AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts)

AMOQA (Athens Museum of Queer Arts) is a creative project run by a multidisciplinary collective of socially engaged artists, curators, and researchers committed to the fostering of queer and feminist cultural production in Greece. Cultivating connections between everyday life, art, and community building, it offers a platform where the queer artistic and activist community of Athens can safely meet, express themselves, and collaborate. Since 2016, it operates a space located in the center of Athens, where it hosts a variety of cultural events, ranging from hybrid media artistic exhibitions and performances to technology workshops, experimental film screenings, and lectures on gender and sexuality topics. Through interweaving art, theory, and activism, the collective attempts to re-think the concepts of ‘social space’, ‘archive’, and ‘museum’ in ways that challenge anti-gender violence and the politics of queer erasure.

10 years AMOQA: What if museums were gardens?
For its ten-year anniversary, AMOQA proposes an exhibition based on correspondence via plantable post-cards, and the development of an online, open-access archive based on the collective’s trajectory in queer arts and activism. The project invites people that have previously collaborated with AMOQA to re-imagine museums as gardens for the production of an immersive installation, inspired by Ntinos Christianopoulos’ verse “they tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seeds”. Exploring the potential of archives as seed banks, the exhibition features events on queer ecologies, eco-sensitive forms of archiving and online feminist commons, which will contribute to AMOQA’s archive development.