Finissage Confessing Weakness
31. 8. 24, 12:30 p.m.

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.