ZOE exhibition by MAIK GRÄF

The Queer Archive presents ZOE by MAIK GRÄF.

“Zoe” is an ancient Greek term and means life – the simple fact of life that is common to all living beings. According to Plato, “Zoe” is also tied to Fate which can be lived well or badly. However, it is not always in our hands whether our life is peaceful or whether it is suppressed and persecuted because certain aspects are not considered compliant by religious or political authorities.

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Queer interpretations of ancient Greek mythology and society are the focus of the photographic project ZOE by German artist Maik Gräf. A series of photographs taken during the artist’s art residency in Athens in 2021 will be presented at Romantso Gallery.

The exhibition is curated by Konstantinos Menelaou and Maik Gräf and produced by the art platform and gallery The Queer Archive.

The opening is on Thursday 20th April, from 7pm to 11pm, with a DJ set by Clubkid from 8pm to 11pm. The exhibition will be on display from April 21st to 26th, from 5pm to 9pm, and the closing is on Thursday 27th April from 5pm to 11pm. The closing ceremony will also feature a conversation with Maik Gräf from 7pm to 8pm and a DJ set from 8pm to 11pm.

SEXPOSITIVE HOMEWEAR by Carne Bollente

Paris based brand Carne Bollente presents new sexpositive homewear to light up our winter. #sexpositivity
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CONCOON: Exclusive Dance & Fashion Clip

A REY exclusive fashion project, produced and photographed in Limassol, Cyprus.

Video Production by Savvas Christou

Styling Christos Christou

starring Panos Malactos

Editorial Series Photographed by Savvas Christou

'Childhood' Collage by Seigar

A REY exclusive Art feature editorial, created by SEIGAR. in Tenerife.

The artist mentions to REY,

“With this series, I wanted to play with the concept of childhood, using collage from fashion magazines and toys. As I am an intense person, always looking to experience the present, I seem to forget the past. There is not enough place in my mind for all the data, and that includes my childhood memories. That was the motif to create this photo-narrative, to connect with those years. The adult perspective places the pop icons in curious and weird situations testing darkness but also joy, some adventure, the supernatural, and even religion. In a previous series entitled Toxic, I used for the first time the collage technique, and that made me work with it in this new project. In the future, I am considering doing collage mixed with paints to explore other topics. Childhood has brought something new to my work, both in the form and the content.”

Artist’s Biography:

Seigar is a passionate travel, street, social documentary, conceptual and pop photographer based in Tenerife. He feels obsessed with pop culture that he shows in his series. He is a fetishist for reflections, saturated colors, curious finds, and religious icons. He also flirts with journalism and video. His main inspiration is traveling. His aim as an artist is to tell tales with his camera, creating a continuous storyline from his trips.

His most ambitious projects so far are his Plastic People, a study on anthropology and sociology that focuses on the humanization of the mannequins he finds in the shop windows all over the world, and his Tales of a City, an ongoing urban photo-narrative project taken in London. He is a philologist and also works as a secondary school teacher. He is a self-taught visual artist, though he has done a two years course in advanced photography and one in cinema and television. He has participated in several exhibitions and his works have been featured in many publications.

He has collaborated with different media such as VICE and WAG1. He writes for Dodho Magazine and for The Cultural about photography and pop culture, and for Memoir Mixtapes about music. Lately, he has experimented with video forms. His last interest is documenting identity. Recently, he received the Rafael Ramos García International Photography Award.

Berlin: Solo exhibition of KOYWE Kollage

Works by KOYWE KOLLAGE will be shown in a first solo exhibition titled “The journey before the beginning”. From October 22nd to 25th the artist Hans Möller Rojas will be presenting over 20 pieces in Berlin-Kreuzberg at Project Hype.

About KOYWE KOLLAGE:
Hans Möller Rojas created his first works more than six years ago and started showcasing his pieces to the public under the alias KOYWE KOLLAGE as of three years ago. His technique has developed radically since then. Today he can be counted among the most exciting artists in the field of collages. The small-scale, elaborately hand-cut and assembled compositions show organic shapes, shimmering colours and reveal – after a deeper examination by the viewer – topics such as sex and queerness.
www.koywekollage.com // www.instagram.com/koywekollage


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The VANS exhibition in MoMA Museum

This autumn, Vans presents its collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

With a shared passion for individual expression, Vans and the MoMA have joined forces to present a joint collection. The artists presented reflect the diversity of MoMA’s collection, with works by Salvador Dalí, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Ljubov Popova and Faith Ringgold.


LGBTQ+ Inspirational Instagram Accounts to Follow

Our editors found their favourite Inspirational Instagram Accounts that everyone LGBTQ+ or interested in LGBTQ+ culture has to follow.

We might be in lockdown (almost) worldwide, but we still need (maybe more than ever now) to see beautiful, unique content for inspiration purposes, entertainment or just for fun. These accounts have found the magic recipe to combine it all in one and keep us insterested to check and enjoy their new posts every week.

