New in the art collection: The Schwules Museum acquires a photographic series ...
6. December 2024
Annette Frick's portraits of Gunter Strube, BeV StroganoV and the drag couple “Fiona & a friend” are among the new acquisitions in more
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Press Area: Young Birds from Strange Mountains – Queer Arts from Southeast ...
29. November 2024
An artistic and archive-based exhibition on queer life, queer knowledge and queer spirituality in Southeast Asia and its diaspora
Strategies of Resilience – Insights into the Life of Eberhardt Brucks
17. October 2024
The life of Eberhard Brucks in the mirror of contemporary artworks
Obituary: Jens Dobler (1965-2024)
13. September 2024
After a serious illness, our former archive and collection manager Dr. Jens Dobler passed away in Berlin.
In Memoriam Dr. Jens Dobler
13. September 2024
We remember Dr. Jens Dobler, our former head of archives and collections, who died on February 13 after a serious illness.
The Neighborhood Goes to the Gay Museum
13. May 2024
a cooperation with the Tiergarten-Süd district coordination office
Press Section: With Legs Wide Open – A Whore’s Ride Through History
26. March 2024
The whores from the MUSEUM OF SEX WORK have their say!
Press section: Coming to Terms with the Past: Sexual Violence against Children ...
18. August 2023
a joint exhibition of Schwules Museums and Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung
Press section: The Schwules Museum as an endangered space
19. July 2023
Press release "The Schwules Museum as an endangered space"
Press section: lieben. kämpfen. tanzen. – 50 years Sonntags-Club
6. June 2023
The Sonntags-Club combative and turbulent history is made visible in a 50th anniversary exhibition at two locations: the Sonntags-Club and the Schwules more
Obituary: Egmont Fassbinder (1945-2023)
17. May 2023
After a long and serious illness, publisher and activist Egmont Fassbinder has died in Berlin at the age of 77.
Press section: Photography as a Way of Life. Rüdiger Trautsch, 50 years ...
4. May 2023
In the retrospective of Rüdiger Trautsch, who died in 2021, focal points of his work from five decades will be exhibited.
Press section: _Gap: Having Time. Counting Time. Filling Time.
3. May 2023
An immersive space for doing nothing together, a film and audio program with works by international artists to hang around and have more
Shots fired at the Schwules Museum
28. February 2023
Statement of the Gay Museum regarding the most recent attack
fun and easy queer glitter BOOM with Prince Emrah
1. February 2023
A workshop program on queer identity and performance
Schwules Museum official partner of the JUGENDKULTURKARTE Berlin
1. February 2023
The SMU participates in the 50€ credit for all Berliners from 18-23 years of age.
A stroll with sex workers through Schöneberg
2. November 2022
The audio tour "We Have Always Been Everywhere" on sex work in Schöneberg releases on 1st December with a guided walking tour more
The YEAR OF THE WOMEN* goes online!
6. October 2022
In 2018, the Schwules Museum proclaimed the YEAR OF THE WOMEN*. Now a multi-layered documentation of the project is going online with more
Press: Morepixx? 2022
23. August 2022
For the 19th edition of the fetish-street festivla, the SMU is showing the nominations, as well as the final winner of the more
Press section: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer
22. July 2022
The Schwules Museum opens the first international exhibition on queerness and disability on September 1st.
Tuntenhaus Forellenhof 1990: Gay Communism’s Short Summer
1. July 2022
On the evening of May 1 in 1990, Tunten from Kreuzberg occupy the Mainzer Straße 4 in East-Berlin and develop an anti-patriarchal more
Saideh Saadat-Lendle wins the Berlin Prize for Lesbian* Visibility 2022
27. April 2022
The Board of the Schwules Museum congratulates Saideh Saadat-Lendle, founder and long-time director of LesMigraS, for winning the Berlin Prize for Lesbian* more
Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt
8. April 2022
Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt is the first exhibition in Germany about Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.
Encantadas
26. January 2022
Encantadas describes the search for original Latin American identities by a young collective with the three Brazilian trans curators A TRANSÄLIEN, Sanni more
Press Section: The Gutter Art of Stephen Varble: Genderqueer Performance Art in ...
12. October 2021
In costumes made from street trash, food waste, and stolen objects, Stephen Varble took to the streets of 1970s New York City more
Press section: Mercury Rising – Inter* Hermstory[ies] Now and Then
1. October 2021
SMU's first inter*-only exhibition is dedicated to the past and present of the intersex movement in activism, society, art and culture.
arcHIV. A Search for Traces
5. August 2021
The exhibition project "arcHIV" broadly investigates the museum's collection(s) on HIV/AIDS.
