The Queer Archives Institute is a non-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to research, collection, digitalisation, presentation, exhibition, analysis and artistic interpretation of queer archives, with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in November 2015 by Karol Radziszewski, the QAI is a long term project open to transnational collaboration with artists, activists and academic researchers.
“QAI/CEE” exhibition at the Centrala, Birmingham, United Kingdom
“QAI/CO” exhibition at the Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, Bogota, Colombia
“The Heritage” exhibition in a frame of the POMADA 7 Queer Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Launch of the third QAI publication: DIK Fagazine No 12 “Belarus” at The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
“QAI/Revolution” installation featured in the “It Won’t Be Long Now, Comrades!” group exhibition at the Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“QAI/UA” installation featured in the “Amazing Perplexities” group exhibition at the Lavra City Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
“Queering the museum and an oral history methodology” talk at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland
QAI is a partner of the “Communist Homosexuality (1945–1989)” international conference in Paris, France
QAI presentation at the 22,48 m2 Gallery, Paris, France
Launch of the second QAI publication: DIK Fagazine No 11 “Homosexualité communiste?” (bilingual: English-French) at the Les Mots à la Bouche, Paris, France
First QAI publication: DIK Fagazine No 10 “Zagreb – Queering the Museum”
Participation in the “BLUE BOX. Common Places and Contemporary Artistic Practices” group exhibition at IZOLYATSIA, Kiev, Ukraine
“QAI/MSU” all-day performance at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Participation in the “Researching, reworking and representing Soviet and Socialist LGBT histories” seminar at the Tallinn University, Estonia
Participation in the “From Bandung to Berlin: If all of the moons aligned” group exhibition at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Talk in the frame of the “The Artist as The Curator as The Artist” program at the Corner College, Zurich , Switzerland
“QAI/BY” group exhibition at Y Gallery of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus
Karol Radziszewski in co-operation with Sergei Shabohin and Alexey Lunev / Zhanna Gladko, Igor Savchenko, Alesia Zhitkevich, Aleksey Naumchik
Exhibition in the frame of the Blue Box project organized by the CCA Ujazdowski Castle
Research in the frame of the “Performing the museum” project at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
“Queer Archives Institute” inaugurational exhibition at Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil