Queer Art and Queer Curating

Duration: 17 March – 14 April 2026
Enroll Before: 13 March 2026
Fee: €189.00 (incl. VAT)
Live Sessions: 2 hrs/week
Max. Seats: 30

 

This course offers an introduction to queer theories, queer art practices, and ongoing conversations around forms and methods of queer exhibition-making. Queer curating not only concerns improved representation of the diversity of gender and sexuality in collections and exhibitions, but also addresses how this representation is achieved. It challenges the museum and exhibition as normalizing entities, where meanings are constructed and binary and heteronormative structures are reinforced.

The course explores practices that question heteronormative and binary settings, as well as conventional artistic and curatorial processes. Participants will gain grounding in the history of queer art and key exhibitions engaging with LGBTIQ+ representations and discourses. Since queering exhibitions is not only about what is presented but also how it is presented, the course considers potential future directions in curating from a queer perspective.

Participants will be encouraged to rethink exhibitions, collections, mediation and education, as well as institutional and personnel policies, while setting new thematic priorities within their own practices.

Each week includes a reading list, visual material, and assignments designed to deepen knowledge and critical engagement.

 

Image: Henry Scott Tuke (1858–1929), Noonday Heat, 1902. Via Wikimedia Commons.