Created by the human rights organization EQUAL PostOst in collaboration with curator Anna Narinskaya, the exhibition features seven black boxes—spaces of confinement and suppression—that explore key aspects of queer life under threat: censorship, imprisonment, torture, denunciation, trans persecution, and the classification of queerness as “extremism.”
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The exhibition illustrates how anti-LGBTIQ repression has become part of Russian state ideology—especially since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022—and how this dangerous trend is spreading globally, influencing politics in neighboring countries, the U.S., and across the EU.
“Boxed” is accompanied by a public program, including the first open screening in Germany of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary film Queendom.
About the Organizer:
EQUAL PostOst is a European human rights organization supporting LGBTIQ individuals from Eastern Europe and Central Asia who face persecution. Their work includes evacuations, legal aid, emergency housing, and protection for queer people in crisis.
About the Curator:
Anna Narinskaya is a curator, journalist, literary critic, and author of documentary films and plays. Her play The Last Word, based on final court statements of Russian political prisoners, was staged at Berlin’s Gorki Theater (2022) and London’s Marylebone Theatre (2024).
