RECHTSKURVE
eine Vergangenheitsbewältigung

Opening Samstag 19. September 2026
Ausstellung Sonntag 20. September - Dezember 2026
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eine Ausstellung von service not included
mit Kathleen Bomani, Babi Brüller, Philipp Gufler, Tanja Hamester, Marie Jaksch, Lotti Oeken, Mara Pollak
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Die Ausstellung ist kostenlos und jederzeit begehbar.
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Mitten durch den Spessart zieht sich eine fast vergessene Narbe der deutschen Geschichte: die sogenannte Strecke 46, Ruine einer nie vollendeten Autobahn aus der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus und Symbol faschistischer Modernisierungs-, Leistungs- und Mobilitätsfantasien. 

Auf rund 30 Kilometern liegen Brückenreste, Dämme und Betonpfeiler verborgen im Wald – monumental und unscheinbar zugleich, Relikte eines gigantischen Infrastrukturprojekts, das für die nationalsozialistischen Vorstellungen von Fortschritt und Mobilität stand, dabei in Wahrheit aber auf Ausbeutung, Unterdrückungund Gewalt beruhte. Heute ist die Trasse das längste Denkmal Bayerns und ein Ort, an dem Geschichte, Landschaft und Erinnerung auf besondere Weise ineinandergreifen.
Der Art Walk „Strecke 46“ nimmt diesen außergewöhnlichen Ort zum Ausgangspunkt für eine künstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit den Einschreibungen von Geschichte in die Landschaft. Die Trasse wird dabei nicht bloß als historisches Relikt betrachtet, sondern als ambivalenter Resonanzraum zum Leben erweckt. In sechs ortsspezifischen Arbeiten eröffnen die beteiligten Künstler*innen neue Perspektiven auf die Ruine als Denkmal, Mahnmal und Störfaktor. Sie fragen nach den sichtbaren und verborgenen Spuren politischer Ideologien, nach Erinnerung und Verantwortung sowie nach den Geschichten, die Landschaften bewahren – und erzählen können.
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​Vernissage Samstag, 19. September 2026,
Eröffnung 13.00 Am Kletterpfeiler Gräfendorf
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Schnupperklettern, organisiert vom DAV Main-Spessart
15:00 Uhr, mit performativem Artist Talk von Tanja Hamester
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Shuttle-Service für das Opening Wochenende zwischen den Ausstellungsorten buchbar unter
​nach Anmeldung per Email (begrenzte Platzzahl
servicenotincluded@gmx.de
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Samstag 19.09.2026
Tour Start: 14:00 — Tour ca. 3,5h
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Sonntag, 20. September 2026
Tour Start 10:00 — Tour ca. 3,5h
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Sonntag, 27. September 2026
Mountainbike-Tour mit Jürgen Lippert
Anmeldung per Email: juergen.lippert@freenet.de
Tour Start 9:00 Uhr, ca. 6h

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Papier Biënnale 2026 | Familielijnen

20 september 2026 - 28 februari 2027

Wat definieert een familie en hoe verandert ons beeld van familie in de tijd van nu? De 20 deelnemende kunstenaars aan de Papier Biënnale 2026 reflecteren op het thema familielijnen. Stuk voor stuk drukken ze zich uit in papier, als drager voor een verhaal, beschermende huls of ritueel materiaal.

With works by Amy Suo Wu, Britt Dorenbosch, Efrat Zehavi, Erik Tlaseca, Karen Sargsyan, Karina Beumer, Karolina Hyun Wilting, Maksud Ali Mondal, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Matea Bakula, Narges Mohammadi, Philipp Gufler, Pris Roos, Raul Balai, Samboleap Tol, Sithabile Mlotshwa, Thierry Oussou, Toon Fibbe, Yin Yin Wong, Yubin Lee

MUSEUM RIJSWIJK

Herenstraat 67

2282 BR Rijswijk

The Netherlands

VISITING HOURS

Tuesday to Sunday: 11 AM - 17 PM

We Carry Forward at Luther Museum

We Carry Forward

July 10 - October 11, 2026

Opening: Friday, July 10 from 5 pm (RSVP)

‘We Carry Forward’ showcases the work of eight contemporary visual artists who explore the theme of ‘queer futurity.’ In the exhibition, we question seemingly undisputed, dominant truths and make space for a multitude of perspectives, voices, and stories. How do queer lives, shaped through coded survival and collective care, produce alternative temporalities? 

Featuring work by: Yamuna Forzani, Philipp Gufler, Andrea Knezović, Ana Linhares, Katja Mater, Rory Pilgrim, Mikołaj Sobczak, and Thato Toeba. Conceptualised and curated by Andrea Knezović.

Luther Museum Amsterdam
Nieuwe Keizersgracht 570,
1018 VG Amsterdam

Opening times:
Thursday - Sunday 11 am - 5 pm

Manifesta

MANIFESTA 16

21.06. – 04.10.2026

Creative Mediator: Gürsoy Doğtaş

St. Anna – Hatay Engin Musikhalle
Kapellenstraße 6
45881 Gelsenkirchen
Germany

Participants at St. Anna: Emre Abut, Cana Bilir-Meier, İhsan Ece, Philipp Gufler, Cihangir Gümüştürkmen, Nejla Gür, Gašper Kunšič, Jannis Psychopedis, Mesut-Sabuha Salaam, Ming Wong, Hanefi Yeter

Manifesta takes place in 12 churches across 4 cities in the Ruhr Area. 

