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Night Fever: Club Culture Exhibition at Centro Pecci

exhibition · 2026-05-04

The traveling exhibition 'Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today' is on view at Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy, until October 13. Produced by the Vitra Design Museum and ADAM – Brussels Design Museum, the show traces the evolution of nightclubs and their role in contemporary culture. It explores how these spaces challenged established codes of entertainment and enabled alternative lifestyles, serving as avant-garde hubs for design, graphics, fashion, light, sound, and special effects. The multidisciplinary exhibition follows a chronological path from the 1960s discotheques, which transformed dancing into a collective ritual in immersive fantasy worlds, to the more complex and branched club culture of the 2000s. Centro Pecci's focus on unconventional knowledge spaces and counterculture testimonies is highlighted through this project.

Key facts

  • Exhibition title: Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today
  • Produced by Vitra Design Museum and ADAM – Brussels Design Museum
  • Venue: Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
  • Closing date: October 13
  • Chronological journey from 1960s discotheques to 2000s club culture
  • Focus on architecture, design, and multidisciplinary aspects
  • Centro Pecci is the only Italian venue for the show
  • Exhibition emphasizes counterculture and unconventional knowledge spaces

Entities

Artists

  • Cristiana Perrella
  • François Dallegret
  • Gruppo 9999
  • Halston
  • Keith Haring
  • Arata Isozaki
  • Grace Jones
  • Ben Kelly
  • Bernard Khoury
  • Mark Leckey
  • Miu Miu
  • OMA
  • Peter Saville
  • Studio65
  • Roger Tallon
  • Andy Warhol
  • Carsten Höller
  • Philippe Starck
  • Ian Schrager

Institutions

  • Centro Pecci
  • Vitra Design Museum
  • ADAM – Brussels Design Museum
  • Artribune
  • Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci
  • Studio 54
  • Les Bains Douches
  • Double Club
  • Fondazione Prada
  • Ministry of Sound II

Locations

  • Prato
  • Italy
  • New York
  • United States
  • Paris
  • France
  • London
  • United Kingdom

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