2 Boys Broken Hearts (2BBH) provides both body and means of sharing knowledge.

Within the framework of regular gatherings, readings of selected texts shall inspire to an un-disciplinary dialogue, however never in a closed and concluding sense. In an ongoing discussion where individual voices challenge one another, the focus lies on listening to each other. Voicing words aloud within a group aims to relate the experience of both individual and collective bodies to language.

A central curatorial concern of 2BBH relates to the critical reflection of hegemonic structures and perspectives. Through her transdisciplinary approach, this is both object and method of 2BBH.

Following from Hamlet's concerns, the program proposed by 2BBH aims to grasp two levels: a physical exhibition series, as well as a text-based program.

The text-based program provides space for the horizontal interlinking of historical and contemporary queer feminist texts. 2BBH is driven by their love of words in all their forms, but also recognizes them as sites and means of power. In regard to their curatorial practice, it is part of 2BBH’s mission to interrogate the structural machinery involved in the production of texts specifically within the context of art, not only examining but perhaps even breaking down the language typical of the industry.

Exhibitions and events should not necessarily be tied to textual knowledge production. Following neo-materialist feminist theories, 2BBH rather understands their exhibition practice as an attempt to revalue body-based experiences in order to counter their capitulation to the discursive.

2BBH takes it as one of their primary tasks to ask how 2BBH can position themselves in a discourse of theory that is far too often built on patriarchal, supposed truths, without blindly reproducing the latter. Such engagement with and participation in current discourses should also be understood as a response to her immediate environment.

2BBH uses collaborative approaches, but without ever generalising – that is, 2BBH is meant to be (co-)shaped by many voices and at the same time provide space for discontinuity, conflict, and friction. In its research and exhibition activities, 2BBH poses a network of voices, ideas, references, and sources by means of which resources are not only generated, but also shared and redirected.

2 Boys Broken Hearts (2BBH) is founded in the fall of 2021 as an uncommercial research and exhibition project by Julia Hegi and Antonia Rebekka Truninger.