Queer Perspectives and Gender Norms
For upper-secondary schools, HF and adult education centres
Queer can describe identities and practices that challenge prevailing social norms and ideas about gender and sexuality.
Learning programme
The word queer originally meant ‘strange’ or ‘unusual’.
Once used as a derogatory term for gay people, queer has since taken on a much broader meaning. It can refer both to an identity and to ways of challenging prevailing ideas and social norms surrounding gender and sexuality. It is also used as an umbrella term by people whose gender, sexuality or identity falls outside conventional norms.
The programme introduces students to the museum’s collection by exploring the unexpected and challenging aspects of works by artists associated with the Modern Breakthrough whom we might today describe as queer: Kristian Zahrtmann, Bertha Wegmann, Marie Luplau and Emilie Mundt.
Through discussion and visual analysis, the programme seeks to bring these artists and their stories to the attention of a new generation and highlight their place in our shared Danish history.