Andrea Geyer / a promise of lightning | Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Hales is thrilled to announce a promise of lightning, a solo exhibition by Andrea Geyer at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York. Geyer's is the second project in The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art's Interventions series, which invites LGBTQIA+ artists and cultural producers to engage the Museum's collection and creatively present their research, building new narratives and interpretations from diverse subjectivities.

 

Andrea Geyer (b. 1971, Freiburg, Germany) studied photography and film design at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and fine art at the Braunschweig University of Art, both in Germany. Her work ranges across multiple media, incorporating text, photography, painting, sculpture, video and performance. It explores the complex politics of time, in the context of specific social and political situations, cultural institutions and historical events. From her early investigations into urban environments, cultural landscapes and notions of citizenship to more recent research into women's contributions to modernism, Geyer's work continuously seeks to create spaces of critical, collective reflection on the construction of histories and ideas that are otherwise marginalised or obscured.

 

The exhibition is accompanied by a newsprint publication and online database titled The Future Is Now: An Impossible Archive Of Queer Advocacy And Resistance. This newly released archive, here seen in its first iteration, brings together information on more than 1,000 historic and contemporary LGBTQIA+ organizations in the US gathered from online and offline archives, books, research papers, primary sources and oral histories.

Public programming for a promise of lightning includes Come out with joy, speak out for justice: A Queer Salon-a series of gatherings that offer an urgent organizing space at a moment in which election politics has targeted the lives of communities all across the country.