From 13 - 15 November 2026, FASHIONCLASH Festival returns to Maastricht for its 18th edition. Discover a three-day programme of fashion performances, exhibitions, films, talks and workshops, featuring emerging talent from over 25 countries.
New Fashion Narratives takes place at Bureau Europa and presents an exhibition curated by Jamal Nxedlana, Karmen Samson, Welmoed Bosch and Agatha Prieto Jeanty. Under the title ‘Fleshy, slimy, wobbly’, the exhibition brings together fashion practices that resist easy categorisation and move between forms, materials and disciplines.
The curatorial concept is developed during a Residency Week in April 2026, where the four fashion practitioners explore ways to challenge dominant systems within the fashion industry and create space for shapeshifting practices that escape fixed labels. The exhibition looks at fashion from a more fluid and unruly perspective, bringing together work that leaks, mutates and refuses to stay within familiar boundaries.
At Bureau Europa, visitors encounter a collection of practices that question what fashion can be, where it belongs and how it can take shape. New Fashion Narratives offers a tangible and unconventional exploration of fashion that is difficult to pin down - and all the more fascinating because of it.
Programme
Friday 13 november
12:00 - 16:00 | Exhibition: New Fashion Narratives
18:00 - 20:00 | Exhibition: New Fashion Narratives
Saturday 14 november
12:00 - 17:00 | Exhibition: New Fashion Narratives
12:30 - 13:30 | Guided Tour incl Q&A with makers incl Panel Discussion with Marga Weimans
The curators of New Fashion Narratives speak with fashion designer and artist Marga Weimans about her work and practice. Moving between fashion, art, architecture, and digital technology, her work explores identity and draws on her Surinamese heritage and Afrofuturism. After the Q&A, the curators lead a guided tour of the exhibition, engaging in conversation with several of its participants.
Sunday 15 november
12:00 - 17:00 | Exhibition: New Fashion Narratives
15:00 - 15:15 | Queer collage lecture: Desire Has No History by Studio Paul & Haiko
"We tear up archive photos, put on mother's dresses and ignore father's gaze.” From scraps of photos, textiles and clippings, Paul van de Waterlaat and Haiko Sleumer create collages, quilts and deepfakes. They bring a performance lecture about secretly wanting to wear dresses as a boy while they cut up the past, until it fits.
Dates Fr. 13 november (12:00-16:00), Sa. 14 and Su 15 november (12:00-17.00)
Location Bureau Europa, platform voor architectuur en design
Entry tickets via FASHIONCLASH.nl