{"id":20518,"date":"2019-06-05T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=20518"},"modified":"2026-04-30T08:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T06:12:34","slug":"must-see-queer-feminist-art-exhibitions-in-europe-summer-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/must-see-queer-feminist-art-exhibitions-in-europe-summer-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-See Queer Feminist Art Exhibitions in Europe Summer 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/contact\/birthe-havmoeller\/\">Birthe Havmoeller<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/annamcnay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anna McNay<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>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, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/annamcnay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anna McNay<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shu Lea Cheang: 3x3x6 \/ Taiwan in Venice 2019 \/ Venice Art Biennale 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MUvqYPKekls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>La Biennale di Venezia &#8211; <em>Shu Lea Cheang\u2019s 3x3x6<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 11 \u2013 November 24, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209, San Marco, Venice, Italy<br \/>\nFor Taiwan\u2019s collateral presentation at the Venice Biennale 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shu_Lea_Cheang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shu Lea Cheang<\/a> is presenting a new work in a former Venetian prison. A video installation named <em>3x3x6<\/em>, it makes reference to today\u2019s standardised architecture of industrial imprisonment: a 9-square-metre prison cell constantly monitored by six cameras. Related to 10 cases of imprisonment due to gender, sexual and racial nonconformity, both past and present, <em>3x3x6<\/em> questions the legal and visual regimes that have formed sexual and gender norms over time. Through her works in this exhibition, which also includes 10 short trans punk fiction films, Shu Lea Cheang bridges queer\/transgender activism and hacktivism.<br \/>\nCurated by Paul B Preciado<br \/>\nLink:https:\/\/www.taiwaninvenice.org\/?052019<\/p>\n<p>La Biennale di Venezia &#8211; <em>May You Live in Interesting Times<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 11 &#8211; November 24, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Giardini\/Arsenale, Venice, Italy<br \/>\nQueer artists: photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevenson.info\/artist\/zanele-muholi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zanele Muholi<\/a>, painter <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julie_Mehretu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julie Mehretu<\/a>, visual artist <a href=\"http:\/\/um.encore.at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike M\u00fcller<\/a> and painter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antonkerngallery.com\/artists\/nicole_eisenman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nicole Eisenman<\/a> are among the 79 artists participating in the 58th Venice Biennale&#8217;s main exhibition, <em>May You Live in Interesting Times<\/em>, held in the central pavilion. This exhibition does not have a theme per se, but highlights a general approach to art-making and a view of art\u2019s social function as embracing both pleasure and critical thinking.<br \/>\nCurated by Ralph Rugoff<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/news\/biennale-arte-2019-may-you-live-interesting-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/news\/biennale-arte-2019-may-you-live-interesting-times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u00abMoving Backwards\u00bb, Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz \u2013 Swiss Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tb7AouZtN7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>La Biennale di Venezia &#8211; <em>Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 11 &#8211; November 24, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy<br \/>\nChallenging notions of gender, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boudry-lorenz.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz<\/a> question the norms that govern our representations and our life in society. What lends their work such force is that it moves beyond mere criticism or deconstruction. Their installations, films and performances are conceived as dispositifs capable of inventing other ways of being in the world, ones no longer split by categories of identity and binarisms. Their practice of \u2018denormalisation\u2019 has led them to question the \u2018agency\u2019 of artistic objects or gestures in their relationships to those who experience them.