Queer Exhibition Histories

Edited with text by Bas Hendrikx. Text by Aaron Betsky, Övül Durmusoglu, Aleksandra Gajowy, Halyna Gleba, Jessica Gysel, Valentina Iancu, Ryan Kearney, Katrin Kivimaa, Léon Kruijswijk, Élisabeth Lebovici, Edwin Nasr, François Piron, Sylvia Sadzinski, Kateryna Yakovlenko, Liang-Kai Yu, et al. This anthology gathers case studies from the history of queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. The legacy of these projects often depends on personal archives, and consequently "public" is a relative term for events that were either short-lived, held in domestic spaces or only for those in the know. At the intersection of queerness and contemporary art, this volume considers how the efforts of LGBTQ artists have advanced their public presence in museums and society alike.Case studies include Storefront for Art and Architecture’s 1994 Queer Spaces exhibition and the Cruising Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale; the "Queer Kharkiv School of Photography"; M