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* ARTA magazine, ''The State of the Romanian Avant-garde (I)'', a magazine article<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-state-of-the-romanian-avant-garde-i/</ref> in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist show "Lay me down across the lines", at [[Kunsthalle Bega]], in Timisoara, Romanian, 2019
* ARTA magazine, ''The State of the Romanian Avant-garde (I)'', a magazine article<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-state-of-the-romanian-avant-garde-i/</ref> in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist show "Lay me down across the lines", at [[Kunsthalle Bega]], in Timisoara, Romanian, 2019
* ARTA magazine, ''What’s Left From My Heart'', by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist group FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name) and its activity in various places in Romanian and abroad, with referenes to the queer artists [[Simona Dumitriu]], [[Raluca Croitoru]] and [[Ileana Faur]], 2019
* ARTA magazine, ''What’s Left From My Heart'', by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist group FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name) and its activity in various places in Romanian and abroad, with referenes to the queer artists [[Simona Dumitriu]], [[Raluca Croitoru]] and [[Ileana Faur]], 2019
* ARTA magazine, ''Where Are You, Mircea Nicolae?'', by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/where-are-you-mircea-nicolae/</ref> in Romanian and English language about the queer artist Mircea Nicolae.
* ARTA magazine, ''Where Are You, Mircea Nicolae?'', by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/where-are-you-mircea-nicolae/</ref> in Romanian and English language about the queer artist Mircea Nicolae, 2020
* ARTA magazine, ''The Independent is Political'', by Raluca Țurcanașu, a magazine article<ref>https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-independent-is-political/</ref> about the Moldovan art scene, with a small reference to the queer Moldovan documentarist and performer Artiom Zavadovschi (insta profile: https://www.instagram.com/das.miss.verstaendnis/), 2020
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Queer Art has had an important role in subverting repressive gender norms. Some common themes in contemporary queer art may include exploring gender and sexual identity, challenging societal norms and expectations, and promoting visibility and acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community

Queer art folksonomy

  • queer intimacy,
  • radical tenderness,
  • tender & grotesque,
  • reclaiming of personal queer archives,
  • intersectional identities,
  • direct representation,
  • delicate and haunting
  • queer fantasy,
  • queer sensuality,
  • fluid identity,
  • physical objects anchoring the queer identity,
  • shifted narratives,
  • visceral effect,
  • euphoric queerness,
  • not sanitized bodies and gestures,
  • queer vulnerability,



Queer artists



Queering

Queering refers to a strategic approach used by artists that involves deliberately repositioning or altering existing objects, so that the audience are invited to look at them from a different perspective.

Queering the museums:



Queer Archives (documentation on queer culture and history )

  • Triumf Amiria[1], a nomadic, fluid and uninstitutionalised cultural museum focused on queer art, initiator: the artistic group KILOBASE BUCHAREST
  • Romanian Queer History and Culture Museum[2], initiator: Florin Buhuceanu
  • Romanian Lesbian archive, initiator: Alex Zorilă
  • Polish Queer Muzeum Warszawa[3], an initiative by Lambda Warszawa, Poland’s oldest LGBTQ+ organization
  • Polish Queer Archive Institute[4], initiator: Karol Radziszewski
  • Forgotten Stories of Eastern European Queer Heroes[5]: a project by Eastern Queerope, a journalistic network of queer writers, documenting forgotten LGBTQ+ figures from Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine
  • Hungarian Labrisz Lesbian Herstory Archives and Censorship Museum[6]
  • Hungarian Hatter Archive[7]
  • Czech Collection of the Society for Queer Memory[8]
  • Commercialised mediated digital archive focused on Eastern-Europe[9]
  • Douglas Conrad LGBT Collection[10] focused on Eastern Europe, held at Yale University, initiator: Douglas Conrad
  • Bosnian Kvir Arhiv (Queer Archive Bosnia)[11], initiator: Okvir association
  • Serbian Arkadija Archive[12], initiator: Jelena Vasiljević
  • Albanian HomeSpace Arkivi Queer Shqipta[13]r, initiator: Safira Boeder
  • Slovenian Lesbian Library and Archives[14]
  • Bulgarian Queer Archive[15]



