MoMu Highlights: Fall-Winter

During this visit you will discover everything that MoMu has to offer! A MoMu guide will take you through the temporary exhibition GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between and provide an insight into the collection presentation, which includes masterpieces by Martin Margiela, A.F.Vandevorst, Ann Demeulemeester, Raf Simons, … Afterwards you will pay a short visit to RESOLUCIÓN. The MoMu Library is also included in the programme.

Through various themes, GIRLS explores the beauty and complexity of girlhood and the emotional journey of growing up. How has girlhood been represented? How is it remembered? And how does the idea of ‘the girl’ continue to shape visual culture and fashion?

GIRLS is about daughterhood, sisterhood, and friendship. About boredom, rebellion and coming of age. This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together visual artists, fashion designers, photographers, costume designers, and filmmakers.

The project is created in conversation with teenagers and is inclusive of LGBTQI+ youth.

MoMu’s collection presentation looks back at four decades of Belgian fashion, complemented by a selection from the museum’s historical collection. The exhibition gives an overview of the most important protagonists of Belgian fashion, based on the themes that characterise the distinctive nature of the MoMu Collection.

Resolución is an audiovisual installation that reinterprets the history of Spanish cinema through its iconic actresses and some of the characters they portrayed. The installation — composed of clips from one hundred films spanning nine decades — offers an alternative history of Spanish cinema in which stars such as Aurora Bautista, Sara Montiel, Ángela Molina, Carmen Maura, Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, and Penélope Cruz (among many others) have embodied the profound and diverse transformations women in Spain have undergone over the past century.

Resolución is both a tribute to the creative autonomy and iconic power of Spanish actresses and a celebration of the liberating, subversive potential of the performative gesture. It also shows how filmmakers, art directors, costume designers, and makeup and hairstyling artists have used clothing, makeup, and everyday objects to visually elevate the life-changing decisions that shape their protagonists’ existences.

This audiovisual installation has been produced following research carried out specifically for EUROPALIA ESPAÑA.