VIRAL INTIMACIES brings together artists, activists and scholars to reflect on contemporary conditions of HIV/AIDS, as they are shaped by politics, biomedicine, social locations as well as personal memories, love and archives. The project foregrounds the realities of those who long have been silenced or forgotten in writing the history of HIV/AIDS: trans and cis women, people from the Global South, racialized people, incarcerated people and sex workers. VIRAL INTIMACIES asks how to decolonize the history and present of HIV/AIDS. Eleven audiovisual artworks fill the gaps in the dominant yet incomplete narrative of HIV/AIDS and narrate HIV/AIDS as a fragmented and uneven story. The accompanying public program creates a shared space for in depth conversation, encounters, visibilities and solidarity through film screenings, talks, workshops and performances.

Artists: Camilo Acosta & Santiago Lemus, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Jorge Bordello, Kat Cheairs, Naya de Souza, Pascale Espinosa, Ato Kwamina Hasford, Kia LaBeija, Ivan L. Munuera, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Manuela Solano

nGbK work group: Ahmed Awadalla (Madi), Tomás Espinosa, Elisabeth Krämer, Samuel Perea-Díaz, Hanna Schaich, Max Schnepf

Audio guide of the exhibition

Information in Easy Language and DGS

Supported by
Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
Embassy of Spain in Germany

In cooperation with
Berlin Project Fund for Arts Education (Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung)
”la Caixa” Foundation
Kéré Foundation

Partner of Berlin Art Week