Queer Feminist Art Worldwide
Exhibition view; snapshot by Feminine Moments Zanele Muholi at The Photographers Gallery in London The Photographers’ Gallery showcase of Muholi’s work is part of a broader exhibition presenting the works of the four shortlistees of the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 17 April until 7…
Magic Mirror: Exhibition of works by Claude Cahun and Sarah Pucill Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 to Sunday, June 14, 2015 Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 10am-5pm Address: Nunnery Gallery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ, UK While I was visiting London art writer and editor Anna McNay invited me…
Zanele Muholi Directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Zanele Muholi (2013). Award-winning photographer Zanele Muholi, who describes herself as a “visual activist,” has spent years documenting the lives of black lesbians and transgender people in South Africa. This video is dedicated to the memory of Duduzile Zozo, who…
Press release by Jenna Lee Forde/Theory Boner Zine via Facebook Theory Boner Zine Open Call for Submissions Theory Boner [curated by Jenna Lee Forde & Mary Tremonte] is exploring and celebrating intersections of feminist queer and anti-racist theory and creative practice. We are uniting in creative ways to manifest our…
A woodcut print by Ester Fleckner. Ester Fleckner – How to spell a sound that is physical 10 April – 9 May 2015 at Avlskarl Gallery, Bredgade 28, Copenhagen, Denmark Opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 1 pm – 6 pm. Saturday 12 pm – 3 pm. The exhibition How to spell a…
Trailer: Night Ship Doc by Mox Mäkelä, Finland (2015) “Ship metamorphosis – a journey from conspicuous consumption waste to glory raised platform (reflective mosaic skin), which manifests for those who are wiser than us and those who live with the author in the living interact.” About Mox Mäkelä Mox is…
Lotte Laserstein (1898–1993) Born in Preussisch Holland, Lotte moved to Berlin to study at the prestigiouis Berlin Academy of Fine Arts as one of the women artists to study there in the period 1919 – 1925. She had her first solo exhibition in a Berlin gallery in 1930, but in…
Press release by the Schwules Museum* The Schwules Museum* and the Deutsches Historisches Museum present the exhibition “Homosexuality_ies” from 26 June to 1 December 2015 [at the Schwules Museum*, Lützowstraße 73, 10785 Berlin.] This special exhibition on view at both museums offers an overview of the history, politics and culture…
Guerrilla Girls: In May 1985, we put our first posters up on the streets of New York—and everyone went bananas!
Press release Pride in Art Society is proud to announce this year’s QAF’s theme, “Trigger: Drawing the Line in 2015” QAF celebrates the 25th anniversary of a landmark work of queer heritage with this year’s theme Trigger: Drawing the Line in 2015. The Oxford Dictionary of Art, in their article…
Excerpt from the newsletter ‘Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends | April 2015’ The Comedies and Tragedies of Gays and Lesbians Exhibition Dates: April 30 – June 27, 2015 at Hudson Guild Gallery, New York. Curated by Jim Pavlicovic. The exhibit is planned to be concurrent with a production by Hudson Guild Theatre…
MIX 24 Trailer (2011) Official Festival Trailer by Gina Carducci, shot, edited and finished on 16mm film.
Lecture by Barbara Hammer. Video by European Graduate School Video Lectures (2011) Excerpt from the description of the video: ‘Barbara Hammer, experimental filmmaker, lesbian artist and feminist talking about Maya Deren. In this lecture she reads an excerpt from her book Hammer! in which she recounts her experience in discovering…
TateShots: Barbara Hammer (2012) Barbara Hammer Changing the Shape of Film 2012 (first performed 1979) at Tate Modern, London. About Barbara Hammer Barbara Hammer is a pivotal figure in American experimental film. An acclaimed pioneer of queer cinema, her prolific output includes the earliest avant-garde films that openly address lesbian…
A time-lapse video of the installation of Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time. Published by Brooklyn Museum, 2015. Chitra Ganesh: Eyes of Time December 12, 2014–July 12, 2015 Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA. [The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the…
Press photo courtesy of Jess Dobkin How Many Performance Artists Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb (For Martha Wilson) Performance by Jess Dobkin Thursday, April 16 at 7:00pm – 11:15pm Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Toronto, Ontario M5A, Canada Made in response and as an ode to one of America’s…
Press release by the Brooklyn Museum On Thursday, March 26 the Brooklyn Museum in New York presents Art Off the Wall: Chitra Ganesh: “Eyes of Time,” an evening of activities throughout the museum in celebration of Brooklyn artist Chitra Ganesh’s site-specific installation. The program includes an exclusive screening of Ganesh’s…
Charlotte Haslund-Christensen will be presenting her art project WHO’S NEXT? and other art works at ‘Humans – fotografi’, a group exhibition at Munkerup Hus in Dronningmølle, Denmark. The Opening: Charlotte invites you to join her at the opening on March 21, 2015 at 15.00. ‘Humans – fotografi’ runs through May…
A Kickstarter project shared by Jess Dobkin at facebook The artists need your support. Go to the Kickstarter page of this art project.
GLITCH Film Festival 2015, March 19 – 28, 2015 in Scotland features among other a series of Queer, Trans, Intersex People of Colour short film programmes – The QTIPoC Shorts – at the Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, Scotland. The festival is organised by Digital Desparados. The QTIPOC SHORTS 4 &…