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The book Mondrian’s Dress by Nancy J. Troy and Ann Marguerite Tartsinis has been released and it features Michael Barnaart’s Mondrian dress! Over the past decade, Michael has been in regular contact with Nancy J. Troy. She is an art professor at Stanford University in California. For her research, they talked about his views on…

You could admire the Mondrian III at the German Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in recent months. Now this successful exhibition ‘Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences’ will travel on to the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum in Ludwigshafen am Rhein! This dress will be on display there from 9 September 2023 to 21 January 2024.

Photo: Marek Kruszewski From March 11 to July 16, Mondrian III can be seen at the exhibition ‘Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences’ (Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian und die Folgen) in Wolfsburg Art Museum (Germany). This museum piece is being recreated in a limited edition of 15 for this special occasion: order the Mondrian III here…

Unique meeting between Bruna and Mondrian The world’s most famous rabbit now also has an iconic design by Michael Barnaart in her wardrobe. Miffy wears the Mondrian dress as an enamelled brooch. ‘Those stripes a very pretty, I like this painting too, but should I look this way or that? I’m not sure what to…

For Storey, an initiative of The Hague Retail Point, Michael Barnaart visits the Bijenkorf. What can the designer learn of Dutch best-known department store? Watch the report here (in Dutch):

After Barbican in London, from 30 September 2017 to 14 January 2018, the exhibition The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined will be on show at fashion museum Hasselt, with the Mondrian dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen.

The Classics collection meets Swinging London! Visit the London Design Fair, 21-24 September, Old Truman Brewery.

Fashion inspired by the work of Piet Mondrian and De Stijl. From 15 June to 13 August, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag presents fashion from its own collection, such as the famous Mondrian dress (1965) by Yves Saint Laurent, but also creations by Peter Rozemeijer, Michael Barnaart van Bergen, Frans Molenaar, Marlies Dekkers , Moschino and…

One hundred and thirty musicians and dancers take you through the world of Mondrian. A real innovator in the arts and a source of inspiration for many after him. A visual spectacle with the Residentie Orkest (Resident Orchestra) by Nicholas Collon, soprano Kari Postma, saxophonist Raaf Hekkema, the Mondrian dress by designer Michael Barnaart van…

Podium aan Zee (Stage by the Sea, NTR, NPO2), a musical party in which Bart Chabot and Floris Kortie give an ode to Piet Mondrian, live from the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. Chabot talks about the heroes of the artist and looks at his special record collection. The Residentie Orkest plays, under the direction of Nicholas…

Because of the performance Movement Michael Barnaart van Bergen signed the iconic guestbook of the Kurhaus in Scheveningen. In 1893, the guestbook was signed for the first time by the then 13-year-old Princess Wilhelmina, who visited the Kurhaus with her mother. Since then, the guestbook has been used to have heads of state, film stars,…

On 10 June, the Dutch Pavilion opened at the World Exhibition 2017 in Astana, Kazakhstan. The hostesses wear the Mondrian dresses by Michael Barnaart van Bergen. The theme of this Expo is ‘Future Energy’. In the Holland Pavilion the visitor is immersed in a spatial representation of the character of the Netherlands; a visual language…

Door Diane Daniel.

This year we celebrate 100 years ‘De Stijl: Mondrian to Dutch Design’ and therefore we bring a spectacular salute to the painter Piet Mondrian and art movement De Stijl. In collaboration with Festival Classique and the Residentie Orkest, Michael Barnaart from Bergen works on Movement, a special performance where music, fashion and the work of…

The Mondrian dress, Composition in Black dress and Boogie poncho will be shown in Milan during Salone del Mobile. At ‘Masterly – The Dutch in Milano’, the best Dutch designers present themselves from 4 to 9 April at Palazzo Francesco Turati. Because of the jubilee year ‘100 years De Stijl, from Mondriaan to Dutch design’,…

Michael Barnaart van Bergen was Keynote Speaker at the annual reception for the Anglo-Dutch Creative Sector at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in London, UK.

Because of the 150th anniversary of Vrienden van het Gemeentemuseum (Friends of the Gemeentemuseum) the designs Mondrian dress and Composition in Black were shown in company of Countercomposition XVI by Theo van Doesburg (1925) and Victory Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian (1942-1944).

Anchorwoman Annechien Steenhuizen wears dress Composition in Black at NOS evening news (NOS, NPO 1).

“The first exhibition to consider the inherently challenging (yet utterly compelling) territory of sartorial offence”. Read the article here.

From October 13, 2016 to February 5, 2017 the Mondrian dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen will be on display in the exhibition The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The design by Michael Barnaart van Bergen (right) stands in its own (miror) glass case next to her older Mondrian sisters…

From October 13, 2016 to February 5, 2017 the Mondrian dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen will be on display in the exhibition The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined at the Barbican Art Gallery in London. The design will be exhibited within the theme ‘Once and For All’, exploring the idea of the unique alongside relationship between…

The year 2017 is marked by 100 years anniversary of De Stijl movement. On June 29 Mariëtte Pennarts, member of the Provincial Executive Utrecht, unveiled in Hoog Catharijne the 17-meter visual devoted to this theme year ‘Mondrian to Dutch Design’. She was wearing the Mondrian dress by Michael Barnaart van Bergen. 2017 is the year…

In the display of the Centraal Museum Utrecht at Hoog Catharijne, the Mondrian dress is exhibited along with the Three-tubular lamp, Military Chair and Military Stool designed by Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964).

Dutch designers, artisan producers and design agencies present themselves in the centre of Milan. Dresses from the Classics collection of Michael Barnaart van Bergen are selected to participate the presentation titled Masterly – The Dutch in Milano in Palazzo Francesco Turati. “Excellent Dutch design and fashion has soul and its own identity,” according the curator…

As a result of the success of the Mondrian dress and its homeware collection, designer Michael Barnaart van Bergen has designed a series of four Mondrian mugs in collaboration with the Gemeentemuseum The Hague. Piet Mondrian looks for the right rhythm and a balance in the relationships by constantly shifting lines and color areas. Only…

Painters inspire designers.

During the ITB in Berlin, the ladies of the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh museum, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Marketing and Holland Marketing (NBTC) wore the Mondrian dresses by Michael Barnaart van Bergen to present the Netherlands internationally as an art and design country