Queer as German Folk
Exhibition
Chicago

1st to 28th of June 2019

The Leather Archives and Museum

Packingtown Museum at the Plant

Goethe-Institut Chicago

Playful, committed, and colorful like the queer movement itself: beginning at the end of May 2019, eight branches of the Goethe-Institut in North America and Schwules Museum Berlin present the exhibition Queer as German Folk. From more than 100 digitized exhibits from the Schwules Museum, the exhibition can be created “on demand” at any desired location and enriched with local components. Documents and archive materials become objects that form structured or anarchic installations and invite the public to interact. The exhibition’s fanzine will be published in four languages: German, English, French, and Spanish.

Queer as German Folk
Impressions Chicago

Chicago is known to be a segregated city: the affluent North visavis the socio-economically disadvantaged South and West of the city. Our target audience, the Latinx and Afro-American communities almost never visit exhibition in Loop Downtown Chicago. That's why we chose three other exhibition venues.

Local Advisor
Mason Culkin

As a consultant for the local component of Queer as German Folk, together with Liliana Macias, Mason Culkin focuses on important but forgotten queer Latinx places in Chicago.

Local Advisor
Liliana Macias

“I am currently researching the intersection between queerness, undocumented migrants, and feminism in the United States.”

Exhibition Team

The exhibition was curated by Birgit Bosold and Carina Klugbauer of the Schwules Museum Berlin. The exhibition design was developed by the Berlin agency chezweitz, who had previously designed the Homosexualität_en exhibition, a collaborative project of the German Historical Museum and the Schwules Museum Berlin.