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State of Fashion 2026 Biennale: Available to Promise; Hidden Systems, Shared Futures
The fourth edition of the State of Fashion Biennale ran from 14 May to 28 June 2026 across Arnhem, the Netherlands, under the title Available to Promise; Hidden Systems, Shared Futures. The Biennale comprised a central exhibition, complemented by a city-wide programme of exhibitions, performances, talks and interventions. As a leading platform for critical fashion thinking and practice, State of Fashion explores how fashion and textiles can contribute to alternative futures, and bring about new forms of collaboration, responsibility and collective imagination.

Curated by Anne Zhou, Anouchka van Driel and Shanu Walpita, the Biennale approached fashion not as object or image, but as system. It examined the infrastructures that make fashion possible: supply chains, platforms, labour networks, trade routes and the ecological resources that sustain them. Borrowed from logistics terminology, “Available to Promise” referred to what can be delivered, when and to whom.

Structured around five interconnected pillars — Develop, Distribute, Hype, Experience and Transform — and accompanied by ONsite residencies in China, Ghana and Sri Lanka, the Biennale brought together artists, designers, researchers and practitioners whose work illuminates fashion’s hidden infrastructures from multiple geographical and situated perspectives. Through newly created works and multidisciplinary projects, the exhibition mapped the movements of materials, labour, knowledge, capital and desire across different contexts.

Designed by OMA/AMO, the exhibition architecture staged an encounter between the visible forms of fashion and the infrastructures underlying them. The visual identity by International Magic similarly drew on the codes and languages of logistics and circulation. Complementing the exhibition, LIBRARY of promise, developed together with the International Library of Fashion Research (Oslo), presented a curated selection of publications and magazines tracing the printed and visual cultures through which fashion circulates and represents itself.

Participants of State of Fashion 2026 Main Exhibition 

A.A.Murakami, Agustina Woodgate, Artlife Matters*, CAULFIELD—SRIKLAD, Charlotte-Maëva Perret, chuān project*, Daniel Felstead & Jenn Leung*, Daniel Obasi, Display Distribute + Theetat Thunkijjanukij*, Fibershed Sri Lanka*, HARRI, He Jing*, HUMAN TOUCH, International Library of Fashion Research, JNBY*, Leilanni Todd / Floam World, LiFE DESiGN, Martine Rose & International Magic, MSCHF, Olena Newkryta, Penultimate, Raj Somadeva, Random Studio*, Rosie Broadhead, Shasha Mahanama*, Sky High Farm Goods, Study O Portable, The Linen Project, The Revival*, Wang Bing, Yoshita 1967



*Newly commissioned works for State of Fashion 2026


Participants something CINEMA

Berendje Wilhelmina, Chantelle Chong, Christel Blom, Dhan Illiani Yusof, Gigi Yang, Hildegard Oehler & Stee Van Stark, Hsin Min Chan, Ilkhe du Toit, Isabelle Rosado Cuevas, Jack Markovitz, Jodie Cranen, Khumo Morojele & Klein Muis, Koz Shi, Leda Spiranec, Lesha Andrianov, Marisa Müsing, Mike Bennion, Milan Mladenovic, Ode, Philip Waiganjo, Povilas Gegevicius, Samar Younes (SAMARITUAL), Santiago Útima, Sweta Pandey, The Balancists (Svitla Volka, Jaimie Novick, Ziyi Nie, U’lia Hargrove), Vesna Stawa, Will Venter, Xingtong Lyu, Yuchen Li


Participants Auxiliary Programmes

Adriaan Luteijn, Anastasia Pigkou, Bureau Ruimtekoers, Caroline Monnet, Casper Naafs, Crafts Council Nederland, Eleftheria Lavdaki en Zyanya Keizer, Elizaveta Zhukova en Maria Zhukova, Enzo Faber, Gul E Raana, Harm Coordes, Introdans, Jillian DeRose, Józefina Wojtkiewicz, Julia Verberne, Karin Mientjes (Collective Works), Katherine May Reed, Lisanne Huizenga, Lisette Ros, Lizzy Voeten, Loret Karman, Luus van Steenbergen, Majo van der Woude, Marcella van Oost, Marjolein van der Heide, Mirte Engelhard, Nina Zeleznik, OMA / David Gianotten, Petra Lunenburg, Ruben Jurriën, Sanra Adomaitis, Selina Ben, Smilla Junkerjürgen, Sofiia Popil, Sophie Roumans, Spijkers en Spijkers, Suheyla Guner, Valerija Curina, Vassilis Zachos, Youngjin Choe, Yvonne Sombroek, Zaïna Timmermans

Press images
On the Press Images page you will find pictures of the following:
* Site photography of the Available to Promise Biennale at the Eusebius Church
* Images from the Opening event with Her Majesty Queen Máxima
* Images from the public opening

Please be sure to mention the relevant credits. For pictures of specific exhibitions or projects, see the images link in the relevant press release on the Press Releases page.

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