Queer gazes in Sleepless Nights

In the exhibition “Sleepless Nights” we see how key events of the 1980s are represented artistically in photography, sculpture, painting and film. This includes the fall of the Berlin Wall and the launching of the Internet. The AIDS crisis became very palpable in art and culture contexts, and many artists were strongly affected by both the disease and the homophobia that followed.

Using artworks by artists such as Matts Leiderstam, Tuija Lindström, David Wojnarowicz and Robert Mapplethorpe, Cultural Scholar Emil Åkerö shows how the artists portrayed same-sex desire and the theme of HIV.