin and Richard Cameron invited over 30 of their artist friends in their 'temporary living room'. The 3-day exhibition consisted of paintings, drawings, photography, interior and fashion design. On top there were live performances and lectures. For the complete list of contributors click here.

I took the chance to show two new paintings. See photos up and below.

'Erased (Limbs)', 2012, oil on canvas, 58x75cm

'Boy Looking Down', 2011-2012, oil on canvas, 40x50cm

Studio view - on the left 'Erased (Limbs)' 58x75cm,
right 'Boy Looking Down' 40x50cm, both oil on canvas 

All photos © Michiel Keuper 2012

***AD HOC*** / BURGER BUGGE KEUPER / First impressions

Last friday ***AD HOC*** an exhibition with works of me, Peder K. Bugge and Dania Burger opened at the Uferstudios in Berlin Wedding. Happy that a lot of people came, despite the snow. Thanks! 

Here some impressions...

***AD HOC***, Uferstudios, Berlin, outside view.

***AD HOC***, Uferstudios, Berlin. Left: Peder K. Bugge / center: Dania Burger / right: Michiel Keuper.

Peder K. Bugge, Dania Burger, Michiel Keuper (photo: Peter Pleyer)

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation. 62 works on paper, 3 oil paintings on canvas

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation, detail. Acrylic, ink on magazine. Oil on canvas.

Michiel Keuper, 'Past Present (Past Presence)', 2010, installation, close up. Acrylic, ink on magazine. Oil on canvas.

PEDER K. BUGGE

The oil paintings of Peder K. Bugge are of abstract spaces, in which colour and light play a crucial role. They exist in big format on canvas and, as he will show on this occasion, on small wooden panels.

Peder K. Bugge (*1971, N) studied at the Academy of Arts in Bergen, Norway, and in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His work is represented in private as well as in public collections. He mainly lives in Norway and occasionally works in Berlin for longer periods of time. www.pederkbugge.com

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, series of 30 pieces, oil on wood, 25x20 cm.
Bottom right: 'Berliner Farben', 2010, oil on canvas, 8 pieces.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, oil on wood, 25x20 cm / Nr. 27, Nr. 22.

Peder K. Bugge, 'Schönhaus', 2010, oil on wood, 25x20 cm / Nr. 17, Nr. 14.

DANIA BURGER

Crochet Paintings calls Dania Burger the big scale collages on canvas, made out of different materials such as fabric, sequins, tape and yarns.

Dania Burger (*1967, D) studied at the Academie of Arts in Hamburg as well as in Bergen, Norway. Her work is represented in several public museum collections. Since 1998 she mainly lives in Norway. www.daniaburger.com

Dania Burger, Crochet Paintings, 2010, 160x115 cm. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas.

Dania Burger, 'Hertling und Lanvin', 2010, 160x115 cm. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas.

Dania Burger, 'Hertling und Lanvin', 2010, 160x115 cm, detail. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas.

Dania Burger, 2010. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas, back view.

Dania Burger, 'Vonrot und Laude', 'Red Irin', 2010, 85x50 cm. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas.

Dania Burger, 'Red Irin', 2010, detail. Wool, acrylic, tape and mixed media on canvas.