Fashion or editorial oriented , cultural with a dose of humour or more gay & queer than ever, they will get your attention for sure, before becoming your favourites:

@all_the_others_

One of our Chief Editor’s favourites. Fashion Editorial oriented showing a gay couple’s life moments in an artistic way and direction. Simply as “Playing dress up”

@nevertrustachurchgirl

Dirty Sexy Things about the Fashion World, created and curated by journalist and fashion enthousiastic Stephen St. Clair. You will definetely remember crazy fashion moments and we are surer that its insta-stories will keep you fun company during quarantine.

@drtydna

DIRTY DIANA parties have been a statement for LGBTQ+ night life. Whoever was lucky enough to be in one of them in London, knows better… Dirty Dna is still active in Australia though and their incredible Instagram account worldwide! Including Fun, inspirational and sexy daily posts, this account is “an adoring instagram dancing disco for homo’s & their homies..”

@mymindisnotcommercial

An Imaginary Homoerotic Magazine on Instagram. Stefano (its creator) collects and curates images in order to create the fashionable yet naughty content. Editorials, hot models, fashion products & accessories and a lot of sexy details are all there combined in order to travel your fantasy with Another Point of View.

@queerbible

A project from London-based model and presenter Jack Guinness. Queer Bible launched in 2017 as a database of queer characters who changed the world through activism, art, performance and more. A space to learn about our shared history Original essays & illustrations celebrating LGBTQ+ heroes

@butchcamp

Your fun go-to for anything to do with butch identity, this account is all about its camp sense of humor. ButchCamp's creators self-describe as “just a couple of European dykes!”

‘Couse after all There’s gay camp and straight camp and then there’s BUTCHCAMP

New Frida Kahlo exhibition online on Google Arts & Culture platform

An entire exhibition dedicated to the work of Frida Kahlo is available on the Google Arts & Culture platform. More than 800 paintings, photographs and objects of all kinds just a click away.

In 2018, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London paid tribute to the unconventional Mexican artist through a large-scale exhibition bringing together clothes, archives and precious objects from his personal collection. And for those who did not have the chance to discover this exhibition, it is on their iPhone that the work of Frida Kahlo is accessible to them. How? 'Or' What ? By connecting to the Google Arts & Culture platform which has listed more than 800 paintings, photographs and objects belonging to the artist, which the internet user can examine in great detail thanks to an ultra-precise magnifying glass system.and 33 international museums. T

Discover right here .

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House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to artist Tom of Finland

This year House of Illustration will open the UK’s first public solo show dedicated to gay cultural icon and prolific artist Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen), in partnership with Tom of Finland Foundation and the Finnish Institute in London.

This timely exhibition, on the centenary of his birth, will celebrate the artist whose homoerotic visions had a profound effect on gay communities in Europe and North America during a pivotal period in their history and continue to have an immeasurable influence on popular culture today. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation will display 40 works on paper produced from the 1960s to the 1980s, both before and after homosexuality was decriminalised in much of Europe and the U.S.

It will include early drawings of men fighting that constituted the only legal way to show physical contact between men before decriminalisation, as well as illustrations from his iconic Kake comics and rare linocuts produced in very limited editions.

The exhibitiion wil be on from the 6th of March until late June.

Book your ticket online

JW Anderson FW2020 menswear show at Paris Fashion Week

Jonathan Anderson is adept at bringing almost-forgotten art to the ambience of his shows—both for his own label and at Loewe.

There were the long, narrow shifts in paisley print carried over from his women’s collections, pleated peplum tops over shorts, skinny knits, and hefty padded coats. With that sure hand he has for eye-catching Instagrammable branding, he accessorized with heavy gilt chains swathed as belts, blown up as shoe-jewelry, and minimized as sewn-on half-necklaces. The JW Anderson anchor-like logo that he invented as a 23-year-old was stenciled into a felted tote bag and worked into a patchwork sweater. vogue.com

Gilles

Photographer Will Dube experiments with the human body and form in his second portrait series for REY Magazine.

Theo-Mass Lexileictous: 'The Ice Age' Exhibition - Exclusive photojournal

Theo-Mass has presented his latest exhibition in Limassol, Cyprus and we were lucky enough to be at the opening -last Friday the 8th of November.

Eins gallery is pleased to present Theo-Mass Lexileictous’ solo exhibition entitled The Ice Age. This body of work is the consummation of three years of investigation into our distanced and complex relationship with the environment and nature, and the ephemeral, while questioning digital and physical fabrication processes to understand our evolving relationship to matter.

Theo-Mass’ work explores the boundaries between the digital and the existent, the relationship between the human and the machine, and its distinctive aesthetic, which focuses and experiments with the sensory experience of light, space and form. He works across a range of mediums, from sculpture, installation, photography to film, crossing boundaries between disciplines. Exploring the ever-changing nature of materiality and the meaning of substance in a Postdigital era, this work addresses these issues; however, unlike his previous works, it is removed from the technological and machine made.

