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For three days, the Queer studio community prideART Berlin together with Tom of Finland Foundation was dedicated to the art inspired by Tom of Finland, his legacy, his influence on the current enfants terribles of the art world.

Queer interpretations of ancient Greek mythology and society are the focus of the photographic project ZOE by German artist Maik Gräf.

Banana and the Monkey are two unconventional characters that were created through the need for simplicity in the chaotic world that we live in. Not taking their ability to function as human beings for granted and leaning towards a queer lifestyle, they become outcasts, representing the other, possible victims of oppression and injustice. However, their optimistic, positive energy and total neglect for what is perceived as normal are the qualities this project aims to nurture.

Group exhibition.

This exhibition was about subverting toxic masculinity in the queer community through reinvigorating femme-ness and all of its powers. But what is femme-ness in a patriarchal world? The goal of the exhibition was to bring together work that highlights all kinds of femininity, especially the failing femmes, the femmes without abs, the fatties with bellies, the femmes that ruin their make up; the bimbos and faggot himbos.

When the whole city is in quarantine, the roofs of apartment buildings are transformed into fields of freedom. Fields of expression and existence without restrictions.

LGBTQI + couples show us what it is like to love and be loved over the harsh landscape of Athens.

Comfort Zone takes perspective on interpersonal relations, drawing parallels between experiences and sidelining what differentiates our identities. The tapestry is woven with juxtaposing natural and industrial fibres and divided into three sections, legible from behind and sensorily elsewhere.

To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause presents video works by artists that deploy music, sound, and storytelling to explore queer narratives. At the heart of the selected works is a desire to share personal experiences and public histories, and to broach ideas around sexuality and gender politics. The notion of performativity is evident in all the works, recalling the writings of José Esteban Muñoz and the utopian potential of the queer aesthetic and subject. 

Tethered is an amalgam of footage recorded from the online platform chatroulette between March and April 2020. It started as voyeuristic practice to witness how the pandemic could be (re)shaping these online channels of communication across the network and it became an exercise of critique on the concept of the saturated self (Gergen). In most cases, during the online visits to the site, the users were given the image of themselves, a sort of feedback of their own immediate reality.

Kissing surrounded by fireflies, sharing cigarettes after sex and eating an artichoke; ‘Looking for Love’ is a kind of wanted ad in form of oil paintings of various sizes, silver fringe curtains and video performance.

As long as we give our respects to all the cultures that have helped shaped the whole humanity, we're on the right path.

The diva is a pop cultural figure whose appeal and power lie in her vulnerability.  She is revered for the extreme emphasis and aestheticization of her pain.

Bathhouses were initially places for gay men to come together and enjoy their sexuality without having to hide or feel ashamed of their natural choices. They were  places of solidarity and fun. In the age of Grindr and instant gratification, they have become an extension of a social media frenzy, offering a quick fix. However, they still promote personal contact (physical and emotional), as well as the opportunity for the queer community to get together and celebrate love.

In the 80s Revenioti published the influential trans-anarchist fanzine Kraximo, which she funded through her prostitution.

Suspended between militant masculinity and polymorphous perversity, secret codes and shameless exhibitionism, creeping shame and ecstatic resistance, this constellation of fragments celebrates the ruins, the future and the endlessly shifting parameters of the queer, post-queer and post-post-queer archive.

Tom of Finland Foundation Artists-in-residence Konstantinos Menelaou and Florian Hetz presented their works-in-progress at TOM House. Hetz showcased a newly printed zine entitled I’m Sorry I Hurt You.Menelaou showed a portion of his upcoming film, California Sober.

10 international artists have created around the theme of Christmas and donated an artwork for sale during the exhibition. All profits will go to Praxis - an Athens-based organization that cares for the homeless and those in need.

In collaboration with Athens Porn Film Festival this is a selection of the hottest short films around that push the boundaries between art, porn and beyond.

A solidarity exhibition with artworks  from some of Ukraine’s foremost queer artists.

The Queer Archive launches its Artshop - an online art gallery aiming to create a large international community of artists whose work touches upon queered or queer-responsive approaches to human existence or manifests meaningful queer interpretations.

“Life Guarding” is based around water metaphors, both in the track’s lyrics and in its visuals. It is a film-collage by Tillmans, edited by Michael Amstad, that explores shifts its lens “between micro and macrocosms, collages of body parts, fruit and insects, we find him equally paying attention to the waves of the Atlantic Ocean as well as to the ‘same’ water in the form of drops, evaporating on a hot kitchen plate”

“Comfortably Wild” is a photography slideshow - an ongoing project, about an existing, real world that is unknown to many of us. It is about the  (r)evolution of the Athenian queer scene and society from 2016 until today, a “miracle” between raw reality and fantasy.

High rank army generals presenting their androgynous body characteristics. A virtuous noble woman wearing a strap-on dildo. A prestigious officer indulging his curves. Herma by Tamir David is a series of drawings and etchings, celebrating the ongoing shifts in social values and gender representation. 

George Striftaris' first tools come from his experience as an actor and casting director. It is this experience, imbued with his love for painting, that guides and defines his photographic art. Dedicated, simple, relentless, he manages to encapsulate in his images those dimensions of reality that we miss.

Eden Levi Am's search for a gender identity outside binary opposites was first intuitive then intellectual.

In an eternal altercation with death, the body is conceived as an element of substance of oneself and a boundary of social action.

The interlaced images are filled with a powerful emotional charge; models occupying, appropriating and engaging with the photographic frame are addressing the human body as a site of aesthetic potency.

The act of cruising is a practice that appropriates the pre-determined and common uses of urban public spaces from streets to parks with a queer geography using as little as a backwards glance or a quick smile.

In his body of work Kostis Fokas searches for a new take on the human body and seeks to explore its infinite capabilities.His photographs are a testimony of human sculpture; a landscape where the bizarre meets the ordinary.