Trans Pride Week – Insta-Live with Jonathan
24. June 2021
Happy Pride Month: Facebook Blocks The Schwules Museum Berlin
11. June 2021
On Thursday, Facebook blocked temporarily the page of the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum, or SMU) in Berlin. The social media giant thus more
Reopening May 27th
27. May 2021
The Schwules Museum is back!
Press section: Irène Mélix – lonely hearts
21. May 2021
Irène Mélix spent several years exploring the construction of lesbian identities and queer herstory.
Obituary: Christian Pulz (1944-2021)
19. April 2021
Obituary for the activist Christian Pulz. By Birga Meyer and Lotte Thaa
What’s the tea?
14. April 2021
Two trans people, one hot topic: artist and curator Sanni Est presents her brand new podcast "The Tea Talk".
Schwules Museum remains temporarily closed
11. March 2021
Lecture Series Intimacy
8. February 2021
This lecture series takes queer theory’s conversation about intimacy as a starting point to discuss some of its cultural possibilities, mediated forms, more
“I am looking for a way to sabotage the system”
1. February 2021
Artist and curator Sanni Est talks about her fellowship at the SMU.
Rosarot in Ost-Berlin: Hard-Won Spaces in Changing Times
17. December 2020
In the 1990s, most of East-Berlin's queer spaces disappeared, often together with the groups that fought for them. The exhibition “Rosarot in more
Press section: Intimacy – New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond
3. December 2020
The new exhibition "Intimacy - New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond" presents more than 30 artistic positions on the ever-shifting forms more
“Love at First Fight! goes digital
9. August 2020
The Goethe-Institut USA and the SMU are launching a digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk
Interview with Nihad Nino Pušija
23. July 2020
Nihad Nino Pušija tells about the background of the exhibition ''Queens''
Parts of Petra Gall’s estate now digitized
22. July 2020
Parts of the estate of photographer Petra Gall are now digitized and available online.
Newsletter 07 2020
6. July 2020
The Newsletter of July 2020 has it all! Rumors about the SMU moving to Kreuzberg, a book presentation under special circumstances, not more
Newsletter 06 2020
4. June 2020
The Newsletter June 2020! Here are news about our library and archive, an interview with Peter Rehberg and we present our volunteer, more
Reopening of library & archive on June 3
2. June 2020
The library and the archive will reopen at 3rd of June. Visits require an appointment.
Schwules Museum reopens on May 13
5. May 2020
The museums reopens!
Press section: 100 Objects (starting May 13)
26. March 2020
The Schwules Museum will turn the spotlight on its own collection, presenting the richness, diversity and fascination of our collection in 100 more
Press section: Nihad Nino Pušija – Queens (starting May 13)
19. March 2020
With the exhibition „Queens“, photographer Nihad Nino Pušija presents a fascinating portrait of queer, (post-)migrant nightlife in Berlin in the 1990s.
SMU temporarily closed
13. March 2020
The Schwules Museum will be closed to the public from March 13th, following the recommendation of the Berlin Senate. This measure, valid more
Press Section – Amos Badertscher: The Souls Around Us
5. February 2020
This retrospective is the first comprehensive museum exhibition featuring the works of Amos Badertscher outside the US.
SMU exhibition „Fenster zum Klo” opens in Paris
19. November 2019
After its premiere two years ago at the Schwules Museum, Marc Martin's successful exhibition „Fenster zum Klo” opens at Point Éphémère in more
Press Section: Anders als die Andern
31. October 2019
To mark the 100th anniversary of Richard Oswald's legendary film, the Schwules Museum is cooperating with the Museum for Film and Television more
Chicos Lartigue
3. October 2019
Bodies of superheroes and animal heads, a conquest of perfection through syncretism, suggest a game beyond the real. Welcome to the world more
Press Section: Morepixx?
11. September 2019
SMU@Bode Museum: A Second Glance – All Forms of Love
5. September 2019
The Bode Museum in Berlin dares a second, queer glance at its collection. A cooperation with the Schwules Museum.
Pressebereich: HIVstories. Living Politics
12. August 2019
The exhibition “HIVstories: Living Politics” explores different ways of living politics from the perspectives of a variety of particularly impacted communities in more
Open Call “From Riot to Respectability”
28. July 2019
Be a part of „From Riot to Respectability – Summer Special“
Press Area: Love at First Fight – Queer Movements from Germany since ...
