Maria Grefe
12 Entwürfe
the exhibition MARIA GREFE 12 Entwürfe - Hans-Peter Feldmann 12 Photographien, an exhibition project celebrating the creative universe of the German fashion designer Maria Grefe, through a selection of original models, sartorial sketches and garments. Maria Grefe's work is accompanied by twelve photographs taken by Hans-Peter Feldmann as a private favour to the Grefe family, to whom he was bound by affectionate friendship.
The exhibition will be opened in the presence of Maria Grefe on Wednesday, 17 September 2025 at 6 pm, at the gallery's venue in Düsseldorf, Ackerstraße 34. It will remain open until November 1.
At the heart of the exhibition is the sartorial and conceptual work of Maria Grefe, whose vision of fashion combines elegance, rigor and a sense of form in a radically personal way. The models presented tell a coherent and refined aesthetic, the result of independent and sensitive research. Documenting these models in a free and unconventional way, twelve photographs taken by Hans-Peter Feldmann in a personal and friendly context, which accompany the work of the designer with a direct, simple and human gaze. These photographs are not to be understood as part of Feldmann's official artistic production, but as an affectionate and spontaneous testimony of his interest in the creativity of others and in the people around him.
Precisely because of their informal nature, these unusual images open up a rare window on Feldmann's ability to narrate the other with delicacy and care, in a non-museum and non-institutional context. The result is a silent dialogue between fashion and photography, between creative gesture and private gaze.
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue "MARIA GREFE 12 Entwürfe – HANS-PETER FELDMANN 12 Photographien", which collects the images on display together with reflections on the designer's work.
