Karol Radziszewskis

The chairs, benches and concrete are familiar to most who were students or teachers during that period, and perhaps especially in Central and Eastern Europe. At the same time, the everyday school environment reflects something different from the curriculum one might expect there: hidden queer stories and iconic queer figures who have been banned are integrated into the classroom’s interior and educational materials.

Karol Radziszewski was born in 1980 in Poland. He is the founder of DIK Fagazine, which since 2005 has focused on male homosexuality and “queerness”. He is also the founder of the Queer Archives Institute, which works with artistic interpretation of queer archives.

Curator: Hendrik Folkerts