The David Bowie Centre opens on the V&A East Storehouse on September 13, 2025.
New particulars have been revealed concerning the David Bowie Centre, on the recently-opened V&A East Storehouse.
The David Bowie archive encompasses 90,000+ gadgets.
Bookings to see 3D gadgets from the David Bowie archive, together with costumes, musical devices, fashions, props and surroundings, will be made by way of the V&A’s new seven-day-a-week Order an Object service. Guests can ebook as much as 5 gadgets per go to at a time that fits them. Bookings require not less than two weeks’ discover and Bowie gadgets will start to go dwell for advance reserving from September.
The Centre will open with two visitor curated shows, by Nile Rodgers and The Final Dinner Social gathering
9 rotating shows reveal features of Bowie’s extraordinary inventive capability, together with concepts for tasks that have been by no means realised. Highlights embody an thought to adapt George Orwell‘s 1984 and unrealised Younger People and Diamond Canines movies.
Different shows discover Bowie’s creation of his Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane and have a look at his embrace of know-how, futurism and science fiction, plus his 1987 Glass Spider tour and live performance on the Berlin Wall. Others highlight Bowie’s inventive collaborators together with Gail Ann Dorsey, and the creation of the 1975 Younger People album, alongside his wide-spread inventive affect and legacy.
Madeleine Haddon, Curator, V&A East mentioned: “Bowie embodied a really multi-disciplinary observe — musician, actor, author, performer, and cultural icon — reflecting the way in which many younger creatives right this moment transfer fluidly throughout disciplines and reject singular definitions of id or artistry. His fearless engagement with self-expression and efficiency has outlined modern tradition and resonates strongly with the values of authenticity, experimentation and freedom that we have a good time throughout the collections at V&A East Storehouse. This archive gives a unprecedented lens by way of which to look at broader questions of creativity, cultural change, and the social and historic moments throughout which Bowie lived and labored. Within the Centre, we would like you to get nearer to Bowie, and his inventive course of than ever earlier than. For Bowie followers and people coming to him for the primary time, we hope the Centre can encourage the subsequent technology of creatives.”
For extra data on the David Bowie Centre and to sign-up for updates, please go to: vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/david-bowie-centre.
