VideoPride is an exhibition of LGBTIQ and feminist videoart, that was held for the first time in 2014. In 2019, we will celebrate the 6th edition of this event.
This exhibition was created with the intention of serving as a dissemination platform for the audiovisual art that reflects on LGTBI discourses, transforming the social imaginary and improving the acceptance and knowledge of these identities.
With this project we want to become a reference in Madrid in order to promote the inclusion of this type of artistic events in the programming of other institutions related to contemporary art. We believe in the need to show diversity within our collective and support culture as a way to build new LGTBI discourses that help to articulate and spread the philosophy that serves as a basis for the demands and needs of the LGTBI community.
The curatorial team of this event is made up of members of Asociación Arcopoli’s Cultural Division. Arcópoli is a Madrid-based Spanish association that fights for LGBT rights.
Our organization was born in 2004 at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, becoming an inter-centre association of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Currently we work throughout the Autonomous Community of Madrid.
Since 2006 we have been part of the State Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Transsexuals and Bisexuals (FELGTB) where we work with activists from all over Spain and even internationally.
One of our main objectives is to promote the visibility of affective-sexual and gender diversity as well as the vindication of LGTB favourable policies and discourses. Therefore, we consider all culture focused actions a fundamental means to get our messages to society as a whole and to the institutions related to art and culture in Madrid, as well as to generate new reflection spaces to work on notions of gender, feminism, identity etc.
A special mention will be given to the artists who, having accessed the exhibition through the open call, have presented a work of particular significance with regards to the exhibition’s main points of focus.