Brooklyn Museum NYC: Iris van Herpen Show Extended to January 3, 2027

Brooklyn Museum has extended "Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the Senses" through January 3, 2027. The retrospective opened May 16 and was originally scheduled to close December 6. The museum announced the new date on its official Instagram account. The show is the North American debut of an exhibition that previously traveled to Paris and Singapore.

More than 140 haute couture designs make up the show. They are displayed alongside contemporary artworks, scientific artifacts and natural history specimens, and the galleries move from the microscopic to the cosmic. The themes include water, skeletal architecture, motion, light and sound. Matthew Yokobosky and Imani Williford curated it.

Van Herpen was born in 1984 in the Dutch village of Wamel. She founded her house in 2007 and presented 3D-printed couture in her 2010 Crystallization collection. Works on view include the 2011 Skeleton Dress in 3D-printed polyamide, dresses from the 2020 Sensory Seas collection and a dress from the 2025 Sympoiesis collection. Materials range from glass organza and laser-cut mesh to Plexiglas and silicone.

One piece with a Japan link is the 2019 Shift Souls Dress, made with laser-cut textile from Komon Koubou, a Japanese textile maker.

The exhibition has also included a participatory performance, "Sculpting the (Un)Spoken," in which visitors talk with the designer and build a new look with her in real time. The final three sessions run October 30 to November 1, 11 am to 6 pm. They are free with a ticket to the exhibition, space is limited, and entry is first come, first served.

The museum is also showing "Art of Manga," which includes original pages by Chiba Tetsuya.

The museum is at 200 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.