Still image from Relations: 25 Years of the Lesbian Group ŠKUC-LL (2012) © Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid

History Lesson: Lesbian punk in former Yugoslavia

Love Under Red Stars

6.3 2026

Stockholm

The second history lesson in “Karol Radziszewski – The Classroom” takes us to former Yugoslavia as the platform Tentative Transmits, Marina Gržinić and Suzana Tratnik activate the exhibition through conversations and a film screening about subcultural forms of resistance and lesbian punk.

History Lesson: Lesbian punk in former Yugoslavia

Love Under Red Stars

Date

Friday 6 March 2026

Time

17.30–20.00

Place

In the exhibition “Karol Radziszewski — The Classroom“, floor 4

Language

English

Price

Free of charge, pre-registration required

Contact: Alexander Kateb, Curator of Programming Moderna Museet

Attend the collective history lesson “Love Under Red Stars” as Tentative Transmits, in collaboration with philosopher and artist Marina Gržinić and writer and researcher Suzana Tratnik, activate the exhibition “Karol Radziszewski – The Classroom”. The evening’s programme delves into the subcultural forms of resistance that emerged in former Yugoslavia during the 1980s.

Watch the documentary film “Relations: 25 Years of the Lesbian Group ŠKUC-LL” (2012) by Marina Gržinić, Aina Šmid and Zvonka T. Simčič, which follows the development of the lesbian and gay movement in former Yugoslavia. The screening will be followed by a conversation between artist and organiser Marianna Feher (Tentative Transmits), Marina Gržinić and Suzana Tratnik, and a material distribution marking the occasion.

The event explores practices of self-historicisation, self-archiving, and queer socialist aesthetics, reflecting on lessons drawn from diverse modes of resistance in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav region – ultimately asking what love might mean under red stars.

Tentative Transmits

Tentative Transmits is an artistic audio platform and archive that investigates memory politics, diaspora, solidarity practices and post-socialist transitions across and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

Tentative Transmits operates as an active and living archive where artists, theorists, musicians and cultural workers are invited to create newly commissioned works for the platform or gather collectively through public programmes or exhibitions. Through concepts such as hauntology, post-memory and off-modern, Tentative Transmits, together with its collaborators, seeks to put the relationship of archive and narrative into question.

Marina Gržinić

Marina Gržinić is a philosopher, theorist and artist based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Gržinić is a prominent contemporary critical and theoretical figure in Slovenia. She publishes extensively, lectures internationally, and has been engaged in video art since 1982.

Since 1993, she has been affiliated with the Institute of Philosophy, ZRC SAZU, Ljubljana, and currently teaches Aesthetics and Technology at the ZRC SAZU Postgraduate School. Since 2003, Gržinić has been a Full Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and currently supervises a dozen PhDs in Philosophy.

Marianna Feher

Marianna Feher is an artist and organiser based in Stockholm. Her practice is most often expressed through installation, text, sound, performance, print, collaborative processes and public gatherings. Feher’s work explores both research and practices that are conceptually related to how subjectivities are created in relation to memory, myth, belonging, gender, solidarity and language – often by weaving together archival material, personal narratives and fiction.

She has previously presented projects at, among others, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Silent Green, Röda Sten Konsthall, Institutet, Mint, MNAC Bucharest and Heerz Tooya. Since 2020, she runs the platform Tentative Transmits.

Suzana Tratnik

Suzana Tratnik is a Ljubljana-based writer, translator and essayist with a background in sociology and gender anthropology. She has been a lesbian activist since 1987 and is a cofounder of ŠKUC-Lezbična sekcija LL, the first lesbian group in Eastern Europe, and a programmer for Ljubljana’s LGBT Film Festival.

She has published numerous novels, short-story collections and nonfiction books; a feature film based on her work was released in 2025. She received the Prešeren Foundation Award for Literature in 2007.

History Lessons in The Classroom

Throughout the exhibition period of “Karol Radziszewski — The Classroom“, the space will be activated with history lessons — lectures, conversations, film screenings and more. With the ontology of the queer archive as a shared foundation, these lessons explore various geographical locations and multiple layers of time.

Friday 20 February 2026: Queer sound archives and Chaser Art

Performative gathering with The Archive of Pink Noises (Birt Berglund, Anna Giertz, and Johan Sundell) and lecture performance by poet Andria Nyberg Forshage.

Friday 6 March 2026: Lesbian punk in former Yugoslavia

Film screening of “Relations: 25 Years of the Lesbian Group ŠKUC-LL” (2012), followed by artist and organiser Marianna Feher from the platform Tentative Transmits in conversation with the film’s director Marina Gržinić and writer Suzana Tratnik.

The event is a collaboration with the platform Tentative Transmits.