Queer as German Folk Impressions d'exposition de la ville de New York
Photo: Katharine Maller
When objects materialize: slogan tees in multiple colors
Photo: Goethe-Institut New York
The setup team (from right to left: Hannah, Katharine, Georg) ready to start ...
Photo: Hanna Blumas
... and in action
Photo: Hannah Blumas
The intro panel before the installation...
Photo: Sarah Blesener
... and fully installed
Photo: Sarah Blesener
The whole exhibition seen from above
Photo: Hanna Blumas
Station 1: Before
Photo: Hannah Blumas
Station 2: Protest in East and West
Photo: Hannah Blumas
Station 3: Can Drag Queens be Socialists?
Photo: Hannah Blumas
Station 5: Showing One’s Colors
Photo: Hannah Blumas
Station 7: Ravensbrück and Pink Triangle
Photo: Hannah Blumas
Civil registry office campaign
Photo: Sarah Blesener
Fascinating Stonewall moments
Photo: Sarah Blesener
Please touch the information
Photo: Sarah Blesener
Documents become objects
Photo: Sarah Blesener
Browsing facts
Photo: Sarah Blesener
In front of the snap barricade
Photo: Sarah Blesener
When the work is done: curators Carina Klugbauer and Birgit Bosold with Goethe-Institut director Georg Blochmann at the exhibition opening in New York
The ground floor of the Goethe-Institut New York is a multifunctional public space. It serves as a library and meeting point and hosts film screenings, panel discussions, seminars, and installations. Here, the exhibition Queer as German Folk and its “trail of liberation” brilliantly unfold.
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.