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MODE Thema MODE

Exhibition view ‘Machines roar, needle drags the thread, sharp knife shines, cuts in two and stabs’,  Dominique Hurth, Mahn- und Gedenkstätte Ravensbrück, 2025
© CHROMA
Spuren der Zwangsarbeit. Textilproduktion im Frauen-Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück, 1939–45

23.09.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

“The Cellophane Wedding Dress”, December 1934. One of Erna Becker’s last Berlin designs – Proud Initials: Dress with brass monogram by Richard Goetz, 1933 – Extravagant Strassner design, London 1940: Dark blue coat with scarlet lining and red-and-white polka-dot dress – Coat by Joe Strassner, 1931 – Anti-Semitic boycott campaigns, 1933
© Gesa Kessemeier
Wenn das Talent nicht mehr zählt. Berliner Modeschöpfer*innen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus

07.10.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Wall hanging "The Leipzig Pattern Fair", Alen Müller-Hellwig, Lübeck 1934, dyed raffia
© GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Textile Kunst im Nationalsozialismus. Bildteppiche und Wandbehänge auf den Leipziger Grassimessen zwischen 1933 und 1942

25.11.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Germaine Krull: Sonia Delaunay around 1925 in her fabric studio, Boulevard Malesherbes, silver gelatine print
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
Sonia Delaunay im Exil. Von der Leichtigkeit der Kunst in Zeiten des „apokalyptischen Gemetzels“

09.12.2026 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
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Past Events of the Series

Portrait Klaus Schumann
© Bertolt Prächt
Aus dem Nähkästchen geplaudert...

17.09.2025 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Heldt'sches Trachtenbuch: Ein Hausknecht zu Nürnberg, Zeichnung in Bilderhandschrift / Trachtenbuch, 1560 -1580, Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Modebild
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Nah dran! Ab wann sieht Mensch Mode?

18.06.2025 6:00 PM
Kunstbibliothek
Expert talk | Lecture

Abb li.:
Kurfürst August von Sachsen 
Hans Krell, wohl Dresden, 1561
Öl/Leinwand 
Rüstkammer, SKD, Inv.-Nr. H 0093


Abb. Mitte:
Kurfürst August von Sachsen
Lucas Cranach d.J., Dresden, 1565
Öl/Holz 
Rüstkammer, SKD, Inv.-Nr. H 0094


Abb. re.:
Kurfürstin Anna von Sachsen
Lucas Cranach d.J., Dresden, 1564
Öl/Holz 
Rüstkammer, SKD, Inv.-Nr. H 0095
© Rüstkammer, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Elke Estel, Hans Peter Klut
Kleider, Schmuck und Waffen. Vestimentäre Repräsentation am kurfürstlich-sächsischen Hof 1550 –1650

09.04.2025 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Unknown artist, King Gustav III of Sweden (detail), 1784, oil on canvas, 265 x 168 cm, Inventory no.: KU000049
© Akademische Kunstsammlung der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald/Kustodie
Die Nationaltrachtdebatte. Versuche zur Durchsetzung einer nationalen Kleidung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

19.03.2025 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Disdéri & Co, Portrait of Emperor Napoléon III, Empress Eugénie and Crown Prince Louis Napoléon of France (detail), 1859, Carte-de-visite photograph, Ident.No. 14134020
© Kunstbibliothek, Sammlung Modebild
Staatsräson und Modediktat. Aspekte herrscherlicher Kleiderpraxis im französischen Second Empire

19.02.2025 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of the Royal Open Air Theater, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. May 20, 2010
© SRichardImages / Shutterstock.com
Kleider, Klunker, Königin. Beobachtungen zu visuellen Strategien des britischen Königshauses

13.11.2024 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Heather Benjamin, 2 Cowgirls T-shirt (detail), screenprint on cotton, 2024, Courtesy of the artist.
© Heather Benjamin
Monster Girls & Bondage Boys. Fantasie und Subversion in der Punk-Mode

16.10.2024 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

Gabriel S. Moses, Illustration
© with kind permission of the Archive of Youth Cultures Berlin
Made in Germany: Mode und Rechtsextremismus

18.09.2024 6:00 PM
Kulturforum
Lecture | Lecture series

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