<br \/>\nCurated by Charlotte Laubard in collaboration with Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/prohelvetia.ch\/en\/press-release\/swiss-presence-2019\/<\/p>\n<p><em>Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz &#8211; ONGOING EXPERIMENTS WITH STRANGENESS<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 26 &#8211; July 28, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Julia Stoschek Collection (JSC), Berlin, Germany<br \/>\n<em>ONGOING EXPERIMENTS WITH STRANGENESS<\/em> is Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz\u2019s most comprehensive exhibition to date. Spanning the ground floor and first-floor cinema of the collection\u2019s Berlin gallery, the show comprises four large-scale moving-image installations, stage elements, lights, and sculptural objects. Through their camera work, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boudry-lorenz.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boudry \/ Lorenz<\/a> reflect the violent history of visualisation, questioning who or what is seen and in return goes unseen or unheard. The on- and off-screen human and non-human encounters examine the limits of musical and filmic forms as protest and resistance, calling for an urgently desired future.<br \/>\nCurated by Lisa Long<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/www.jsc.berlin\/en\/ongoing-experiments-with-strangeness.html<\/p>\n<p><em>Event: artist talk &#8211; Pauline Boudry \/ Renate Lorenz with Irene Revell and Lisa Long<br \/>\nJuly 27, 2019, 6:30pm at JSC Berlin, Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sharon Hayes &#8211; Echo<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 13 \u2013 August 11, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden<br \/>\n<em>Echo<\/em> explores the idea of the exhibition as an echo chamber, where Hayes lets voices and materials reverberate between different historic events. It also references a feminist interpretation of the classical myth of Echo, the nymph who is cursed for her conversational skills. In her performances, photographs and sound and video pieces, queer feminist artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sharon_Hayes_(artist)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Hayes<\/a> relocates private speech to the public sphere. With the video installation <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernamuseet.se\/stockholm\/en\/exhibitions\/sharon-hayes\/in-my-little-corner-sharon-hayes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">In My Little Corner of the World, Anyone Would Love You<\/a><\/em> (2016), Hayes acts a pivotal work in the feminist and queer grass roots movement of the 1950s-1970s, of putting words to experiences and dreams that could not previously be voiced. The exhibition also features the works Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (2003) and several works address Everything Else Has Failed! Don\u2019t You Think it\u2019s Time for Love? (2007), a daily performance of anonymous love letters in the street outside a bank in New York in a time of war and financial crisis.<br \/>\nCurated by Lena Essling<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modernamuseet.se\/stockholm\/en\/exhibitions\/sharon-hayes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.modernamuseet.se\/stockholm\/en\/exhibitions\/sharon-hayes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Moomin Animations \u2013 Thrills and Cuddles<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 25, 2019 &#8211; January 26, 2020<br \/>\nThe Moomin Museum, Tampere, Finland<br \/>\nThis exhibition showcases the history of the different Moomin animations by lesbian author, illustrator and visual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tove_Jansson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tove Jansson<\/a> (1914-2001). Many different animated versions of Jansson\u2019s beloved Moomin books have been produced over the decades. The earliest Moomin animations date back almost 60 years. The exhibition features screenings of animations and archival material, such as different manuscript versions, hand-drawn sketches, three-dimensional models, sound samples and digital mock-ups.<br \/>\nCurated by the Moomin Museum<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moomin.com\/en\/blog\/the-history-of-moomin-animations-is-full-of-surprises-a-new-exhibition-opening-at-the-moomin-museum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.moomin.com\/en\/blog\/the-history-of-moomin-animations-is-full-of-surprises-a-new-exhibition-opening-at-the-moomin-museum\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20528\" src=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px.jpg\" alt=\"Copyright Rachel Ara\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px-600x426.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px-700x497.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ThisMuchIAmWorth_RachelAra_800px-332x236.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>This Much I\u2019m Worth (the self-evaluating artwork) by Rachel Ara<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Vienna Biennale &#8211; <em>UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence &amp; You<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 29 &#8211; October 6, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: MAK, Vienna, Austria<br \/>\nThe group exhibition <em>UNCANNY VALUES: Artificial Intelligence &amp; You<\/em>, explores one of the most important subjects of the coming decades, one that has significant consequences for all areas of our lives: artificial intelligence (AI). Among the artists included are the queer conceptual and data artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2ra.