When does the exhibition take place?

The event is scheduled for 03.06.2026 at 19:00.

Where can the exhibition be seen?

At the Levi-Strauss-Museum in Buttenheim, Marktstraße 33, 96155 Buttenheim.

What is the exhibition about?

The focus is on jeans things, meaning objects made of denim or related to denim, raising questions about art, design, everyday culture, and identity.

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Denim Becomes Idea: COLLECTING JEANS THINGS Shows Fashion as Cultural History

Name: COLLECTING JEANS THINGS
Start: 2026-06-03T21:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-03T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Levi-Strauss-Museum

COLLECTING JEANS THINGS: When Denim Becomes a Concept

The exhibition COLLECTING JEANS THINGS leads to an artistic experience between everyday culture, design history, and museum research. The focus is on objects made of jeans or denim, related to denim, or embodying the imagery of jeans. This creates an exhibition that reinterprets the familiar fabric: as a material of youth culture, as a carrier of memory, as a surface for projections of fashion, identity, and global production.

Denim as a Cultural Surface

The collection of jeans things now includes over 450 items and has been built up over two decades by artist Katharina Hohmann and designer Katharina Tietze. Each object refers to a tension field between function and uselessness, between use and staging, between seriality and uniqueness. It is precisely this ambivalence that makes the charm of observing the works: a jeans object remains familiar while simultaneously evading any simple classification.

From Pop Culture to Production Critique

The exhibition opens the view to the great symbolism of denim fabric. Denim stands for freedom and resistance, for fashion and work, for globalization and textile mass production. At the same time, the collection raises questions about exploitation, the history of the material, and the social significance of things that oscillate between high and low, between design object and everyday item. This curatorial perspective connects aesthetic experience with cultural education.

Activated Objects, Living Meanings

Particularly exciting is the thought that the jeans things only unfold their effect in action. In the course of the exhibition, they are activated by being translated into new orders with verbs such as drink, bathe, read, or smoke. The collection thus becomes not a static archive but a vibrant laboratory for perception, interpretation, and exhibition practice.

Katharina Hohmann and Katharina Tietze: Research between Art and Design

Katharina Hohmann is interested as an artist in the transitions between visual art, public space, and object culture. Her practice combines painting, installation, sculpture, collage, and watercolor with a clear view of material and social contexts. Katharina Tietze works from a design and cultural historical perspective; her focus is on identity, fashion history, and a feminist design history. Together, they create a space for reflection where textile objects can be read as contemporary witnesses.

Conclusion

COLLECTING JEANS THINGS promises an exhibition full of insights, sensual details, and clever questions. Anyone interested in art, design, everyday culture, and the history of one of the most influential garments of modernity will experience an entertaining yet educational exhibition here. A visit is definitely worthwhile live on site.