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HENRIK OLESEN
2.6. – 12.8.07

some gay-lesbian artists and / or artists relevant to homo-social culture born between c. 1300-1870 / Sex-Museum 2005-2007

Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich

Photo: FBM Studio, Zürich

Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich

Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich

Photo: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zurich

Since the mid-1990s, Henrik Olesen (born 1967 in Denmark, lives and works in Berlin) has used media such as collage, sculpture and minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the societal constitution and construction of identity and historiography.

Through the appropriation of image sources and contextual shifting of apparent implicitness, Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its criminalisation in the past as well as in the present. His archival work sheds light on the enduring existence of other homosexual spaces and inscribes homosexual subculture once more into the history of art and culture.

Curated by Heike Munder

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