Philipp Gufler
Images after Images: narrating history with silk-screen printing
19. – 31. 8. 24
Course information
We will look at images from various archives in connection with silk-screen printing. Based on discussions on literary and academic texts, we will explore the significance of historical iconic images in the present age. At the same time, the course will question the appropriation of such images in protest movements. The focus will be on individual work in personal or queer archives, together with the transfer of images into personal narratives by means of silk-screen printing.
Students will learn silk-screen printing technique: preparing the support, exposing the emulsion on the screen and printing on various flat supports (canvases, wood, paper or fabrics). They will develop their drawing and painting skills and create new ideas for their own work in a dialogue based on one‑to‑one and group discussions on printed or reproduced images. Individual research will be expanded in conversations with contemporary witnesses. Students will develop their own projects using printing technique, and in combination with drawing and other media. The focus in one-to-one and group discussions is on students' artistic development.
key data
- Venue
- Festung Hohensalzburg
- Date
- 19. – 31. 8. 24
- Teaching language
- English (German possible)
- What to bring
- Drawing utensils, preferred flat supports for silk-screen printing (canvases, wood, paper and fabrics), image material connected with personal artistic work
- Requirements
- None. Basic knowledge of silk-screen printing technique is not necessary. Readiness to learn silk-screen printing technique, to work in a group, to share ideas and personal artistic research, and to work independently
- Co-teacher
- Daniela Kasperer
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
Philipp Gufler
Philipp Gufler researches questions of queer pictorial worlds and challenges Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system are the social norm. In his artistic praxis he uses various media, including silk-screen printing on fabrics or mirrors, artist's books, performances and video installations. In his quilts – an ongoing series of silk-screen prints – he makes reference to queer artists, academics and places of queer life which are not, or are hardly, visible in written memoires. The quilts become an alternative archive making room for cross-generational memories.
Philipp Gufler lives and work in Amsterdam and Munich. He studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and participated in residence programmes De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2015-17), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine (US) (2019), Delfina Foundation in London (2021) und Launch Pad LaB in Champagne-Mouton (FR) (2023). Since 2013 he has been an active member of the self-organised forum Queer Archive Munich (DE).
He co-curated the exhibitions Exzentrische 80er: Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen, Rabe perplexum und Kompliz*innen aus dem Jetzt in Lothringer 13, Munich; Kunsthaus Hamburg (DE); Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, and organised the exhibition Substitutes in W139 in Amsterdam.
Website
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Dis/Identification, Kunsthalle Mainz (DE). 2023Brandhorst Fall Commission, Museum Brandhorst, Munich. 2022Unterwerfungen, Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg (DE). 2020Autoerotismus, Kevin Space, Vienna. It is getting alive, BQ, Berlin. 2019 Pleasure Pain, Marwan, Amsterdam.
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Soft Power, DAS MINSK, Potsdam (DE). 2023Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway (IE). Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Part III, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (DE). 2022 To Be Seen. Queer Lives 1900 - 1950, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich. 2021 Sweat, Haus der Kunst, Munich. 2020Andere Geschiedenis volgens Dirkje Kuik en Philipp Gufler, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL). 2019 Liebe und Ethnologie, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Maskulinitäten, Kunstverein Düsseldorf. 2017 Bei Cosy, Rongwrong, Amsterdam.
Publications
Artist's books/Publications
2023 Cosy bei Cosy. 2023 A Shrine To Aphrodite. 2020 Quilt #01–#30. 2020 Lana Kaiser. 2017 I Wanna Give You Devotion. 2017 Indirekte Berührung. 2014/2021 Projektion auf die Krise.
Philipp Gufler first monograph will be published in June 2024, including texts by Karolina Kühn, Louwrien Wijers and Yasmin Afschar.
