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Stepping into the Limelight with Dora Kloppenburg

Monday, May 20, 2013 - During the exhibition Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight! A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany, we will highlight the different themes and introduce some of the participating designers to you.

Dora Kloppenburg is a Dutch product designer specialising in shoedesign. Who finds her inspiration in constructions, architecture and the anatomy of the foot. She is continually exploring the boundaries of the shoe. When is a shoe still a shoe? What possibilities can be explored while keeping a shoe wearable?

She translates these ideas into a graphic and clear image. Her experimental ideas are transformed into a wearable product. This open and experimental approach results in surprising new designs. Next to her startling shoes she also designs special accessories and jewellery.

The three pairs of shoes of the Remotion collection are on display, including the video, in Starker Auftritt!:
Communism, construcive architecture, man as a machine, as a tool. Turning the machine on together in the interests of the greater good. What would it be like if man existed solely to serve the purposes of the shoe? Does the shoe still need mankind in order to be a shoe? As a designer, Dora Kloppenburg adopted these hypothetical issues as the basis for her collection (2012), while she also carried out research into constructions driven by human locomotion.

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!
A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany from 28th of March till the 29th September 2013. Together with Sabine Epple, the curator of modern art of the GRASSI Museum, Liza Snook selected 220 exclusive shoes from the Virtual Shoe Museum, supplemented with German artists and designers who created shoes.

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5-11, Leipzig, Germany

More shoes by Dora Kloppenburg at the Virtual Shoe Museum.

Photograph by Lonneke van der Palen.

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Gothic festival weekend in Leipzig 2013

Friday, May 17, 2013 - This weekend, 18th and 19th of May, the Wave Gotik Treffen will be held again in Leipzig, Germany. The Grassi Museum of Applied Arts offers a special program inspired by the current shoe exhibition 'Starker Auftritt/Stepping into the Limelight'.

Wave Gotik Treffen (Treffen means meeting), the annual world festival for 'dark' music and arts, hosts ± 150 bands and artists from various backgrounds (Gothic rock, EBM, Industrial, Noise, Darkwave, Neofolk, Neoclassical, Medieval Music, Experimental, Gothic metal, Deathrock and Punks) that play at several venues throughout the city over 4 days on Whitsuntide. The festival also features several fairs with medieval, gothic and cultural merchandise.

Visitors of the Wave Gotik Treffen will be granted free admission to the permanent exhibition and the special exhibitions 'Starker Auftritt/Stepping into the Limelight' and 'Gestaltung für den modernen Haushalt/Design for the Modern Household'.

Program (in German):
Sa, 18.05. 13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Kleider machen Leute Führung zur Mode von Mittelalter bis Renaissance in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

Sa, 18.05. 13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Schwarzes Leder, roter Lack: Steile Schuh-Kreationen Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Nadine Geuthel)

Sa, 18.05. 13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Sohle mit Biss Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Axel Menz)

Sa, 18.05. 13 Uhr Space Cowboy Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Olga Barannik)

Sa, 18.05. 14 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Geschnürt, gepresst, gepudert Führung zur Mode von Barock bis Biedermeier in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

Sa, 18.05. 15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Kleider machen Leute Führung zur Mode von Mittelalter bis Renaissance in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

Sa, 18.05. 15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Schwarzes Leder, roter Lack: Steile Schuh-Kreationen Führungen in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Axel Menz)

Sa, 18.05.15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Sohle mit Biss Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Olga Barannik)

Sa, 18.05.15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Sohle mit Biss Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Nadine Geuthel)

Sa, 18.05.16 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Geschnürt, gepresst, gepudert Führung zur Mode von Barock bis Biedermeier in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

So, 19.05.13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Kleider machten Leute Führung zur Mode von Mittelalter bis Renaissance in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

So, 19.05.13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Schwarzes Leder, roter Lack: Steile Schuh-Kreationen Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Nadine Geuthel)

So, 19.05.13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Sohle mit Biss Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Axel Menz)

So, 19.05.13 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Space Cowboy Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Olga Barannik)

So, 19.05.14 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Geschnürt, gepresst, gepudert Führung zur Mode von Barock bis Biedermeier in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsch)

So, 19.05.15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Sohle mit Biss Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Olga Barannik)

So, 19.05.15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Space Cowboy Führung in der Sonderausstellung 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design' (Nadine Geuthel)

So, 19.05.15 Uhr GRASSI GOES GOTIK Kleider machten Leute Führung zur Mode von Mittelalter bis Renaissance in der Ständigen Ausstellung (Julia Rotsah)

Guided tours 'Starker Auftritt! Experimentelles Schuh-Design': (each tour lasts 1 hours, max. 20 persons)

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5-11, Leipzig, Germany

Shoe images above by and Omar Angel Perez and Natalie Shau

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Stepping into the Limelight with Dutch designer John Breed

Monday, May 06, 2013 - During the exhibition Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight! A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany, we will highlight the different themes and introduce some of the participating designers to you.

