What does queer mean within an interdisciplinary field of art, architecture and city development? ROM invites practitioners from a range of professions to propose projects in connection with Queer Culture Year 2022!

About Queer Culture Year 2022

2022 marks the 50 year anniversary of decriminalisation of sex between men in Norway, when paragraph 213 in the Norwegian Penal Code was lifted. In order to address this, Skeivt arkiv, the National Museum and the National Library will collaborate to communicate and discuss queer art, culture and history all over Norway.

Skeivt arkiv has, since 2013, worked to facilitate more of this research, through collecting, documenting and preserving everything that can illuminate Norwegian queer history. On the occasion of the anniversary of decriminalization of sex between men, the National Museum and the National Library join us in the work to identify, arrange and digitalise sources for queer culture and history in books, journals, films and photo to facilitate for research and communication. Together we aim to increase the base of knowledge, as well as create a national understanding and celebration of this little known, but highly important, part of Norwegian history, which so far to a great degree has been overlooked. Read more.

Apply with project

ROM reaches out to you working at the intersection of queer perspectives and architecture, city development and public space. Who and what defines our surroundings, and what alternative practices can add diversity to public space?

Do you have a text you want to write? Are you thinking of a lecture you want to listen to? A workshop you want to run? Exhibition? Podcast? The project can take any form. Send preliminary ideas (approx. 200 words) here by 27 August. After the first round, we will contact a selection of applicants for a more in-depth project description.