Step into a vibrant realm of fashion and artistic expression as the 16th edition of the FASHIONCLASH Festival takes over Maastricht, Netherlands, from November 15 to 17, 2024. This three-day celebration will showcase an eclectic mix of more than 100 visionary designers and artists from over 20 countries, each bringing unique narratives to life.
FASHIONCLASH serves as a dynamic platform for the next generation of talent, inviting them to present their innovative works to an expansive (inter)national audience. Visitors can immerse themselves in a rich tapestry of exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops, and fashion film screenings, all aimed at exploring and honouring contemporary fashion culture.
Highlights of the festival include the immersive CLASH House featuring cutting-edge fashion performances, the compelling New Fashion Narratives exhibition at Bureau Europa, and the spotlight on cinematic artistry through the Fashion Film Program & Awards at Lumière Cinema. Additional events will unfold across the city at venues including Centre Céramique, SNS Expertisecentrum, Marres, Dans- en Partycentrum Bernaards, LBG Hotels (The Green Elephant), and Limestone Books.
FASHIONCLASH Festival is committed to accessibility, offering tickets for sale alongside various free events. For detailed information on the schedule, participating artists, and ticketing, visit www.fashionclash.nl. or follow via www.instagram.com/fashionclash_festival
This year’s multimedia campaign, spearheaded by local art director Ruben Hilkens, features a striking series of photos and a short fashion film. The collaboration shines a light on local performers and students from the Institute of Performative Arts, adorned in the stunning creations of designers such as Dirk Vaessen, Peter Wertmann, and Batuhan Demir.
“The multimedia campaign epitomizes CLASH, embodying the multidisciplinary artistic ethos of FASHIONCLASH. It celebrates the serendipitous connections forged between people, fashion, and various artistic domains. Through this initiative, FASHIONCLASH invites critical dialogue around social concerns, visual arts, and design, manifesting in a refreshingly innovative and hands-on manner,” shared the FASHIONCLASH team. With each festival, this campaign becomes a vital space for designers and artists to project their visions on fashion and its global landscape.
Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia Photo by Anna TheunissenFASHIONCLASH Festival – PROGRAM
Opening Night @ Sint-Annakerk | Friday 15 November
The festival opens on Friday evening with the performance program The CLASH House at a special location, namely the Sint-Annakerk in Maastricht. During the opening, performances developed from the Amarte x FASHIONCLASH project will also be shown.
The CLASH House @ Sint-Annakerk | Friday 15 November
The CLASH House is a showcase and development program for designers who focus on crossovers between fashion and other art disciplines – especially performing arts. These designers explore alternative ways to make and present fashion. Participants are Megan van Engelen, Julia Burak, SHIFT Studio, bzrkna and Paula Dischinger, who receive a coaching program in which they are supported by theatre maker Nadîja Roza Broekhart and dancer and choreographer Laisvie Andrea Ochoa. Theatre director Giovanni Brand is the overall director of the evening.
New Fashion Narratives @ Bureau Europa | 15, 16, 17 November
For this year’s exhibition program, five fashion practitioners were invited by FASHIONCLASH to form a curatorial team and collaborate on the concept for the New Fashion Narratives exhibition that will be presented at Bureau Europa during the festival. This year’s curatorial team includes Chaewon Kong, Karime Salame, Katharina Spitz, Simon Marsiglia and Teresa Carvalheira – a group of fashion makers with diverse backgrounds and practices within and beyond the fashion landscape. They first met during a physical Residency Week (22-26 April 2024) in Maastricht, where they got to know each other and worked on developing the concept.
The exhibition is built around the idea of the game Exquisite Corps which serves as a metaphor for the framework for presenting works that are the result of collaborative and/or transdisciplinary practices. A selection has been made of artists, researchers and designers from various disciplines.
New Fashion Narratives participants: 2mm, Agatha Prieto Jeanty, Rafael Kouto, Wataru Sato, Inès Torrens, Delia Rößer, Alyne Li, STUDIO ERASER YOU, Hongkai Li, Jiwoo Lee & Hankyul Jeong, Threads & Tits, Olivia Sahl Jensen, Sien Entius, Lee Kern, Studio Wievien, Romy Yedidia, DOMINIK, Knits and Notes, Zuzana Vrabelova, Chiel Lubbers, Dana Elmi Sarabi, Studio Frowijn, Souheila Chalabi, Jinwon Kim, Matti Paffen, Kushami 嚔(by Ayumi Kajiwara), Lara van der Poel, Wassim el Hodayebi.
