“It’s not about fashion – it’s about living your life”, says Susanne Bartsch. As a style icon and networker, she cultivates an art of the spectacle that brings together club culture and performance. The exhibition takes the viewers on a wild club night and shows how transformative and liberating fashion can be.

Susanne Bartsch is a style icon and networker in one. Hailing from Switzerland, she has lived in New York since the early 1980s, where she organized events for the fashion underground and got involved in helping people with HIV and AIDS. To this day she is still creating immersive spaces for people from diverse backgrounds. Bartsch’s work is an art of the spectacle that brings together club culture and performance. She uses fashion as a means of self-expression and transformation. She collaborates with international creatives, hair and make-up artists to achieve her extravagant looks. The exhibition takes the viewers on a wild club night and shows how transformative the work on an outfit, an appearance and a space can be.