Queer as German Folk
Exhibition Impressions from New York City
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When objects materialize: slogan tees in multiple colors
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The setup team (from right to left: Hannah, Katharine, Georg) ready to start ...
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... and in action
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The intro panel before the installation...
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... and fully installed
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The whole exhibition seen from above
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Station 1: Before
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Station 2: Protest in East and West
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Station 3: Can Drag Queens be Socialists?
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Station 5: Showing One’s Colors
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Station 7: Ravensbrück and Pink Triangle
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Civil registry office campaign
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Fascinating Stonewall moments
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Please touch the information
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Documents become objects
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Browsing facts
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In front of the snap barricade
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When the work is done: curators Carina Klugbauer and Birgit Bosold with Goethe-Institut director Georg Blochmann at the exhibition opening in New York
Visitors can take main and side paths along the historical continuum of the exhibition. Adhesive tape imprinted with the exhibition title serves as an innovative leitmotif on the floor and on the walls. The look back at the history of the queer movement ends with an outlook: the Manifestos for a Queer Future and the Stonewall snaps. While visitors may take the manifestos home to read, the snap wall, reminiscent of a street barricade, invites them to contribute their own Stonewall moments to the exhibition.
Two projections complement the core exhibition. Each of them features five protagonists from New York and Berlin telling about the moment in their lives when they became queer activists or took their engagement in a new direction. This is a simple way to build a contemporary bridge between New York and Berlin.