Queer writings


Books

  • Spații aparte[16] (Particular spaces), by Alex Zorilă, in Romanian language, edited by Fractalia, 2023, ISBN: 978-606-9028-73-5, interviews with lesbian personalities from sec. XX/XXI Romania, a chapter is dedicated to visual arts
  • Homoistorii: Ieșirea din invizibilitate[17] (Homohistories: coming out of invisibility), by Florin Buhuceanu, in Romanian language, edited by Ed. Maiko 2011, reedited in 2016 by Humanitas, ISBN: 978-606-9028-73-5, a personal compendium based on historical memories, testimonies and research on the life of homosexual persons in XIX-XXI sec., some of the stories covered are about gay and lesbian visual artists
  • Castele în Spania[18] (Castles in Spain), by Petre Sirin, in Romanian language, edited by Humanitas, 2013, ISBN: 978-973-50-4031-4-X, a diaristical compendium based on Petre Sirin diary writings, selection made by editor; the book covers stories about the group around the visual artist George Tomaziu


Press articles

  • VIMEO, by Mária Takács, video documentary on lesbian community in Budapest[19], including references and interview with lesbian artists 2009
  • ARTA magazine, Arta „noastră” queer („Our queer art”), by Ladislav Zikmund-Lender, article in Romanian[20] and English[21] language on Czech queer art
  • ARTA magazine, Hello Goodbye[22]e, by Cristina Bogdan, magazine article in Romanian and English language mentioning potential relation to queer art of the artistic duo The Melodramatic Bureau, Alina Popa and Irina Gheorghe, 2015
  • ARTA magazine, Sub-styles: DIY Art Spaces, Interdisciplinarity and Hybrids[23], by Marta Jecu, written in collaboration with Berlin Art Link, magazine article mentioning potential queer art exploration at the now-closed artist run space Platforma, 2015
  • ARTA magazine, The Xenofeminist Manifesto by Alina Popa, magazine article in Romanian and English language mentioning potential queer art exploration at various now-closed Romanian artist run spaces such as h.arta space and Tam Tam n Timișoara or Art Hub in Bucharest, 2016
  • ARTA magazine, The Month of History – The Outsiders. SAVAGED pINK – (manifest) for an LGBT archive[24] by Valentina Iancu, magazine article in Romanian and English language mentioning potential queer art archives, 2017; <<Note: recounted historical facts needs rechecking>> * ARTA magazine, The Month of History – The Outsiders. SAVAGED pINK – (manifest) for an LGBT archive (the article is mentioning the Sorin Oncu’s legacy (1980-2016), an artist from Timisoara politically active in the frivolous movement for LGBTs emancipation and feminist-queer initiatives such as GadjoDildo, a cabaret show played by Elena Duminică, Mihaela Drăgan and Zita Moldovan directed by Mihai Lukacs and choreographed by Paul Dunca at Macaz, or Daniela Groza performative interaction at Point space, Be good for real, a public performance of honesty, responsibility and courage in which Daniela, a female gay militant for kindness, invites anyone curious to enter in an open dialogue where limits were negotiated peacefully, as well as the significant initiative to reflect on the history of LGBTs in Romania, brought forth by SAVAGED pINK, an art exhibition opened at ODD space, run by Cristina Bogdan), 2017
  • ARTA magazine, What Do The Mountains Hide?, by Valentina Iancu, [25], magazine article in Romanian and English language mentioning pre-queer art of the Ion Râmnic and István Mihály duo, with a retrospective organised by Ivan Gallery, 2018
  • ARTA magazine, Formal Encounters, by Valentina Iancu, [26] magazine article in Romanian and English language mentioning a queer curated exhibition at at that time at Bucharest based Nicodim Gallery, curated by by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, showcasing queer and non-queer Romanian and foreign artists, 2018
  • ARTA magazine, Against interpretation, by Gyula Muskovics, a magazine article[27] about Tamás Király (1952-2013), a fashion designer from the underground Budapest gay scene, 2018
  • ARTA magazine, Let’s talk performance art, by Marina Oprea, a magazine article[28] in Romanian and English language, about queer performance artist Fairid Fairuz, 2018
  • ARTA magazine, Self-Fulfiling Profecy, an interview[29] with trans artist Mi Kafchin, by Valentina Iancu, 2018.
  • ARTA magazine, “I have witchcraft in my blood too”, an interview[30] with the artist Virginia Lupu, by Gyula Muskovics, 2019
  • ARTA magazine, Chemtrails, a magazine article[31] by Valentina Iancu, in Romanian and English language about a queer show at Nicodim Gallery in Los Angeles bringing together recent work from trans artist Mi Kafchin, 2019
  • ARTA magazine, The State of the Romanian Avant-garde (I), a magazine article[32] in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist show "Lay me down across the lines", at Kunsthalle Bega, in Timisoara, Romanian, 2019
  • ARTA magazine, What’s Left From My Heart, by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article in Romanian and English language about the queer-feminist group FCNN (Feminist Collective with No Name) and its activity in various places in Romanian and abroad, with referenes to the queer artists Simona Dumitriu, Raluca Croitoru and Ileana Faur, 2019
  • ARTA magazine, Where Are You, Mircea Nicolae?, by Valentina Iancu, a magazine article[33] in Romanian and English language about the queer artist Mircea Nicolae, 2020
  • ARTA magazine, The Independent is Political, by Raluca Țurcanașu, a magazine article[34] about the Moldovan art scene, with a small reference to the queer Moldovan documentarist and performer Artiom Zavadovschi (insta profile: https://www.instagram.com/das.miss.verstaendnis/), 2020



