Modern Oblivion – Queer Modernity at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the first exhibition in Europe to present the previously underestimated but groundbreaking contribution of queer artists to modernism. In their programs, queer artists created alternatives to prevailing lifestyles that placed the influence and perspective of gender and sexuality on styles, movements, and programs at the center of their artistic work.
Desire, individual experience, the politics of self-expression, and social history become visible in their work. Many of these artists have so far been marginalized in the dominant historiography or dismissed as “counter-modern.” Others are examined for the first time in the exhibition from the perspective of queer aesthetics.
The result of years of research, this exhibition completes our picture of modernism with over forty artists, some of whom have been forgotten and some of whom are very well known. It includes works from Eastern and Western Europe, from North and Latin America. It also tells the story of queer life in a time marked by war, persecution, and resistance.
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40213 Düsseldorf
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11 – 18 Uhr
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