The Bureau of Queer Art

13/09/2026

We need your help to make IMMORTAL 2.0 happen.

This year, TBQA extended full scholarships to our local Mexican artists and partial scholarships to international artists who couldn't otherwise afford to get here. The right call—and it left a gap in what it takes to build the fair around them: the ofrenda, lighting, installation, marketing, staffing.

We're raising $4,500 USD (75,000 MXN) to close that gap before October.

If you can give, give what you can. If you can't, share this with someone who might.

IMMORTAL 2.0 · October 23–25, Colonia Juárez, Mexico City
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03/09/2026

**IMMORTAL 2.0**

TBQA doesn't hand artists a theme and ask them to quietly fill it in. We build a structure and find out what happens once other people actually play it — the artists bringing the risk and the history, the galleries arriving as collaborators instead of vendors, the public becoming part of what the work means the moment they walk in.

That's the whole argument behind IMMORTAL 2.0, and we just put it in writing — a manifesto for the artists and galleries building this fair with us, not a press release for people watching from outside. It's about collaboration instead of compliance, and about Q***r hope that knows exactly what's been lost, censored, and underfunded, and builds anyway, on purpose. Q***r art doesn't have to explain itself here before it's allowed to be visible.

Read the full manifesto on Substack.

**IMMORTAL 2.0**
Q***r Art Fair + Residency
October 23–25, 2026
Sindicato Electricistas, Colonia Juárez, Mexico City

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25/08/2026

A body gets run through and left glowing. Not dead. Brought to life.

New essay on Jane Schoenbrun's q***r slasher, Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma — why these characters go looking for the knife on purpose, and what happens when victimhood stops being punishment and turns into release.

https://thebureauofq***rart.substack.com/p/brought-to-life?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4sjj7e

Images courtesy of MUBI

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24/08/2026

Thank you, Vicki Khuzam, for sharing this reflection on IMMORTAL and The Bureau of Q***r Art.

IMMORTAL 2.0 returns to Mexico City this October during Día de Mu***os.

Applications close August 30.

Apply through the link in bio.

“My first Bureau of Q***r Art show was last October 2025, and it was unlike other shows because these shows were truly healing experiences for many, especially the young artists who found through their art a way to express years of repressing the uncertainty of coming out that had plagued them for most of their lives growing up.

I felt how healing it was for them to have this community, a safe and accepting one, with the extra bond of everyone expressing themselves through art.

Words are limited structures, often with finite meanings, whereas art gave them the ability to express indescribable emotions using the poetry of imagery.

The Bureau of Q***r Art, for me, was like entering the Tower of Babel, meeting artists from all over the world who found commonality while also finding out what makes them ‘them,’ and knowing ourselves better through these newborn strengths.”

— Vicki Khuzam
IMMORTAL 2025 Artist

APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL AUGUST 30th at BureauQ***rArt.com

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21/08/2026

Artist Holly Timperner shares her experience in Mexico City, where the q***r community’s involvement in her art installation was ‘phenomenal’. Find out how people came together to create a vibrant space of community and hope.

Applications Open until August 30th at BureauQ***rArt.com
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21/08/2026

20/08/2026

Elio Viana shares the profound impact of participating in the 'Immortal Fair,' a groundbreaking space dedicated to q***r art. This experience was deeply rewarding and a crucial step for artists to claim and utilize. ***rArt

19/08/2026

A little bit creepy, on purpose.

That is how artist Shendra Stucki described the first edition of IMMORTAL Q***r Art Fair: brilliant, freeing, and just strange enough “to scare off the normal ones.”

Honestly, she got it exactly right.

IMMORTAL returns to Mexico City this October during Día de los Mu***os, not as a traditional booth fair, but as a Q***r art ecosystem built through residency, exhibition, ofrenda, community, sales, memory, and proximity.

This year, the gathering begins three weeks before the public fair opens. Artists will arrive, work, exchange, and build together before IMMORTAL opens October 23–25 at Sindicato Electricistas in Colonia Juárez, with support from SOHO Project Space NYC .

The new editorial on Substack goes inside the curatorial intention behind IMMORTAL 2.0: why Q***r hope is not soft, why visibility is not enough, and why this fair is being built as a room where artists do not have to become smaller in order to be seen.

Q***r hope has teeth.

It knows what has been censored, underfunded, dismissed, and lost. It also knows how to gather anyway.

Read the full editorial on Substack:

A Little Bit Creepy, On Purpose
Inside Mexico City’s IMMORTAL Q***r Art Fair: why Q***r hope has teeth.

Limited spaces are still available for IMMORTAL 2.0. Artists can apply through TheBureauofQ***rArt.com. Link in bio

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18/08/2026

'Inmortal' was an incredible career highlight, blending my love for the Day of the Dead with a vibrant community of q***r artists worldwide. We built something special together, supporting each other's creativity. I hope you experience it too! ***rArt

16/08/2026

The IMMORTAL festival was a unique celebration, blending q***r culture and Day of the Dead traditions. It provided a space for incredible freedom of expression and for feeling truly oneself. The experience left us all feeling a bit empty when it ended, highlighting the profound impact of such an inclusive event. Applications are open at BureauQ***rArt.com until August 30. ***rCulture