  1. ↑ https://triumfamiria.ro/
  2. ↑ https://muzeulqueer.com/
  3. ↑ https://queermuzeum.pl/en/
  4. ↑ http://queerarchivesinstitute.org/
  5. ↑ https://unit.n-ost.org/en/eastern-queerope/
  6. ↑ https://labrisz.hu/en/herstory-archivum-es-cenzura-muzeum/
  7. ↑ https://en.hatter.hu/what-we-do/archive-and-library
  8. ↑ https://www.queerpamet.cz
  9. ↑ https://www.eastview.com/resources/e-collections/social-movements-elections-ephemera-lgbtq/
  10. ↑ https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4906
  11. ↑ http://www.kvirarhiv.org/en/about
  12. ↑ https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/414/749
  13. ↑ https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/414/749
  14. ↑ https://skuc-ll.si/about/english/#Lesbian-Library-&-Archives
  15. ↑ https://www.queersofia.org/queer-archive
  16. ↑ https://fractalia.ro/shop/colectii-fractalia/open-books/alex-zorila-spatii-aparte/
  17. ↑ https://humanitas.ro/assets/media/homoistorii.pdf
  18. ↑ https://humanitas.ro/humanitas/carte/castele-%C3%AEn-spania-0n
  19. ↑ https://vimeo.com/45527181
  20. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/ro/arta-noastra-queer/
  21. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/our-queer-art/
  22. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/hello-goodbye-2/
  23. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/sub-styles-diy-art-spaces-interdisciplinarity-and-hybrids/
  24. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-month-of-history-the-outsiders-savaged-pink-manifest-for-an-lgbt-archive/
  25. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/what-do-the-mountains-hide/
  26. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/formal-encounters-2/
  27. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/against-interpretation/
  28. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/lets-talk-performance-art/
  29. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/self-fulfiling/
  30. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/i-have-witchcraft-in-my-blood-too/
  31. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/chemtrails-2/
  32. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-state-of-the-romanian-avant-garde-i/
  33. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/column/where-are-you-mircea-nicolae/
  34. ↑ https://revistaarta.ro/en/the-independent-is-political/
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