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Ara<\/a> with her work <em>This Much I\u2019m Worth (the self-evaluating artwork)<\/em>.<br \/>\nCurated by Paul Feigelfeld, Media Theorist, and Marlies Wirth, Curator, Digital Culture and MAK Design Collection<br \/>\nLink: http:\/\/www.viennabiennale.org\/en\/exhibitions\/detail\/uncanny-values-artificial-intelligence-you\/<\/p>\n<p><em>C\u00e9line Baumann: Queer Nature<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 3 &#8211; June 22, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: VI PER Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic<br \/>\nThe exhibition <em>Queer Nature<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/studiocelinebaumann.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C\u00e9line Baumann<\/a>, a French garden and landscape architect working in Switzerland, explores the little-known, often-overlooked, and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world. We live in a world that is constantly evolving, accepting a spectrum of values more diverse than ever before. Increasingly, it is difficult for preconceived patterns and one-sided ideas to respond to contemporary circumstances. How can we create a feeling of inclusivity that transcends archetypes? How can we confront the notion of standards with individual experiences allowing other forms of emancipation? Here, we embrace the notion that plants are our oldest teachers and share stories about their more-than-human knowledge. By opening a post-anthropocene space for reflection, the artist challenges the belief that matter and intelligence should be dissociated, regarding flora as more than a mere commodity.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/studiocelinebaumann.com\/current\/opening-of-the-exhibition-queer-nature-at-the-vi-per-gallery-in-prague-the-2nd-of-may-2019-with-a-talk-at-18h\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/studiocelinebaumann.com\/current\/opening-of-the-exhibition-queer-nature-at-the-vi-per-gallery-in-prague-the-2nd-of-may-2019-with-a-talk-at-18h\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lola Flash &#8211; [sur]passing<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 26 &#8211; August 17, 2019<br \/>\nVenue. Autograph, Rivington Place, London, UK<br \/>\nWorking at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lolaflash.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">photographer Lola Flash\u2019s work<\/a> challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual, and racial preconceptions. Her art and activism are profoundly connected, fuelling a life-long commitment to visibility and preserving the legacy of LGBTQIA+ and communities of colour worldwide.<br \/>\nCurated by Ren\u00e9e Mussai and Bindi Vora<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/links\/non-european-artists-film-video\/annie-rose-malamet-usa\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/autograph.org.uk\/exhibitions\/surpassing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Zoe Williams: Sunday Fantasy<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 25 \u2013 July 27, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Mimosa House, London, UK<br \/>\nThis solo exhibition is the premiere of <a href=\"http:\/\/zoewilliamsonline.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zoe Williams<\/a>\u2019 new moving image work, <em>Sunday Fantasy<\/em>. The work uses the language of fantasy to play with and subvert dominant power structures, dissecting and interrogating current representations of the erotic and viewing them through a female and queered lens.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/mimosahouse.co.uk\/zoe-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/mimosahouse.co.uk\/zoe-williams<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edinburgh Art Festival &#8211; <em>NOW<\/em><br \/>\nDates: June 1 &#8211; September 22, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art<br \/>\nThe fifth instalment in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art\u2019s dynamic three-year series of contemporary art exhibitions, <em>NOW<\/em>, is centred on a major survey of work by queer conceptual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anya_Gallaccio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anya Gallaccio<\/a>, renowned for her spectacular installations and sculptures. Using all kinds of organic materials, including trees, flowers, candles, sand and ice, she creates temporary works that change over time as they are subjected to natural processes of transformation and decay. Also exploring themes of change, growth and decay, some of the other artists appearing in <em>NOW<\/em> are Charles Avery, Aur\u00e9lien Froment and Roger Hiorns.