19. July 2019
On the night of the June 27th, 1969, police stormed the Stonewall Inn – yet again, but one time too many. The more
ALMS Conference Berlin 2019
27. June 2019
ALMS 2019 Berlin: Queering Memory. Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections: An International LGBTIQ+ Conference at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Press Section: Karol Radziszewski – Queer Archives Institute
20. June 2019
The “Queer Archives Institute” is an artistic project founded by Karol Radziszewski dedicated to research, collection, digitalization, presentation, exhibition, analysis, and artistic more
Press Section: My Dearest Sweet Love – Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy
14. June 2019
Life is more than a cabaret: The exhibition "My Dearest Sweet Love" at Schwules Museum traces the 33-year relationship between author Christopher more
Opening: 40 Years of the Gay Teachers Action Group
3. May 2019
For four decades the Gay Teachers Action Group has fought for acceptance and recognition. The Schwules Museum honors them with a special more
Four Questions: Dorota Krawczyk-Janisch on Krzysztof Jung
10. April 2019
Krzystof Jungs from the eyes of his estate manager and best friend Dorota Krawczyk-Janisch.
Press Area: Krzysztof Jung Drawings
7. March 2019
The Schwules Museum’s exhibition of drawings by Krzysztof Jung is its first by an artist from Poland.
Press Area: Objects of Desire
17. January 2019
A new exhibition by sex worker led collective Objects of Desire explores stories around the everyday practice of sex work in Berlin.
My Dearest Sweet Love: Interview with Dr. Katherine Bucknell
14. June 2019
We sat down with Dr. Katherine Bucknell, a curator of "My Dearest Sweet Love: Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy", to talk about more
Press Area: Unboxed!
10. December 2018
Ist ein Schwules Museum ein guter Ort für eine Transgender-Sammlung?
Press Area: RAINBOW ARCADE
4. December 2018
For the first time in the world, the queer history of video games will be explored in a major exhibition.
Symposium zu queeren Care-Communitys
30. November 2018
Wie organisieren LSBT*IQ+-Personen Care-Themen in ihrem Leben? In einer hetero- und cisnormativen sowie heterosexistischen Welt stellen sich LSBT*IQ+-Personen Fragen nach ihrer Gesundheitsversorgung, more
12th Mond: 🌍Glo-ballism🔥
27. November 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
11th Moon: Thirdness, Gender and Sexuality in Pakistan
5. November 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
We Are Looking For Sex Worker Artists
21. October 2018
Objects of Desire is a collaborative project led by sex workers. Through archiving and exhibiting donated objects, Objects of Desire aims to more
Marc Martin’s FENSTER ZUM KLO at reinraum Düsseldorf
12. October 2018
A year after the opening of the successful exhibition Fenster zum Klo at Schwules Museum Berlin (November 2017 until February 2018), the more
Message from Recep Ozdaş
11. October 2018
Recently we welcomed Freie Universität PhD candidate Recep Ozdaş from Turkey as an intern here at the Schwules Museum. In his doctorate more
10th Moon: Out Of Many – Trans* Resistance in Action
4. October 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
New Board of Directors
30. September 2018
At the annual meeting of members of the Verein der Freundinnen und Freunde des Schwulen Museum e.V. on 29 September 2018 a more
EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL by COVEN BERLIN
27. September 2018
COVEN BERLIN presents EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL: an exhibition that weaves together archetypes of Otherness – the witch, the alien, the monster, and the cyborg more
Building New Networks With Turkish Organisations
25. September 2018
We’re very excited to introduce our new intern Recep Ozdas from Turkey. Recep will be working with Schwules Museum for the next more
Press Release: RAINBOW ARCADE Katalog Crowdfunding
18. September 2018
On September 18, 2018, Schwules Museum will launch its first official crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund an exhibition catalog for SMU’s more
9th Moon: Lubed Up Politics – Feminist Porn & Erotic Video Art
10. September 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
Presse release HIJRA FANTASTIK
28. August 2018
HIJRA FANTASTIK is an inquiry into a Femininity not defined biologically and grapples artistically with the contradictory Hijra identity as a woman more
ODARODLE Publication
27. August 2018
Many will recall last year’s exhibition Odarodle - An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535-2017. It was an artistic and research based show more
„Schwules Museum is…“: an artistic project by Davide Pighin
12. July 2018
During his internship, Italian comic artist David Pighin initiated an artistic project titled: “Schwules Museum is…”. He approached the museum's volunteers asking more
Around the World with 80 Gays: Podcast about Schwules Museum
14. June 2018
In June 2018, US podcaster Drew Michael Wunder visited Schwules Museum working on his series “Around the World with 80 Gays”.
