My Gay Eye #20 UNCENSORED 2023
Cover photo: Johnny Abbate
The German anthology My Gay Eye I Mein schwules Auge has been published once a year since 2003. The works by over 500 international artists and authors have been featured, opening up many surprising new perspectives beyond the western gay way of life.
“No American magazines I know of have so many naked men.”
400 Seiten mit Arbeiten von über 80 internationalen Künstlern • 400 pages with works by more than
80 international artists, among them Johnny Abbate, Henning von Berg, Sabatino Cersosimo, Norbert Bisky, Male Shibari, Slava Mogutin, Josef Wolfgang Ohlert, Ohm Phanphiroj, Sal Salandra, Peter Schmid,
Stanley Stellar, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom of Finland und viele andere • and many more.
Exklusive Textbeiträge von • exclusive texts by Michael Ampersant, Jan Gympel, Thomas Luthardt, Brane Mozetič, Felice Picano, Steven Reigns, Jens Rosteck, Michael Sollorz, Edmund White und anderen • and more.
(Zweisprachig: Deutsch/Englisch • Bilingual: German/English)
The artist and curator Rinaldo Hopf has been responsible for the visual section of the 19 editions of this yearbook, in collaboration with the Russian photographer Fedya Ili since the last 5 issues. The text section was supervised by the Berlin author and journalist Axel Schock until 2018. The different national and cultural identities of the artists, as well as the very pronounced subcultures and ‘scenes’ in which their works are created, require a wide range of artistic expression. The time passed several generations from the socialist woodcuts by the artist Jürgen Wittdorf, who was very successful in the early days of the GDR, to singular artistic positions such as the collaboration of the US photographer Waswo X Waswo with Indian miniature painters to young international artists such as Yu-liang Liu (Taiwan), Tareq de Montfort (Kuwait) and Felix d’Eon (Mexico).
Cover photo: Josh Paul Thomas
“Tom of Finland Foundation Special issue includes many originals from their huge collection of erotic art.”
In 2018 My Gay Eye had a very successful collaboration with the Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles). The TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION SPECIAL issue includes many originals from their huge collection of erotic art. The BERLIN SPECIAL in 2019 presented the renowned German artists Rainer Fetting, Eva & Adele, Norbert Bisky and Wolfgang Tillmans. A successful first exhibition on Mein Schwules Auge in Schwules Museum (Berlin) took place in 2006, which subsequently went on to the Galeria Carmen de la Guerra (Madrid) as La mirada gay. In the following years we organized various commercial exhibitions in private galleries in Berlin and Munich as well as a presentation in Los Angeles.
For over 30 years Konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke in Tübingen, Germany has published the anthology Mein heimliches Auge (My Secret Eye) which deals in words and pictures with eroticism of every type and has long established a cult status. The great success of the series prompted the publisher to launch two “children” Mein lesbisches Auge (My Lesbian Eye) and Mein schwules Auge (My Gay Eye). Our anthology has been published in two languages, German and English since 2018.
