Dylan Mitro

Inherited Thread (2025) Artist: Dylan Mitro Inherited Thread attempts to better understand our Queer histories through archival ephemera. Dylan has conducted research in the LGBTQIA+ archives @schwulesmuseum in Berlin. Focussed on the historic publication Berlin Von Hinten, a Gay tourism atlas first published in 1981, showcasing nightlife and community spaces that defined Berlin in the 1980s and 1990s. Revisiting and mapping forgotten landscapes through printmaking and photography, this project seeks to explore the inheritance of historical LGBTQIA+ spaces, and how to keep their stories alive I am so proud to announce that I will be exhibiting my work apart of I AM FLUX: The Freedom of Being and the Possibilities of Becoming. The exhibition opens on Thursday, November 6th at 7:00pm in Berlin At URBAN NATION Project Space, Bülowstraße 7 This is a result of a 10 month artist residency here in Berlin presented along side the other amazing artists who were in residence as well. Hope to see you there!

“I’ve Heard a Siren Calling“ - Short Film (2025) Directed by Dylan Mitro @meetdylan Starring Nev Robinson @lilmissbelljar Sound Design & Score by Scott Harwood @36sound.wav Produced by @tissuebox.pictures Berlin here we come!! @xposedqueerfilmfest Will be playing in the 20th anniversary edition of XPOSED Queer Film Festival in Berlin. @xposedqueerfilmfest Screening as part of the shorts program “Emerging Ecologies“. Saturday, May 30th at 6:30 pm at Babylon Kreuzberg & Sunday, May 31st, at 4pm at Babylon Kreuzberg. Previously selected as apart of festivals including @queershortsvienna @queerwavecyprus @filmfestdresden @insideoutfestival #shortfilmfestival #queercinema #docufiction #independentfilm #canadiancinema

OPENING Thursday 02. April @village.berlin ✨ Radical Empathy ✨ Dylan Mitro @meetdylan Inherited Thread, installation (detail) 2025 Cyanotype print on paper *Queer Perspectives on Conflict, Resilience & Connection Conflict is part of our lives. How can we live conflicts differently? Radical Empathy begins with the understanding that empathy is not soft, neutral, or given. It is learned, practiced, and risked. The exhibition explores queer artistic practices as sites of radical empathy, understood not as passive emotional identification but as a relational and transformative engagement with difference. Queer artists and collectives frequently work from positions of historical exclusion, using art as a means of survival, connection, and world-building. In this context, “Radical Empathy” moves beyond the notion of simply “feeling for” another; it emphasizes a willingness to remain open to discomfort, to difference, and the possibility of being transformed through encounter.
 🩷Featured Artists °Matthias Bade @matthias.bade.art °Josch Hoenes & Tomka Weiß @giegoldweiss °Heami Lee °Paul Harfleet @thepansyproject °Owa Mesa @owamesa1 °Dylan Mitro @meetdylan °Monika Popiel & Paweł Świerczek @rudapopiel @pavve1 °Lars Reimers °Tejal Shah °Andrey Shental @andreyshental 🩷screening Prinz in Hölleland (1993) by Michael Stock @michaelstock93 
 🩷Curation by Eric LeRouge @eric.le.rouge with the support of in collaboration with Neo Seefried @neoseefried Kristijan Radakovic @nouvelorganon Pierre Emö @pierreemo 
 🩷Special thanks to the Schwules Museum Berlin @schwulesmuseum and Salzgeber @editionsalzgeber 
 #wearevillage #followyourinstinct

Participated in “Focus Queer”- @midpointinstitute feature film development lab. Got to meet with such talented producers and creatives. Workshopping, writing and pitching our films in July apart of @kviff 🎥🎞️ Feeling excited and ready to dive in! Photos by @dr_pessimisto

We are headed to Prague for the @midpointinstitute Focus Queer film lab! Honoured to be selected and bringing my research and writing of my debut feature film “Skeeter” to this development lab! This project has been years in the making and so many people have helped lead to this moment. Looking forward to continuing this journey and sharing this project with more of you as I go.

