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Queer (Berlin since 2015) born & raised in LA
20+ years in music | Now: @queerclubculture | ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฒ:
archiving, curating, researching, teaching, writing
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10 Sept 2026:๐”๐๐•๐„๐‘๐’๐‚๐‡Aฬˆ๐Œ๐“ opening presented by @instinct.berlin at Village (Berlin) || Click link in @queer.artwork.archive bio to access the exhibition website with more infos... โ€” โ€” ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ต 21: ๐˜œ๐˜•๐˜๐˜Œ๐˜™๐˜š๐˜Š๐˜Aฬˆ๐˜”๐˜› ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฅ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜บ, & ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ แด…แด€แด›แด‡: Thursday, 10 September แด›ษชแดแด‡: 18:00โ€“23:00 แด แด‡ษดแดœแด‡: Village Berlin แด€แด…แด…ส€แด‡๊œฑ๊œฑ: KurfuฬˆrstenstraรŸe 31, 10785 Berlin Performance by @minu.offiziell at 20:00 โ€” โ€” Participating Artists: Soufiane Ababri โ€ข Berk Akkaya โ€ข Krista Beinstein โ€ข Juan Carlos Casasola โ€ข Robin Dino Doo โ€ข KrisฬŒjaฬ„nis Elviks โ€ข Carlos Enfedaque โ€ข Fausto โ€ข Jan Grosser โ€ข Attila Hartwig โ€ข Jijo Kuriakose โ€ข Sanjin Kastelan โ€ข Achim Kraฬˆmer โ€ข Makode Linde โ€ข Victor Luque โ€ข Micheฬ€le Meyer โ€ข Slava Mogutin โ€ข Piotr T. Mosur โ€ข Deni Horvatic โ€ข Marc Peridis โ€ข Marc Provins โ€ข Bruno Podrug โ€ข Dexter Red โ€ข Brett Charles Seiler โ€ข Anton Sibenaler โ€ข Yuri Worldwide โ€ข Orpheus โ€ข Zoltan Zoltansky @soufianeababri @berkakkaya @juancarlosrosacasasola @robindinodoo @elviks_xx @enfedead @fausto_berlin @attilahartwig @jijojessykuriakose @sanjinkastelan @makode @don.victor.luque @slavamogutin @denihorvatic @marcperidisx @marcprovinsprojects @disrupted.disorder @dexterred @brettseiler @anton_collateral @yuriworldwide @orpheusmen_art @zoltanzoltansky โ€” โ€”
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9 Sept 2026 || Julia Stoschek Foundation (Berlin Closing Week) Presents: ๐—œ๐—™ ๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—จ ๐—–๐—”๐—ก ๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—”๐—–๐—› ๐— ๐—ฌ ๐—›๐—˜๐—”๐—ฅ๐—ง ๐—ฌ๐—ข๐—จ ๐—–๐—”๐—ก ๐—ž๐—˜๐—˜๐—ฃ ๐—œ๐—ง (๐˜‰๐˜Œ๐˜™๐˜“๐˜๐˜• ๐˜๐˜๐˜“๐˜” & ๐˜๐˜๐˜‹๐˜Œ๐˜– ๐˜ˆ๐˜™๐˜Š๐˜๐˜๐˜๐˜Œ๐˜š ๐Ÿค๐Ÿข๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฃโ€” ๐Ÿค๐Ÿข๐Ÿค๐Ÿจ) Films by Matt Lambert (@dielamb) แดกแด‡แด…ษดแด‡๊œฑแด…แด€ส, ๐Ÿซ ๊œฑแด‡แด˜แด› ๐Ÿค๐Ÿข๐Ÿค๐Ÿจ (๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿช:๐Ÿข๐Ÿข โ€” สŸแด€แด›แด‡) DJ sets by: TT, Bleach & Special Guest from 9 p.m. [๐™›๐™ง๐™š๐™š ๐™–๐™™๐™ข๐™ž๐™จ๐™จ๐™ž๐™ค๐™ฃ] Across four rooms, Matt Lambert presents a survey of his Berlin body of film and video works over the last 15 years. In 2025, Lambert released his 6th photobook, โ€žIf You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It,โ€ published be Baron, which reflected on his most personal work (2011โ€”25). This show expands on many of the works in the book, in motion, as well as going deeper into early Berlin experiments. Works include collaborations with: @arca1000000, @aresgold8, @bendikgiske, Blake Mitchell, @bleach.babychino, @brucelabruce, @bronskibeatofficial, @brontezpurnell, @cakesdakilla, @christeene_official, @davidhoyleuniversal, @hidavidwilson, Evvol, @herculesandloveaffair, @honeydijon, @yawnnis, @jordan.tannahill, @julianahuxtable, @kaluplinzy, @m.j.h.a.r.p.e.r, @nancynutter_, @pansydivisionofficial, @peachesniker, @rickowensonline, @Liz.Rosenfeld, rough__kicks, @theonlyseanford, @lalamichmich, @mykkiblanco, @vaginaldavis_official Diving deeper into his archive, Lambert premieres โ€œIT WAS YOU TIL IT WAS ME,โ€ cutting through archival and unreleased moments, featuring @traceisdreaming in a durational series of looping performances that live-score the film. In the basement, a darkroom cinema screens a selection of his uncensored films, guided by a scent-scape designs in collaboration with @raerscents. Born in L.A. and having started his practice in London and then NYC, Matt Lambert is a Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator whose work centers around queer history and contemporary identity. He has shown work at and collaborated with Tribecca, Cannes, SXSW, Tate Britain, Munch Museum, British Film Institute, Palais Galliera, HAU, Schaubuฬˆhne, Berliner Ensemble, and an ongoing series SISSY SMUT at Volksbuฬˆhne. โ€” Link in @queer.artwork.archive bio for more info.
