Firmly established at the forefront of contemporary fashion design, the twice named “British Designer of the Year”, Hussein Chalayanis renowned for his innovative use of materials, progressive attitudes to new technology and social criticism.
Motivated by ideas drawn from disciplines not readily associatedwith fashion, Chalayan’s pioneering work crosses between architecture, design, philosophy, anthropology, science and technology. His acclaimed runway shows function as performances which allow him to express important concepts. Hussein Chalayanhas also presented film works and installations in art exhibitions. In 2005, he represented Turkeyat the 51st Venice Biennale with Absent Presence, featuring TildaSwinton.
This is his first solo exhibition in Japan. Through the presentation of fashion collection, films and installations from 1994 to 2009, the exhibition will comprehensively explore Chalayan’s wide range of works.
Chief curator: Yuko HASEGAWA / Curator: Kazuhiko YOSHIZAKI
Artist's biography
1970
Born in Nicosia, Cyprus
Lives and works in London, UK
1993
Fashion Design, Central St. Martins, BA
Selected solo exhibitions
2009
‘Hussein Chalayan’, Design Museum, London
2005
‘Hussein Chalayan’, GroningerMuseum, Groningen
51st Venice Biennale, Turkish Pavilion, Venice
2004
‘Place to Passage’, Centre d’ArtContemporain, Geneve
2003
‘Ambimorphous’, Antwerp Fashion Museum, Antwerp
‘Temporal Meditations’, TeatrodellaPergola, Florence; Palaisdu Tokyo, Paris
1998
Solo exhibition, Colette, Paris
1996
The Window Gallery, Prague
Selected group exhibitions
2006
‘Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture’,
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles / The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2007)
2004
‘The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony –Emerging Resounance’,
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2003
‘Goddess: The Classical Mode’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001
7th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
‘Jam –Tokyo-London’, Barbican Art Gallery, London
‘Century City’, Tate Modern, London
‘Radical Fashion’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2000
‘La Beaute’, Avignon
1999
‘Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset’,
The Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1998
‘Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art & Fashion’, Hayward Gallery, London
1997
‘The Cutting Edge’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1996
‘Jam –Style + Music + Media’, Barbican Art Gallery, London
