Philipp Gufler explores matters of queer imagery, questioning the Western historiography, in which heterosexuality and a binary gender system define the social norm. In his artistic practice he uses various media, including silkscreen-printing on fabrics and mirrors, artist books, performances, and video installations. Since 2013 he is an active member of the Forum Queeres Archiv München. In his quilts, an ongoing series of silkscreen prints, Gufler references artists, scholars and places of queer life that have found little or no place in written accounts and the historical canon.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Unterwerfungen, Kunstraum of the Leuphana University, Lüneburg (2022); Autoerotismus, Kevin Space, Vienna (2020); Andere Geschiedenis volgens Dirjke Kuik en Philipp Gufler, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2020); It is getting alive, BQ, Berlin (2020); I’m in love with a statue, Françoise Heitsch, Munich (2019); Pleasure Pain, Marwan, Amsterdam (2019). The artist lives and works in Amsterdam. Photography credit: Franzi Müller Schmidt.

Philipp Gufler has been a resident at Delfina Foundation, London (2021), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (2019) and De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2015-2017).