Dutch Designer John Breed creates works of art for over twenty years now. After his adventurous travels, he comes back full of inspiration, craftsmanship, indigenous techniques and makes his own new artworks. He learned to draw calligraphy from a Japanese master in Kyoto, graffiti in New York, painted fresco’s in Rome, got in touch with icon painting in Russia and learned to paint traditional landscapes during his trip through China.

The Virtual Shoe Museum found his sculptural shoes piece for the Breuninger Shoe Store in Stuttgart in Germany. The shop's modern interior was transformed from a run-down factory space and has been proclaimed to be the largest footwear store in Europe. The vibrantly fun art piece, using 145 multicolored and golden legs to create an installation of 9 x 3 meter, is made up of shoe-sporting legs colored in rainbow hues, symbolic for the madness of women about buying shoes. The legs make up an eye-catching art installation to attract the retailer's visitors.

For the Grassi Museum exhibition John created a new shoe sculpture with 48 vintage shoes called 'Medusa’s Shoes', including 4 shoes from the private shoes collection of Liza Snook. Breed's sculpture aims to channel a classic Medusa head image, where snakes have been replaced by legs wearing high heeled shoes.

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5-11, Leipzig, Germany

More shoes by John Breed at the Virtual Shoe Museum.

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29th of April: Workshop Kei Kagami in the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum

Thursday, April 25, 2013 - This Monday, April 29th, Kei Kagami will give a workshop in the Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum in Waalwijk. The London-based fashion designer Kei Kagami is a master of conceptual design.

This workshop, for fashion and shoe design students only, is entirely sponsored by YKK Netherlands. Therefore the museum can offer this workshop for free. YKK is the largest supplier of zippers in the world and also sponsor of Kei Kagami.

Kei Kagami likes to use zippers in conceptual designs as in his shoes. Like no other he can show you how zippers processed and can be adjusted in a design. In the workshop on 29 April, he will show fastening tricks and techniques using simple tools and know-how. And how to shorten, to sew, to process zippers and how to handle 3-, 4- or 5-way zippers. He shows how to implement two runners in the same zip and how to create an vintage look and even how to get a zipper to work smoother. As an added bonus to the workshop he will show how to oxidize metal heels.

Programme
13:00 -13:30 Arrival at the museum, free viewing of the exhibition 'Kei Kagami – Retrospective’
13:30 -13:45 Presentation about YKK by Kei Kagami
13:45 -15:00 Lecture 'Importance of creation juxtaposed to culture’ by Kei Kagami

15:00 - 15:15 Break

15:15 - 16:30 Workshop adaping zippers and learning about oxidation methods by Kei Kagami

Would you like to attend this workshop, please register at Inge Specht.
Sign up now, there's only room for 30 students. Subscription will be in order of application.

Kei Kagami – A Retrospective
Dutch Leather and Shoe Museum
Elzenweg 25, Waalwijk, the Netherlands

More shoes by Kei Kagami at the Virtual Shoe Museum.

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Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!

Sunday, March 17, 2013 - A Shoe exhibition at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst of Applied Arts in Leipzig, Germany from 28th of March till the 29th September 2013. Together with Sabine Epple, the curator of modern art of the GRASSI Museum, Liza Snook selected more than 150 exclusive shoes from the Virtual Shoe Museum, supplemented with German artists and designers who created shoes.

The special relationship which exists between people and shoes – and in particular women and shoes – is a popular source of fascination. The mystical attraction they exert is felt not only by the female of the species, but also to an increasing extent by designers and artists who are thinking ‘outside the shoebox’ and falling head over heels for footwear.

Never before has an exhibition showcased such an experimental, boundary-pushing concept of shoe design. There is nothing mainstream about the styles on show; rather, they are imaginative, bold and even provocative. Some 150 pairs of shoes from a hundred or so international designers introduce the visitor to a wealth of styles, ranging from the architecturally inspired to creations of audacious irony and socially-motivated footwear. The most exclusive shoes from all over the world have been brought together on loan for the exhibition. Most are one-off or limited edition designs.

During the exhibition we will write articles about the participating artists and designers and keep you posted on shoe events. Hope you will step into the Limelight with us!

Starker Auftritt!/Stepping into the Limelight!
GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Johannisplatz 5-11, Leipzig, Germany

Events at the museum in April
April 10th / Wednesday / 12.00 / Art break
Shoe Show. Lecture by with Axel Menz

April 11th / Thursday / 14.00 Lecture about the failed shoe-objects.
After this making a clay Ceramic shoe object to take home with Axel Menz (only for children - 5 €)

April 14th / Sunday / 11.00 / Lecture by Sabine Epple (curator of the exhibition)
Shoes between passion and design.

April 30th / Tuesday / 16.30 / English language guide
Step into the limelight. Lecture by Westrey Page

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