Philipp Gufler
Biography: 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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 23, 1989
Deathday: N/A
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The Responsive Body
2019-01-01
The Responsive Body
Overview: In Gufler’s video installation The Responsive Body (2019), questions, directed at heteronormative, masculine self-conceptions of an art movement, arise. Gufler channelled texts by the British Op Art artist Bridget Riley into the film and thus provides her with space in an egocentric museum.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Lana Kaiser
2021-05-01
Lana Kaiser
Overview: In 2002, Lana Kaiser became well known in the first season of the German version of the Idol television franchise. She was born in 1985 and went by her birth name Daniel Küblböck. At only 17 years old she polarised the audience with her androgynous appearance and open bisexuality. On September 9th 2018, Lana disappeared from a cruise ship on her way to North America. Most media outlets and the majority of the public didn‘t consider calling her by her chosen name, Lana Kaiser. Philipp Gufler's video installation is a personal portrait of the singer and entertainer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2021-05-01
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Conversation with Albert Knoll
2023-01-01
Conversation with Albert Knoll
Overview: "For some time now I wanted to shoot a short film about Albert Knoll's tireless self-organized historical work and ask him why he has dedicated a large part of his life to commemorating the crimes against humanity committed during the Nazi dictatorship and what this archival work has done to him. A special focus is on oral history, as I am interested in how, as a conversational partner, one preserves their knowledge and experiences in a certain way after the death of the contemporary witnesses. After Albert Knoll has done so many contemporary witness interviews the last thirty years and was the one who asked the questions, I reversed the situation in the short film and interviewed him." - Gufler
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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Een Gebeuren
2016-01-01
Een Gebeuren
Overview: The video installation „Een gebeuren“ is based on Ben d’Armagnac’s performance of the same name, which took place in Amsterdam on 14th June 1975. D’Armagnac occupied a glass cube with the dimensions of about 2x1x1 metres, painted white from the inside, together with about 2,000 freshly hatched flies; he began to scrape off the paint centimetre by centimetre in order to at least partially reveal the cube’s inside for the spectators. Gufler reconstructed d’Armagnac’s performance based on rudimentary documented material and conversations with d’Armagnac’s partner Louwrien Wijers. In his own version of “een gebeuren,” Gufler captures the events with a GoPro camera. Instead of documenting the slow appearance of a person behind a white surface the video shows the diligent process of laying bare and opening up from an inside perspective – an action, which Gufler completes by releasing the flies at the end of the performance and by which he also upgrades d’Armagnac’s own performance.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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The Beginning of Identification, and its End
2024-03-08
The Beginning of Identification, and its End
Overview: Philipp Gufler's latest video installation consists of a performance by the artist and archival film scenes with queer and transgender content. Divided into two projections we see explicit and low-threshold expressions of non-standard sexuality.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-03-08
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Becoming-Rabe
2016-01-01
Becoming-Rabe
Overview: In his video installation Philipp Gufler is carrying on his engagement with political, artistic and social movements. In this work, Gufler focuses on the Munich based performance artist Rabe Perplexum, imitating or subverting the stylistic conventions characteristic of the 1980s. The video performance is derived from archival research and includes the original props and costumes used by Perplexum.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich)
2014-01-01
Projection on the Crisis (Gauweilereien in Munich)
Overview: Philipp Gufler's video installation "Projektion auf die Krise (Gauweilereien in Munich)" provides a kaleidoscopic look back at the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in Germany in the 1980s - a time when Munich's repressive policy against homosexuals reached its peak. The work brings together newspaper articles, posters, photos and press reports from this period. The historical material from the 1980s is commented on by artists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Eingebildete Männlichkeit
2012-01-01
Eingebildete Männlichkeit
Overview: In this video installation Philipp Gufler grapples with different images and ideas of masculinity that art has produced over centuries: from vomiting, well-endowed Greeks, to the vain Narcissus, towards Andy Warhol’s gun shooting Elvis Presley. The selected images are printed on Lucent fabrics and behind those the artist coquets with masculine and feminine poses: smoking, applying makeup, knotting a tie etc. The reference to the painting “Pygmalion and Galathea” by Jean-Léon Gérôme can be regarded as the ironic highpoint concerning the gender debate: The ancient legend of the gifted sculptor Pygmalion, who, in the spirit of the Male Gaze, carves his perfect woman out of stone, is a perfect metaphor for the creation of a completely artificial femininity, as it is alsoembodied by transvestites. The prefix trans- is thereby symptomatic for the whole staging of the film: the projections and the artist seem to permeate and superimpose each other constantly.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Conversation with Erich Haas
2014-01-01
Conversation with Erich Haas
Overview: The film portrait recounts the social and political repression of homosexuals in post-war Germany based on an interview with 95-year-old Erich Haas, who worked as a receptionist in hotels in Munich after the Second World War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Die Lana-Kaiser-Show: Talk mit Hana Corrales und Philipp Gufler
2022-11-13
Die Lana-Kaiser-Show: Talk mit Hana Corrales und Philipp Gufler
Overview: Who was Lana Kaiser? A pop star? A phantom? Born Daniel Küblböck and disappeared under tragic circumstances, Lana Kaiser is the secret favorite star of the German trans scene. A fan discussion about the queer icon.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-11-13
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