“A hill is a hill until you see it as a holy mountain and a sacred place belonging to our ancestors.” – Birthe Havmøller
Illustration: How to cut a cloud into two halves (2023) by Birthe Havmøller
Category: Photography
Video (1:05:13): Artist talk by Jess T. Dugan at Hendrix College (Nov 2023). Jess’ exhibtion ‘Every Breath We Drew’ is on exhibit through December 12, 2023 at Windgate Museum of Art, Conway, Arkansas.
Video (1:21:35) A discussion between critically acclaimed artist Zoe Leonard and MCA Director Suzanne Cotter on ‘Al río / To the River’. Suzanne Cotter starts with a deep presentation of Zoe Leonard’s ouvre from a queer feminist point of view.
‘Al río / To the River’ by Zoe Leonard, 11 August – 5 November at MCA in Sydney, Australia. Curator talks 27 October and 3 November 2023.
Video (12:29): FRANCE 24 has invited Simon Baker, director of la Maison européenne de la photographie to talk about Zanele Muholi’s 2023 exhibition in Paris. Language: French.
Video (56:16): Berenice Abbott: A View of the 20th Century, 1992, a documentary directed by Martha Wheelock and Kay Weaver. And published on Youtube by The MET, New York in 2021.
Video (1:45) A short biography about the life of Germaine Krull (1897–1985), bisexual woman, artist photographer, hotellier and buddhist.
Video (56:48): This pride panel debate by Los Angeles Center of Photography is showcasing the impactful photographs by the queer artists Jeanette Spicer and Michael Young. Jeanette Spicer starts with a presentation of the erotic photographs from her book Sea(see).
Portrait photographer Shelby Sharie Cohen took Kinky BDSM photographs of Butches and Femmes in the 1980s. She photographed for On Our Backs.
Video (1:02:35): Photographers Jaypix Belmer, Jess T. Dugan, and C. Rose Smith discuss how they use the photographic image to construct queer visual histories through intimate representations of individuals with nonbinary, transgender, and gender-expansive identities.
FEMME at Galerie Émilie Dujat, Bruxelles June 16 – July 8 2023, is Renée Jacobs’ first solo exhibition in Belgium. It is a comprehensive and uncensored overview of more than 120 works.
Yours truly have been to Odense to see the exhibition Claude Cahun: Under huden (/Claude Cahun: Under the Skin) at Brandts Klædefabrik aka Art Museum Brandts, Odense, Denmark. The exhibition runs through 23/7 2023.
Lola Flash’s “Believable: Traveling with My Ancestors” April 20, 2023 (6:30PM – 7:30PM) at International Center of Photography, 79 Essex Street, New York
PAS-À-PAS; NOT INTENT ON ARRIVING. A new photo-based exhibition by SD Holman at the SUM Gallery, Vancouver, Canada The exhibition runs through Jun 2, 2023. The works are from Holman’s walk across Canada following the death of their wife, Catherine White Holman.
‘Catherine Opie: Binding Ties’ brings together more than fifty key works traversing the queer artist’s historic and recent practice. The exhibition runs through July 9, 2023 at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australia.
Video (26:19): Tony Guida’s NY is a talk show illuminating the colorful corners of New York. His guest is Bonnie Yochelson, Art Historian and author of a coming book about the photographer and lesbian Alice Austen (1866 – 1952).
Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA presents: Images on which to build, 1970s-1990s, MAR 10 – JUL 30, 2023
Zanele Muholi at Maison européenne de la photographie (MEP), 5/7 rue de Fourcy, Paris, France, February 1 – May 5 2023. The exhibition features more than 200 photographs and videos since the early 2000s by queer feminist artist Zanele Muholi.
Claude Cahun: Under huden, February 10 – July 23 2023 at The Brandts Museum, Odense, Denmark. The large retrospective exhibition features 70 photographs and photomontages by the lesbian artist, or made in collaboration with her partner, illustrator and designer Marcel Moore.
Video (24:13): a flip through the whole 2,44 kilos gorgeous coffee table book ‘Wonderland’ by Annie Leibovitz (2021).