Remembering Paul at Manifold Books, Amsterdam

Manifold Books #24
Remembering Paul
Paul Hoecker Research Group
with works by Paul Hoecker
and Philipp Gufler
21/09/'24-26/10/'24

Opening
21/09/'24, 4-6pm
location: MAP

We would like to invite you to the opening of Remembering Paul by the Paul Hoecker Research Group (art historians Nicholas Maniu and Christina Spachtholz, architect Stefan Gruhne and artist Philipp Gufler) with works by Paul Hoecker and Philipp Gufler.

Throughout his life, the Munich based artist and teacher Paul Hoecker (1854-1910) has been an inspiration to artists of various generations. A founding member of the Munich Secession and a true innovator, during his professorship at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts he brought his students in contact with new movements in painting, such as Impressionism. In 1898 however, a scandal forced him to resign from this position, as he allegedly used a male sex worker as a model for his depiction of the Madonna in the painting Ave Maria. However, the true underlying reason was likely the revelation of his own homosexuality. Although he continued to be supported by his students, following his death in 1910, his work was largely forgotten. Remembering Paul is not only an ode to the artist and his work, but it also makes space for queer histories and intergenerational grieving in a wider sense.

Remembering Paul showcases letters, sketches and photographs on loan from the grassroots archive Forum Queeres Archiv München (FQAM); two prints by Philipp Gufler after a portrait by Paul Hoecker of Nino Cesarini in Capri; as well as a small interior painting by the artist and a slide show comprising all of his paintings known so far. Many of Paul Hoecker's works were lost over time, but throughout this projection, these otherwise vanished pieces find representation within an exhibition, offering them a new life and audience. Consisting of members of the FQAM, the Paul Hoecker Research Group has been tracing back the individual paintings forming his oeuvre, spanning from Dutch genre paintings to religious moral paintings, landscapes, Pierrot figures, and, after his dismissal from the academy, also more homoerotic portraits. After having been almost entirely forgotten for over a century, this show stresses the urgency to celebrate his work and legacy.

Manifold Books
Kraijenhoffstraat 34
1018RL Amsterdam

Open
Fri + Sat 1 - 5 p.m. 
and by appointment

Photos: Lazimg or Lazoo

Blooming Archive

BLOOMING ARCHIVE

4/10/ - 03/11/2024

Opening: Thursday, 03/10/2024 at 5 p.m. 

With works by Pablo Lerma, Philipp Gufler, Tabea Nixdorff, Pauline Agustoni, Christian Friedrich, Jacquill G. Basdew and Oscar Eriksson Furunes.

This exhibition features works by seven Dutch and international artists who have researched the IHLIA – LGBTQ collection through their respective practices. Each piece is driven by a different approach of dealing with archival documents: Some of them creatively reframe archival objects to reconstruct and revitalize fragmented histories, forgotten figures, and activist strategies. Others apply montage and collage strategies based on archival holdings, highlighting questions surrounding the ordering and preserving of subaltern heritage.

Together, the works engulf a wide medial range, spanning from textiles and books to sculpture, sound, and video installation. All displays date from the last few years, reflecting the continuously growing relevance of archival art. The exhibition thus offers an insight into contemporary artistic discourses renegotiating art’s access to and participation in LGBTQIA+ history.

The motivation behind artistic research in non-heteronormative archives is not simply to extract material but also to add to the collections by way of critical inquiry and new creations. How then does archival art contribute to queer and trans heritage? By going beyond the traditional logics of archival ordering and display, archival art speculatively explores the potentials of new readings of archival records. In this regard, aesthetic sensibilities strategically recover evasive traces of intimacy and sexuality, instantiating an alternative and indirect form of archiving.

One of the central goals of the exhibition is to bring the different works and approaches into conversation, sounding out their intersecting concerns and interests in a still understudied field. Furthermore, the selection of works underscores the importance of the added value that comes from the artistic making tangible of the abundance and plentitude of queer and trans lives, routinely submerged in dominant narratives of vulnerability, loss, and death. 

Curated by Sandro Weilenmann. 

