Tenth edition (2023) Craft The Leather exhibition at Lineapelle

Eight creative collections in Tuscan veg-tanned Leather. Eight talents from prestigious international fashion and design institutes interpret Tuscan-Veg-tanned Leather throught the lens of contemporary art, craft and innovation. 
Vote your favourite at our stand (Hall 15-stand A02/A18) 20 to 22 February 2024 or online via Facebook and Instagram. Happy and honoured to be part of the jury again for Craft...

Death and the Devil. The Fascination with Horror.

After the start at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in 2023 this spring the exhibition will be on show at Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt. An exhibition not for the fainthearted: death and the devil sow fear and terror here. However, the uneasy feeling that some of these exhibits can trigger is countered by a pleasurable fascination, sometimes even a humorous approach. Often dismissed...

Jo Cope – The Wisdom Is in Your Feet

Solo exhibition at the HUB, Main Gallery in Sleaford, 
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. On show from 2 December 2023 till 17 March 2024. With a background in fashion, performance and leather craft, Jo Cope, has spent the last decade reimagining an alternative life for shoes. Her work explores the idea that shoes and feet carry deeper meanings and wisdom. Jo’s shoe...

Madeleine Berkhemer

Madeleine Berkhemer’s monograph is an initiative of the Madeleine Berkhemer Foundation, the book is published by nai010 publishers Rotterdam. Art has to tease, please and seduce and is allowed to make the viewer feel uncomfortable. Anything goes, as long as it does not leave people unmoved. Rotterdam based artist Madeleine Berkhemer (1973-2019) considered sensuality and eroticism to be fundamental parts...

365 Days of Shoes Workman calendars 2024

Both calendars show a wide variety of well know designers and extraordinary shoes selection from the Virtual Shoe Museum collection including students from René van den Berg Academy/NL, SASK Shoe Design St. Niklaas/Belgium, FIT New York/USA, Jewelry & Fashion Department Bezalel Academy/Israel, Kolding school of Design/Denmark. The René van den Berg Academy and SASK students shoes are all photographed by...

Shoes: Inside Out – Our relationship with footwear revealed

A new exhibition at the Arch in Winchester, UK, that traces the social history of the nation through 60 pairs of shoes, on show 24 November 2023 – 6 March 2024 at The Arc in Winchester, United Kingdom. From the functional and practical to the fashionable and extravagant, shoes have played an intriguing role in our social history and modern...

Shoe Fantasies book

The book Shoe Fantasies is the second shoe book published by Amber Ambrose Aurèle and Liza Snook. In the summer of 2023 we curated the exhibition ‘Cipőfantáziák / Shoe Fantasies’ in cooperation with Pécs Gallery, as part of the Prologue of the LOKART Festival in Pécs, Hungary. This exhibition made you wonder ‘What’s a shoe?’ If we don’t immediately identify...

Death and the Devil. The Fascination with Horror.

The main exhibition at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf this autumn is not for the fainthearted: death and the devil sow fear and terror here. However, the uneasy feeling that some of these exhibits can trigger is countered by a pleasurable fascination, sometimes even a humorous approach. Often dismissed as shallow, the genre of horror is re-evaluated in this show, which sheds...

Cipőfantáziák / Shoe Fantasies

Cipőfantáziák / Shoe Fantasies is the result of a cooperation between Pécs Gallery and the Virtual Shoe Museum, curated by Liza Snook and Amber Ambrose Aurèle Verstegen. These Shoe Fantasies were specially selected for the exhibition presented as part of the Prologue of the LOKART Festival in Pécs, Hungary. On show from June 9 till september 3 2023. A must...

Wout Speyers, winner Craft the Leather 2022 competition

Seven designers from around the world. Seven capsule collections in vegetable-tanned leather. ‘Craft The Leather’, the international creative competition promoted by the Genuine Italian Vegetable-Tanned Leather Consortium, was back for its 9th edition. This collections were exhibited at Lineapelle International Leather Fair in Milan, Italy, February 19-22 2023. Seven capsule collectionsThe capsule collections are made by male and female students...


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