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/exhibition\/now-anya-gallaccio-charles-avery-aur%C3%A9lien-froment-roger-hiorns-peles-empire-zineb-sedira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.nationalgalleries.org\/exhibition\/now-anya-gallaccio-charles-avery-aur%C3%A9lien-froment-roger-hiorns-peles-empire-zineb-sedira<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Art Night 2019 &#8211; <em>Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings performance<\/em><br \/>\nDates: June 22, 2019, 7pm-12am<br \/>\nVenue: Walthamstow Market, London, UK<br \/>\nFor London\u2019s Art Night 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/arcadiamissa.com\/hannah-quinlan-rosie-hastings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings<\/a> have been commissioned to create a musical spectacle that brings together musical genres including classical orchestral music, disco, house, high NRG and pop, into a single dramatic vision performed and centred on a Pride float as it travels up Walthamstow Market. Exploring the gay rights movement since the legalisation of homosexuality in 1967 through shifts in UK Queer music subcultures, <em>Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach<\/em> is both a celebration and a critique of contemporary pride culture.<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/2019.artnight.london\/artist\/hannah-quinlan-rosie-hastings\/<\/p>\n<p>Art Night 2019 &#8211; <em>Julie Cunningham<\/em><br \/>\nDates: June 22, 2019, 7pm-12am<br \/>\nVenue: Waltham Forest Community Hub, London, UK<br \/>\n<em>Julie Cunningham<\/em>http:\/\/www.juliecunninghamandcompany.co.uk\/company.html is an award-winning dance artist and choreographer, formerly with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Michael Clark Company. Cunningham\u2019s work explores gender and identity, and the body and its emotional states. They work between movement and text from sources ranging from popular culture to literature (including Sarah Kane\u2019s Crave and poetry by Kate Tempest). For Art Night 2019 in London, Cunningham presents a new performance, continuing their research into the queer body. They will invite the audience into a normally private environment where they and their collaborators will be making and doing dance. Working at the boundaries between their daily, living body and their more public, dancing body, Cunningham will attempt to create a practical space for making non-sense.<br \/>\nPerformed by: Julie Cunningham, Eleanor Perry, Chess Boughey and Harry Alexander, with live music from the musician, DJ and producer JD Samson, best known as a member of the bands Le Tigre and MEN.<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/2019.artnight.london\/artist\/julie-cunningham\/ <\/p>\n<p><em>Queer Frontiers <\/em> &#8211; ARTIQ\u2019s annual art exhibition in solidarity with LGBTQ+ international artists<br \/>\nDates: July 3 &#8211; 10, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: pop-up venue, Old Compton Street, London, UK<br \/>\nThis open-submission exhibition, run by the art consultancy ARTIQ in partnership with the insurer and patron of the arts Hiscox, will showcase work by LGBTQ+ artists and allies, selected by a panel of curators, responding to themes of diversity, inclusion, equality, creativity, optimism and kindness. The exhibition is held in conjunction with Pride London. All proceeds will be donated to the Albert Kennedy Trust and Switchboard.<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/www.queerfrontiers.co.uk\/<\/p>\n<p><em>Queer Spaces: London, 1980s \u2013 Today<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 2 \u2013 August 25, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK<br \/>\nThis one-room display considers the loss of hundreds of community venues around London through market-led redevelopment and the ensuing impact on the capital\u2019s queer scene and population. It presents work by artists concerned with the disappearance of spaces where LGBTQ+ communities have gathered to socialise, explore their sexuality and try out new identities, including Tom Burr, Ralph Dunn, Evan Ifekoya, <a href=\"https:\/\/arcadiamissa.com\/hannah-quinlan-rosie-hastings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Quinlan &amp; Rosie Hastings<\/a> and Prem Sahib. Through case studies of iconic venues such as the Black Cap and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, the exhibition presents rarely displayed archive material and explores the radical inventiveness, creativity and unpretentiousness inherent within London\u2019s queer spaces.