Apollo Queer Art
If Homosexuality is more than just sex, thenhomosexual art is more than just images of sex.
(James M. Salslow, 1999)
About us
Apollo Queer Art is a dynamic international collective showcasing diverse talents from countries like Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Switzerland, Canada, and the USA. Our focus lies in exploring contemporary interpretations of Queer Art across a multitude of mediums.
Apollo Queer Art Collective, established in 2021, has already made waves with exhibitions in Spain, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. Our vision is to carve out a transparent and authentic platform for gay artists worldwide, fostering fresh dialogues around queer art and aesthetics. We aspire to expand Apollo Queer Art by welcoming artists from diverse corners of the globe, amplifying their artwork through online platforms and public exhibitions worldwide. Join us in shaping the future of queer artistry and discourse.
Exhibitions by our artists:
Queer lens - Lente Queer
Belenartspace Madrid, Spain
In collaboration with Muestra-T: Madrid's Pride Week
26.5. - 6.9.2026
Through a queer lens, the gaze in Daniel Garbade’s work transforms seemingly everyday scenes into territories of ambiguity and symbolic tension. What at first glance might appear neutral or familiar shifts into a more intimate dimension, where gestures, postures, and relationships between bodies suggest open-ended narratives about desire, identity, and vulnerability.
Within this approach, the erotic is not presented explicitly; rather, it emerges as a persistent suggestion—a contained vibration that resides in the proximity of bodies, in averted gazes, or in the silence between figures. The chromatic economy—often reduced to black and white—intensifies this reading by eliminating distractions and focusing attention on the physical and emotional presence of the subjects. The queer lens in Garbade’s work does not seek to define fixed identities, but to question norms of representation, opening a space in which the body is freed from rigid categories. In this way, his works invite a more fluid perception of desire, where the masculine and the feminine, the public and the private, the intimate and the political intertwine. The result is a visual poetics that, through subtlety, proposes new ways of seeing and understanding the human experience.