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Hotel Gondolin, a home for trans women in Buenos Aires. Photos courtesy of Facundo Revuelta.

20 March 2025

The Queer Salon #5

The fifth and final Queer Salon explores the past and future of queer spaces and places. Discover how they have changed, and what this means for freedom and inspiration.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The Museumpark. Drawing by Yves Brunier, 1989. Collection Nieuwe Instituut, OMAR 4462-3

18 June 2024

The Queer Salon #4

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The fourth edition of the Queer Salon focuses on the garden as a queer sanctuary. We will explore the archives of landscape designers and take a stroll through the New Garden and the Museumpark.

Six photographs in black and white, explaining step by step how the bathing equipment works. A white woman is being lifted in a large metal tub by a white man in a doctors uniform who operates the crane machine.

6 July 2023

The Queer Salon #3

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The Queer Salon #3 explores the intersectional acts of queering and cripping with Simon(e) van Saarloos, Kenny Fries, Eliza Steinbock and Dirk van den Heuvel.

22 June 2022

The Queer Salon #2

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The second edition of The Queer Salon explores the hidden histories of diverse LGBTIQ+ individuals and communities.

11 February 2021

The Queer Salon #1

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The Queer Salon series aims to connect institutionalised, "insider" heritage spaces, such as national archives and collections, with the "outsider" heritage spaces of "critical visitors", in order to open up and transform the practices of institutionalisation and canonisation.

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