What About Queer?

From June 15 to July 15, 2025, Pride Museum took over one of Brussels’ most iconic cultural landmarks — the former MIMA — with What About Queer?, a month-long programme of exhibitions, performances, artistic interventions, and public conversations exploring queer notions of time, space, and belonging.

This month-long experiment unfolded slowly and deliberately, mirroring the fluidity of queerness itself. The museum served as a living, breathing space — never static, never finished. Performances, conversations, workshops, and gatherings accumulated like layers of meaning, shaping the space through collective presence and participation. Queer initiatives, collectives, and artists took the lead in creating a temporary sanctuary for thought, joy, grief, celebration, and imagination.

Drawing from the queer theorist Jack Halberstam’s reflection that “queer space is not simply a place where queer people gather; it is a space where the logics of normativity are interrupted, distorted, and dismantled,” What About Queer? reimagines the museum as an evolving site of disruption, It is about playing with the boundaries of what a museum can be.

Embedded in the belief that queer space is more than a physical gathering point, What About Queer? embraces disruption as a creative and political force — a site where normative logics are unraveled and new rhythms, relationships, and realities are imagined. Set in one of Brussels’ most diverse neighbourhoods, the project reflects on intersectional dynamics that echo throughout the city and far beyond.

At a time of rising political hostility, when the language of gender, identity, and rights is under threat, What About Queer? stands as a collective act of resistance and resilience. It is both deeply personal and unmistakably political: a call to action —  a response to the ongoing erasure of Queer lives.