18 Artists | 2 Venues | 3 Rooms
curated exhibition of films, videos, and installations that reflect past and future of XPOSED.
We have three exhibition rooms which feature films, video, and virtual-reality installations based on previous curation of XPOSED, from the last 20 years, as well as looking forward.
Kottbusser Damm 22 10967 Berlin, Kreuzberg
Opening times: Wed–Fri 14:00–20:00 · Sat–Sun 12:00–18:00
“The screen has accidentally, intentionally, been left blank”
The title comes from a quote by the late Mona Ruijs. The works show how queer and immigrant bodies take over cinematic and geopolitical spaces, reclaiming rights and heritage. Features a VR installation by Claudix Vanesix and classical Sudanese poetry by Ahmed Umar.
Adalbertstraße 96, 10999 Berlin
Opening times: Between 21.05.2026 – 14.06.202626
Thu-Sun, 16:00-21:00
“Live from home”
Centralizing the topic of home, kinship, and domesticity in queer films, this room brings you up close and intimate with the subjects in their space, as if these works mediate queer realities “live” from home. It features the VR installation "Doll House for Queer Imaginaries" and Omar Gabriel’s multi-screen installation "Letter to Myself".
“Follow their footsteps”
This room is a portal where dreams and images across time and space collide. It features VR installations like "Another Place" and "Queer Utopia: Act 1 Cruising", alongside Doireann O’Malley’s three-screen installation "Prototype 1", which explores trans* knowledge and psycho-ecological bodies.
Sketches, mock-ups, posters from last 20 years of XPOSED
The exhibition features sketches and posters for the last few editions of XPOSED, by Marion Habringer, who has been the festival’s graphic designer since the early editions.
Untitled (8min / 1-channel video)
UNTITLED is an incisive collection of oxymorons accompanied by the true story of Mili. This experimental short film urges us to look at the extraordinary contradictions in our ordinary lives.
Dance Permit (Denied) (VR installation)
In this fusion of theatrical dance performance and 360 documentary, Vanesix questions the exclusive rights of men in Peruvian society, reclaiming a place in their culture.
Truth Bears No Scandal (12min / 1-channel video)
Umar explores three well-known Sudanese songs with hidden backstories, presenting them directly and unapologetically queer.
Roya (20min / 1-channel video)
A half-documentary, half-fictional narrative reflecting on belonging and upheaval through longings and dreams. Roya questions the exoticizing gaze of western viewers.
Journey to the CharBagh (17min / 1-channel video)
A poetic exploration of queerness from a Muslim perspective, drawing upon Sufi traditions and the mythological figure of the Buraq.
Borderhole (14min / 1-channel video)
Exploring imperialism and globalization through pop music and the choreography of women’s bodies on a mythical border area.
Doll house for queer imaginaries (VR installation)
A social VR project reflecting on what home means, drawing inspiration from nightlife and cruising culture in a digital safe space.
Letters to myself (Video installation)
A documentary series about Lebanese LGBTQI individuals writing letters to themselves as they rebuild their lives.
Who will fuck daddy? (64min / 1-channel video)
A hypnotic, personal film mixing mystical images with political themes of rebirth and the death of heteronormativity.
Learn Deutsch with Petra von Kant
Ten years of German integration commemorated through the collective transformation into Fassbinder’s Petra von Kant.
Hold Me Close (19min / 1-channel video)
Exploring the domestic relationship between two Queer Black womxn through elegantly composed tableaus and intimate audio.
Another Place (VR installation)
A ghost story about a trans woman from Thailand waiting for asylum in Paris, sharing her longing for home through a VR experience.
Queer Utopia: Act 1 Cruising (VR installation)
An immersive narrative following a retired playwright as he reconstructs fragments of queer memories before they fade away.
Prototype 1 (3-channels installation)
Exploring new perspectives on trans identity through psycho-analytic methodology and systems theory within Berlin's Hansaviertel.
Beside the water 1999-2004 (1-channel video)
A gesture of abundance addressing the erasure of trans history through a video essay of transmasculine sexual discovery.
Behind every good man (1-channel video)
An illuminating glimpse into the life of an African American trans person, rendered as stable and hopeful before the Stonewall Uprising.
Untitled Sequence of Gaps (1-channel video)
An essay film approaching trauma-related memory loss via reflections on light outside the visible spectrum.
Pearl Boy (1-channel installation)
Using Phuket’s pearl farming process as a symbol for sex workers, generated from foreign intervention and local trauma.