IHLIA
(3rd floor OBA Oosterdok)
Oosterdokskade 143
1011 DL Amsterdam

Free entrance
Mo-Fr: 08.00 – 22.00 hrs
Sa-Su: 10.00 – 20.00 hrs

It hûs is net ien

 

Triënnale fan Beetstersweach

It hûs is net ien

28. septimber – 03. novimber 2024

 

In which house and with which woman does-did-will love happen? And when is it time for love, anyway? Time for work? How can the stakes in love and work be sorted out?

– Luce Irigaray, ‘This Sex Which is Not One’ (1977)

Kunsthuis SYB invites you to the 4th edition of the Triënnale fan Beetstersweach, from Saturday 28 September to Sunday 3 November 2024. The exhibition takes place in the village of Beetsterzwaag, in the bilingual province of Friesland.

This year’s Triennial is titled It hûs is net ien. This title loosely translates into English as This house which is not one. The exhibition brings together works by the artists who have been in residence at SYB over the past three years and aims to plant the seeds for the 2025-2028 program around questions of habitation. Since it was founded in 2000, Kunsthuis SYB has been a place for research, support and experimentation, a space where artists live and art is made. Conversations are often held around the kitchen table, stimulating connections with the local residents, and in relation to the Frisian landscape and its stories.

In the 1970s, second wave feminism introduced the now famous saying, ‘the personal is political’, to reexamine the prevalent norms and gender positions in society. This edition of the Triennial embraces this principle and proposes it in relation to exhibition making, asking questions such as: What is a house? Who lives in a house? And how does such a personal space relate to the world outside?

The exhibition takes place in two artist houses in Beetsterzwaag, as well as in the Tropische Kas, a garden and greenhouse which was once part of one of the houses in the village. Kunsthuis SYB, Sybren Hellinga’s former home, functioned as a gallery and a ‘schenkerij’ where drinks were served. In line with this, the exhibition takes place throughout the house. A newly commissioned bar is located on the ground floor. Publik Universal Frxnd (fka Richard John Jones) creates an installation inspired by both 18th-century clandestine bars called ‘lolhuizen’ and a 20th-century artist’s bar named Bei Cosy. Here, Pia Louwerens and Katinka van Gorkum present their work inspired by the Anna Blaman House, a place to preserve feminist and lesbian heritage in Friesland.

Connections between artists of different generations play an important role throughout the exhibition. For instance, Philipp Gufler pays homage to artist Cosy Pièro’s legacy in a performance and Rory Pilgrim portrays their friend, artist Louwrien Wijers. Attention to intergenerational healing is also present in the works of artists Ola Hassanain and Steven Jouwersma. ‘How to carry a house with you?’ they seem to ask.

Across the street the exhibition continues in a room in the home and working space of artist Eja Siepman van den Berg. Assembled here are works that delve into the surroundings of Kunsthuis SYB. Where Sol Archer dives into the relationship between ecology and colonial imagery, Olivia D’Cruz portrays a changing relationship between people, the landscape and bodies of water. It hûs is net ien mirrors, a world full of tensions, but also a world of wonder, curiosity and kinship between people. A world which inevitably enters the house. A house which is not one.

Curated by Arnisa Zeqo, director Kunsthuis SYB, with associate curator Titus Nouwens.

Kunsthuis SYB (hoofdlocatie)
Hoofdstraat 70
9244 CP Beetsterzwaag

Openingstijden: Vrijdag, zaterdag, zondag 13:00 - 18:00 uur, en op aanvraag

GOSSIPMONGERS at BWA Warszawa

GOSSIPMONGERS

PHILIPP GUFLER

KAROL RADZISZEWSKI

JAANUS SAMMA

26/09 – 30/11/2024

Opening: 26/10/2024, 8 p.m. as part of Warsaw Art Weekend

BWA WARSZAWA is pleased to present Gossipmongers with new and recent works by Philipp Gufler (DE, 1989), Karol Radziszewski (PL, 1980) and Jaanus Samma (EE, 1982), who share an artistic interest in overlooked queer histories. With their research-based practices, the artists look at key moments and figures that have disrupted hetero-normative structures in the past centuries. Each of them has a specific focus on their respective region of origin and residence. Radziszewski’s research mainly relates to Poland and the larger Eastern European region, while Philipp Gufler looks at his country-of-origin Germany and the Netherlands, where he is currently based. Samma comes from Estonia and predominantly revisits histories of people from the Baltics. The exhibition includes paintings, quilts, tapestries, prints and other works that relate to the narratives of Eric Stenbock (UK, 1860 – 95), Charlotte Charlaque (DE, 1892 – USA, 1963), Toni Ebel (DE, 1881 – GDR, 1961), Elisar von Kupffer (EE, 1872 – CH, 1942) and Stanisława Walasiewicz (PL, 1911 – USA, 1980).