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10 Sept (Thursday): 6pm-10pm || Berlin launch of ๐‘ซ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’” ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’˜ ๐’•๐’ ๐‘ฒ๐’†๐’†๐’‘ ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’Ž - the second photo book by ๐™‘๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™˜๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™’๐™š๐™˜๐™๐™จ๐™š๐™ก๐™—๐™š๐™ง๐™œ๐™š๐™ง / @vincenttiberius Published by: @SMUT_Press Location: @bam_wrks space RitterstraรŸe 8, 10969 Berlin Music provided by @ttbrittttbritt
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10 July 2026: YOUR LOVE at Panorama Bar (Berlin) || Artwork: @itaycn || Click the link in bio of @queerclubculture to access this item on its page on the archive website. LINE-UP INCLUDES: @afrohomo @lakuti_ @lillouisofficial @tama_sumo @toribious_monk โ€” โ€”
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Arriving in Berlin today felt like stepping into a memory. The warmth of the summer air, the familiar scents drifting through the streets, the sound of trams, conversations spilling out onto sidewalks, bikes rushing past... it all came flooding back at once. Itโ€™s incredible how a city can live inside you long after youโ€™ve left it. Then came the best part: reconnecting with people Iโ€™ve known and loved for years. The kind of long, genuine hugs that make you realize no amount of time or distance can diminish real connection. Being surrounded again by so much creativity, talent and warmth left me completely giddy. Matt and I have known each other for nearly 15 years, and watching his evolution has been nothing short of inspiring. Heโ€™s become an extraordinary artist whose work has helped shape the visual language of contemporary queer culture. I couldnโ€™t be prouder of everything heโ€™s built. Through Matt, I also had the pleasure of meeting Vincent Wechselberger, whose photography is featured in Amelia Abrahamโ€™s new book Sex, Clubs, Dissent: Visualising Queer Nightlife. The book brings together decades of imagery from queer nightlife around the world, exploring how photography has both documented and celebrated these spaces while preserving moments of joy, resistance, intimacy and community that might otherwise have been lost. Days like today remind me why I love this city so much. Berlin has always been more than a place to me. Itโ€™s a feeling. A community. A constant source of inspiration that somehow still feels like home.
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As part of the seminar Mapping Through the Looking Glass: Is Berlin a Queer City? On 1 June 2026 at 13:00 in Room 712-ifa We will host a discussion on the spaces of queer nightlife in Berlin called: Queer Club Culture: Community-Building and Place-Making. The discussion will be led by Anna Steigemann an urban researcher and sociologist, and independent researcher David Aaron Swartz, whose work focuses on archiving queer club culture in Berlin. Their ongoing projects - Annaโ€™s research with Jamie Hakim and Mika Upton for the forthcoming book Future Intimacies on queer spaces and the pandemic, and Davidโ€™s digital archiving of the contemporary queer club scene in Berlinโ€”critically engage with nightlife spaces as essential urban infrastructure for marginalized communities and as places where community is actively practiced and sustained. As Berlinโ€™s queer nightlife increasingly becomes a recognizable global brand, its impact on touristification and commercialization in the city has made access for queer communities more limited and increasingly instrumentalized by neoliberal regimes. Beyond extractive forms of entertainment designed primarily for tourists, how can queer nightlife be understood as a vital social fabric of resistance, care, and community-building for the city itself? Anna Steigemann (she/her) is an urban researcher and sociologist. Her research focuses on neighborhood and community studies, particularly self-created infrastructures of marginalized communities, spatial production, gender, diversity, migration and the city, critical participation research, and qualitative collaborative research methods. @anna_mirli David Aaron Swartz (he/him) is a Berlin-based archivist, researcher, curator, guest lecturer, and workshop facilitator specializing in areas including the music business, queerness, club culture, archiving, and HIV/AIDS activism. @daswartzy @queerclubculture
