Csoke's brushstrokes are looser and airier than the refined, smooth texture academic oil painters would strive for. And his addition of slender rainbows-a symbol of the LGBTQ+ unity and pride-infuses an element that seems playfully at odds with the paintings' original intent to show the owner's status or virility. Instead, the scenes' secondary characters take the main stage, emotionally dealing with what it means to not only come to terms with one's own sexuality but the nature of queer community.
Eight spinning robot vacuums near the beginning of the Asian Art Museum's latest exhibition end up spraying around more of the hot pink glitter than they clean up. That's the point of the piece "Puff Out" by :MentalKLINIK. "If they want to rest, they rest," said Naz Cuguoğlu, the museum's assistant curator of contemporary art. "And if they want to party, they party." The same might be said for visitors to the dance-centric "Rave into the Future: Art in Motion," opening Friday, October 24.
This month, Nadin Reschke will show her piece 'Lila Fetzen ("Purple Scraps")' at U Schönhauser Allee, which commemorates the officially unrecognized East German womxn movements, especially the Lila Offensive, which was founded in Prenzlauer Berg in the late 1980s. It uses historical photographs as a starting point for a search for solidarity-based gestures of resistance and the visibility of contemporary queer life. In a collective performance on September 20th at 3pm, the womxn's resistance of the 1980s is updated against the backdrop of today's experiences.
