Something for Everyone, Everything for No One
Wednesday, May 7, 2025 – 16:00–Friday, October 3, 2025 – 15:00
We’re excited to announce the opening of our new exhibition “Something for Everyone, Everything for No One” by Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos on Wednesday 7th of May, from 18.00-20.00! At 19.00 there will be an artists talk, moderated by our board member and archive aficionado Geir Haraldseth. Free & open for all. Welcome!
The exhibition “Something for Everyone, Everything for No One” features a series of eponymous works made by artists Anna-Sophie Berger and Teak Ramos from their collaboratively built archive of images, texts and theory about everyday material culture and fashion. Stemming from an ongoing conversation on their shared interests in fashion at-large and technical garment construction, both the archive and the work become a form of research. The exhibition has a somewhat serendipitous focus on the early modern era (Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries) which is amplified in the 1982 MET Museum documentary The Eighteenth Century Woman, narrated by Marisa Berenson.
A series of looks, composed from garments made of various fabrics, applied with black and white A4 print-outs from the archive are worn by mannequins. Some garments focus on single historical or theoretical case studies. Others take a more composite approach to the socio-cultural ramifications of bodily adornment, and its conceptualization and interpretation over time. The garments themselves draw their composition from Western fashion's canonic repertoire (jackets, pants, skirts and dresses, aprons) and reflect an attempt to skew specific period definitions. At once visual and textual, the styled looks in the exhibition are conceived as artworks, comprising both subject and object.
The garments were previously displayed in Rome at MACRO and Vienna at the Pictures Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts. Now transported to Oslo, they will join new mannequins and extended printed matter at the International Library of Fashion Research. In a new iteration of this ongoing collaboration between Berger and Ramos, “Something for Everyone, Everything for No One” will be shown among the library shelves and display apparatus.
With generous support from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport & the Embassy of Austria in Oslo.
