Friday 26th of March Belgian top model Hannelore Knuts will be opening her own exhibition at the Modemuseum in Hasselt: Ultramegalore. The exhibition is an overview of Hannelore’s career at the top of the fashion world. You can expect a private view in her universe that reaches further than fashion. Everybody who knows Hannelore will confirm she has a creative soul. Whether she’s doing photography on her blog, designing her own bag for Belgian luxury leatherwear brand Delvaux or curating this exhibition, creativity is a natural fuel to her. She will make a compilation of her favourite designers, photographers, artists and musicians. People she has met along the way, that have inspired her or at least have left an indelible impression on her. Regardless of whether they are ‘in’ or not. She wants to share these impressions the way she collected them. A cluster of encounters, a mass of impacts.She approaches her role as curator like a stylist who endlessly combines different brands, second-hand clothes and personal accessories.
For 3 weeks, in the run-up to the opening, the museum will be her playground, where she interprets and manipulates the selected works, creating a highly personal symbiosis. Hannelore will breathe new life into the works in a new context, producing a new, personal story, in which the visitor is submerged. Like a brain scan of her interests, influences, obsessions and longings. The exhibition will be like walking through her mind and emotions. Like a portrait from the inside, after all those photographs of her ‘outside’. A rollercoaster of images, emotions and impressions. As a source of sensation and inspiration. The story told is an organic work in progress, the entirety of which is created on the way.
Kindred spirits from all over the world will contribute. Together with each individual artist, Hannelore will decide whether a new work is to be created or if an existing work will be exhibited. The exhibition will certainly not be a tribute to or a retrospective of ‘the model’ Hannelore. Instead it is a confrontational look into her small world, motivated by great things, and vice versa.
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