Philipp Gufler On Screen

 

On Screen: Philipp Gufler

06.12.2024, 9 p.m. 

Artist talk by: Sam Steverlynck

Reserve your tickets here

The German artist Philipp Gufler (1989), who lives in Amsterdam, expresses himself using a wide range of media: from films to installations, objects, performances, publications and textile works. What connects this multiplicity of media – that are often mutually interrelated – is years of research into queer portrayals based on archival documents including legislation, police reports, newspapers or queer theory as well as oral histories, personal documents and footage from popular culture. For over a decade now, Gufler has been a member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München, an archive and study centre for the LGBTIQ+ community in Munich that also pays attention to personal or forgotten stories. Gufler himself highlights various events, places, periods and people who played a role in the micro and macro history of the queer movement: from Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 - 1895), the legal expert who was a proponent of gay rights and is known as the first man to ever come out, to underground, 1980’s performance artist Rabe perplexum or the non-binary star of reality TV in the 2000s, Lana Kaiser who elicited a multitude of opinions. Elements from these films such as wardrobe items or props, not only occur in the former, but also in his installations or other spatial works. For the filmed performance Cockatoo Archive (2022) he worked with Johanna Gonschorek; both wear robes that incorporate archival items referring to, among others, the people they discuss. Bringing an archive to life as well as reflecting on the former using a variety of visual strategies including collage or superposition, are recurring elements in Gufler’s practice.

Program

Cockatoo Archive, 2022, 29 min.

Becoming-Rabe, 2016, 7 min. 

Lana Kaiser, 2020, 13 min.

Conversation with Albert Knoll, 2023, 25 min.

Further Information

Filmtheater De Uitkijk
Prinsengracht 452
Amsterdam, the Netherlands