Secret Love: China’s leading Queer Artists


Secret Love: China’s Leading Queer Artists

Secret Love is the world’s first large contemporary queer art exhibition from mainland China presenting app. 150 works of art about homosexuality, identity and norms by 28 artists. The exhibition, which premiered 21 September 2012 till 31 March 2013 at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska Museet) in Stockholm last, is now runing through December 8, 2013 at The Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden. – The exhibition in Göteborg has an important addition with the female artist Li Xinmo, who participates in multiple arts including photography and performance art.

In the video (below) curator Si Han, queer male artist Chi Peng and queer feminist artist Shi Tou talk about the exhibition and queer art in China.


Secret Love: Chinese homosexual artists exhibit. Stocksholm, 2013.

Related Links

The Invisible Red Line: Manoeuvering Chinese Art Censorship, a talk by curator Si Han, 2012.
Secret Love: Chinese Homosexual Artists Exhibit in Sweden