Philipp Gufler

Born: 1989-06-23

Philipp Gufler was born in Augsburg and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He attended artist residencies at De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015-2017), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (2019) and Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2021), among others. He lives in Amsterdam and Munich. He is an active member of the self-organized Forum Queeres Archiv München. Philipp Gufler "explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm". 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, Philipp Gufler refers to artists, writers, magazines and lost queer spaces. The screen-printed fabrics have been exhibited at the Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart and at Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism among other venues. In 2020, he produced a short film and a zine about the singer and entertainer Lana Kaiser.


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The Beginning of Identification, and its End

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Released: 2024-03-08

Philipp Gufler's latest video installation consists of a performance by the artist and archival...

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Lana Kaiser

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Released: 2021-05-01

In 2002, Lana Kaiser became well known in the first season of the German version of the Idol...

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Becoming-Rabe

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Released: 2016-01-01

In his video installation Philipp Gufler is carrying on his engagement with political, artistic...

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Eingebildete Männlichkeit

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Released: 2012-01-01

In this video installation Philipp Gufler grapples with different images and ideas of...

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Conversation with Albert Knoll

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Released: 2023-01-01

"For some time now I wanted to shoot a short film about Albert Knoll's tireless self-organized...

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Een Gebeuren

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Released: 2016-01-01

The video installation „Een gebeuren“ is based on Ben d’Armagnac’s performance of the same name,...

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Conversation with Erich Haas

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Released: 2014-01-01

The film portrait recounts the social and political repression of homosexuals in post-war...

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The Responsive Body

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Released: 2019-01-01

In Gufler’s video installation The Responsive Body (2019), questions, directed at...

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Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich)

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Released: 2014-01-01

Philipp Gufler's video installation "Projektion auf die Krise (Gauweilereien in Munich)"...

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