January 2022

I samarbeid med Arctic Pride og Nord Norsk kunstmuseum sto Pride Art (Tove-Mari Odderdal og Trine Midtlie Elmholt) for det kunstnerisk innslag under markeringen. Vi arbeidet i verksted hallen på kunst museet i Tromsø, og inviterte inn store og små for å delta i et samarbeidsprosjekt/ workshop for å lage et stort maleri. Verket fikk […]

Pride Art signs a 3-year contract with DOGA! The Pride Arts annual meeting has decided that "Wunderkammer" will be Pride Arts' annual festival in the autumn. We need access to our own culture in arenas where we feel safe and at home all year round, not just during the Pride festivals. We need places where we can meet other like-minded people, where we are sheltered

The Skeivt art and culture center foundation is registered! On 22 October 2021, the initiators of one of the world's first queer art and cultural centers signed the foundation document. On 4 January 2022, at the start of the official queer cultural year, the foundation was registered in the Brønnøysund register. The municipality has promised us locals, but is keeping its wallet closed for the time being. But the Point of no return is now behind us

In 2019 and 2021, two different research projects were carried out at Pride Art. Master's students in art history Mathias Skaset with specialization in museology (https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/79266?show=full) and Elisabeth Jørgensen with specialization in curation examined Pride Art's work and model for curation and diversity strategy. In 2022, Jan Trinh investigates Pride Art and MELK's project Center for queer art and culture

From June 2022 and into 2023, Pride Art will design and curate the exhibition "Queer Art retrospect" at Oslo City Museum. Norwegian queer art history cannot be meaningfully told without starting from the underground and grassroots level. Skeivt Kulturår is about publicly telling the stories that have been forgotten and ignored. But inside the queer

As part of the establishment of a queer art and culture center in Oslo, the project group with Martine Johansen and Ferderick Nathanael will create a pilot in collaboration with the National Museum. Together, we will build up and test a diversity council, which will be an important part of the centre. The council must stimulate internal critique of norms in the institution, work

 Photo: The National Museum / Frode Larsen Pride Art manager, Frederick Nathanael, organization secretary Katja Fjell and literature manager Martine Johansen are employed at the National Museum in 2022 to guide and provide an inside look when the museum will talk about queer art in the Year of Queer Culture. We will shape a competence-enhancing initiative for employees at the museum, and we will help them

Yes, the festival everyone was talking about in 2021 is happening again! Look forward to the queer art festival at DOGA from 7 to 16 October 2022. Said about Wunderkammer 2021: "There are some places where you just feel at home" "It's easier to orientate yourself in your own body and sexuality, and in the world, because the work you do

The Cultural Council supports Pride Art's work in Skeivt Kulturår 2022! NOK 400 was granted from the Norwegian Culture Fund for interdisciplinary cultural activities so that we can ensure diversity in the year of culture. The Cultural Council shows that it is important that we are present to balance out the focus on professional artists and the outside view as one of the world's longest continuous and

Pride Art is helping to build queer art dissemination internationally. As Pride Art's leader, Frederick is involved in a council to build up Pride Art in Copenhagen, where the very first queer exhibition was in the Nordics in 1983, and where "Nordic gay artists" started, which later became the origin of Pride Art in Norway in