Feminine Moments' newsletter - June 2019

Queer Feminist Art in Europe

Edited by Birthe Havmoeller

Dear Reader,

With LGBT communities around the world celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots this year, there will be lots of queer art exhibitions in the USA and Canada this summer commemorating this landmark event, which changed the course of history for LGBT people. In this article below, however, Anna McNay and I are focusing on where to see works of art by lesbian, bisexual and queer feminist artists in Europe during the summer of 2019.

Queer Feminist Art in Europe

Artist Jannica Honey Believes Her Images Are Being Censored by the Algorithms

Video (4:17): BBC Scotland has made a short interview with photographer Jannica Honey who has experienced being censored and banned from Facebook and Instagram for her artworks recently. Read more.

Stockholm - Sharon Hayes in Conversation with Emily Roysdon

Video (1.01:36): queer feminist artist Sharon Hayes in conversation with Emily Roysdon about the exhibition 'Sharon Hayes - Echo' at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden. The exhibition runs through August 11, 2019 Read more.

Other Exhibitions 

Queer Art Party in Vancouver

Gala Opening Reception of the Queer Art Festival's curated exhibition 'Relational rEvolutions' June 18, 2019 at 7pm. THE ROUNDHOUSE, Vancouver, Canada. Read more.

Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989

'Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989' is a two-part exhibition runing in New York until July 20, 2019. It is accompanied by a fully-illustrated 300-page catalogue (published by Rizzoli Electa) with essays by more than 20 established and emerging scholars and artists. Read more.

Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall

'Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall', May 3 - December 8, 2019. Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor, New York, USA. The exhibition presents works by emerging artists based in Brooklyn and New York. Read more.

'Janet Cooling: 1978 -1982' at Jack Hanley Gallery

'Janet Cooling: 1978-1982', May 31 - July 3, 2019 at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York. Read more.

Queer Abstraction

Queer Abstraction June 1 - September 8, 2019, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Curated by Jared Ledesma. Read more.

Queer California: Untold Stories

Queer California: Untold Stories, April 13 – August 11, 2019 at Oakland Museum of California, USA. The exhibition aligns important milestones in LGBTQ+ culture with untold stories, focusing on the diversity of queer identities, civil rights, and resistance to oppression. Read more.

Precarious Lives

This exhibition is a part of the 22. Annual National Queer Arts Festival in California which runs May 22 - June 29, 2019. Precarious Lives – opening reception: June 6, 6 – 9pm at SOMArts Cultural Center, Main Gallery, San Francisco, USA. Read more.

Happy summer solstice! Happy Christopher Street Liberation Day! 

Love and kisses,

Birthe Havmoeller // havmoeller@gmail.com