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitechapelgallery.org\/exhibitions\/queer-spaces-london-1980s-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.whitechapelgallery.org\/exhibitions\/queer-spaces-london-1980s-today\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018Queer\u2019 Asia 2019 Art Exhibition: <em>The Liminal<\/em><br \/>\nDates: July 15-17, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Cloisters, Paul Webley Wing, SOAS University of London, UK<br \/>\nFrom rendering a previously invisible queer consciousness visible in Asia and Asian diasporas to questioning the misrepresentation of LGBTQ+ Asia in global socio-political discourses, the artwork exhibited in <em>The Liminal<\/em> reflects what is openly acknowledged, what is quietly endured, and the areas which oscillate between them. By doing so, the exhibition demonstrates that the battle for Asian LGBTQ+ rights and equality is still an ongoing process that is often overlooked. Featured Artists include Queer Habibi, Dan Vo, Jay Cabalu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charmainepoh.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Charmaine Poh<\/a>, Showna Kim, Rudra Kishore Mandal, Heezy Yang, Musk Ming, Kahn J. Ryu, Charan Singh, Jamie Chi, Naruki Kukita, Alqumit Alhamad and Royal.<br \/>\nCurated by Rhea Tuli.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/queerasia.com\/art-exhibition-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/queerasia.com\/art-exhibition-2019\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>Events: July 13-14, 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/queerasia.com\/qa19-art-talks-schedule\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Artivism and artist talks<\/a>, Moser Room, British Museum, London. Book a free ticket in advance as venue space is limited.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><em>DEAR CHRISTINE (a tribute to Christine Keeler)<\/em><br \/>\nDates: June 1 &#8211; 29, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Vane, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK<br \/>\nThis exhibition brings together a group of renowned female artists and writers &#8211; including queer painters <a href=\"https:\/\/roxanahalls.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roxana Halls<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sadielee.f9.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sadie Lee<\/a> &#8211; in a multi-media celebration of the life of English model Christine Keeler, star of the 1960s British political scandal, the Profumo affair. After Newcastle, the exhibition will tour to Swansea and London.<br \/>\nCurated by Fionn Wilson<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/www.axisweb.org\/p\/fionnwilson\/article\/4285-dear-christine-a-tribute-to-christine-keeler\/<\/p>\n<p><em>CITYISLAND<\/em><br \/>\nDates: June 14 &#8211; 20, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: The Silver Building, London, UK<br \/>\nThis three-queer-woman show, curated by Anka Dabrowska and also featuring Stav Bee and Jeni Snell, comprises drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, photography and live performance. It intention is to activate a fresh narrative on the urban and rural (city\/island) landscape, with issues surrounding identity, place and culture. Dabrowska, whose drawings explore territories both real and imagined, will create a site-specific installation focusing on the concept of shelter, as a fortress of our bodies, and extension of ourselves. This temporary, fragile structure, made out of old sculptures and objects, will get smashed up and rebuilt, raising questions about vulnerability and protection, the housing crisis, and anxiety. Bee is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, whose work deals with the ongoing themes of identity and love, the politics of the female gaze, the aesthetics of beauty, sexual identity, repetition, reflection, obsession, transformation, alchemy and magic. For <em>CITYISLAND<\/em>, Bee will continue her cerebral investigations, regarding the city as a landscape of aloneness and anonymity, darkness and light, hardship and opportunity. Snell\u2019s practice is based on the ongoing relationship she has with the place in which she grew up and the influence that our early environment has on the formation of identity, especially the LGBTIQA identity. Snell will exhibit works from her latest solo show <em>Achtung Baby!<\/em>, in which all her works bear the titles of songs performed by homosexual activist musicians.<br \/>\nCurated by Anka Dabrowska<br \/>\nLink: ?<\/p>\n<p><em>Ulrike Ottinger. Paris Calligrammes<\/em><br \/>\nDates: August 23, 2019 \u2013 October 10, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany<br \/>\nOpening: August 22, 2019, 19:00<br \/>\nIn her <em>Paris Calligrammes<\/em> exhibition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ulrikeottinger.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ulrike Ottinger<\/a>, a German radical lesbian filmmaker, photographer and collector of worlds, takes us back to the 1960s when she lived and worked in Paris as a freelance artist. Ottinger weaves her personal memories of the Parisian Boh\u00e8me and the severe social, political and cultural upheavals of the time into a cinematic \u2018figural poem\u2019. <em>Paris Calligrammes<\/em> is also the title of Ottinger\u2019s next film.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkw.de\/en\/programm\/projekte\/2019\/paris_calligrammes\/paris_calligrammes_start.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.hkw.de\/en\/programm\/projekte\/2019\/paris_calligrammes\/paris_calligrammes_start.