We cordially invite you to an input by Philipp Gufler within the framework of the exhibition Erosion Arranged: we sink, I stretch, you flowby Monique S. Desto and Klaartje van Essen. Based on his artistic practice with archives, Gufler will focus on processes of dissolution and the relationship between material and memory, traces, visibility and overwriting – within his own work as well as the exhibition.
In Erosion Arranged, these dissolution processes are present in the latex with which Monique S. Desto paints, which picks up three-dimensional traces of its carrier material, but due to exposure to light brings decomposes when exhibited. Or in the drawing tools that Klaartje van Essen produces through fermentation and which are also handheld sculptures that wear away when used. At some point, all that remains are the traces of what actually was and has been transformed into new forms – in the digital documentation or animations that Desto makes of the latx works and which is eventually the only state in which the works will exist at some point. Or as dust that emerges when Klaartje uses the drawing tools to create other works.
Philipp Gufler lives and work in Amsterdam and has been an active member of the self-organised Forum Queer Archive München (DE) since 2013. 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 2024, his monograph ‘Dis/Identification’ was published by Distanz Verlag to accompany his solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mainz. Further exhibitions have recently been shown at Das Minsk, Potsdam (2024), BWA Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland (2024, solo), W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023), Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität, Lüneburg (2022, solo), NS Dokumentationszentrum, Munich (2022), and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021).
The event is part of the exhibition Erosion Arranged: we sink, I stretch, you flow.
The input will be in German.