Queer as German Folk
Exhibition Washington

May 23 to August 23, 2019

Goethe-Institut Washington

The DC Center for the LGBT Community

Exhibition venues Washington

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
Exhibit Impressions from Washington, DC

Our exhibit is not presented in a chronological order, but instead is organized like a deconstructed archive, allowing the visitor to experience chance encounters with the history of LGBTQ communities in the DC area and Germany.

Local Advisor
Mary Claire Phillips

“I cherish DC’s LGBTQ+ community, and this exhibit is my way of giving back to the District.”

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.