To lingerie designer Marlies Dekkers from Rotterdam 2008 is a jubilee year: she has been in business for exactly fifteen years now. Back in 1997, it was Kunsthal Rotterdam that put her lingerie brand on the so-called cultural map with the exhibition entitled undressed. Now, the Kunsthal presents marlies|dekkers, a survey exhibition of the works of this internationally famous and successful designer. In this exhibition both her sources of inspiration and her designs, from the earliest to the more recent ones, are on display.

By means of works of art, films, scale models and photographs of, amongst others, Vanessa Beecroft, Hans Bellmer and Yoshi Yamagata, the world of Marlies Dekkers can be experienced in all its splendour in the monumental daylight hall designed by the famous Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. (See also at What’s new: the article about the new Marlies Dekkers store in The Hague)