Edited by Anna McNay and Birthe Havmoeller Inspired by Kathleen Massara’s list 17 Must-See LGBTQ Exhibitions This Summer in New York and California, Anna McNay and I have created Feminine Moments’ list of Must-See Queer Feminist Exhibitions in Europe this Summer. The exhibitions we have selected for this list feature…
Category: Lesbian art
2-A.K. Burns speaking at “Art Practice, Activism, and Pedagogy: Some Feminist Views” a symposium at Parsons School of Design (2012) from Feminist Art Channel on Vimeo. In this video A.K. Burns self identifies as a feminist artist. She makes sculpture, video, collage and performed social actions. The artist talk ends…
Excerpt from a press release by MWG shared on facebook Winnetou by Anna-Stina Treumund Anna-Stina Treumund June 22 – August 31, 2015 at MWG, (Måndagsklubben window gallery) Hauhontie 6 B 5a, 00550 Helsinki, Finland The Queer feminist window gallery MWG ‘proudly presents the photograph exhibition of visual artist Anna-Stina Treumund…
Artist Caroly Sherer introduces the exhibition, The Story of Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families of the Deep South. (2012). See the full exhibition summary at YouTube. Living in Limbo: Lesbian Families in the Deep South by Carolyn Sherer is a contemporary fine art photography exhibition honoring the current complexities of…
TERESA INANNA Art and Video: Liliana Kleiner Editing: Claudia Medina Music: “Song of Genesis” by Ruth Weider Mangan and Mark Eliyahu Lamamc’e: Marc Eliyahu Voice and Text: Ruth Weider Magan, based on Jewish mystical writings. The video was published in May 2015. Liliana Kleiner says, I showed it in Europe…
“Lesbian artists generally had three main options in regards to how they presented — or hid — their sexuality. The first option was to keep their orientation private and compete with male artists using subject matter that did not relate to their sexuality. The next was to participate in the…
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) self-portraits.
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…
Facebook invitation Pussy Envy HOBUSEPEA GALERII Hobusepea 2, 10133 Tallinn, Estonia February 18 – March 9, 2015 You are cordially invited to the exhibition opening: February 18 at 18.00 The artists [presented by this queer/feminist exhibition] are: Annika von Hausswolff, Carla Castiajo, Eva Mustonen, Katarina Meister & Lylian Meister, Kristin…
‘AlIEN SHE (October 2014 – January 2015) is the first exhibition to examine the lasting impact of Riot Grrrl, a pioneering punk feminist movement that emerged in the early 1990s in reaction to pervasive and violent sexism, racism, and homophobia in the punk music scene and in the culture at large.
Artist: Christina Schlesinger. Image: Detail of “Tomboy on blue flannel shirt”, Oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″, 1994. All True Tomboys Opening Reception: January 23, 2015 6-8pm Exhibition: January 24 – 25, 2015 12pm-6pm at Leslie+Lohman Prince Street Project, 127-B Prince St, New York Artist Talk & Salon: January 25th…
Press release by SD Holman Photo-based artist SD Holman’s acclaimed solo show BUTCH: Not like the other girls continues the Fall leg of its North American tour, with exhibition and book signing dates booked in San Francisco, Toronto and Wellesley College. BUTCH is a photographic exploration of the liminal spaces…
Visual activist Zanele Muholi gave a talk at The O.P.E.N in Singapore Zanele Muholi (with a mic) at the opening in Singapore O.P.E.N. / Singapore International Festival of Arts 2014 (June 26 – July 12): Zanele Muholi attended the opening on June 26 and gave the talk: Collaboration, Art, Social…
Becoming An Image Performance Still No. 1, (ONE National Archives, Transactivations, Los Angeles), 2012, C-print face mounted to Plexiglas, 45 x 30 in. Photo: Heather Cassils with Eric Charles. Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body…
Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…
Con Artist BS Degree in Fine Art at SUNY, Stonybrook, NY, USA.
Essay by writer and visual artist Jane Eaton Hamilton, Canada I’ve been studying art in Paris museums further to my certificate work in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I have investigated the collections at the Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée de Montmartre, Centre Pompidou and…
Video (17:34 min): A quilt talk by Mina Kay Meyer and Sharon Raphael from the ALMS conference that the Mazer Lesbian Archives hosted in 2011. Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, who are based in San Francisco, talk about being a lesbian activist, their work for the movement through 40 years(!)…
The exhibition ‘Through Her Eyes – The Flashes of Lesbian-Feminist Production‘ is a part of 15. International Feminist & Queer Festival Red Dawns, which will take place from 6th untill 8th March 2014 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Opening: Wednesday, March 6 at 9 pm in the Alkatraz Gallery. Participating artists: Maša…
Strange Loop Gallery owner Claire Fleury shares her perspective on the Gallery show featuring the photography of Danish lesbian photographer Goodyn Green, September 2013.