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We celebrate 35 years of bold ideas, critical perspectives, and transformative queer cultural work.

Happy Birthday, thealit! Thank you for the past, for the present and for the future ahead! 

Artists & projects 2025/2026


NOW AT ARBEITSZIMMER THEALIT

What does it mean to have had many homes, yet not to have one now? We approach this as a queer practice of memory, rejecting linear narratives. Through fragments, overlaps and gaps in voices, images and juxtapositions, we seek not to rediscover 'home', but to reimagine it from our current perspective. This perspective is shaped by the Korean words we carry with us and the German phrases we now speak. This is not a reconstruction, but a shift and a re-experiencing. Each apartment, table and window takes on new meaning, defined by who we are today and what we have forgotten.”

Foto: Bokeum Lee


The sisters think of ‘nest’ as a space and as an artistic concept: "This motif [of the nest] runs like a thread through our artistic practice and stands for an existence in between – between arrival and departure, the familiar and the unfamiliar. Like migratory birds, we build nests as we pass through – temporary structures made of memories, voices, objects, and glances. These nests are not fixed places, but inhabited transitions: temporary locations in the space between, bearing traces of migration, translation, and new beginnings. For a certain period of time, they are inhabited – as fragile forms of closeness in the in-between – and eventually perhaps abandoned again. […] Moving on therefore means not only saying goodbye, but also taking with you experiences, bonds, and traces that help shape every new home.” 

Re Capitulating. queer welcomes Yuyen Lin-Woywod, who is coming over from Berlin to Bremen, to Arbeitszimmer thealit for the last residency of this season. She introduces herself as a BIPoC queer person and is interested in presenting her observations and reflections of recent years in the form of three video works. Extra, extra plus! On display are: 

We are invited to view and discuss the works, supplemented by materials and books related to the videos, and to enjoy specially prepared snacks.

In the words of Yuyen Lin-Woywod: “Using a series of video works, I aim to offer an international and interdisciplinary perspective on both Asian and European societies. By queering the everyday, I intend to highlight the diversity of survival strategies and reimagine the possibilities of queer existence. [...] Through the three short films I will present—each dealing with different themes—I hope to reveal the multiplicity and fluidity of what ‘queer’ can be. ‘Queer’ is not a fixed definition; it can be a discourse, a theory, a poem, or a story. This is not a sentimental portrayal, but rather an articulation of the complexity inherent in queerness.” Complexity of articulation, a form of reaction...


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