This past year I had the privilege of studying in Berlin apart of the artist residency “Fresh A.I.R” as the inaugural Martha Cooper Scholar - for the research and creation of my first published book titled “Inherited Thread” exhibited via @urbannation_berlin It was such an honour to have been gifted with this time to work within in the @schwulesmuseum archives & library to understand the landscape of Berlin in the 1980s / 1990s through the lens of Gay Tourism. Through researching the first 15 years of the Gay Travel book “Berlin Von Hinten” I had re-mapped and retraced the paths of the publications and beyond to find that out of 200 Gay businesses discovered only 12 still existed, under the same name. In the book it documents these surviving places and communities, as well as sharing insight through cyanotyping and photography of the archive from these rare travel books to be brought back into the public eye. A true gift to be living in Schöneberg with 12 artists all above @urbannation_berlin - such an honour! Thank you to @urbannation_berlin @marthacoopergram & @bkstreetart This program was supported via @stiftungberlinerleben Photos by: @galyafeierman

Discover an artwork exploring Berlin’s queer history, memory, and activism. Developed during the Fresh A.I.R. residency, "Inherited Thread" by Dylan Mitro reweaves fragments of Berlin’s queer history through photography, cyanotype, textile, and archival research. Drawing from "Berlin von Hinten" (1981–1997), historic gay travel guides published by Bruno Gmünder, Mitro transforms scanned maps, ads, and pages into cyanotype prints—sun-developed, unpredictable, and deeply tactile. These prints are hand-stitched into a quilt, becoming a powerful metaphor for care, inheritance, and the piecing together of LGBTQIA+ histories that risk being forgotten. The project extends beyond the archive into the city itself. By revisiting over 200 historic queer venues—only twelve of which still exist under their original names—Mitro documents the evolution of queer space in Berlin today. Portraits of current caretakers, alongside documentary moments from Dyke March, Christopher Street Day, and Queer Pride for Liberation, situate memory within ongoing activism, resilience, and community. A must-see for anyone interested in queer history, contemporary art, and Berlin’s cultural memory. ✨ Curated by Janine Arndt, Artistic Director at Fresh A.I.R. 📍 URBAN NATION Project Space, Bülowstraße 97, 10783 Berlin 🗓️ On view until March 2026 Art: Dylan Mitro @meetdylan Video: @stiftungberlinerleben #UrbanNation #DylanMitro #QueerHistory #BerlinArt #LGBTQIA #FreshAIR #QueerMemory #ArtExhibition

Peaches & Nancy Nutter at Punks & Queens @punxnkweenz Berlin @neuezukunftstralau December 2025 #35mm

Huge honour to have my project featured with @container.love - full story linked in my bio. If you’re in Berlin - go check out the exhibition ‘I AM FLUX’ which is featuring this project! Exhibition is on until March 29th via the satellite gallery of @urbannation_berlin at 97 Bülowstraße. Thank you to @studiochristianruess @bengalster Article written by @tom_czibolya Artist Residency supported by @stiftungberlinerleben @bkstreetart @marthacoopergram

The exhibition I AM FLUX is open! So many emotions to conclude this year long residency and artistic journey. Thankful to everyone for their support - was so nice to talk about the project and share the work with you all. Thank you to @stiftungberlinerleben @bkstreetart @schwulesmuseum @container.love @eisenherz.berlin And to my fellow artists in residence couldn’t have done this without the bonding we shared. Inherited Thread will be on display in the I AM FLUX exhibition until March 29th. If you’re in Berlin please check it out - also happy to set up some personal tours as well!

‘Inherited Thread” started with my curiosity around @eisenherz.berlin and its history. Now Europe’s longest standing LGBTQIA+ book store it was wild to find out that its original location in 1978 was just down the street from where I am in residence. Presently, we are witnessing a time when our books are being censored and banned again.. and it is important to shed light on the legacy and resilience of a place like @eisenherz.berlin I AM FLUX Art exhibition opens tonight 7-10pm and runs until March 29th at 97 Bülowstraße Photos by: @brihoy

„Punch the transvestite and they‘ll punch you back“ - Internationalist Queer Pride 2025 Pic by @meetdylan