Production, Costumes & Set,
Technical Team for
Volume 1 & 2
Costume & Stage Design: Hagar Ophir
Costume & Stage Assistant: Antonia Eckardt
Outside Eye: Maya Weinerg
Light Design: Catalina Fernandez, Shun Perrotta
Sound Design: Lena Marcus
Graphics: Andy Elkanani (Vl. 1, logo)
PR, Communication, Visuals + Website
& Social Media: Angela Fegers
Production: Nadine Freisleben
Production Assistant: Olivia Das
Accessibility Assistance: Miles Wendt
Photography: Nadine Freisleben
& Dieter Hartwig
Welcome to the Queer Family Album corner of the internet,
In a time where hope is hard to find we have come together
to experiment,create and reflect.
Queer Family Album is an ongoing trans disciplinary performance series that brings together a diverse collective of queer artists. Rooted in artist collaboration, it explores queer futurities through performance and storytelling, breaking down barriers and imagining new utopias.
The first edition took place in 2024 at Ballhaus Ost, featuring world premieres by KAy Garnellen and Yvonne Sembene. In 2025, the series continues with Volume 2 at Sophiensæle, showcasing works by anonymous, Juliana Piquero, Joy Mariama Smith, and Dylan Spencer-Davidson.
Queer Family Album is committed to amplifying queer voices, creating space for community, and evolving as an ever-growing archive of shared experiences.
Volume 1 & 2
Collaborating Artists
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Katie Lee Dunbar (they/them)
Berlin-based queer feminist performance artist, activist, and researcher Katie Lee Dunbar explores disparity, intimacy & the personal/political through dance, voice, memory, sound, text & installation. Dedicated to inclusive creative environments, their collaborative projects include arted, mitkollektiv & Queer Family Album.
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Anonymous (he/him) Volume 2
Anonymous is a North African visual artist and creative producer based in London, UK. Their artistic practice explores and dismantles the various interpretations of societal notions and adaptations, particularly within the realm of post-coloniality through performance, installation and imagery.

Abilaschan Balamuraley (they/them/he/him)
Abilaschan produces and hosts "Maangai Podcast," a community podcast for queer South Asian perspectives in German-speaking countries. They also present for "erklär mir mal…",
a queer post-migrant education collective, and serve as a diversity multiplier.
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KAy Garnellen (he/him) Volume 1
KAy Garnellen, a French queer/trans artist, activist, sex worker, and parent, has lived in Berlin since 2010. His work primarily explores sexuality and gender through live performances, theatre, dance, workshops, photography, and writing. A queer porn actor for over fifteen years, he has also directed short films and appeared in documentaries. He values collaboration with other queer artists and sex workers for inspiration, motivation, and skill development.

Dylan Spencer-Davidson (he/they) Volume 2
A Berlin-based artist, performer, and educator, explores how to be together through performance, workshops, video, sound, and writing. Challenging normative relations, their work fosters collective emotional processing and proposes alternative communication rooted in listening, consent, embodiment, difference, and vulnerability.

Joy Mariama Smith (they/them) Volume 2
Joy is a Philadelphia-born, Amsterdam-based installation and performance artist, activist, dramaturg, and architectural designer. Their 25-year multi-modal improvisational practice explores projected identities and the interplay between the body and its environment. Smith prioritizes inclusive teaching spaces.

Yvonne Sembene (she/her) Volume 1
Yvonne Sembene is a Berlin-based French-Senegalese-DDR dance artist who develops multidisciplinary projects exploring contemporary identity. Yvonne also works with choreographers and is a critical contributor/observer in dramaturgy for various groups and institutions.
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Juliana Piquero (she/they) Volume 2
Juliana is a mother, choreographer, dancer, and yoga instructor, was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Berlin and Madrid. Her choreographic works explore socio-political issues, archival material, and biographical experiences, focusing on Latin American queer feminism, identity, functional diversity, and body language. Piquero blurs dichotomous concepts like natural and artificial, understanding the body's complexity as technology. Since 2024, she has also worked as an IT consultant and analyst.
Partners & Funding


