Philipp Gufler and Karol Radiziszewski
Queer Ancestors: Unreading the Archive
10. 8. 23, 7 p.m.
Conversation with Karol Radziszewski (artist, Poland) and Philipp Gufler (artist, Germany/The Netherlands)
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- Venue
- Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten
- Date
- 10. 8. 23, 7 p.m.
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.
Karol Radziszewski
Karol Radziszewski challenges predominant historical narratives and their prevalent modes of representation; Radziszewski’s multidisciplinary and archive-based practice convenes a myriad of political, social, religious-cultural and art-historical references, probing their relation to the history of sexuality and the construction of gender.
Since 2005, Radziszewski has been publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine; he founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.
Since 2005, Radziszewski has been publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine; he founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.
Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
2024 Filo, Auto Italia, London. 2023 One Day These Kids…, Between Bridges, Berlin. 2020 QAI/CEE, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, Ljubljana. 2019 The Power of Secrets, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw.
Selected group exhibitions
2023-2024 Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (US). 2022 Kisieland, Part of the Museum Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw. 2021 AIDS, as part of the Museum Collection, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (PL). 2021The Endless Frontier, 14th Baltic Triennial, Vilnius. 2019 Her Own Way, Female Artists and the Moving Image in Art in Poland: From 1970s to the Present, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo. 2016 Acervo Videobrasil em Contexto #2, artist residency in Galpão VB, São Paulo (BR). 2012-2013 AMERICA IS NOT READY FOR THIS, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, artist residency in Unlimited, New York, NY (US). 2012 Screenings at PERFORMA 13 Biennal, artist residency in Unlimited, New York, NY. 2013PLAY! Recapturing The Radical Imagination, 7th Gothenburg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg (SE).