Interview with Davide Pighin (LET’S MAKE COMICS)
14. June 2018
Interview with Davide Pighin who organises the comic workshop LET'S MAKE COMICS July 5 - 7
Newly restored: “Bathing Fishermen in the Blue Grotto of Capri”
14. June 2018
Bathing Fishermen in the Blue Grotto of Capri is one of the most widely known and valuable pieces in the collection of more
Press Release: RAINBOW ARCADE – A queer history of video games 1985-2018
11. June 2018
For the first time worldwide, the queer history of video games will be explored in a major exhibition: »Rainbow Arcade« will open more
Job Offer: RAINBOW ARCADE Project & Exhibition Assistance
1. June 2018
Schwules Museum is looking for a project assistant to support the curators of the upcoming exhibition »Rainbow Arcade«. The job position is more
Job Offer: RAINBOW ARCADE Art Director & Exhibition Designer
1. June 2018
To fully realize our exhibition RAINBOW ARCADE, we are looking for an Art Director & Exhibition Designer for the duration of the more
6th Moon: Queer Classics: Monika Treuts view on the sexual avant-garde
28. May 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
5th Moon: T-shirts, moustaches and theories in progress – artistic femmifestations
14. May 2018
Press Release/Press Images as Download
Exhibition Opening LESBIAN VISIONS – Artistic positions from Berlin
9. May 2018
Press release and press images on the exhibition LESBIAN VISIONS – Artistic positions from Berlin
New Head of Archive and Collections
2. May 2018
We have a new Head of Archive and Collections: Dr. Peter Rehberg. He studied German Philology, Art History, and Philosophy in Hamburg.
4th Moon: A Konto Of One’s Own – Dykes and Economy
13. April 2018
Press release and press images on the 4th program of the 12 Moons Film Lounge
Press Release: Opening Dyke Bar SPIRITS
5. April 2018
Schwules Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a dyke bar within the Museum’s café for the duration of the Year more
3rd Moon: Form Gangs! Event Program
28. March 2018
The 3rd film program of 12 Moons juxtaposes two films: the lesbian-feminist classic Born in Flames (1983) and the trans*-queer anarcha musical more
New Corporate Design
23. March 2018
The new look of Schwules Museum in Berlin reconnects with the radical and self-confident spirit of its origins in the mid-eighties. Dynamic, more
Stefan Thiel: 100 BERLIN BASED MEN
1. March 2018
press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Stefan Thiel: 100 BERLIN BASED MEN"
colony
1. March 2018
press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "colony"
Press Release: ğ – the soft g
24. February 2018
The group exhibition “ğ – the soft g” at Schwules Museum* brings together works that follow artistic migration in various directions and more
2nd Moon: LÄSBISCH TV
1. February 2018
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for "LÄSBISCH TV"
Press Area: Fascination Sex: The Theorist & Activist Martin Dannecker
21. January 2018
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Fascination Sex: The Theorist & Activist Martin Dannecker"
Year of the Women*: The Whole Caboodle 2018
1. January 2018
Press: Fenster zum Klo
10. October 2017
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Marc Martin: Fenster zum Klo. Public Toilets & Private Affairs"
Press: Queer City
2. October 2017
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Queer City: Stories from São Paulo"
Proposal for the “Social Human Rights Prize” 2017
8. September 2017
Schwules Museum* is proposing Ebru Kırancı for this year’s “Sozialer Menschenrechtspreis“ (Social Human Rights Prize) of the Eberhard-Schultz-Stiftung.
Press: Winckelmann – The Divine Sex
10. May 2017
An exhibition commemorating the 300th Birthday of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). Curated by Dr. Wolfgang Cortjaens.
Interview with Ashkan Sepahvand
1. May 2017
Ashkan Sepahvand is our Post-Colonial Curatorial Fellow at the Schwules Museum*
Press Release: Siegfried Wagner. Bayreuth’s ‘Fairy’ Crown Prince
13. December 2016
Press Release: Change of Scenery 2.0 – Rock Hudson and the AIDS ...
17. November 2016
Change of Scenery – as an exhibition series – wants to move forward and develop further, always.
“So, It’s A Girl” Homage to Erika and Klaus Mann
9. September 2016
So, It’s a Girl” will be the first exhibition to examine both Klaus’s life and work, together with that of his famous more
More Diversity at Schwules Museum*: Introducing a Generation and Perspective Change
6. September 2016
At the members meeting on September 6th 2016, The Schwules Museum* elected a new board of directors.
