Pauline Kling is part of GlogauAIR’s recently established curatorial residency program. Curatorial residents have the opportunity to meet and engage with the artists and curators in our program, as well as develop their own projects. Kling’s research is informed by critical analysis, as well as queer-feminist and relational theory. She is interested in the emancipatory and transformative potential of que(e)ring heteronormative ways of societal relations.

She worked on the exhibition project When the body is queer, I feel free during her 3 month residency at GlogauAIR, which focused on the analysis of relationships in social spaces and the question of collective freedom. 

In a time marked by crises, where hegemonic competitive forms of relationships lead people to turn away from each other rather than come together, the exhibition explored an alternative perspective on the future. It suggested that by que(e)ring the current power structures, not only the relation to self and individual body can be transformed but also the collective body as a whole.

Participating artists were:

Andrew Barry O’Malley @andrewbarryomalley

Johnny McMillan @__mcmillan

Lisa Götze @lisa__goetze

Mike D’hondt @mike_dhondt

Miriam Poletti @miriamakaib

Rory Midhani @rorymidhani

Stella Wiemann @stella_loona_

Uta Bekaia @utabekaia