Past Exhibitions
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Cristobal Balenciaga Museoa develops its programming in order to publicize the life and work of Cristobal Balenciaga, its relevance in the history of fashion and design, and the contemporaneity of his legacy.
Heritage and New Creation
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The Transmissions project, promoted by the Museum, gathered professors and students from the most prestigious international fashion design schools
More information2011/21 Sharing a legacy
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DIGITAL EXHIBITION
This exhibition unveils ten representative pieces from the Museum's collection linked to ten significant milestones in the institution's activity this past decade, and in which ten of Balenciaga’s most inspiring values are displayed.
More informationBalenciaga. The elegance of the hat
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The show is the result of years of joint research into the hat collections of the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum and Barcelona Design Museum, the institutions co-producing the show. Curated by Igor Uria, Collections Director of the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum and by Silvia Ventosa, Textile and Fashion Director of the Barcelona Design Museum.
More informationAlaïa and Balenciaga. Sculptors of shape
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The exhibition “Alaïa and Balenciaga. Sculptors of shape”, which houses the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, coinciding with its tenth anniversary, presents 100 works by both creators -Azzedine Alaïa (1935-2017) and Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972)- belonging to the collections of the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation in Paris.
More informationFashion and Heritage. Cristóbal
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Fashion and Heritage, a quasi-impossible dialogue pitting the the ephemeral against permanence, whose relevance stems from the current moment, as opposed to receiving value from the past. This conversation flows, however, when the topic at hand is Cristóbal Balenciaga.
More informationFabiola from Belgium. A royal wedding
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Having featured in the exhibition “Balenciaga and Spanish painting”, organised by the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum between June 18 and September 22, and prior to its rest for conservation purposes in the Museum warehouses, the exhibition “Fabiola of Belgium. A royal wedding” extends an invitation to explore the history and specific context of this iconic piece, the wedding dress worn by Fabiola de Mora y Aragón.
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The time has come to reassert fashion illustration as an art form in itself. A sort of X-ray of the present time of a discipline which, since its origins, translates as the reflection of an era.
More informationCristóbal Balenciaga. Fashion and Heritage. Contexts
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Fashion and Heritage mantain a pardoxical dialogue that contrast the ephemeral with the permanent.
This dialogue is embodied by Cristóbal Balenciaga.
Distinción
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The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum hosts the exhibition ‘Distinción. A century of fashion photography,’ produced by the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Barcelona Museum of Design), the show includes more than a hundred images by the most influential photographers on the national scene over the last 100 years. Included are notable works by Juan Gyenes, Oriol Maspons, Manel Esclusa, Maria Espeus, José Manuel Ferrater, Antoni Bernad, Manuel Outumuro, Bèla Adler & Salvador Fresneda, Txema Yeste, among others.
More informationTransmissions
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Heritage and New Creation
Educational and creative project connecting the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum archive with new creation
Cristóbal Balenciaga. Fashion and Heritage
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Fashion and Heritage mantain a pardoxical dialogue that contrast the ephemeral with the permanent.
This dialogue is embodied by Cristóbal Balenciaga.
Balenciaga. Revolution and legacy
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Upcoming exhibition
More informationRACHEL L. MELLON COLLECTION
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The Rachel L. Mellon Collection exhibition, under the direction of Hubert de Givenchy, presents to the public a careful selection of garments and documents that offers a different perspective of Balenciaga’s Haute Couture, through the personal filter of this extraordinary lady’s taste and way of life.
More informationCoal and velvet. Views on popular costumes by Ortiz Echagüe and Balenciaga
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Coal and Velvet explores the romantic vision and the aesthetic revision that Cristóbal Balenciaga, in his Haute Couture creations, and Ortiz Echagüe, in his photographic narrations of traditional Spain, make of popular costumes.
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Balenciaga. The experience of luxury
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Haute Couture can be considered, from its origins, the maximum expression of a luxurious and specifically feminine experience.
A world of exclusiveness and exquisiteness around the creations designed by the couturiers and made with artisan methods, the etiquette governing the purchasing process and the social contexts in which creations and female customers are exhibited.
More informationBalenciaga master of lace
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Lace, a fabric with a long historical tradition and associated to the most powerful classes until its mechanisation, is the perfect example to show how Balenciaga's creativity and industrial technology can join forces to extol a material creating new applications and even revolutionary silhouettes.
More informationCristóbal Balenciaga. A timeless legacy
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Cristóbal Balenciaga is regarded as one of the leading and most influential couturiers of the 20th century. This exhibition shows the work of Cristóbal Balenciaga and his contribution to history.
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