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Francesco Giordano is a Spanish-Italian and queer photographer and visual artist living and working in Munich, Germany. He has dedicated himself to projects focused on LGBTQIA+ topics and migration.

Francesco uses photography to highlight societal themes by creating more visibility for marginalised groups and queer issues. He loves to experiment but the most important aspect in his artistic approach is to portray his protagonists with pride and dignity and to challenge the boundaries of documentary photography. With a background in design studies, where target groups, comprehensibility and sustainability have an importance, Francesco's conceptual work also focuses on accessibility and inclusivity.

In addition to his work as a photographer, Francesco also operates as a curator, a community organiser and creative artist. In his collaborative projects, these roles all come together by putting on interdisciplinary exhibitions and events in public space: In Rainbow Refugees (Stories) (2019), 377. Inside India’s Queer Community (2020) and queer:raum (2022) his goal is to bring people together, to create a stage and to find collaborators in society that help him to initiate awareness. Francesco is inspired by diversity, the cohesion of communities and their striving to improve society.

Francesco's current project, Mit Euren Spuren (2023), aims to create a bridge between queer photographers and LGBTQIA+ seniors. The result will be a photography exhibition in June 2024 showcasing portraits and conversations between the generations. The project explores themes of queer struggles past and present, the loss of biographies, when there are no descendants and the rising importance of chosen families. The project is a cooperation with the photographers Stella Deborah Traub, Florian Tenk, Joseph Wolfgang Ohlert, Mara Fischer und Teo Ana Apostelescu.

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contact:

c/o Atelier Thal | Fraunbergstraße 11 | 81379 Munich

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Fonts (Anaïs & Rois) by NEW LETTERS

Residencies

01/2024 – Artist-in-residency at SÍM Residency in Reykjavík, Iceland working on the project Queer Artists Reykjavík

06/2023 – Residency at Galerie Einwand of the Münchner Stadtmuseum working on the project queer:raum X Galerie Einwand: Who am I where?

Grants/Prizes (selected)

03/2024 - Research grant International/Intercultural of the city of Munich

03/2024 – Förderpreis für Fotografie der Landeshauptstadt München (nominee)

01/2024 – VG Bildkunst Stiftung Kulturwerk Publikationsförderung – Grant

07/2023 – Cultural Department Munich – Studio Funding (3 years)

06/2023 – BBK Project Grant - Verbindungslinien for Man spricht Deutsch

12/2022 – VG Bildkunst Stiftung Kulturwerk, Förderung von Fort- und Weiterbildungsvorhaben – Grant

06/2022 – Winner in the category photo book with 377. Inside India's Queer Community at Belfast Photo Festival, UK

06/2022 – Bayern Innovativ "Junge Kunst und neue Wege" – Grant

10/2021 – VG Bildkunst, Neustart Kultur – Grant

07/2017 – International Photography Grant in the category Free Photo Contest, Architecture (nominee)

Upcoming Events

08/2024 – Queer Artists Munich Vol. 2 - queer:raum Jahresausstellung at Feierwerk Farbenladen

09/2024 – Mit Euren Spuren - group exhibition at Ander Art Festival

09/2024 – Part of Plat(t)form 2024 - Fotomuseum Winterthur

Exhibitions (selected)

06/2024 – Mit Euren Spuren - group exhibition, Seidlvilla München

05/2024 – Queer Artists Munich Vol. 2 - Galerie des Oberbürgermeisters (2nd floor), Neues Rathaus Munich

03/2024 – Part of the exhibition of Förderpreise 2024 der Landeshauptstadt München, nominated in the category photography, Rathausgalerie Munich

03/2024 – Man spricht Deutsch - eine Intervention, Artothek & Bildersaal, Munich

12/2023 – Presentation of the project Man Spricht Deutsch with Sandra Singh at FLORIDA Lothringer 13, Munich

12/2023 – Group exhibition with BBK in Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich

11/2023 – Group exhibition of the masterclass f3-Portrait with Sibylle Fendt in Freiraum für Fotografie with Ms Brini Olsen in Berlin

