Queer-art
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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:
- Lumi Rațiu & Alex Bodea on Queering the MNAR European Art Gallery (at the National Museum of Art of Romania), July 2026.
- Lumi Rațiu & Alex Bodea on Queering the Zambaccian Collection (at the National Museum of Art of Romania), July 2026.
Documentation of 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]
- ↑ https://triumfamiria.ro/
- ↑ https://muzeulqueer.com/
- ↑ https://queermuzeum.pl/en/
- ↑ http://queerarchivesinstitute.org/
- ↑ https://unit.n-ost.org/en/eastern-queerope/
- ↑ https://labrisz.hu/en/herstory-archivum-es-cenzura-muzeum/
- ↑ https://en.hatter.hu/what-we-do/archive-and-library
- ↑ https://www.queerpamet.cz
- ↑ https://www.eastview.com/resources/e-collections/social-movements-elections-ephemera-lgbtq/
- ↑ https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/12/resources/4906
- ↑ http://www.kvirarhiv.org/en/about
- ↑ https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/414/749
- ↑ https://www.apparatusjournal.net/index.php/apparatus/article/view/414/749
- ↑ https://skuc-ll.si/about/english/#Lesbian-Library-&-Archives
- ↑ https://www.queersofia.org/queer-archive