Sugar s Like Us Kutsal TaylanciPhoto by Mitchel van Kesteren
Decolonial Fashion Residency installation at Bureau Europa
In the basement of Bureau Europa, you can experience the interactive installation that is the result of the Decolonial Fashion Residency that took place earlier in June. Ten fashion practitioners were invited to Maastricht for a week of conversations and exchanges about the question ‘What does decoloniality mean in fashion in the context of the Netherlands?’.
Participants: Tevin Blancheville, Angela Jansen, Catta Labeij Donkersloot, Lena Winterink, Gabrielle Swart, Kenza Vandeput, Agatha Prieto Jeanty, Robin Nimanong, Andrea Kristic, Kuiyu Kang’ari.
Fashion Film Program @ Lumière Cinema| 15, 16, 17 November
The film program at Lumière Cinema offers a platform to designers and filmmakers who experiment with the (short) fashion film genre. The program consists of a selection of 31 films from different countries in the world, thus showing a very diverse range of perspectives, disciplines, cultures and stories. On Saturday evening 16 November, the five finalists will be presented and the FASHIONCLASH Festival Fashion Film Award 2024 and the KALTBLUT. Magazine Award will be presented by the jury consisting of Esther Muñoz Grootveld, Sam Bassett, Pedro Oberto, Donald Gjoka and Marcel Schlutt.
On Saturday, there is a special screening dedicated to the filmmaker Hadi Moussaly and an artist talk moderated by Roberto Luis Martins.
During the festival, three fashion films will also premiere that were produced by FASHIONCLASH and resulted from the Fashion Film development process that was made possible by the Meester Koetsier Foundation.
The striking documentary Queendom will be shown on Thursday evening, November 14, with a Q&A with the director. The story of Gena, a 21-year-old Russian non-binary performance artist, is also the perfect introduction to the festival, which includes a queer activity program.
Fashion Film Program participants: Anke De Veirman, Alijah Johnson, Esteban Avilaa, Ximan Tan & Haowei Li, Lisa Konno, Maya Marzuki Peters, Delia Simonetti, Sel Kofiga, Zoë Zita & Filip Kwakkel, Yisong Huang, Katharina Spitz, Nicholas John Murphy, Dean Alexander, Corentin Kopp & Aaron Arnoldt Alexander, Jhenyfy Muller, Luuk Sieben & Wertmann Peter, Hadi Moussaly, Ronita Awoonor-Gordon, Kutsal Taylanci, Asiah Essam Alsalem, Yu Chen, EV Zhang, Sophie Fabre & Roel Vissers, Nicola Martini, Dylan Eno, Desiree Brands & Joris Weerts, Thalia de Jong, Yangyang Wu, Michal-Zgierski.
ulkuhanphoto by Mees Mulder
Amarte x FASHIONCLASH @Marres, Mariastraat 13, De Meldkamer | 15, 16, 17 November
Amarte and FASHIONCLASH are joining forces to offer artists from different disciplines the opportunity to experiment with fashion and to present new work during FASHIONCLASH Festival. Five artists have been selected from an open call with an intrinsic desire to collaborate with a fashion designer and to relate to the fashion context. They are then paired with a fashion designer and invited to experiment.
Participants: WEEF.collective X Roumans, Mira Verhoeve X Dirk Vaessen, ULKAAN (Kaan Hiçyilmaz & Ulkuhan Akgul), Manka Menga X Katharina Spitz, Naza Løtus x The Nightmare Disorder
FASHIONCLASH @ Marres | 15, 16, 17 November
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, is entirely dedicated to FASHIONCLASH during three days of various performances, installations and crossovers between fashion, visual arts and theatre.
You can enjoy exhibitions by recently graduated designers and artists from various Dutch art academies such as Arva Bustin, buccia, Iza van den Baar, UNCOMMON RAGE and Valentijn Schmitz.
Work by Esra Westerburgen is on display and Boris Kollar shows an installation and performance Soirée of Seams. Thanks to the collaboration with Das Leben am Haverkamp from The Hague, there are beautiful creations by Jose Marie Sta. Iglesia to see. In a co-production with Via Zuid and collaboration with House of Rubber, theatre maker Laila Claessen presents the performance SOMA & SKELETON.