10/2023 – Exhibition of Mit Euren Spuren during DENKRAUM DEUTSCHLAND 2023 – HEY ALTER! at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich

06/2023 – Exhibition of The own walls heal wounds during the Ljubljana Pride Festival in Slovenia

05/2023 – Exhibition of A Queen is a King is a Quing in cooperation with Munich Dance Hinstories in the Habibi Kiosk of Münchner Kammerspiele

03/2023 – Group exhibition during the international weeks against racism at Alte Utting in Munich

02/2023 – Group exhibition We kissed with „Panty Paradise“ at Kösk in Munich

11/2022 – Exhibition of my publications at Super BOOKS 3, Haus der Kunst, Munich

10/2022 – Exhibition of The own walls heal wounds in Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle during I Have No Words – There Is No Title in Munich

09/2022 – Solo exhibition of the project "Italienisches Leben in München" at Münchenstift in Munich

09/2022 – Exhibition of queer:raum during the Ander Art Festival in Munich

07/2022 – First queer:raum exhibion at Münchner Aids-Hilfe e.V. during the CSD in Munich

06/2022 – 377. Inside India's Queer Community photo book winner at Belfast Photo Festival

10/2021 – Exhibition of 377. Inside India's Queer Community at "Cafe Lozzi", Munich

07/2021 – Exhibition of 377. Inside India's Queer Community during Gay Pride at "Das Zwo", Munich

06-11/2020 – Fluchtursache: Liebe, special exhibition in Ballinstadt, Hamburg

12/2019 – Rainbow Refugees (Stories) exhibition at Tollwood Festival, Munich

04/2019 – Rainbow Refugees (Stories) group exhibition and event in MUCCA, Munich

11/2018 – Halb Voll / Halb Leer group exhibition in Farbenladen, Munich

11/2018 – Photo18, Munich Exhibition of the Rainbow Refugees Booklets

10/2017 – Photography on a Postcard Exhibition in Shoreditch, London

07/2015 – beziehungsweise, group exhibition in Farbenladen Munich

Features / Publications (selected)

11/2023 – MANNSCHAFT MAGAZIN – Crowdfunding: Projekt über Queer im Alter (Interview with Greg Zwygart)

06/2022 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Queerness ist auch eine politische Haltung (by Clara Löffler and Lea Mohr)

12/2021 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Queerer Stolz (by Sarah Zapf)

07/2021 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – Zwischen Tradition und Moderne (by Sarah Zapf)

04/2021 – Zeit online – LGBTIQA in Indien: Ich will meiner Mutter nicht noch mehr Kummer bereiten (by Stefanie Witterauf and Maria Chrstoph)

02/2021 – MANNSCHAFT MAGAZIN – Paragraf 377: Queere Inder*innen erzählen ihre Geschichten (Interview with Andrea Melli)

02/2021 – MUCBOOK – Crowdfunding: Queere Begegnungen mit Indien (Interview by Florian Kraus)

10/2020 – Abendzeitung –„Eine Jugend in Deutschland": Vom Abstürzen und Fliegen (by Michael Stadler)

02/2020 – Spiegel – „HIV zu haben, ist kein Verbrechen" (by Stefanie Witterauf and Maria Christoph)

12/2019 – VICE – Massenproteste in Indien: Diese Frauen demonstrieren gegen Vergewaltigungen (by Stefanie Witterauf and Maria Christoph)

06/2019 – VICE – „Queere Senioren erzählen von ihren Coming-Outs“ (by Maria Christoph)

07/2019 – Leo – „Geschichten, die erzählt werden müssen“ (Interview with Bernd Müller)

07/2019 – Passauer Neue Presse – „Die Freiheit zu lieben“ (by Jasmin Ehbauer)

04/2019 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – „Ich finde, er kann auf seine Geschichte stolz sein" (Interview with Julia Bergmann)

04/2019 – MUCBOOK – Rainbow Refugees (Stories) – LGBTI-Geflüchtete erzählen ihre Geschichten (by Anna Kirchhofer)

09/2016 – Süddeutsche Zeitung – „Mein München: Flaucher" (Interview with Stefanie Witterauf)