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What if home is less about where we live and more about where we can be fully ourselves? In “Coming Home”, designer and artist @gregorjahner turns queer intimacy and belonging into objects that invite us to question our desires.

Read the full review on the thing Magazine website: thethingmagazine.com (link in bio).

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‚Coming Home‘ at @jeanclaudemaier, curated by @modekoerper

Home is both a basic human need and a privilege. It promises feelings of arrival, belonging, and safety. For many, it is considered sacred and something to be kept private; for others, it is a stage for self-fashioning and an aesthetic backdrop. For queer people, this promise of home carries a double meaning: not only as the assumption of an already existing home, but also as the invention and appropriation of spaces beyond normative expectations.

Home is inherently a political place, even when it seeks to remain a refuge from politics and the public sphere. Class differences can be read through interior furnishings, while the allocation of space reflects decisions about care work, intimacy, and family, as well as hegemonic role models.

The exhibition is open till the 15.11.2026 by appointment.

Big thanks to @marina.engelhardt @timschuetze Simon Pöschko, @andrezsigmondy @studio_alibi_gmbh @nelkner___ and many more for your support!

Photos by @jensgerberfotografie

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Mit #AuDHD vergesse ich manchmal wie blessed ich mit Friends und Community bin, wenn wir uns länger nicht sehen oder leben so exhausting ist. Danke @diaetri für den guten Tip 🥰 bin froh mich erinnert zu haben und n kleinen kreativen sidequest draus gemacht habe 😁

Ganz viel Liebe an alle cuties in meinem Leben! No matter how far I always got you on my fridge 🤪😘😘

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„Coming Home“ solo exhibition, curated by Dr. Mahret Ifeoma Kupka @modekoerper

Home is both a basic human need and a privilege. It promises feelings of arrival, belonging, and safety. For many, it is considered sacred and something to be kept private; for others, it is a stage for self-fashioning and an aesthetic backdrop. For queer people, this promise of home carries a double meaning: not only as the assumption of an already existing home, but also as the invention and appropriation of spaces beyond normative expectations.

Home is inherently a political place, even when it seeks to remain a refuge from politics and the public sphere. Class differences can be read through interior furnishings, while the allocation of space reflects decisions about care work, intimacy, and family, as well as hegemonic role models.

Jean-Claude Maier @jeanclaudemaier opens its doors from 18.09.–15.11. at Münchener Str. 38, 60329 Frankfurt am Main.

Opening reception on 17.09., 6–10 PM, invitation only.

The exhibition will be presented as part of World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026. @wdc2026

Image:
Tasteless Plates (Cumming Homme), 2026
Silkscreen print on porcelain

Graphic design and calligraphy by @marina.engelhardt

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Watching an inspirational documentary #YohjiYamamoto #ThisIsMyDream

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Introducing the advisory board for THE LAND REMEMBERS!

Beatrace Oola (she/her) @beatraceoola is the founder of Fashion Africa Now @fashionafricanow. With over a decade of experience as a consultant, lecturer, speaker, and interdisciplinary curator, her work bridges fashion, heritage, remembrance, social justice and identity. Beatrace‭ will deliver a keynote speech titled “Who Cares About Clean Clothes” at the opening of THE LAND REMEMBERS at GlogauAir Berlin @glogauair on 27 May.‬

Akinbode Akinbiyi (he/him) @akinbodeakinbiyi is an artist whose work has been exhibited internationally at documenta 14 @documenta14, MoMA @themuseumofmodernart, Tate Modern @tate, and CCA Lagos @ccalagos, and he continues to mentor emerging African photographers.

Celina Baljeet Basra (she/her) @celinabasra is a writer, curator, and art historian based in Berlin. She is also a founder of the curatorial collective The Department of Love.

Constantin Hartenstein (he/him) @constantinhartenstein is a Berlin-based artist working at the intersection of technology, queerness, and the human body.

Eric Otieno (he/him) @africionado is a writer, editor, and independent researcher with a background in social theory, political economy, postcolonial studies, and art criticism.
 Mahret Kupka (she/her) @modekoerper is an art scholar, freelance writer, and since 2013 senior curator at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Yvette Mutumba (she/her) is the co-founder and director of Contemporary And (C&) @contemporaryand, a 2013-established platform for contemporary art and thought in Africa and the Global Diaspora.

Credit:
3: Lilian Scarlet Löwenbrück
4: © Neven Allgeier
5: Photo by L. Kolloge
7: C& @contemporaryand

#TheLandRemembers #GroupExhibition #DADDYMagazine

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I’m still a bit overwhelmed by the opening of “Positions on Freedom: Design and Its Boundaries” at @museumangewandtekunst. As someone who rarely stands still, constantly questioning the world and trying to make sense of it through design, I couldn’t be happier with how this project turned out.
This exhibition feels like a real accomplishment to me: entering, as Susan Sontag once described it, the “Pantheon of high culture,” while also opening its doors to many more people whose access to it has historically been far more restricted than mine.
This show is a celebration of freedom, understood as the possibility of creating a lovable society for as many people as possible.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone involved.
Anton

Photos (I love them) by @frechegoere1

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„Warum eigentlich Museum?“ - everybody, 2026

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Day 1 of our Black-Speculative-Arts Festival is over, and what an incredible start it was! The day was filled with powerful ideas, inspiring perspectives, and many thoughts on contemporary art and our society. Thanks everybody that was a part of this and enriched this our day.
Copyrights:
Black-Speculative-Arts Festival @theaterperipherie and @marsfrankfurt : Verdiana Albano @verdianaalbano

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✨ Riviera Konferenz 2025 ✨
Impulse, Networking & Austausch für die Musik- und Veranstaltungsbranche 🎶🌍

Am 6. & 7. September bringt die Riviera Konferenz in den @parksidestudios_offenbach Artists und Szeneakteur*innen zusammen – in kostenlosen Panels & Talks rund um Förderung, Sichtbarkeit und Safer Spaces. Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen!

🎤 Das Programm:
💸 Money, Money, Money! – Künstler:innenförderung der @initiativemusik mit @julia.backslash & @whodattam
👉 SA 6. September, 14–15:30 Uhr

🤝 Offenes Meet-Up von @musicwomenhessen
👉 SA 6. September, 15:30 Uhr

🌈 Panel „Safer Spaces“ mit @maurice.conrad, Brix Schaumburg @treesoul, Mahret Kupka @modekoerper & Anna Wagner @mousonturm – moderiert von Killa Schütze
📅 SO 7. September, 15:30 Uhr)

📍 Parkside Studios Offenbach, Friedhofstraße 59, 63075 Offenbach

✅ Eintritt frei
✅ Keine Anmeldung nötig

👉 Mehr Infos: www.riviera-offenbach.de/konferenz

📸 Bart Spencer, Juliegraphie.de, Donna Diederichs, Maximilian von Lachner, Celeste Call, Sven Serkis

#RivieraKonferenz #Offenbach #Musikbranche #Networking #SaferSpaces #MusicWomenHessen #InitiativeMusik #RivieraFestival

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Rückblick zur Eröffnung des PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE 2025 letze Woche 🫶

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