With the exhibition "Grow it, show it! Hair in the Eye from Diane Arbus to TikTok", the Museum Folkwang in Essen looks at hairstyles and hair from an artistic perspective. It shows historical and contemporary works that depict hair in a special way.
The exhibits by artists and photographers such as Diane Arbus, Julia Margaret Cameron, Cindy Sherman, Anouk Kruithof and August Sander depict head hair, armpit hair, leg hair, chest hair, beard hair or pubic hair. They show or conceal something, question identities and cultural affiliations. In addition to purely artistic works, guests can also marvel at advertising posters, record covers, YouTube videos and TikTok reels that stand out from the mass of media due to their unusual perspectives or rare insights.
