Design Visit: MK&G - Glitter

During the Design Visits, we visit exciting exhibitions, production facilities and craft businesses in Hamburg for designers. This time we're visiting the current exhibition at the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe: Glitter.

Glitter? Glitter!

Glitter sparkles and flickers, fascinates and outrages. It can be found on stages as well as on protest posters and in children's bedrooms. Glitter is omnipresent - and yet the MK&G is the first museum in the world to dedicate an exhibition to this material.

What you can expect

The exhibition focuses on glitter as a symbol of belonging, empowerment and self-determination and sheds light on its use in political contexts and collective movements. Around 40 international positions from art and design are dedicated to glitter as an expression of the joy of social diversity and collective exuberance, as a means of protest, performance and pop culture, as a symbol of the visualisation of marginalised groups and resistance against body norms.

Curator Dr Julia Meer will guide you through the exhibition and answer your questions about the exhibits and the process.

Information about the event

• Meeting point: In front of the entrance to the Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe
• If you take part, you will pay the entrance fee to the exhibition on site. The guided tour itself is free of charge.
• Places are limited and registration is binding. If you are unable to attend, please cancel your registration so that someone else can attend instead.
• Please note: Photos and films will be taken during the event for public relations purposes.

Photo: Henning Rogge