After a successful start, the Strike a pose festival for art, fashion and style, which was launched last year, will take place again this year from June 24th to 26th in Düsseldorf.
Venues are the Museum K21 Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia and various galleries in Düsseldorf. The three-day festival program consists of Gallery Day on Friday June 24th, Fashion Day on Saturday June 25th and the symposium “Break the rules & set yourself free! Diversity in Fashion and Art” on Sunday 26 June.
In total, more than 15 art galleries from Düsseldorf and Cologne are showing cross-genre collaborations between fashion designers and international artists, partly in their own galleries, as well as in the Museum K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in the Ständehaus, the main venue of Strike a pose.
As part of Gallery Day, Galerie Rupert Pfab is showing a collaboration between artist Astrid Busch and Düsseldorf-based Japanese fashion designer Hiroyuki Murase from the Suzusan label. The cooperation between the artist Emil Schult and the designer Sophia Schneider-Esleben can be seen in the new exhibition space The Pool.
Galleries from Cologne are showing the positions and collaborations of their artists in the Museum K21 in the Ständehaus, such as Galerie Clages, a collaboration between the Toronto-based filmmaker Oliver Husain, of German origin, and the umbrella manufacturer Fare, while the JUBG Contemporary Art Gallery is presenting the Phantom Kino Ballet of the artists musicians Sarah Szczesny and Lena Willikens to the piazza of the K21.
The cooperation between the Düsseldorf performance label G-LAB and the artist Johannes Wohnseifer can also be seen there, as well as a performance by the Japanese artist Takako Saito, presented by Galerie Basedonart, and young designers such as Tatjana Reider, Jana Merkens and Valentin Lessner.
Strike a pose was conceived by Ljiljana Radlovic and Robert Danch, who have been organizing the Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries gallery weekend for 14 years. The Ministry for Economics, Innovation, Digitization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia is the main sponsor of the second edition of the festival.