INTERVENTION VI: AN INTERSECTION OF ART, MUSIC AND FASHION AT BERLIN FASHION WEEK
words by ANOUK WOUDT
Returning for its sixth edition, INTERVENTION is a fashion and culture platform that hosts a programme of exhibitions, runway shows, archive sales and other cultural events across Berlin. Created by Reference Studios, the lineup is curated by founder Mumi Haiati, who has partnered with various cultural institutions and artists such as P100, Shayne Oliver, and Braths to create a packed cultural schedule for Berliners.
image courtesy of REFERENCE STUDIOS
photo credit: H. G. ESCH
Taking place over the four days of Berlin Fashion Week (July 2 - 5), the premise moves interchangeably between gallery, institution and runway in partnership with P100, Reference Studios’ experimental curatorial platform. Most events are open to the public, excluding runway shows, which require an invitation, allowing everyone a piece of the Fashion Week pie.
Starting from July 2nd, Galerie OM starts off the festivities with the inauguration of their exhibition Partie Deux. Located on Potsdamer Straße, the show is housed in the collectable design gallery and open throughout Berlin Fashion Week. Through a selection of carpets, tapestries, and symbolic objects, the pieces explore memory, ritual, and their different (or strangely similar) interpretations across cultures.
From July 4–5, P100 presents MUSEUM EBAY ARCHETYPES, curated by Shayne Oliver. Located at the Schinkel Pavillon, the project transforms Oliver's personal archive into an
installation, using archival garments and deadstock fabrics to explore fashion through an artistic perspective. The first floor presents MUSEUM, an ongoing project by Olivier, while the other floor introduces EBAY ARCHETYPES, a new evolving archive hosted by Reference Studios and programmed by rotating curators.
Runway programming opens on July 5th, with shows from Berlin label Dagger, followed by Copenhagen’s Martin Quad and Tokyo’s John Lawrence Sullivan by Arashi Yanagawa. Finalising a packed schedule of runway shows and events, GmbH will close the day with their runway show at 20:00– marking 10 years since Benjamin Huseby and Serhat Işık founded the label.
Between shows, Berlin-based instrumentalist Braths (Thomas Horeczko) will be ranging through sounds of violin, guitar, bassoon and piano. His style uses his classical training in a more contemporary interpretation, becoming a pivotal figure of Berlin's hip-hop scene.
"INTERVENTION VI continues a line of inquiry we opened back in January, when we started asking how authenticity actually gets made today," says Haiati. "Then, the question was about negotiation, about how identity and credibility get constructed across platforms and institutions that don't always agree on the terms. This edition takes that same question somewhere warmer. After months of asking how authenticity survives mediation, we wanted to spend a few days simply living it. At a moment of such fast technological acceleration, there's something almost romantic about insisting on the live, the analogue, the handmade and human-touched. That's what this edition is for."
