top of page

ART

339814388_645996724029818_4682370726685501323_n.jpg

TOM OF FINLAND ART & CULTURE FESTIVAL BERLIN

ALEJANDRO HERNÁNDEZ BASCÓN

CALLUM LEO HUGHES

ARNOLDAS KUBILIUS

DANIEL PARAMIO ORTIZ

ALINA GROSS

ZACH GREAR

EDEN LEVI AM

JAVIER ALEJANDRO CERRADA

HAOTIQUE

THANOS MEGKOS

UNSEETHAT

MAIK GRÄF

OMER GA’ASH

JACOB LOVE

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.

2.jpg

ZOE

Maik Gräf

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

Poster3 copy.jpg

BANANA AND THE MONKEY

Konstantinos Menelaou

George Kontos

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.

Rag injecting, 2021.jpg

FEEDING THE QUEER ARCHIVE

Stiofan O'Ceallaigh

Qingyi Ren

Shia Conlon

Callum Leo Hughes

Unseenthat

Alina Gross

Kostis Kontogewrgos

Group exhibition.

Spyros Rennt_Shia.JPG

FEMME4FEMME4EVER 

Rory Midhani
Antigoni Bunny Tsagkaropoulou
h0tgir1bummrr
Eleni Bagaki
alienprincesshasgreasyhair
Theodora Savvalaridi
Vas Lazaridou
Artemisia Reppa
Sofia Rozaki
Rafael Medina
Spyros Rennt

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.

IMG_0199_ copy.JPG

ROOFTOP LOVERS

Vasilis Kekatos

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.

IMG_1026.jpeg

COMFORT ZONE

Andy James

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.

MY BARBARIAN.jpeg

TO BE WILLING TO MARCH INTO HELL FOR A HEAVENLY CAUSE

Marina Doritis

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. 

Still004.jpg

TETHERED

Daniel Pinheiro

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.

flowersforjenny_oiloncanva_130x130cm_jea

 LOOKING FOR LOVE 

Jeanne Jacob

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.

5.jpg

 OBJECTS OF DELIGHT 

Aaron Moth

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

TORBEN copy.png

 DIVA 

Torben Jost

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.

_MG_7293.JPG

 THE SAUNA SESSION 

Olympe De G

Antonio Da Silva

Bruce LaBruce

Aron Kantor

Rafael Perez Evans

Menelas

Jordi Estrada

Slava Mogutin

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.

PAOLA 8.jpg

 KRAXIMO - THE EXHIBITION 

Paola Revenioti

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

60904734_2157255757676763_47596516833388

 CAUGHT IN THE ACT 

Stuart Comer

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.

Screenshot 2023-05-22 at 9.02.41 PM.png

CALIFORNIA SOBER / SORRY I HURT YOU

Konstantinos Menelaou / Florian Hetz

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.

unseen that 40x40.jpg

XXXMAS RATED

Kostis Fokas

Eden Levi Am

Jason Morris

George Striftaris

Alina Gross

Vasilis Vilaras

Unseen That

Ori Paul Levi

George Kontos

Yan Petris

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.

Disgrace-TRIBUTE_02.jpg

WET 1&2

Bruce Labruce

Max Disgrace

Antonio Da Silva

Grundvold

Lily Lu

Nicky Miller

Kate Sinclaire

Evie Snax

Marit Östberg

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.

Rebel Queers 2.jpg

UNDERGROUND4UKRAINE

Anton Shebetko

Rebel Queers

Zhenya Tramvay

Bogdan Moroz

Kinder Limo

​

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

JASON MORRIS DANINO HOLT.jpg

THE QUEER ARCHIVE GALLERY LAUNCH 

Unseen That

George Kanis

Alejandro H. Bascon

Kostis Fokas

The Dreamer

Aaron Moth

Chrysanthos Christodoulou

Nicklas Hultman

Neige Sanchez

Stephie Grape

Tamir David

Stuart Sandfor

Alina Gross

Jason Morris Danino Holt

George Striftaris

George Cassapides

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.

Lifeguarding_still_14.jpg

LIFEGUARDING

Wolfgang Tillmans

“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”

49.jpg

COMFORTABLY WILD

Nikos Menoudarakos

“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.

fry.jpeg

HERMA

Tamir David

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_IMG_8844-2.jpg

DIALOGUES

George Striftaris

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.

censure-edenleviam.jpg

 RÉENCHANTEMENT DES CORPES 

Eden Levi Am

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

Screenshot 2021-04-09 at 3.48.59 PM.png

 THANATON, ROUGH CUT 

Kiriakos Chadjiioannou

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

Gerardo01 copy.jpg

 INTROVERT / EXTROVERT 

Kostis Fokas

Gerardo Vismanos

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.

postcard side 1.jpg

 THE CRUISING 

Konstantinos Menelaou

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.

16.jpg

 I'M NOT MALFUNCTIONING, YOU ARE 

Kostis Fokas

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.

bottom of page