Quilt #46 (Zeki Müren) [with Gürsoy Doğtaş], 2021 © Philipp Gufler. Photo © Manifesta 16 Ruhr / Rainer Schlautmann

#IFEELYOU. DIMENSIONEN DER EMPATHIE

21.05. – 11.10.2026

Opening: Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 7 pm

with works by: Ulf Aminde, Renate Bertlmann, Joseph Beuys, Candice Breitz, Philipp Gufler, Hans Hemmert, Alfredo Jaar, Franco & Eva Mattes, Katharina Mayer, Boris Mikhailov, Claudia Robles-Angel, Evamaria Schaller

Kunstmuseum Bonn
Museumsmeile
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 2
53113 Bonn

Opening hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Wednesday: 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Closed on Monday

Philipp Gufler: Imitations of Paul

 

1.5 - 4.7.2026

Opening: May 1, 7 p.m. 

Very few biographies leave behind a coherent, self-contained archive. Most persist primarily as traces—in images, in relationships, in what is repeated, cited, or strategically withheld. Philipp Gufler’s work begins precisely in these lacunae, integrating fragments of histor(ies) into his artistic practice. For the exhibition Imitations of Paul, he enters into dialogue with Paul Hoecker (1854–1910), a painter whose life and work were long marginalized and whose extensive oeuvre has yet to be fully catalogued. Hoecker’s career came to an abrupt end in 1898, when his homosexuality was on the verge of becoming public.

“Imitations of Paul” finds Gufler taking Hoecker’s complex biography as the point of departure for an act of artistic identification. The textile and ceramic works on view explore how new forms, images, and narratives can emerge from fragmentary archival traces. And yet imitation here is not conceived as mere replication: drawing on drag as an art form, it operates as a practice of appropriation, exaggeration, and transformation—a productive process that establishes proximity, acknowledges difference, and, through repetition, brings forth something distinctly its own.

In contrast to narratives that claim closure, Gufler’s works conceive of history as an open structure that can be extended and displaced through artistic reference. In the deliberate reprise of motifs, attitudes, and gestures, what emerges is a new proposition.

While the textile work Imitations of Paul—with its semi-transparent silkscreen prints on fabric—lends all of Hoecker’s works known to date an almost spectral presence in the gallery space, Gufler takes a new direction with the ceramic series Sexual Aesthetics. Here, images from and about Hoecker’s life intersect with art-historical and socio-historical visual references drawn from the extensive image archives associated with the sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld. The quoted motifs revolve around desire and sexuality, ranging from prehistoric cave representations to medieval and early modern art, and extending to photographs from the early twentieth century. Gufler combines Hoecker’s painting “Ave Maria”, among other works, with a woodcut depicting the torture of figures whose in some cases rapt expressions evoke less a state of suffering than an affinity with Marquis de Sade. Works like these move beyond a narrowly biographical reading to operate associatively.

A pronounced corporeality is shared by both the textile and ceramic works. The fabric installation presents Hoecker’s oeuvre as it is currently known, lending the motifs an undeniable presence despite the material’s lightness. The white fabric gathers all works identified to date through research, while the black shows those now considered lost or destroyed, as well as works whose present owners the Paul Hoecker Research Group has not yet been able to trace. For each painting, Gufler produced silkscreens at original scale through physically demanding processes. In the ceramic works, he likewise employs silkscreen printing, layering the motifs between successive firings, after which they are partially obscured by a high-gloss glaze. This deliberate interplay of concealing and revealing takes on another spatial dimension through the use of stamps, transforming the pieces into reliefs. In their emphatic materiality, the ceramic works form a tense counterpoint to the seemingly immaterial textile installation.

As a founding member of the Paul Hoecker Research Group, Gufler is directly involved in the collective research into Hoecker’s life and work. This collaborative production of knowledge forms a central backdrop to the exhibition and is exemplified in the final gallery space through a presentation of relevant archival materials. The insights developed jointly within the group are ultimately translated by Gufler into his own distinct artistic perspective. The exhibition thus unfolds within a field of tension between collective knowledge production, individual authorship, and a critical reflection on a long-marginalized artistic biography.

The exhibition is accompanied by the publication “Spuren von Paul / Traces of Paul” (Splitter 19, Forum Queeres Archiv München in collaboration with BQ, Berlin), which brings together exhibition and research as a performative collective endeavor. In the polyphony of texts and images, Paul Hoecker emerges as part of an open process of ongoing historical and artistic re-examination.

Text: Nicholas Maniu and Christina Spachtholz

BQ
Jörn Bötnagel and Yvonne Quirmbach
Weydingerstrasse 10
10178 Berlin
Tel. +49-30-23457316
info@bqberlin.de
Tue–Sat 11–18 h

Photos: Roman März

Buchpräsentation Spuren von Paul | Traces of Paul

Book launches Splitter 19: Spuren von Paul | Traces of Paul

Philipp Gufler in conversation with Stefan Gruhne, Nicholas Maniu and Christina Spachtholz (Paul Hoecker Research Group)

Spuren von | Traces of Paul 

Stefan Gruhne, Philipp Gufler, Nicholas Maniu, Christina Spachtholz (Ed.)
Forum Queeres Archiv München e.V. and BQ, Berlin
Design: Yvonne Quirmbach
with texts by Karin Althaus, Gerhard Becker, Vera Christoph, Stefan Gruhne, Philipp Gufler, Birgit Jooss, Yuliia Kizyma, Nicholas Maniu, Christina Spachtholz, Arnisa Zeqo
German/English
112 pages
14 b&w illustrations
61 coloured illustrations

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