Happy New Year, everyone! Berlin is cutting back on culture, so we are setting an example and saving our resources. That’s why we’re starting the new year like the old one – with a second episode of “Mail Art” “mail art”, rhyming, unsurprisingly, with “male art.” Since 2022, the Schwules Museum has been receiving sets of postcards anonymously from a post office box in New York City (USA). Each and every postcard is an individual collage of paper cuttings (containing images & language) by New York-based artist “Hokey Mokey.” Most motives depict the male physique (sometimes as variations of body parts) and gay desire. On the cards’ flip side, there is a kind of motto or a title (often full of sexual innuendo) to the collages––in combination with the obligatory “Hokey Mokey” stamp. Holy Moly, we cannot get enough of this “Male Mail Art!” The new selection of “Hokey Mokey” postcards is on display in our Café during January. As usual this find is also featured on Facebook and Instagram.

Exhibit description:
Hokey Mokey, New York City (USA)
“Mail Art” [“Male Art”]
set of postcards [2022-]
SMU, archive

Text: Heiko Pollmeier
Image: Yasmin Künze