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rencontres d\u2019Arles 2019 &#8211; <em>Germaine Krull &amp; Jacques R\u00e9my, a Voyage, Marseille-Rio 1941<\/em><br \/>\nDates: July 1 &#8211; September 22, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Clo\u00eetre Saint-Trophime, Arles, France<br \/>\nAndr\u00e9 Breton, Wifredo Lam, Jacqueline Lamba, Claude L\u00e9vi-Strauss, Anna Seghers and Victor Serge are among Capitaine-Paul-Lemerle\u2019s passengers. Their 1941 crossing from Marseille to Fort-de-France is reimagined by Adrien Bosc in his novel <em>Capitaine<\/em>. We also meet the great German photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germaine_Krull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germaine Krull<\/a> (1897-1985) on board, sailing to the Americas, and the young filmmaker and future screenwriter R\u00e9my Assayas, also known as Jacques R\u00e9my. At the end of the book, Bosc meets R\u00e9my\u2019s son, Olivier Assayas, who shows him an album of photos taken by Krull during the journey. The photos bring the novelist\u2019s story vividly to life. They were found loose in a drawer of the family\u2019s country home, and curator Olivier Assayas identified and organised them. <em>A Voyage, Marseille-Rio 1941<\/em> brings all these photographs together, most of which are previously unpublished, and exhibits them in the context of the novel based on the true story of these two travelers.<br \/>\nCurated by Olivier Assayas and Adrien Bosc.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rencontres-arles.com\/en\/expositions\/view\/767\/germaine-krull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.rencontres-arles.com\/en\/expositions\/view\/767\/germaine-krull<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rencontres d\u2019Arles 2019 &#8211; <em>Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s, An Avant-Garde Review<\/em><br \/>\nDates: July 1 &#8211; September 22, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Chapelle Saint-Martin-du-M\u00e9jan Chapelle Saint-Martin-du-M\u00e9jan, Arles, France<br \/>\nThe Belgian art critic, collector and gallery owner Paul-Gustave van Hecke never ceased to promote Belgian and international avant-garde art during the interwar period. In 1927, he founded the gallery L\u2019\u00c9poque in Bruxelles. In 1928, he launched <em>Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s, Revue mensuelle illustr\u00e9e de l\u2019esprit contemporain<\/em>. A complete anthology of modernist photography, it featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glbtqarchive.com\/arts\/abbott_b_A.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Berenice Abbott<\/a>, Florence Henri, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germaine_Krull\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Germaine Krull<\/a>, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, amongst many others. This unique collection was rediscovered by accident a few years ago and is now the focus of an exceptional historical exhibition, that the Rencontres d\u2019Arles are happy to co-produce with the Amsab and Tijdsbeeld &amp; Pi\u00e8ce Mont\u00e9e for their 50th edition. The exhibition is also displaying some issues of <em>Vari\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em> and close to 200 vintage avant-garde photographs.<br \/>\nCurated by Sam Stourdz\u00e9 in collaboration with Ronny Gobyn and Damarice Amao<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rencontres-arles.com\/en\/expositions\/view\/774\/varietes-an-avant-garde-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.rencontres-arles.com\/en\/expositions\/view\/774\/varietes-an-avant-garde-review<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/bJnP5cZY79g<\/p>\n<p><em>Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face<\/em><br \/>\nDates: April 5 &#8211; August 12, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany<br \/>\nLotte Laserstein (1898-1993) was a rising star of Weimar Berlin, but, forced to emigrate to Sweden in 1937 due to the rise of Nazism and her being \u2018three-quarter Jewish\u2019, her career was cut short, as her practice turned from avant-garde modernism to kitsch portraiture. This exhibition focuses on her early work and showcases 58 works \u2013 48 paintings and nine drawings \u2013 by Laserstein, primarily from her heyday in Berlin. Frequently painting her close friend and favourite muse, Gertrud Rose, known as Traute, Laserstein\u2019s works depict the \u2018new woman\u2019, androgynous and with short-cropped hair. There has been repeated speculation over a lesbian relationship between the two women, but this seems largely unfounded. Regardless, Laserstein was hugely successful in a largely male environment and used pictorial means to defy contemporary social norms about gender roles.