Odarodle: An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples 1535—2017
26. June 2016
The artistic research exhibition Odarodle – an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535–2017 casts, for the first time, a postcolonial perspective on the more
What’s Your Story?
21. June 2016
Press Release: Stage Design: Peter Kothe. An East-West German Life.
5. June 2016
Bühnenbild: Peter Kothe. Ein ostwestdeutsches Leben setzt die Reihe von Ausstellung über queere Bühnenbildner am Schwulen Museum* fort. Sie wurde kuratiert von more
Press Release by Cassils: “The real issue is transphobia.”
19. May 2016
Turn-around of Deutsche Bahn AG regarding “sexist” poster for the exhibition „Homosexualit_ies“ ...
11. May 2016
Yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, the Schwules Museum* was informed by their partner organization LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster that the German more
Poster for „Homosexualit_ies” exhibition may not be displayed in German train stations
9. May 2016
Just before the opening of the exhibition "Homosexualit_ies" at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster, Westphalia on 12 May 2016, more
New Communications Manager: Jan Schnorrenberg
1. May 2016
Jan Schnorrenberg has recently joined our museum team as part of our press office.
New head of the archive and library: Dr. Wolfgang Cortjaens
1. April 2016
Wolfgang Cortjaens has recently joined our museum team: since 1 April, 2016, he is the new head of our archive and library.
Gunshots at the Schwules Museum*
8. March 2016
Ausschreibung: Fellowship Internationales Museum
1. February 2016
A Different View: Postcolonial Perspectives at the Schwules Museum*: We are searching for Research Fellows / Curators.
Hyper Masculinities On The Dance Floor
23. July 2015
Neuer Research Fellow: Ashkan Sepahvand
1. April 2015
Ashkan Sepahvand is pleased to join the Schwules Museum* for the next 18 months as a Curatorial Fellow as part of the International Museum Fellowship more
Double-Exhibition: 30 YEARS OF POSITIVE LIFE
24. March 2015
30 Years of HIV/AIDS activism in posters, photographs, audio, film and printed matter you can touch and flip through: Berlin AIDSHilfe e.V. more
Press Release: Porn That Way
22. October 2014
For the first time ever, an exhibition combines the developments, past and present, of gay, lesbian, trans* and queer pornography.
Call for objects: Bring your personal items for our Homosexualit_ies exhibition!
1. October 2014
In early summer 2015, the Schwules Museum* (Gay Museum*,) in partnership with the German Historical Museum, will open a comprehensive exhibition on more
Moomins books in the Schwules Museum*
29. September 2014
We invite all children and adults to visit us and have fun at the exhibition and by exploring our Museum Store!
Press Release: Zanele Muholi. Photography
21. March 2014
The Schwules Museum in collaboration with Amnesty International present an extensive exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi's photographic works.
Press Release: If the sand could talk
11. November 2013
A live documentary exhibition on corrective rape against lesbian women in Cape Town
Murnau – Private Photographs
7. November 2013
At last, the photographic works of the legendary film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau can be seen in the Schwules Museum.
Relocation of Schwules Museum
7. March 2013
The move and the expansion of Schwules Museum is realized through the kind support of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Berlin’s cultural more
Ausstellung: Neues in der Sammlung
11. November 2013
Das Schwule Museum bedankt sich bei seinen Spender_innen mit einer Ausstellung!
Press Release: The Gay Museum is Moving
15. October 2012
After an intensive two-year search for a suitable space, the museum is moving into a former printing house at Lützowstraße 73 in more
Protective measures in times of Covid-19
Current protective measures
Press release PROUDLY PERVERTED: Perspectives on the WomenLesbianTrans*Inter* BDSM Community
The WomenLesbianTrans*Inter* BDSM community is fun, boisterous, open, warm-hearted and caring. It is also filthy, direct, blunt, and rough. It gets down more
Newsletter 08 2020
With August 2020's Newsletter we present to you our planned program under restrictions, which does include one or another treat, the Object more
We bid farewell to Petra Gall
On 7 July 2018, Petra Gall passed away after long illness. We mourn together with her family and friends. The photographer and more
Statement for gender self-determination
We are dismayed by the campaign initiated by EMMA Magazine and others against Tessa Ganserer, a member of Parliament. We condemn this more
1st Moon: In the Beginning, the Mothers
Information and press images on the first program of the 12 Moons Film Lounge