Arondeus Widerstand (2025 – )

How can queer resilience be upheld and strengthened in times of discrimination, political shift to the right, and growing uncertainty?

Taking inspiration from the life and work of Dutch artist and resistance fighter Willem Arondeus (1894–1943), this artistic-research project explores what queer resistance meant in the past and what forms it can take today. Arondeus, openly homosexual and a courageous member of the Dutch resistance against the Nazi regime, becomes a historical figurehead for a contemporary examination of queer identity, threat, and solidarity.

The project interweaves biographical investigation with artistic research and sociopolitical analysis. At a time of increasing insecurity and rising anti-queer rhetoric, it aims to shed light on the strategies queer people develop today to build resilience and how empowerment, visibility, and resistance can be rooted in collective practice.

The project gives rise to a variety of works that seek to expand queer memory culture, create spaces for exchange, and open up new perspectives. The next steps are realized in collaboration with the artists Stella Deborah Traub, Jay Miniano, Tobias Strobel and Johannes Geitl.

A First Look will take place during the queer:raum Annual exhibition 2025 at Feierwerk Farbenladen from 3rd to 30th of July 2025.

Another exhibition will take place at the Habibi Kiosk of Münchner Kammerspiele from 29th of November to 12th of December 2025.