Cinema Queer

In connection with Konstantin Zhukov’s exhibition The Day Before You Came, we move beyond the gallery space with an installation of the artist’s video work, Black Carnation No2, together with a selection of Baltic queer film.

Obscene West. Naglis is named after a monthly magazine for the gay community in Lithuania in the 1990s and is dedicated to queer culture and its significance in Lithuania and the neighbouring Baltic countries—Estonia and Latvia.

The programme focuses on works that analyse and problematise the prejudices queer people encountered in the 1990s and 2000s, but also positive self-representation and the political upheaval that defined many post-Soviet countries. Together, the works portray a social landscape in the three newly independent countries and their polarised view of gender and sexuality, raising questions about how history and relationships are shaped by global developments—and how we can use this today.

17:00 The exhibition opens

18:00 Film program

19:00 Artist talk: Konstantin Zhukov and Conny Karlsson Lundgren

Film
Anna-Stina Treumund (EST) Mothers, 2008, 8 min
Anna-Stina Treumund (EST) Loser, 2011, 1 min Konstantin Zhukov (LT) Black Carnation No2, 2024, 7 min
Laura Stasiulytė (LT) From the Life of Young Ladies, 2001, 14 min
Santa Lingevičiūtė (LT) And Death Shall Have No Dominion 2008, 4 min 34 s

Conny Karlsson Lundgren (b. 1974) divides his time between Stockholm and Hoby Mosse. Through film, text, image, installation, and performance, his work navigates the porous boundaries between social, political, and private identities—reimagined through experiences, desires, and secret codes. His work has been exhibited both in Sweden and internationally, and is held in several collections including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Gothenburg Museum of Art, and Malmö Art Museum. In 2024, he had a comprehensive solo exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm and created Gläntan, Sweden’s first LGBTQI+ monument, inaugurated in Gothenburg in 2023.

The programme is part of the film festival Cinema Queer and is organised in collaboration with Centrum för fotografi.

Still from Black Carnation No2, Konstantin Zhukov, portrait Mike Karlsson Lundgren