Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition
For International Museum Day, the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum organise a conference open to the public at which to reflect on this topic, focussed on giving a general vision of the interactions currently underway between the museum spheres, community and fashion, through analysis of the different ongoing experiences and from the different points of view of the three guest speakers. PROGRAMME / MAY 18 / 10:00-13:00 10.00 Opening words and introduction by Miren Vives Director of the Museum 10:10 Amy de la Haye "Objects of a Passion: the underpinning of fashion, community and the museum" 11:00 Igor Uria "The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum Collection: From Heritage to new creation" 11:45 Coffee break 12:15 Judith Clark" Conversations with the Museum" 13:00 Tour of the “Cristóbal Balenciaga, Fashion and Heritage. Context” exhibition SPEAKERS AMY DE LA HAYE Professor of Dress History & Curatorship and joint director of the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has curated exhibitions of fashion and dress in national and regional museum contexts and within fashion retail spaces and is co-author, with Judith Clark, of Exhibiting Fashion: Before & After 1971 (Yale, 2010). Her published texts draw out archival and object led narratives and examine objects in the context of lives lived. She was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the V&A from 1991 to 1999. IGOR URIA Has a Degree in Fine Arts earned at the University of the Basque Country, specialising in Conservation and Restoration. Has completed numerous specialisation courses at the Deusto and Alcalá de Henares universities. Studied Curating Fashion and Dress at the International Training Course of V&A in London. Is currently studying for his doctorate in Architecture, design, fashion and society at the Madrid Polytechnic University. Today Igor is Collections Director at the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, a position he has occupied since May 2014; previously, since the year 2004, he had been Head of the Conservation and Registration Department with the same institution. Fifteen years as manager and researcher into the collection, which has enjoyed consolidation since creation of the Cristóbal Balenciaga Foundation, have enabled his curatorship of different exhibitions, including the current "Cristóbal Balenciaga, Fashion and Heritage: Contexts". JUDITH CLARK She is a curator and fashion exhibition-maker and is currently Professor of Fashion and Museology at University of the Arts London, where she lectures on the MA Fashion Curation and is co-Director of the Centre for Fashion Curation. Clark opened the first experimental gallery of fashion in London (1997-2002). Since then Clark has curated major exhibitions of dress at the V&A, London; ModeMuseum, Antwerp; Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul, and in 2012 installed Frida Kahlo’s dresses at her home in Mexico City. In 2015 she curated and designed the inaugural exhibition at La Galerie, Louis Vuitton, in Asnières. Her exhibition commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery, entitled The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined travelled to Winter Palais in Vulgar: Fashion Redefined travelled to Winter Palais in Vulgar: Fashion RedefinedVienna, and to ModeMuseum, Hasselt in September 2017. Her Femininities. Guy Bourdin opened at Maison Chloe in Femininities. Guy Bourdin opened at Maison Chloe in Femininities. Guy BourdinJuly 2017 during Paris Couture week. In 2018 and 2019 she collaborated with the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum for the first two iterations of a series entitled Cristóbal Balenciaga: Fashion and Heritage. Clark lectures internationally on issues of dress display.
For International Museum Day, the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum organise a conference open to the public at which to reflect on this topic, focussed on giving a general vision of the interactions currently underway between the museum spheres, community and fashion, through analysis of the different ongoing experiences and from the different points of view of the three guest speakers. PROGRAMME / MAY 18 / 10:00-13:00 10.00 Opening words and introduction by Miren Vives Director of the Museum 10:10 Amy de la Haye "Objects of a Passion: the underpinning of fashion, community and the museum" 11:00 Igor Uria "The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum Collection: From Heritage to new creation" 11:45 Coffee break 12:15 Judith Clark" Conversations with the Museum" 13:00 Tour of the “Cristóbal Balenciaga, Fashion and Heritage. Context” exhibition SPEAKERS AMY DE LA HAYE Professor of Dress History & Curatorship and joint director of the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has curated exhibitions of fashion and dress in national and regional museum contexts and within fashion retail spaces and is co-author, with Judith Clark, of Exhibiting Fashion: Before & After 1971 (Yale, 2010). Her published texts draw out archival and object led narratives and examine objects in the context of lives lived. She was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the V&A from 1991 to 1999. IGOR URIA Has a Degree in Fine Arts earned at the University of the Basque Country, specialising in Conservation and Restoration. Has completed numerous specialisation courses at the Deusto and Alcalá de Henares universities. Studied Curating Fashion and Dress at the International Training Course of V&A in London. Is currently studying for his doctorate in Architecture, design, fashion and society at the Madrid Polytechnic University. Today Igor is Collections Director at the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, a position he has occupied since May 2014; previously, since the year 2004, he had been Head of the Conservation and Registration Department with the same institution. Fifteen years as manager and researcher into the collection, which has enjoyed consolidation since creation of the Cristóbal Balenciaga Foundation, have enabled his curatorship of different exhibitions, including the current "Cristóbal Balenciaga, Fashion and Heritage: Contexts". JUDITH CLARK She is a curator and fashion exhibition-maker and is currently Professor of Fashion and Museology at University of the Arts London, where she lectures on the MA Fashion Curation and is co-Director of the Centre for Fashion Curation. Clark opened the first experimental gallery of fashion in London (1997-2002). Since then Clark has curated major exhibitions of dress at the V&A, London; ModeMuseum, Antwerp; Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Simone Handbag Museum, Seoul, and in 2012 installed Frida Kahlo’s dresses at her home in Mexico City. In 2015 she curated and designed the inaugural exhibition at La Galerie, Louis Vuitton, in Asnières. Her exhibition commissioned by the Barbican Art Gallery, entitled The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined travelled to Winter Palais in Vulgar: Fashion Redefined travelled to Winter Palais in Vulgar: Fashion RedefinedVienna, and to ModeMuseum, Hasselt in September 2017. Her Femininities. Guy Bourdin opened at Maison Chloe in Femininities. Guy Bourdin opened at Maison Chloe in Femininities. Guy BourdinJuly 2017 during Paris Couture week. In 2018 and 2019 she collaborated with the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum for the first two iterations of a series entitled Cristóbal Balenciaga: Fashion and Heritage. Clark lectures internationally on issues of dress display.