History of lgbt curating (2025)

29/01/2025

From the days of the medieval monastery until 2017, when women were admitted, the Charterhouse was a predominantly male community. Many of the residents, or Brothers, who found a haven in the almshouse from the early 17th century onwards were men who had no family to look after them in their older years, and many were gay men.

The Charterhouse is an almshouse for residents aged over 60 and a heritage site, our historic buildings dating back to medieval and Tudor times are home to a vibrant contemporary community.

Our LGBT+ History Month evenings help to tell a hidden history of our historic institution and bring to life characters who have influenced and impacted the Charterhouse. Visitors will be welcomed for a drink on arrival, followed by a short talk and will then take a tour through our stunning histori...

21/12/2024

As a q***r performance artist, Jakub Kostewicz directs music videos and stages happenings in Polish LGBTQ+ clubs. His practice embraces expressive visual language, absurdity, dream-like scenarios, and paradoxes of the real-life staging of our own identity. He explores the theatricality of life and the masks we put on to fit into societal norms. Jakub was honoured with the Dokowicz Prize for the best Master’s diploma in animation at the Poznań University of Arts in 2024. Therefore we caught up to learn more about his practice and himself.

His practice embraces expressive visual language, absurdity, dream-like scenarios, and paradoxes of the real-life staging of our own identity. He explores the theatricality of life and the masks we put on to fit into societal norms.

29/10/2024

In Denizli, a city in Turkey, hundreds of gay refugees Iranian transit: they put their lives on pause waiting to join one day, a host country where they can freely live their sexualities.

Laurence Rasti was born in 1990 to Iranian parents in Switzerland. She obtained a Bachelor in Photography at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne, in 2014, and a Master in Fine Arts at HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, in 2019. In her photographs she explores the concepts of id...

10/09/2024

6 books celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities and artists from Open Eye Gallery

Great addition your library with books that cover expression, diversity and q***r culture.

06/09/2024

LGBT+ studies in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/museum-from-home/proud-shakespeare/

Proud Shakespeare is a trust-wide initiative that focuses on reinterpreting our collections and services as we support, celebrate and reflect on the continued impact of LGBTQ+ communities, including our audiences, staff and volunteers.

31/08/2024

Sci-fi, Magick, Q***r L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation

Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation considers the importance of science fiction fandom and occult interests to U.S. LGBTQ history.

The exhibition focuses on Los Angeles from the late 1930s through 1960s and looks both forward and backward to follow the lives of writers, publishers, and early sci-fi enthusiasts.

Spanning fandom, aerospace research, q***r history, and the occult, Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation reveals how artists, scientists, and visionary thinkers worked together to envision and create a world of their own making through films, photographs, music, illustrations, costumes, and writing.

USC Fisher Museum of Art
Till 23rd of November 2024

https://one.usc.edu/exhibition/sci-fi-magick-q***r-la-sexual-science-and-imagi-nation

Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation considers the importance of science fiction fandom and occult interests to U.S. LGBTQ history. Science fiction and occult communities helped pave the way for the LGBTQ movement by providing a place for individuals to meet and imagine spaces less restricted by soci...

07/06/2024

Dean Sameshima's ‘being alone’
Soft Opening London until 8 June

What does it mean to be alone? In Dean Sameshima’s recent body of work – 25 monochrome photographs of q***r men in Berlin p**n theatres with sumptuous black negative spaces and blinding white cinema screens – ‘alone’ is a complicated term. Each intimately scaled work in the series ‘being alone’ (2022) invites the viewer to step closer and peer into the rooms photographed, offering only small clues about the spaces and people they are observing.

In each of the twenty-five black and white photographs that comprise Dean Sameshima’s recent series being alone, the outline of a solitary viewer sits bathed in light emitting from the glowing screen of a Berlin p**n theatre. These cinemas offer the kind of encounter that has been described as an ...

29/05/2024

Zanele Muholi
6 JUNE 2024 – 26 JANUARY 2025
Tate

Visual activist that documents and celebrates the lives of South Africa’s Black le***an, gay, trans, q***r and intersex communities.

Article on Artnet https://news.artnet.com/art-world/zanele-muholi-interview-2487549

Exhibition https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/zanele-muholi

Now booking Tate Modern Exhibition Zanele Muholi 6 June 2024 – 26 January 2025 Free for Members Book tickets Become a Member Zanele Muholi Qiniso, The Sails, Durban 2019 © Zanele Muholi Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson, New York A major UK survey of visual activist Zanele Muholi Zanel...

18/03/2024

KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn

In the exhibition, Elisàr von Kupffer’s ho******ic paintings, influenced by ancient and Renaissance art, are in dialogue with contemporary works by Jaanus Samma, who explores the sexuality of Estonian peasants and q***r folk art. His works highlight the relationship between Estonian peasants and the German-speaking elite: a fusion of fear, hostility and desire, and a juxtaposition of the high and the low.

Elisarion: Elisàr von Kupffer and Jaanus Samma
Till 08 September 2024

Kumu is the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, as well as one of the largest and most monumental exhibition venues in the country. The museum provides a survey of the various time periods of Estonian art: from the Academic Style to Modernism, from Soviet Pop Art to contemporary art. The mod...

13/03/2024

Stanley Arts holds the programme with the four LGBTQIA+ artists and companies that have commissioned to create new work, which will be performed in Spring 2024 at Stanley Arts and Kings Head Theatre.

Stanley Arts is delighted to announce the four LGBTQIA+ artists and companies that have commissioned to create new work, which will be performed in Spring 2024 at Stanley Arts and Kings Head Theatre.

08/03/2024

Contested bodies

Explore gender stereotypes, self-representation and shapeshifting through fashion in artworks made in the last ten years in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography and video.

Challenge your ideas around race, class, objectification, pleasure or desire. Discover strategies of resilience, empowerment, kinship and community building.

Contested Bodies understands that gender is socially constructed and performed. It is not an innate aspect of someone’s identity. The exhibition attempts to create a space where each artist has the freedom and power to perform gender in a way that feels right to them. The show also aims to drop gender, sexual and racial hierarchies altogether in order to recognise every person’s humanity.

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery
Part of Leeds University Library Galleries

Till 6th April

https://library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event/1900/galleries/658/contested-bodies

Delve into the work of over 40 contemporary artists from across the gender spectrum.

07/03/2024

Project Native Informant presents Scifi New Q***r Cinema, 1994-2023, a solo exhibition of Shu Lea Cheang’s four major film works: FRESH KILL, 1994, I.K.U., 2000, FLUIDØ, 2017 and UKI, 2023. Shu Lea Cheang’s work dismisses disciplinary limitations, conventional separations of form and content, aesthetics and truth. Her genre bending gender hacking practices challenge existing operating mechanisms and society’s structural boundaries. Through worlds of apparatus infiltration, system hacking, minds are penetrable, sensations communicable.

Till 20th April

Project Native Informant

Project Native Informant presents Scifi New Q***r Cinema, 1994-2023, a solo exhibition of Shu Lea Cheang’s four major film works: FRESH KILL, 1994, I.K.U., 2000, FLUIDØ, 2017 and UKI, 2023. Shu Lea Cheang’s work dismisses disciplinary limitations, conventional separations of form and content, a...

History of lgbt curating