Sat 06 December
16:00–19:00
Opening new exhibition at RADIUS: CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK?

RADIUS closes its 2025 year programme BEYOND POLITICAL LIMITS with the group exhibition CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? on monstrosity as foundational to queer ecology. Hereby we want to wholeheartedly invite you to join us for the opening of the exhibition, open to the public from 6 December 2025 until 22 February 2026.

Through the work of eleven artists, CAN THE MONSTER SPEAK? examines the historical, scientific, and cultural construct of queerness as monstrous and explores monstrosity as an emancipatory and desirable political aspiration. By embodying notions of transformation, ambiguity, and deviancy, monsters upset constructs like race, gender, purity, and beauty, and thus represent a transgression of the norms that make up the dominant cisgender, binary, patriarchal, heterosexual, and white system of power. At the same time, monsters are necessary to define what is considered “normal” by contrast and exclusion. This exhibition unpacks this duality and explores different embodiments, affects, and considerations of monstrosity as a tool of resistance, a mode of becoming, and a political position. In doing so, it advocates for ecologies beyond binaries, beyond the human, and beyond the constraints of gender, sex, and identity as enforced by Capitalism. In other words, a way of inhabiting the Earth around the celebration of difference, where monstrosity is a radical refusal to normativity, and where queerness is the relentless practice of freedom within systems not meant to be surpassed.

We hope to welcome you during the public opening reception on Saturday 6 December from 16:00 to 19:00. Tickets for this convivial exhibition opening can be reserved via the button in the top right corner.