Marres also features installations and performances by WEEF.collective X Roumans, Manka Menga X Katharina Spitz and Naza Løtus x The Nightmare Disorder, allemaal vanuit het Amarte x FASHIONCLASH project.
Pop-up Sales @ SNS Expertisecentrum | 15, 16, 17 November
The space of the SNS Expertisecentrum in the Sphinxkwartier will be transformed into a designer market where you can discover different designers and buy unique clothing, jewellery and accessories!
Participants: Aurélie Defez, C.Pouki, NNAEJ STUDIO, LINFIN, De Deugd, Julie Menuge, STUDIO ERASER YOU, POViS, Matti Paffen, LIQUID LEMN, SHIFT studio, FIASCO!, DOMINIK, Studio SUFI, ALIET MOES • SILVY TEN BROEKE • ZOË ZITA
Fashion Makes Sense, participation program @ Centre Cèramique | 15, 16, 17 November
Fashion Makes Sense is the ongoing participation program of FASHIONCLASH from which projects are developed focused on social design, inclusion, education and collaboration between professionals and semi-professionals/amateurs, especially involving teenagers and young adults. During the festival, the results of several projects will be presented such as FASHION x Crafts and TexTiles. In addition, there will be workshops, a presentation of the Kunstbende Fashion winner and the exhibition Handmade of Schone Kleren Campagne.
On Sunday afternoon, 17 November, the Fashion Makes Sense Talk moderated by Mara van Nes will take place with several designers and artists involved in the participation projects. Followed by a fashion show and performance by Dictator of Art (D.O.A).
Afterparty @ Dans- & Partycentrum Bernaards |16 November
FASHIONCLASH Festival Afterparty is not just a party, it is an interdisciplinary program and platform that is part of FASHIONCLASH’s Queer Activity Program to give more visibility to the queer community in the region. Queer Activity Program consists of talks, workshops, a podcast series in collaboration with Limburg Museum and dance and fashion-making workshops. In collaboration with theatre maker Samuel Valor Reyes, a program for the Afterparty has been put together with fashion shows of designers NNAEJ STUDIO, Tessa van den Eeden and Max Niereisel, performances and of course plenty of time to dance along the music by the fantastic DJ Frandy Perez from House of Vineyard.
Come a little closer and see me for who I am
The FASHIONCLASH Afterparty plays with the idea of letting the night bring us closer together, in a space that celebrates individual expression, by dancing in unity. The Afterparty seeks the limitlessness of your authentic being, as we move and transform together; a celebration of all! The night revolves around the idea of how we want to be chiselled as a statue and how we want to be remembered. Of course, this statue would be fashionable, opulent, and a limitless version of yourself! – Samuel Valor Reyes
But there is much more! | 15, 16, 17 November
There are exhibitions and performances spread across various locations at Marres, Mariastraat 13 and De Meldkamer. At SNS Expertise Centrum, you can attend the Pop-Up Sales, a showcase where you can discover and buy work by emerging designers and brands.
At the Mariastraat 13 location in the heart of Maastricht, you can see and discover projects by Sofie Kramer in collaboration with designer Batuhan Demir, Orlando: The New Chapter project in collaboration with Toneelacademie Maastricht, ULKAAN by Kaan Hiçyilmaz & Ulkuhan Akgul and you can get to know the recently founded The Body Collective.
Furthermore, there are exhibitions, talks, shops and performances spread across various locations at De Meldkamer, ATTIC* curated thrifting store, The Green Elephant, Townhouse Hotel and Limestone Books.
For more information about the program, participants and ticket sales: www.fashionclash.nl
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About FASHIONCLASH Festival
FASHIONCLASH Festival is all about discovering and supporting talent, encouraging and helping to shape current developments in fashion (world), making these developments accessible to a wide audience and initiating active public participation. Participants of the festival belong to a generation of designers and artists who explore and question the boundaries of their discipline. With their works, they move between the transdisciplinary domains of fashion, social design, performing arts and visual arts. The multi-voiced and multimedia program is a composite selection from various open calls and from projects initiated by FASHIONCLASH itself and developed in co-production with various organizations and makers. For FASHIONCLASH, the annual festival is a vehicle for disclosing the results of all projects and talent development trajectories that happen throughout the year as part of their ongoing annual program.
