SURPLUS is mixing fashion, visual arts, performance and activism. Our main tools are language and waste.
Manifesto
WTF IS SURPLUS
SURPLUS is a virus is a crack is a reaction is in between is poetry is public is arrogant is angry is tired of is absurd is critical is non binary is not white is sexy is ageless is playful is what you fear is fucking with you and not fucking you
NEWS & EVENTS
NEONYT - Berlin Fashion Week
NOW. January 15th - 17th in Berlin. With the Neonyt Trade Fair, the Fashionsustain and #Fashiontech conferences, showcases, events and parties, Neonyt brings together a community defined by fashion, a forward-looking approach, an affinity for technology and sustainable awareness.
The presentation of Polish fashion at Berlin Fashion Week is the fruit of a collaboration between the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Polish designers.
FLORAPHILIA exhibition: Köln - Paris - Bruxelles - Krakow - Berlin 2018-2019
Artist Magda Buczek digs into discourses, lifestyle trends and modern ecologies to seek for new semantics concerning the world of flora. Texts are printed on used garments in a limited edition of ten.
SURPLUS X CALVERT
London, 1 - 2 June 2018
at Calvert 22 Foundation
Performance by Bożna Milan dir. by Magda Buczek, inspired by voguing and “throwing shade”, a preview of the zine WTF IS SURPLUS, featuring a photographic project by Zuza Krajewska. Pop up shop installation.
The presentation is organised by the Instytut Adama Mickiewicza operating under the Culture.pl brand and is part of its programme promoting Polish design worldwide.
PEOPLE BY ZUZA KRAJEWSKA
Process
HOW WE DO IT
Every piece of clothing is handpicked and redesigned by the artist. Customized vintage existing in only one copy. Editions of prints are limited and ephemeral. All texts used in SURPLUS are original artwork of Magda Buczek.