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Fashion designer Henrik Vibskov captures Lillehammer Art Museum
This autumn and winter, the Danish fashion designer Henrik Vibskov, fills Lillehammer Art Museum with wearable art and spectacular installations.
The exhibition "(PLEASE!) CLEAN UP, HONEY" is the largest and most complete exhibition of Vibskov ever, and it is only shown in Lillehammer Art Museum. It opened 20 November 2021 and is on until 27 March 2022.
– It is an exhibition completely different from anything we have ever shown before, curator at Lillehammer Art Museum, Cecilie Skeide promises.
Multidisciplinary artist
For the first time, Lillehammer Art Museum enters the fashion world. Henrik Vibskov (b. 1972) is a well-known Danish multidisciplinary artist, avant-garde fashion designer and musician, who was educated at Central Saint Martins in London.
Through his conceptual performance-inspired fashion shows, experimental costumes for theatre, ballet and opera, and spectacular installation exhibitions, Henrik Vibskov has established himself as one of the most exciting names in the fashion world in our time.
Through a variety of expressive idioms, Vibskov explores the challenges of our times, grappling with the environment, sustainability and the omnipresence of technology.
Large installations
For the exhibition at Lillehammer Art Museum, Vibskov has created large installations that are custom-made for the architecture of the museum, which was designed by the famous Snøhetta. In addition, a cross-section of selected projects within fashion, art and various ballets, operas and performances is highlighted.
The audience can climb "The Tower", an eight meter high tower, with a meditation room inside. You may also try on a Vibskov garment in "The Nightmare Room", make your own Vibskov paper clip figures and sit down in a movie box and watch various of his catwalks and stage performances.
Book publication
In conjunction with the exhibition comes the first publication in Norwegian about Henrik Vibskov. Lillehammer Art Museum has published an exhibition catalogue with texts by fashion culture historian Ragnhild Brochmann and curator Cecilie Skeide. The book is also published in English, and has the same title as the exhibition, "(PLEASE!) CLEAN UP, HONEY".
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