AllTogether

The exhibition explores the erotic LGBTQ+ art collection consisting of thousands of artworks, spanning multiple decades and encompassing all media and techniques, from the Tom of Finland Foundation.

The art show curation highlights the stories of over seventy featured artists and collects over two hundred artworks dedicated to homoerotic art, from the 1940s until today.

For over thirty years, the Tom of Finland Foundation has been building the world’s most extensive collection of queer art. In 1984 they starts collecting artworks with the aim of better preserving and promoting Tom’s work. However, quickly the Foundation’s role extended to promoting and archiving the works of other queer artists: the early years of the Foundation coincided with the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Many erotic artists of the time, some working anonymously throughout their career, were concerned that their work would be forgotten or destroyed after their deaths.

“AllTogether” inaugurates at Studio Cannaregio in Venice, Italy.  A second distinct exhibition will open at The Community Centre in Paris.