The DKS production and exhibition on tour Queer Icons continues to be as groundbreaking as its gallery show. The exhibition is a part of the national program for visual arts in public schools in Norway. Queer Icons for DKS was developed by and with Harald Lunde Helgesen (exhibition design) and Caroline Ugelstad Elnæs (co-author Queer Icons-publication) and curated by curator and Head of Mediation and Communications Håkon Lillegraven (Fotogalleriet) together with producer Inger-Johanne Molven (DKS Oslo) and Artistic Director Antonio Cataldo (Fotogalleriet). The production is funded by DKS Oslo.
Den Kulturelle Skolesekken, in English “The Cultural Schoolbag”, is a national programme designed to ensure that all school pupils in Norway experience professional art and culture.
Queer Icons was initiated by photographer Fin Serk-Hanssen with photographic work by Fin, texts by authors Bjørn Hatterud and Caroline Ugelstad Elnæs. The exhibition was first shown at Fotogalleriet March through May 2022, and has been part of several productions in Norway, such as Oslo Negativ, Oslo Kulturnatt, Elvelangs, Pride Art, Litteratursymposiet i Odda, Ringsaker Library, and Kunstforeningen in Mo i Rana. The publication Queer Icons is published by Pitch publishing (NOR only) and can be purchased in bookshops all over Norway and online.
Get to know the icons as Harald Lunde Helgesen and Caroline Ugelstad Elnæs mediates them in this pop up interactive installation Queer Icons DKS.