Commedia dell'Arte – Exhibition Düsseldorf

The NRW-Forum Düsseldorf dedicated a museum presentation to the Commedia dell'Arte – Couture Edition from 31 October to 20 November 2008. The show's curators were Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram.

Against the backdrop of the history of exhibitions at the NRW-Forum – Werner Lippert, its managing director, has in the recent past presented a Vivienne Westwood retrospective and shows of the works of Mario Testino and Jeanloup Sieff – the exhibition with the concept by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram in particular documented the Commedia dell'Arte – Couture Edition's association with fashion.

Besides the rococo figures dressed by such contemporary designers as Christian Lacroix, Vivienne Westwood and Viktor&Rolf, the designers' original ideas were also on show – along with photographs by Florian Böhm with portraits of the designers in their studios and showing details from the porcelain workshops that bring the process of producing the figures to life.