with works by

Katharina Aigner, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Claude Cahun, Zackary Drucker & Marval Rex, El Palomar, Nicholas Grafia, Philipp Gufler, Richard Grune, Lena Rosa Händle, Hannah Höch, Paul Hoecker, Nina Jirsíková, Germaine Krull, Elisar von Kupffer, Zoltán Lesi & Ricardo Portilho, Herbert List, Heinz Loew, Jeanne Mammen, Michaela Melián, Henrik Olesen, Emil Orlik, Max Peiffer Watenphul, Jonathan Penca, Lil Picard, Karol Radziszewski, Alexander Sacharoff, Gertrude Sandmann, Christian Schad, Renée Sintenis, Mikołaj Sobczak, Wolfgang Tillmans

TO BE SEEN is dedicated to the stories of LGBTIQ* people in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. With historical testimonies and artistic positions from then to the present, the exhibition traces queer lifestyles and networks, free spaces and persecution.

The exhibition takes an intimate look at diverse genders, bodies and identities. It showes how queer life became increasingly visible in the 1920s and how a more open approach to role models and desire emerged. Homosexual, trans* and non-binary people achieved their first successes in their fight for equal rights and social acceptance: they organised themselves, fought for scientific and legal recognition of their gender identity and conquered their own spaces.

However, in addition to recognition and visibility in art and culture, science, politics and society, resistance also increased. After the National Socialists came to power, the LGBTIQ* subculture was largely destroyed. After 1945, their stories and fates were barely archived or remembered.

https://www.nsdoku.de/en/tobeseen