Must-See Queer Feminist Exhibitions in Europe 2015

Edited by Anna McNay and Birthe Havmoeller Inspired by Kathleen Massara’s list 17 Must-See LGBTQ Exhibitions This Summer in New York and California, Anna McNay and I have created Feminine Moments’ list of Must-See Queer Feminist Exhibitions in Europe this Summer. The exhibitions we have selected for this list feature…

Must See Exhibition in Berlin – ‘Homosexuality_ies’

Poster: Homosexuality_ies, courtesy of Schwules Museum* Homosexuality_ies / Homosexualität_en June 26 to December 1, 2015 at Schwules Museum* and the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. The exhibition shows how same-sex sexuality and non-conformist gender identities have been criminalized and socially repressed and tells the story of the LGBT liberation…

Zanele Muholi Shortlisted for Deutche Börse Photography Prize

Article by Lerato Dumse Tick Tock for Deutsche Börse 2015 Prize With less than a week remaining before we are introduced to the winner of the renowned Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015. Predictions are still pouring in and opinions are shared from far and wide. Everyone wants to see their…

States of Visual Activism

“States of Visual Activism” talk with Staceyann Chin, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh and Zanele Muholi at Brooklyn Museum.

Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence

Press release by Brooklyn Museum Zanele Muholi (South African, born 1972). Faces and Phases installed at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany, 2012. (Photo: © Anders Sune Berg) Brooklyn Museum Presents Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence The largest U.S. Museum Exhibition of the South African Photographer’s Work, May 1, 2015, through November 1, 2015….

Zanele Muholi at The Photographers Gallery in London

Exhibition view; snapshot by Feminine Moments Zanele Muholi at The Photographers Gallery in London The Photographers’ Gallery showcase of Muholi’s work is part of a broader exhibition presenting the works of the four shortlistees of the prestigious Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 17 April until 7…

Video – ‘Zanele Muholi’ (2013)

Zanele Muholi Directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright, Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Zanele Muholi (2013). Award-winning photographer Zanele Muholi, who describes herself as a “visual activist,” has spent years documenting the lives of black lesbians and transgender people in South Africa. This video is dedicated to the memory of Duduzile Zozo, who…

Book: Faces and Phases (2006-14) by Zanele Muholi

A New Fine Art Photography Book: Faces and Phases (2006-14) by Zanele Muholi 368 Pages Hardback 17 x 24 cm English ISBN 978-3-86930-807-4 1. Edition 09/2014 Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015 In Faces and Phases 2006–14, Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of “visual activism” to ensure…

Zanele Muholi at Akershus Kunstsenter, Norway

Zanele Muholi – The Art of Activism February 21 – March 29 At Akershus Kunstcenter, Norway Zanele Muholi is among the renowned South African artists. Through her art she fights the cause of the black lesbians, gays and transsexuals. She has previously been showed at the Venice Biennial in 2013,…

Zanele Muholi Book Launch and Signing

Excerpt from Leslie-Lohman Museum Recommends – November 2014 ZANELE MUHOLI “FACES AND PHASES: 2006-14” BOOK LAUNCH AND SIGNING November 19, 6:30-8pm The Walther Collection Project Space 526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, New York RSVP essential: invitation@walthercollection.com In Faces and Phases: 2006-14, Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of visual…

Collaboration, Art, Social Change

Visual activist Zanele Muholi gave a talk at The O.P.E.N in Singapore Zanele Muholi (with a mic) at the opening in Singapore O.P.E.N. / Singapore International Festival of Arts 2014 (June 26 – July 12): Zanele Muholi attended the opening on June 26 and gave the talk: Collaboration, Art, Social…

New York: After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality

Press Release by Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Fresh Fruit Festival Leslie-Lohman Museum presents an exhibition of queer feminist artists exploring the body as site of resistance, envisioning a positive queer future. After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality Curated by Alexis Heller Exhibition…

Schwules Museum* Berlin – Zanele Muholi Photograph

Press release Zanele Muholi. Photography at Schwules Museum* in Berlin 22 March to 9 June 2014 Curators: Birgit Bosold & Wolfgang Theis The Schwules Museum* in collaboration with Amnesty International present an extensive exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi’s photographic works. You and your friends are cordially invited to:…

Zanele Muholi at Williamstown College

Photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi will show new photographs and a new video produced in Durban as a part of a presetation exploring Black Frees (the generation born post-apartheid South Africa: known as Mandela’s great-grandchildren), and how each person expresses him/herself queerly at the time of troubling hate crimes…

Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change

Press release Queer and Trans Art-iculations: Collaborative Art for Social Change Zanele Muholi and Gabrielle Le Roux [at WITS ART MUSEUM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa] Opening Wed 29 January 18h00 for 18h30. Exhibition dates: January 30 – March 30, 2014 Wits Art Museum, in partnership with Wits…

Montreuil Paris – 2nd Elles résistent Festival

Trailer Elles résistent France: The program of the 2nd Elles résistent – contre les violences masculines faites aux femmes festival is online now. The second edition or this vibrant radical feminist and lesbian festival takes place on November 24 – 30 2013 at La parole errante, 9, rue Francois Debergue,…

Amsterdam – Fo(u)nd by Zanele Muholi

South African photographer Zanele Muholi will be present at the Prince Claus Fund Gallery on 6 September 2013 for the opening of her exhibition fo(u)nd. Muholi will participate in a conversation about her work with Board Member of the Prince Claus Fund and Human Rights Watch LGBT Rights Advocacy Director…

HETERO Q.B. – INTERNATIONAL VIDEO PROGRAMME

09.04.2013 – 30.06.2013 the MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA MUSEU DO CHIADO in Portugal hosts an international programme of events, which showcases women artists, who work with themes ranging from feminism, to lesbianism and transgender. The artists are: Ana Bezelga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ana Pérez-Quiroga e Patrícia Guerreiro, Ana Pissarra, Carla…

Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West

The international conference Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West /Représentation du Corps Noir en Occident is being held in Paris, France January 17 – 20, 2013. Black Portraiture[s] explores the ideas of the production and skill of self-representation, desire, and the exchange of the gaze from the 19th…

Homosexuality and Art

Video: MORAL PANICS: SEXUALITY AND ART Queer artist Zanele Muholi, South Africa and gay male Pang Khee Teik, Arts Consultant and Human Rights Activist, Malaysia, spoke about sexuality and art at the “All That is Banned is Desired” conference, Oslo, 25 October 2012. Moderator: Robert Sember, Artist and Researcher (South Africa/USA).