I have finally come around to making a group on Facebook for lesbian and queer artists and lovers of contemporary art made by out lesbian artists and queer women.
The Rencontres de Bamako, African photography biennial, in Mali 2009 featured a rising generation of South African photographers and video artists. Queer photographer Zanele Muholi was one of them. Now her photographs can be seen at a group exhibition in Holland.
Last week I met independent curator and photographer Elinore Lindén
Strand and painter Frida Gustavsson for lunch and a chat about queer art at Kulturhuset in downtown Stockholm.
Camera Obscura – A Shippingcontainer Camera. Step in to a camera! Experience the city inside a camera obscura produced in cooperation between Ateneum Art Museum and the Finnish Museum of Photography.
Fotografiska, the new museum of photography in Stockholm, opens with the exhibition A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 by Annie Leibovitz.
With approximately 200 photographs, the exhibition shows iconic images of famous public figures together with personal photographs of her family and close friends.
Queer Bucharest Biennale, May 22, 2010, from 5 pm Bulevardul Unirii, Bucharest.
QCCA in association with Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center presents:
Reels of Resistance: Film IS Social Justice Activism – A Panel Presentation by QWOCMAP
Saturday, May 22nd, 5PM
Rainbow Room, SF LGBT Community Center
1800 Market Street, SF
California LGBT Arts Alliance – Networking Parties and Meetings
The California LGBT Arts Alliance and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center will host the first annual networking cocktail party/meeting of Southern California LGBT artists, arts organizations and supporters on Tuesday May 18, 2010. The Alliance will hold a similar networking event in San Francisco at the South of Market Cultural Center on Saturday, June 5th. All are welcome to these FREE events.
The Lesben Früelings Treffen or just ‘LFT’ is the annual German lesbian festival of politics and culture. Apart from the workshops, talks and events (of which there are 120!), the German lesbians and their foreign friends will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the LFT arts exhibition.
The Guerrila Girls have turned 25 and they are still going strong and they are busier than ever now that the art world, which they have spent their whole life attacking suddenly embraces them.
Queer artist Heidi Lunababba writes: Welcome to the opening! – Tervetuloa avajaisiin!
May 6th5pm to 8pm, outside of Ateneum in the park facing Mikonkatu, Helsinki city centre in Finland. The Camera Obscura is outside of the museum, so you dont need to have the official invitation card to come!
Alison Bechdel’s Big Kiss. Video part 1: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel interviewed by Michelle Paradise for Velvetpark.
Fiendish Man Woman
Dominique Hindmarsh and Susannah Thorne are two artists, who work collaboratively under the title of Mills and Morte, which evokes their individual interests in issues of love and death. They have chosen to focus this installation Something about ‘Harry: Secrets and Sins’ on the life of Eugenia Fallini. As Harry Crawford, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife Annie Birkett in 1920 three years after her burnt body had been discovered in Lane Cove.
The Michael Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town will be putting up an exhibition by photographer, Zanele Muholi, from April 22 to May 29 2010. Queer photographer and activist Zanele Muholi explores the implications of being black and queer through a range of different series and strategies.
Gestures of Resistance artist-in-residence. Anthea Black talks about her project at Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, USA. Black was in residence a part of the duration of the show February 19 – March 10, 2010 where she produced a poster in collaboration with a printmaking class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Slideshow about queer artist Heidi Lunabba’s ‘Studio Vilgefortis’
Change your looks and gender identity for a day. Queer artist Heidi Lunabba from Finland make beards on beardless people in her ‘Studio Vilgefortis’.
GenderArtNet: Weblaunch, presentations and discussion
Friday, April 16, 2010, 4-8 p.m.
At project space uqbar, Schwedenstrasse 16 | D – 13357 Berlin, Germany.
Muholi/ B(L)ACK – April 8 – 16, 2010, Exhibition by Zanele Muholi, South Africa, Opening Night: April 14, 5-7 pm.
Faculty Gallery, Faculty Art & Design, Art & Design Building (G), Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia
Queer artist Allyson Mitchell interviewed by Irma Villafuerte, part I, May 12, 2009. Allyson Mitchell, is a maximalist artist working predominantly in sculpture, installation and film. Mitchell has been melding feminism and pop culture to play with contemporary ideas about sexuality, autobiography, and the body, largely through the use of reclaimed textile and abandoned craf.
50 / 50 Pausing for Reflection
Sculptures of Chantz Perkins, 10 April – 30 May, 2010
Opening: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 4 – 6 pm
ABC Treehouse, Voetboegstraat 11, 1012 XK Amsterdam, Holland