Queer-art

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,

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.

Queer Archives (documentation on queer culture and history )

• Triumf Amiria, a nomadic, fluid and uninstitutionalised cultural museum focused on queer art, initiator: the artistic group KILOBASE BUCHAREST
• Romanian Queer History and Culture Museum, initiator: Florin Buhuceanu
• Romanian Lesbian archive, initiator: Alex Zorilă
• Polish Queer Muzeum Warszawa, an initiative by Lambda Warszawa, Poland’s oldest LGBTQ+ organization
• Polish Queer Archive Institute, initiator: Karol Radziszewski
• Forgotten Stories of Eastern European Queer Heroes: 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
• Hungarian Hatter Archive
• Czech Collection of the Society for Queer Memory
• Commercialised mediated digital archive focused on Eastern-Europe
• Douglas Conrad LGBT Collection focused on Eastern Europe, held at Yale University, initiator: Douglas Conrad
• Bosnian Kvir Arhiv (Queer Archive Bosnia), initiator: Okvir association
• Serbian Arkadija Archive, initiator: Jelena Vasiljević
• Albanian HomeSpace Arkivi Queer Shqiptar, initiator: Safira Boeder
• Slovenian Lesbian Library and Archives
• Bulgarian Queer Archive

Queer writings

Books

• Spații aparte (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
• Homoistorii: Ieșirea din invizibilitate (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.,
• Castele în Spania (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
• Cuvinte poticnite (Scrambled words), by Alexandru Lupescu, in Romanian language, edited by Ed. Pastel, ISBN: 978-606-658-439-5, poems

Press articles

• ARTA magazine, Arta „noastră” queer („Our queer art”), article on Czech queer art, in Romanian language