curatorial work, project management, archival and editorial work, writing, lectures, art work
I led and co-curated a year-long intersectional queer-feminist intervention at the world’s largest LGBTQIA+ museum, where I’ve served on the board of directors for four years. It took me another three years to archive this project. For 25 years, I’ve been living, working, organizing, and resisting within queer communities.
If you’d like support with your projects or activism around social justice — also within institutional contexts — I’m happy to share lessons hard-earned along the way.
archive + magazine – yearofthewomen.netonline platform + PDF magazine, English and German
This website archives and accompanies the YEAR OF THE WOMEN*, the yearlong queer feminist intervention at the Schwules Museum in 2018. The Schwules Museum is the world's largest institution for art, curatorial research, collecting, archiving, and communicating LGBTQIA+ history_ies and culture. The intervention aimed to establish women*, lesbians, inter*, non-binary, trans*, and agender people (WLINTA*) as members of the museum community and authors of their own representation within it. It also sought to embed community-backed queer-feminist, anti-racist, intersectional policies in the structures and values of the museum. This platform offers various perspectives that allow for a detailed overview of the project. The YEAR OF THE WOMEN* served as a point of crystallization and change for the Schwules Museum. This program has been the only one of its kind within an institutional framework up to this point.
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Birgit Bosold, Vera Hofmann:kuratieren #7: Year of the Women*, Schwules Museum 2018Verlag der Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, 2021text in English and GermanEdited by Ulrike BoskampISSN: 2510-2273In 2018, the Schwules Museum transmitted a strong signal against sexism and the marginalization of women* in art, culture and the queer communities by dedicating its entire annual program to female, lesbian, trans, inter and nonbinary perspectives under the title Jahr der Frau_en / Year of the Women*. Almost two years later and all the richer in experience Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann are attempting a dialogical reflection on this queer-feminist intervention, which they directed together. They briefly introduce the project and then illuminate some of its background information in the form of a honest dialogue to render transparent the complexity and contradictions, controversies and concurrences of their shared curating.
What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating? Delivered through critical theoretical essays, practice-informed case studies, and manifestos, the essays in this book offer insights from diverse contexts and geographies.more
2017 Visual essay for Bosold, Hofmann, How Could This Have Happened? Reflexions on Current Programming Strategies of Schwules Museum Berlin, in: Queer Curating, on curating, Issue 37 / June 2017, eds. Jonathan Katz, Isabell Hufschmidt, and Änne Söll (Dorothee Richter, Zürich, 2017)
Auf Selbstorganisation und Fürsorge basierende Commons-Ansätze eröffnen auch der Kunst Chancen zur Veränderung und Transformation. Aber wie kann Gemeinschaffen – Commoning – in der Kunst gelingen? Das transdisziplinäre Autor*innenteam verbindet die aktuelle Commons-Forschung mit feministischen, queeren, postkolonialen und ökosozialen Perspektiven. Mit der Analyse von Kunst für Commons, Kunst als Commons und Kunst durch Commoning sowie entlang konkreter Projekte werden Thesen und Werkzeuge formuliert, die Orientierung und Inspiration für die eigene Praxis bieten können.
lectures and talks:
2024 Lecture "Is queering the museum enough?", Wissenschaft und Kunst, Programmbereich Gesellschaft & Nachhaltigkeit | Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kulturproduktion und des Museum der Moderne Salzburg, AT
2022 Keynote Lecture, "Year of the Women*", book launch Radicalizing Care, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AT
2022 Artist Talk, "How can we talk about queer culture?", Triumf Amiria, RO
2021 Curator's talk, kuratieren#7, Foundation Arthur Boskamp
2019 Lecture, Queering Memory, Alms Conference, Berlin, DE
2018 Lecture, "Joint Ventures: Movements in Feminism / Feminisms in Movement", Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
2018 Co-curation and lecture, "Who(se) Care(s), Kuratieren: Re-Produktives Kümmern. Kritisch, feministisch, queer.", Symposium, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
2018 Film curation, panelist, "Archival practises between self-organization and institutional framework", Afrodite*, Athens Festival, , Athens, GR
2018 Curator "Year of the Women*", year-long queer-feminist intervention, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DECurator of 12 Moons Film Lounge, 12 film programs, 1 exhibitionCurator Dyke Bar "Spirits", year long bar project + eventsCurator "our own feminismS – year long a queer-feminist future lab , lectures and eventsProject management, programming, curation, documentation of various formats, exhibitions and events
2017 Curation, "Queer Healing Day", Buddhistisches Tor, Berlin, DE
2017 Organization of film screenings by female / queer filmmakers, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
2022-2024 translating Commoning Art–The transformative Potentials in the Arts
2021 Residency Ankara Queer Art Residency Program2020-2022 co-writing Commoning Art – Die transformativen Potentiale in der Kunstsince 2019 initiator and/or member of peer led groups on queering + commoning, resource distribution, social justice, health2019-2022 archiving, lecturing, writing and publishing on the "Year of the Women*"
2018 Co-Curator and project manager of theme year "Year of the Women*",curator of "12 Moons Film Lounge", "Dyke Bar: SPIRITS" and co-curator of lecture series "our own feminismS", Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
DE: „Das Schwule Museum in Bewegung", kultur mitte, 7.1.2019
DE: Zeitpunkte, Kulturradio vom rbb, 14.01.2018, ab Minute 33
EN: Year of the Women*, kuratieren #7,in conversation with Helena Reckitt, Goldsmiths and Ulrike Boskamp, Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, 23.06.2021
EN + RO: "How can we talk about queer culture?", in conversation with Dragoș Olea, Triumf Amiria, 11.2.2022
EN + PT: "Burning Down the House; Queer Art and Capitalism", Umbigo #81, 2022
