Gufler Phiilipp
Philipp Gufler was born in Augsburg and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He attended artist residencies at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2015–2017), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine (USA) in 2019, and Delfina Foundation in London (2021), among others. He lives in Amsterdam and Munich. He is an active member of the self-organized Forum Queeres Archiv Mьnchen.
Gufler explores queer imagery, questioning Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define social norms. He spans various media in his practice, including silkscreen prints on fabric and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. His artist book and video installation Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereein in Munich) takes a kaleidoscopic and retrospective look at the early days of the AIDS crisis in Germany. In the ongoing series of quilts, he refers to artists, writers, magazines, and lost queer spaces. The screen-printed fabrics have been exhibited at the Wьrttembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart and at Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism. In 2020, he produced a short film and a zine about the singer and entertainer Lana Kaiser.
In 2020, he received the Media Award of the German AIDS Foundation and in 2021, he won the Dutch Royal Award for Painting. He had solo exhibitions such as Gauweilereien at Schwules Museum in Berlin (2014), Setz dein Ich in Anführungsstriche at Kunstverein Göttingen (2016), Autoerotism at Kevin Space, Vienna (2021), and Dis/Identification at Kunsthalle Mainz (2024). His group exhibitions include Favoriten III at Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016), Love and Ethnology at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2019), Sweat at Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021), and Other Histories Told by Dirkje Kuik and Philipp Gufler at Centraal Museum in Utrecht (2020). His short films were shown at film festivals, including the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Germany) and Cheries Cherie (Paris, France). His works are represented by BQ Gallery in Berlin and Françoise Heitsch Gallery in Munich.
