DEEDS CALENDAR: GLITTER – Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe | until 26.10.2025
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe is currently presenting the group exhibition Glitter. Glitter sparkles and shimmers, fascinates and outrages. It can be found on the stage as well as on protest posters and in children’s rooms. Glitter is omnipresent – and yet the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MK&G) is the first museum in the world to dedicate an exhibition to this material. The show will focus on glitter as a symbol of belonging, empowerment and self-determination and highlight its use in political contexts and collective movements. Around 40 international examples from the worlds of art and design are brought together here – works that make use of glitter as an expression of collective exuberance and “queer joy”, as a means of protest, in performance and pop culture, and as a symbol of drawing attention to marginalised groups and of resistance against body shaming. The exhibits include a glittering teen bedroom designed by Hamburg artist Jenny Schäfer, photographs by Quil Lemons, skateboards by Mickalene Thomas, GIFs by Molly Soda, show wigs designed by Hamburg wig wizards Karl Gadzali and Mohamad Barakat-Götz for Olivia Jones, and a stage outfit worn by Bill Kaulitz. Starting in June 2025, the exhibition will add 300 square metres of fuchsia glitter with the spatial installation “Puff Out” by the Turkish-Belgian duo :mentalKLINIK.
Film
Glittering film programme at the Hamburg Short Film Festival
Thursday, 5 & Friday, 6 June 2025
more information coming soon at: festival.shortfilm.com
Workshops
Doing Glitter with María Domínguez Moreno (DOODLELINGYOU)
Saturday, 1 March 2025, 1pm–4pm
Location: D.I.Y. space in the exhibition
Participation fee: 6 euros, with glitter fan ticket: free of charge
Registration required at tickets.mkg-hamburg.de
Doing Glitter with Laura Schröder
Saturday, 5 April 2025, 12 pm–4 pm
Location: D.I.Y. space in the exhibition
Participation fee: 6 euros, with glitter fan ticket: free of charge
Registration required at tickets.mkg-hamburg.de
Doing Glitter with Fleur Stiels (Holy Glitter Zine)
Saturday, 7 June 2025, 1pm–4pm
Location: D.I.Y. space in the exhibition
Participation fee: 6 euros, with glitter fan ticket: free of charge
Registration required at tickets.mkg-hamburg.de
Exhibition tour
After the presentation at the MK&G, the exhibition will travel to the Kunstgewerbemuseum Winterthur, where it will be on display from 27 November 2025 to 17 May 2026.
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Friday, February 28 to Sunday, October 26, 2025
Opening hours:
Mon: closed
Tue – Sun: 10 am – 6 pm
Thu: 10 am – 9 pm
WHERE?
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Steintorplatz
20099 Hamburg
COST?
Regular: 14 EUR
Reduced: 8 EUR
Groups (from 10 persons): 10 EUR
Under 18 years: free admission
Thursdays from 6 pm: 8 EUR
First Thursday of the month from 6 p.m. (except 1.5.25, Labor Day): free admission
Image above: Hannah Altman, Untitled III, from the series “And Everything Nice”, 2015, © Hannah Altman
