Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen:

Queer Modernism at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is the first exhibition in Europe to showcase the long-underestimated yet groundbreaking contribution of queer artists to modernism. With around 100 works by 34 international artists, the exhibition is divided into thematic chapters covering the period from 1900 to 1950. Queer artists such as Claude Cahun, Hannah Höch, Lotte Laserstein, Jean Cocteau, Romaine Brooks, Marlow Moss, and Richmond Barthé created alternatives to prevailing lifestyles and placed desire, gender, sexuality, and the politics of self-expression at the center of their artistic work. Queer Modernism expands the supposed boundaries of figuration and abstraction, sheds light on queer networks in Paris, London, and New York, and tells stories of queer life in times of war and resistance.