‘The Ice Age’ presents 3 new performative sculptural hybrid objects which constantly evolve and change, an approach that generates a network of dynamic and unpredictable living situations that unfold in real-time.

Parts of the exhibition are still open until the 18th of November. Discover them around the old town of Limassol. Find out more online.

Photography Michael Georgiou

AFTERGLOW is back in London's Waterloo East Theatre

After its sold-out run at Southwark Playhouse, AFTERGLOW transfers to Waterloo East Theatre, London with a brand new cast.

Josh and Alex are in an open married relationship. But after young Darius shares their bed for a night, a new intimate connection begins to form, and all three men must search for one another’s notions of love, intimacy, and commitment. Will their search for passion and intimacy come as easily as their freedom to play around?

Afterglow is a ‘steamy stripped-down look at gay intimacy’ (Huffington Post).

Recommended age 16+. This show contains strong language and nudity.

The play runs for a limited season. For more info and tickets check HERE

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SteFan

Photographer Will Dube

starring Stefan Thomas

A Freedom Movement 2019 - The Exhibition at Leman Locke, London

The lifestyle hotel in Aldgate East, continues to host worth seeing creative exhibitions. Leman Locke is now introducing Michelle Beatty and her new photographic series A Freedom Movement 2019.

Michelle is an Australian born Londoner who has spent a creative lifetime moving seamlessly from the carnival of catwalks and high fashion showrooms, to the subtle backdrops of fine art photography - landscapes, architecture and foreign, far-off lands. For the first time, Michelle has created a body of work that straddles these two parallel career tracks, and the contrasting sides of herself.

Leman Locke is proud to present her newest photographic series, where three talented subjects with backgrounds in ballet, modelling and choreography are captured in the prime of their lives; embodying strength, wisdom, and feminine beauty. The subjects are offset by strong skies, powerful waves and brooding clouds. The photography exhibition runs across all 22 floors of the East London lifestyle hotel, open to the public from 10th May until 31st July.

RSVP to see A Freedom Movement at Leman Locke here >

Follow Michelle Beatty on instagram >

BOYS WITH FEELINGS

DANSE MACABRE

Photography by Armando Branco

Styling Marloes Hogenkamp

Editing features notes from photographer’s art school notebook as a tribute to his home town Nijmegen (editorial’s location), his parents and the madness of love.

Grooming Daisy de Weerd

Starring dancers Chen Hartik & Vincenzo Turiano

Admin Jolanda Scherpenhuizen

GUCCI will host a new exhibition in Florence during Pitti Uomo

Gucci opened Gucci Garden within the Palazzo della Mercanzia in Florence on January 10, just in time for this year’s Pitti Uomo trade show. Renovated by Alessandro Michele himself, the space holds several exhibition rooms overseen by critic and curator Maria Luisa Frisa, as well as a boutique filled with exclusive products, and a restaurant with the best chef in the world, Massimo Bottura, at its helm. Now, for the 95th Pitti Uomo in January 2019, Gucci has unveiled its plans for a brand-new exhibition, after dedicating one to Alessandro Michele’s collaborations with the house the designer’s homage to Björk’s. Two news artists, succeeding the work of Coco Capitán and Jayde Fish, will present their new murals.

Spread over two floors, the Gucci Garden highlights the history of Gucci, from its founding in 1921 to the present day, through a series of exceptional artefacts such as clothes, accessories, video installations and pieces of art. Each room explores the inspirations that were driving forces behind the house’s success, such as flora and fauna, one of Alessandro Michele’s favorite sources of inspiration and a recurring theme for several seasons now. Artists such as Coco Capitán, Jayde Fish and Trevor Andrew who all contributed to Gucci’s rise in the art world, have also contributed to the space, redecorating its walls with their unique artistic vision. Following the work of Capitán, Fish and Andrew, two new artists will take over the Gucci walls on January 8 2019, just in time for the 95th Pitti Uomo. The new exhibition will take over from the Björk-themed presentation currently in place.

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Foreign Beauty

A new Azzedine Alaïa exhibition is coming to Milan this month

After the huge success of the London’s Design Museum exhibition "Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier", a new announcement confirmed the good news.

The exhibition is travelling to Milan and it will be open on the 20th of September for four days only! 

Showcasing his creations from the early 1980s and following his creative path right up until his final Paris Couture show in July 2017, the retrospective is curated by fashion historian Olivier Saillard, who, it’s safe to say, knows the ‘King of Cling’ and his work like the back of his hand.

Saillard was also behind Alaïa retrospective Je Suis Couturier, which took place in Paris earlier this year. The exhibition brought together looks including the iconic purple hooded gown worn by Grace Jones in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill and a series of dresses worn by the likes of Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Helena Christensen.

Taking place in the Italian city’s Palazzo Clerici throughout fashion week, the exhibition runs from September 20-25. Book your flights now, fashion fans.