A unique take on fashion in 2022

In MIRROR MIRROR – Fashion & the Psyche, MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp and Dr. Guislain Museum examine how fashion, psychology, self-image and identity are connected. The personal experience of the body is the main theme of this unexpected dialogue between visual art and avant-garde fashion. Featuring work by Ed Atkins, Walter Van Beirendonck, Noir Kei Ninomiya, Genieve Figgis, Genesis Belanger, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garçons, Joseph Schneller, Ezeki...

Mirror Mirror 

Mode & de Psyche 

Dit boek gaat in op het bijzonder actuele thema van de connectie tussen mode, lichaam en identiteit. De efemere grenzen van het lichaam, body dysmorphia, de fragmentatie en instabiliteit van de menselijke vorm worden belicht in het werk van hedendaagse kunstenaars en ontwerpers. Centraal in de tentoonstelling staat de mysterieuze uitstraling van poppen, bustes en mannequins. Ontwerpers en kunstenaars gebruiken zulke poppen om klassieke symbolen van v...

Reference work by Koenraad Jonckheere offers a new vision on the history of art

“There are many stories of western art that have been written, almost all of them focused on artists, nations, and traditions. But Jonckheere's daring book is a learned and eminently readable story of the art itself, about the questions that works of art try and often fail to answer, and about what they do to us in the process. It's a catalyst for teaching and thinking anew.”

– Marisa Anne Bass, Yale University

“No other history of art comes close to Jonckheere’s. It’s as engagingly written as Gombrich’s classic The Story of Art. It’s neither pedestrian nor a survey of an out-of-date canon. It’s the most ambitious and original general history of art we have ever had. Vigorous, up-to-date, unprejudiced and lively, it’s a history of art of our time and for our time....