
"Venus de Milo (Aphrodite from Melos),” ca. 150- 125 BC, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY;
“Self Portrait with Robert Andy Coombs in My Dorm Room," detail, 2019, © Joey Solomon, Manhattan, New York
Queering the Crip,
Cripping the Queer
An Exhibit on Queer/Disability History, Activism, and Culture
2 September 2022 — 30 January 2023
Opening: 1 September 2022 at 7PM
“Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer” is the first international exhibit exploring the multiple historical, cultural, and political intersections of queerness and disability. Disability studies scholar Carrie Sandahl, who coined the phrase, writes: “sexual minorities and people with disabilities. … share a history of injustice: both have been pathologized by medicine; demonized by religion; discriminated against in housing, employment, and education; stereotyped in representation; victimized by hate groups; and isolated socially, often in their families of origin.”
Disability and queer histories are similar, if not always parallel. Sometimes queers and the disabled acquiesce to the fantasy of “the ideal body,” but queer/disabled artists mostly counter it. The exhibition is to a large degree curated by queers and people with disabilities; the contemporary artists exhibited largely self-identify as disabled and queer. Sandahl points out, “Those who claim both identities may be best positioned to illuminate their connections, to pinpoint where queerness and ‘cripdom’ intersect, separate and coincide.”
The exhibit includes the work of 24 contemporary international artists whose works speak to the historical themes and objects of the exhibit, and includes a selection of work by artists who created while institutionalized and whose works were collected by the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, as well as a section on important queer/disabled artist icons Lorenza Böttner, Raimund Hoghe, and Audre Lorde.
Plan Your Visit
Please wear a medical mask during your visit. Medical masks are required during guided tours.
Exhibit Dates
2 September 2022 — 30 January 2023
Exhibit Opening
1 September 2022 at 7PM
Location
Schwules Museum
Lützowstraße 73
10785 Berlin
Hours
- Monday: Noon-6PM
- Tuesday: Closed
- Wednesday: Noon-6PM
- Thursday: Noon-8PM
- Friday: Noon-6PM
- Saturday: 2-7PM
- Sunday: 2-6PM
Public holidays: closed on 1st January, 24th December, 25th December, 31st December and public holidays on Tuesdays.