BWA WARSZAWA

ul. Marszałkowska 34/50/666

00-554 Warsaw

Tuesday - Friday

12 - 7 p.m.

Saturday noon - 4 p.m.

Confessing Weakness at Traklhaus, Salzburg

July 13 - August 31, 2024

Opening: Friday, July 12, from 18:00

Finissage: Saturday, August 31, at 12:30
Film screening Conversation with Albert Knoll (2023, 25 Min.) and talk with the artist, Conny Felice (HOSI Salzburg) and Albert Knoll (Forum Queeres Archiv München, Munich). 

As part of the International Summer Academy Salzburg

Curated by Sophie Goltz and Niklas Koschel

Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus Salzburg
Waagplatz 1a
5020 Salzburg
Austria

Opening times

Tuesday to Friday: 14:00 - 18:00
Saturday, 10:00 - 13:00
and by appointment

Fotos: Helena Kalleitner

 

DIS/IDENTIFICATION

Editor: Yasmin Afschar, Kunsthalle Mainz
Design: Yvonne Quirmbach
Language: German/
21 x 29.7 cm
176 pages, 200 images, flex cover
Text: Yasmin Afschar, Karolina Kühn, Sandro Weilenmann, Louwrien Wijers
ISBN: 978-3-95476-677-2
Published by DISTANZ Verlag, Berlin

ORDER HERE

Book release

Finissage: Artist talk & book-launch
Sunday, June 16, 3 pm at Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany

Book release
Saturday, June 22, 8 pm at San Serriffe, Amsterdam

Fotos: Fabienne Kunkel

Dis/Identfication at Kunsthalle Mainz

 

DIS/IDENTIFICATION

8th of March – 16th of June 2024

Opening
Thursday, 7th of March 2024, 19:00

Curated by Yasmin Afschar

Images and (hi)stories of queer life both today and in the past are at the heart of Philipp Gufler’s artistic oeuvre. Key persons in history, developments and incisive events from different periods all enter into dialog and tell an intersectional queer story. Gufler comes across his source material in historical archives, newspapers, radio and TV, and his reference points originate in literature and the aesthetic practices of the LGBTQIA+ movements, in queer theory, and in Pop culture. Gufler reflects on these in film essays, but also in performances and pictorial objects, in paintings on mirrors or silkscreened fabrics (the quilts as he calls them today feature 53 different textiles and are dedicated to queer people, movements, and places).

In his largest solo exhibition to date, starting with a new video installation entitled The Beginning of Identification, and its End​. Gufler offers a survey of his creative output of recent years. It does not just tell us the “hi/stories of heroes”. Gufler's approach always leaves scope for the dark sides and the controversies. The focus is on identification but also on “disidentification” and thus on the limits of queer categories of identification. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by Philipp Gufler’s first monograph, including texts by Karolina Kühn, Louwrien Wijers and Yasmin Afschar. 

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Fade into You - film program on oral-history-practices with Philipp Gufler
Wednesday, April 10, 7 pm at Kunsthalle Mainz

Film program on AIDS & activism with Philipp Gufler, Marc Siegel and Sarah Horn
Thursday, May 2, 7 pm at Medienhaus (Wallstrasse 11, Mainz)

Finissage: Artist talk & book-launch
Sunday, June 16, 3 pm at Kunsthalle Mainz

Kunsthalle Mainz
Am Zollhafen 3–5
55118 Mainz

Opening times
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10 am–6 pm
Wednesday 10 am–9 pm
Saturday, Sunday 11 am–6 pm

Installation view Philipp Gufler: Dis/Identification, Kunsthalle Mainz, 2024. Photo: Norbert Miguletz