10 - 11 Jul

Fri, Jul 10 to Sun, Oct 11 2026

Luther Museum Amsterdam

Nieuwe Keizersgracht 570, Amsterdam

The Luther Museum celebrates queer history with an exhibition full of personal stories, highlighting the Lutheran church's role as a forerunner in queer emancipation.

Our Faith is Love

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From 'secret blessings' to a proud forerunner: the Luther Museum celebrates queer history in an exhibition full of personal stories. The Lutheran church has been and continues to be a proud leader in queer emancipation, offering a safe and Christian home for all colors of the pride rainbow. Especially for World Pride, the Luther Museum is organizing this exhibition to celebrate that everyone is welcome in the Lutheran community!

'Our Faith is Love' tells the special story of the Lutheran queer community in the Netherlands, from the 1950s to the present. Within this faith community, there has long been space for the LGBTQIA+ community – how did this come about? And what can we as a society learn from it? Discover this unique history through archival material and stories from a generation that can still tell it themselves.

Young queer photographer Jesse van den Berg is creating ten portraits of contemporary Lutherans who are also LGBTQIA+. These will be monumentally presented in the windows of the church hall: as a symbol of the outside world coming in, and the light that the queer community brings with it.

The exhibition starts at the Luther Museum in Amsterdam, and will then travel to various Lutheran locations in the country.

We Carry Forward: Queer Horizons of Imagination

The exhibition gets a contemporary interpretation in the regents' rooms of the museum with a separate exposition curated by Andrea Knezović, featuring seven international young queer artists focusing on the future through the notion of 'queer futurity'.