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๐‚๐ซ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ž๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐ˆ๐ˆ: ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ก โ€” Published by @SMUT_Press Book Design: @johnphilipsage || Image features in the book by Del LaGrace Volcano, Vincent Wechselberger and Jordan Hearns. Click the link in the bio of @queer.artwork.archive to find the official link for the project with details on the launch events and how to get your copy. For those based in Berlin, there is a launch event taking place at @KellerKreuzberg on Thursday, 21 May 2026 from 17:00 to 20:00. โ€“ โ€“ Text courtesy of SMUT Press: SMUT Press is proud to announce the launch of Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash, the long awaited follow-up edition to the 2024 cult bestseller. Cruising Archaeology II: Eurotrash is the tenth printed matter project by the press and will launch in a series of events across Europe, starting at MA1: Bunker in Old Street in London. The project builds on the initial editionโ€™s success by expanding the breadth of archaeological sites to various locations scattered across European cities including Berlin, Athens, Dublin, Barcelona and Paris. The diversity of cruising areas, including woodland areas, public toilets, palatial gardens, s3x clubs and beaches, speak to the inventive, site-responsive forms that cruising assumes and situating desire both within the folds of a cityโ€™s infrastructure and natural landscape. Building on its predecessor, the publication pairs vivid scans of collected objects with texts that contextualise and historicise cruisingโ€™s material traces. Contributors include Marc Svensson (You Are Loved), Mati KlitgaฬŠrd (Gay Consent.Lab), Stav B, Jordan Tannahill, Prem Sahib, and Joaฬƒo Floreฬ‚ncio. The book retains the original pocket-sized paperback format, with design by John Philip Sage. Published by SMUT Press and distributed by Public Knowledge Books. Stockists TBA. This production is supported by Arts Council Ireland and Culture Ireland. โ€” โ€”
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Had the best time in Prague for Dancecult26: Heritage, Memory and Community in Electronic Music and Dance Cultures. Met a few familiar faces from previous conferences, got to know many new amazing people, listened to really inspiring presentations, talked about music and everything related to it, shared beers food and perhaps too much coffee, played a set of mine during a lunch break, danced together on my last night in the city. It never ceases to amaze me how easy and natural it is to feel such a deep connection with people you have never met before and god knows when youโ€™ll meet again (hopefully very soon), when there are mutual passions/experiences/values. Quite probably the best thing of being - or trying to be - an academic in the field of music. Also, 0.5l beers for less than 3โ‚ฌ should be mandatory in Italy too. Grazie Praga, grazie DC26 ๐ŸŽง๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿชฉ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ป๐Ÿ‘จ๐Ÿปโ€๐Ÿซ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ–
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DC26 Prague, another day full of insights, provocations, and stories from the front line of rave culture. Not quite done yet though, afterparty tonight with The Bug and Warrior Queen, and immersion into the lower frequency spectrum!
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#fromdiscotohousewiththeclickofamouse #timessquarenyc #rosabarba #ps1 #ninaprotocol
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9 May 2026: @QUEER.POOL (7th bday!) at Suฬˆdpol (Hamburg) || Art: @thatspeachykeen || Follow the link in the bio of @queerclubculture to access all of these promo items on the archive and also to find out more info about this upcoming event. โ€“ โ€“ โ€“ Text courtesy of @queer.pool: QRPL XXIX | Saturday, May 9th | start: 10pm | suฬˆdpol and here you go: this is how our birthday menu* is served! *all vegan and soaked with bad-b!tches! BRUNA (@_brunamusic) MEPHEDONNA (@mephadonna_) JUBA (@jubamusicldn) COCO COBRA (@coco__cobra) DIRTY DADDY DON (@dirtydaddydon) /////// @TANGA_BERLIN SHOWCASE \\\\\\\ MAMA YHA YHA (@_mamayhayha) KHLOE (@khloelubo) ALP (@alpozalp) TAM TAM (@tamtam_pda) JORKES (@jorkes0) NIKITASTERN (@nikitastern) kindly QUEERPOOL! artwork: @thatspeachykeen โ€“ โ€“ โ€“
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13 May 2026: @Fiercedivaboots FFS Fundraiser at @arkaoadaberlin || Artwork by: @delusionalpuppy || แด„สŸษชแด„แด‹ แด›สœแด‡ สŸษชษดแด‹ ษชษด ส™ษชแด of @queerclubculture to access further info about this event via the item listing on the archive website (๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐จ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐๐Œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ค)! โ€“ โ€“ TEXT COURTESY OF @fiercedivaboots: ๐ŸšจMark your calendars!! Fierce Diva Boots is hosting a fierce diva fundraiser, with a fierce DJ lineupโ€ผ๏ธ Wednesday 13.05 atย @arkaodaberlin, iโ€™m hosting a sexy soiree to hopefullyyyyy reach the target of the fundraiser for my FFS! ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿป Doors open at 22:00, entrance starts at โ‚ฌ10 and operates as a sliding scale. ๐Ÿ’ธ No need to take Thursday off, its a bank holiday ๐Ÿซฆ Come early as capacity is limited. And if you canโ€™t make the sexy soiree the link to my gofundme is in my bio ๐Ÿ˜˜ Thanks you to my Angels ๐Ÿ’‹ย @131bpm ๐Ÿ’‹ย @byronyeates ๐Ÿ’‹ย @luigidivenere ๐Ÿ’‹ย @_mamayhayha ๐Ÿ’‹ย @source.link ๐Ÿถย @delusionalpuppyย for the poster xx ๐Ÿ‘ผ๐Ÿปย @markgill444ย for all booking and production assistance xx โ€“ โ€“
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