20 Brussels events in 2020: #10. Punk Graphics

The new temporary exhibition at ADAM – Brussels Design Museum is a fascinating, visually striking and completely involving look at the totally original and extremely inventive visual language that came out of the Punk, Post Punk, and New Wave era, a language that would deeply influence overall graphic design.

Punk Graphics: Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die is comprised of 500 pieces from collector Andrew Krivine’s more than 3,000 pieces that he has accumulated over the last four decades.

The show was curated by Andrew Blauvelt, director of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit, where it was first shown, after which it was presented at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in NYC.

For this Belgian iteration of the show, curator David Vermeiren created a Belgian section which shows the Belgian contributions to the movement. For anyone who was around at the time, this is a deeply felt stroll down memory lane; for everyone, it is a revelation.

Until 26 April, ADAM

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