<br \/>\nCurated by Elena Schroll und Alexander Eiling<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/www.berlinischegalerie.de\/en\/exhibitions\/current-exhibitions\/lotte-laserstein\/<\/p>\n<p>I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker<br \/>\nDates: May 1 \u2013 July 21, 2019<br \/>\nVenue: ICA, London, UK<br \/>\nQueer feminist artist Every Ocean Hughes aka Emily Roysdon is among the 40+ artists in this group exhibition dedicated to the American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer Kathy Acker (1947\u201397). In the 1980s, Acker frequently formed part of the ICA programme, holding conversations with other writers, giving readings, performing with musicians, and writing the play <em>Lulu Unchained<\/em> (1985). For Acker, language was a site of contestation, both on the page and within the public speech act. She traversed the avant-gardist intersections between poetry and conceptual art of the 1970s, the linguistic deconstructions of 1980s postmodernism, and the nascent posthuman aesthetics of the 1990s. Her prolific writing developed new experimental textual methodologies, plagiarising the work of other authors, distorting language, introducing maps and diagrams, and hybridising fiction and auto-biographical reference. She further extended the space of writing to encompass the performative, through readings, plays, screenplays, and collaborations with artists and musicians. Central to both her writing and the shifting construction of her own identity were an antagonism towards social conventions, gendered power, and imperialist capitalism. This exhibition incorporates both existing materials and the work of contemporary practitioners who inhabit spaces between visual art, poetry, fiction and performance, including a collaborative investigation and production of Acker\u2019s play <em>Desire<\/em> (1982).<br \/>\nLink: https:\/\/www.ica.art\/exhibitions\/i-i-i-i-i-i-i-kathy-acker<\/p>\n<p><em>Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery: Misbehaving Bodies<\/em><br \/>\nDates: May 30, 2019 &#8211; January 26, 2020<br \/>\nVenue: Wellcome Collection, London, UK<br \/>\nInfluential photographer Jo Spence\u2019s (1934\u201392) work, created in collaboration with Terry Dennett and queer artist Rosy Martin, documents Jo Spence\u2019s diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent healthcare regime throughout the 1980s. The raw and confrontational photography is shown here alongside Oreet Ashery\u2019s (b. 1966) award-winning miniseries <em>Revisiting Genesis <\/em>(2016). Ashery&#8217;s politically-engaged work explores loss and the lived experience of chronic illness in the digital era. The exhibition challenges visitors on their understanding of \u2018misbehaving\u2019 or \u2018untypical\u2019 bodies, and asks them to reflect on how illness can disrupt and shape the way one thinks about the body, family and identity.<br \/>\nLink: <a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/XFHHShUAAAU_pE70\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/exhibitions\/XFHHShUAAAU_pE70<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Related Links<\/h2>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/stockholm-sharon-hayes-in-conversation-with-emily-roysdon\/\">Stockholm &#8211; Sharon Hayes in Conversation With Emily Roysdon<\/a><\/em>, video, April, 2019.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2019\/may\/31\/misbehaving-bodies-review-jo-spence-oreet-ashery-wellcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death, digital wills and cremation jewellery \u2013 Misbehaving Bodies review<\/a><\/em> by Hettie Judah, The Guardian, May, 2019.<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/498703\/shu-lea-cheangs-3x3x6-2019-venice-biennale-examines-imprisonment-new-digital-age\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shu Lea Cheang\u2019s 3x3x6 at the 2019 Venice Biennale Examines Imprisonment in the New Digital Age<\/a><\/em> by Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), May, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna McNay (UK) and Birthe Havmoeller (DK) have compiled a summer list of exhibitions by lesbian, bisexual and queer feminist artists which you must see!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404,580,16,23],"tags":[1086,665,915,779,78,1339,1345,149,168,1328,1343,1340,983,314,497,1200,498,1344,996,1167,1077,336,728,1346,905,1342,887,595,1341,400,1325],"class_list":["post-20518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feminine-moments","category-feminist-art","category-lesbian-art","category-queer-art","tag-anka-dabrowska","tag-anna-mcnay","tag-anya-gallaccio","tag-berenice-abbott","tag-birthe-havmoeller","tag-celine-baumann","tag-charmaine-poh","tag-emily-roysdon","tag-germaine-krull","tag-hannah-quinlan","tag-jeni-snell","tag-julie-cunningham","tag-julie-mehretu","tag-nicole-eisenman","tag-pauline-boudry","tag-rachel-ara","tag-renate-lorenz","tag-rhea-tuli","tag-rosie-hastings","tag-rosy-martin","tag-roxana-halls","tag-sadie-lee","tag-sharon-hayes","tag-showna-kim","tag-shu-lea-cheang","tag-stav-bee","tag-tove-jansson","tag-ulrike-muller","tag-ulrike-ottinger","tag-zanele-muholi","tag-zoe-williams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29912,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20518\/revisions\/29912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}