This year, the Festival touches down in Berlin, London, and Los Angeles. This year will see prideART Berlin at The Knast host the Festival for its first German iteration. Housed in a historic women’s prison, this is the first time prideART Berlin will participate in the Festival.

Colorful brushstrokes evoke psychedelic or spiritual landscapes. The artist unites the aesthetics of Santería, Catholicism, and drag in an attempt at transcendence, viewing painting as a performance that can take both maker and audience beyond the limits of the body, religion, the past, and “reality”.

Playroom is Oat Montien’s first presentation in Bangkok since his residency at Tom of Finland Foundation in 2022. Inspired by his experience in Los Angeles, this brand new series of pastel drawings is the artist’s most daring and erotic works yet.

The Awakening is a project by Barcelona-based artist Antoni Hervás, curated by Clara López Menéndez. The exhibition will be accompanied by a three month long residency at Tom of Finland Foundation (April-June).

Tom of Finland Foundation presents an in-person collage art-making workshop with Rubén Esparza.Base paper, adhesives, utensils, and some image materials will be provided. Please bring print material to cut and paste. Participant will have a finished collage at the end of the session.

Based on Mogutin’s new book published by MenOnPaperArt (London), the show features a series of works on fabric, as well as photo collages from Polaroid Rage, another ongoing project documenting Queer communities around the world.

The characters in Tom of Finland’s drawings – lumberjacks, bikers, soldiers and policemen – exude vitality, joy and pride. Their leather gear and uniforms are portrayed with the same exquisite attention to detail as their muscular physiques. In his drawings, men connect with one another through erotic-laden gazes, gestures and postures.

Dreamy – Queer Imaginaries from the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma’s collection, aiming at underlining the continuities between past and present practices dealing with LGBTQI+ identities, historicizing recent practices and signaling Tom of Finland’s pioneering agency.

Tom’s cheerful, sexually explicit works made an impact in the art world at a time when homosexuality was illegal or classified as a disease in countries around the world, including his native Finland. The Nordic country has since embraced the artist, who died in 1991, as a national icon.

Since its inception in 1984, Tom of Finland Foundation has always been a membership-focused and volunteer-driven organization. Today we highlight our volunteer Catalina, who had some words to share about why she supports the Foundation.

Written and directed by Ilppo Pohjola, this is the only film ever made with Tom of Finland. It uses a variety of visual elements and shows how his work passed from being the private fantasies of a man in Europe to underground images that shaped generations’ ideas of how a Queer man could look and act.

Tom’s place in art history will be further cemented by the exhibition TOM OF FINLAND Bold Journey at the Finnish National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, from 28th April to 29th October. The overview of the artist’s work will include not just drawings but vitrines filled with personal effects and memorabilia and a VR experience of TOM House in Los Angeles, now the headquarters of Tom of Finland Foundation.

"Now David Hurles has left us. Like Tom of Finland, David was a trailblazer. There will never be anyone like him again. R.I.P. my kinky brother."

–Rick Castro on the passing of David Hurles

“Figurative depictions of groups of male nudes having sex. The scenes are carefully arranged, painted from live models at the studio, and based on a typical Berlin experience.”

“Dirty Queers, a collection of six images to be displayed together celebrating Queerness, kink, and identity.” 

“Presenting works by Alejandro Hernández Bascón, Eden Levi Am, Arnoldas Kubilius, Alina Gross, Callum Leo Hughes, George Striftaris, Daniel Paramio Ortiz, Maik Gräf, Zach Greer, Javier Alejandro Cerrada, Thanos Megkos, and Haotique.”

“I will present my series Bring the Boys Back Home, revisited life-size laser prints mounted on plywood panels done in Antwerp 2020.”

“My work depicts sexual encounters that exude masculinity and desire in its purest state, surrounded by madness and the irrationality that turns us into predatory animals.”

“I will show large watercolors inspired by the erotic fantasies of strangers, as well as parts of a new installation Sunset Boulevard depicting members of the Tom of Finland Foundation family on vintage porn magazines.”

“I will be presenting my publications, art prints, as well as some limited edition clothes.”

“Rick Castro's Cellblock gallery featuring photography from 1986~2023”

“Effenberger Couture is a menswear brand born in Berlin and shaped by the individuality of the city's infamous Queer party culture. We combine unique prints, daring cuts, and fun details to provide an alternative for boys of all sexualities.”

“My art refers to men in the erotic representation in particular. Further offerings are porcelain objects and the matching paintings.”

“Erotic drawings with themes inspired by the real Gay fetish scene as well as fantasy and mythology. Techniques around line drawing, mixing pencils, pens and brushes. Selling originals and prints of them.”