Homosexual Emancipation Monument

From 2014 to 2016 I was part of the team who built the Monument to the World´s First Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Tiergarten in Berlin. The monument was erected in the place where Magnus Hirschfeld, scholar and scientist, founded the ever first Institut for Sexual Studies during the Weimar Republic. Already in 1897 he was actively advocating the abolishment of the infamous Paragraph 175 that criminalized sexual intercourse between adults of the same sex. Together with 8 other artists from China, Germany, Greece, Great Britain, Spain and Nepal and under the coordination of Wolfgang Knapp I work on the concept for this monument that was finally built and inaugurated in Fall 2017 in Berlin. The monument was commissioned by LSVD- Berlin´s Gay and Lesbian Alliance. All rights to the materials presented here is held by LSVD and no reproduction of this content is allowed as of this writing. Please contact me for more information.

The map we created for the exhibition of the final 5 proposals held in 2016 in HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin. It shows ground plans of the todays´ HKW Building and the location of the then Institute for Sexual Studies, actually a villa of Dr.Hirschfeld. The Institute was burnt down by Nazis in 1933. and Magnus Hirschfeld was forced to exile. 
Klaus Wowereit, the then Mayor of Berlin, visiting the exhibition of our 5 final proposals in HKW Berlin. A 9 member Jury was gathered by LSVD and selected a winning proposal later that evening. 
A  selection of the material we produced during the research and conceptual phase. All rights reserved by LSVD and the authors. Please contact me or directly LSVD Berlin if you need further information. 
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