Welcome to The Museum of Club Culture
The worlds first and only Museum of Club Culture opened in Hull in 2010 at No. 10 Humber Street spearheading the establishment of a creative and cultural quarter in Hull's idiosyncratic and historic Fruitmarket. This unique space will host a cluster of projects and multi-media themed exhibitions which chronicle and celebrate past and present night-club cultures and streetstyles from around the world.
The Museum of Club Culture celebrates and chronicles all aspects of club culture past, present and future.
Memorabilia!
The Museum of Club Culture is
celebrating its first anniversary!
with Memorabilia!
An exhibition of nightclub flyers,
pin and sewn badges, style
publications, cut n paste zines,
music graphics, illustrations,
reportage photography and v
ideo from the museum's archival collection.
Memorabilia! Exhibition is a look behind the world of clubs and sub cultures and highlights the importance of identity, memory, history and community.
This exhibition champions the cultural significance of nightclubs and street style and the role they have played in shaping modern culture.
The artefacts on exhibition collected during the past thirty years from scenes including Northern Soul, Hip Hop, Rare Groove, House and Rave, provide insights on the subterranean world of nightclubs and the attitudes, hairstyles, clothing and interests that have come to define nightclubbing and sub cultures.
The Memorabilia! Exhibition is a multi media experience reflecting the ever shifting landscape of nightlife and sub cultures at home and abroad.
Exhibition runs from 13th August - October 2011
Japanese Street Style
A photographic and moving
image exhibition chronicling
and documenting the lesser
known urban streetstyles and
eclectic underground sub cultures
of Japanese clubland.
The exhibition features
photographs capturing
emerging trends and the numerous styles of dress found in underground clubs in cities throughout Japan from the economic boom of the 1980s to the present day.
There are no limitations to Japanese streetstyle and the photographs document a strange world of theatrical mixing and creative matching of styles, genres and historical influences.The highly individualistic and avant-garde styles and looks range from Victorian era influenced Gothic Lolitas , Bosozuku biker gangs, tanned Ganguro Gals to punks, preppys, hip hop b boys and jazz loving beatniks.
Immersed in the weird and wonderful world of Japanese nightlife since 1988, artist Mark Wigan has photographed and filmed these club kids, fashion aficionados, party animals, deejays and artists in the vibrant Harajuku district of Tokyo, within the neon saturated throbbing DJ Bars and drinking dens of Osaka and Nagoya and the concrete and steel subterranean nightspots of Shibuya and Shinjuku in Tokyo.
Exhibition runs until April 7. Open weekends 11-5pm or by appointment during the week. Free entry.
Thanks to our supporters:
Fresh Nu Prinz (and other Odds n Sods)
An Exhibition of Graphic Art by Austin Von New
Opening Party: Friday 24th June - 6pm - 9pm.
Austin Von New is a Graphic Artist / Illustrator /
Designer / Art Director and one of the original
founding members of the influential NEW Studio
(TM) in London.
Through NEW Austin worked on numerous
high profile and award winning projects from
music promos to progressive identities – from
magazines to books to wall art projects and illustrations for clients that include; The Illustrated Ape, XL-Records, Heavenly, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Lodown magazine, Carhartt, Levi’s, Diesel, Pepe Jeans, BBC Worldwide, The Discovery Channel, Red Bull, The British Council, DaftTrax, MTV, Tiger Beer, Big Active,
Balance, Bunch, Intercity, Livity, Modus, Penguin, Onedotzero, AVA, TCOL, JBCP (M-real), Time Out, Creative Review magazine, The Guardian Newspaper Group – and many more…
AustinVonNew cites rebel-music, iced-cream and counter-culture as major influences. Bold colours and rude hues are present in everything he creates as Austin's endeavors began by working on late 90s indie-pop videos while painting and pasting up large portraits across London and far-away places. His frequent poster missions developed into a very graphic street art career, and he now works on fine artworks and select design projects. He paints on anything, taking great care to create his images and his work has been shown in galleries and magazines worldwide. AustinVonNew works tirelessly day and night to spread happiness, joy and the love of print.
Exhibition runs until 31st July
An evening with Sue Tilley
Sue Tilley, close Friend of Leigh Bowery,
Benefits Supervisor, Muse of
Lucian Freud – (A painting of her
holds the world record for the
highest price paid for a painting by
a living artist) will be at
The Museum of Club Culture from
7pm - 9pm on Thursday May 12th.
Free entry booking required
email museumclubculture@gmail.com
to reserve a seat.
Tilley is also the author “Leigh Bowery The Life and Times of an Icon” and will be recounting her life with him.
Leigh Bowery (26 March 1961 – 31 December 1994) was a performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer based in London and is considered one of the more influential figures in the 1980's and 1990's London and New York art and fashion circles. His influence reached through the fashion, club and art worlds to impact, amongst others, Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Boy George and John Galliano
Leigh Bowery An icon of outrage embodied and transcended the hedonistic spirit of London's alternative nightclub culture in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Dressed in the wildest of costumes which he painstakingly made himself, he presided over the most bacchanalian of nightclubs the legendary Taboo at Maximus in London's West End.
Often described as one of fashion's true geniuses, Leigh designed costumes for his friend Michael Clark - Britain's finest modern dancer and toured as a performer in his company. He was invited by London gallery owner Anthony d'Offay to exhibit himself as an artwork and in 1988 Leigh embarked on the first of a series of shocking performances in London and abroad. An international cult figure and performer with his band Minty he became more famous still when he was discovered by Lucian Freud for whom Leigh became chief muse and model.
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