Karol Radziszewski / Philipp Gufler

Name: OK. oskar: talks | Queer Ancestors: Unreading the Archive
Start: 2023-08-10T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-08-10T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon

OK. oskar: talks | Queer Ancestors: Unreading the Archive

10 August 2023 / 7–9 pm CEST

Stadtgalerie Zwergelgartenpavillon

Philipp Gufler, photo by Franzi Müller Schmidt; Karol Radziszewski, photo by Kuba Dabrowski

Queer Ancestors: Unreading the Archive

Talk with Karol Radziszewski (artist, Poland) and Philipp Gufler (artist, Germany/Netherlands)

Karol Radziszewski Challenging predominant historical narratives and their prevalent modes of representation, Radziszewski’s multidisciplinary and archive-based practice convenes a myriad of political, social, religio-cultural and art-historical references, probing their relation to the history of sexuality and the construction of gender.
Since 2005, Radziszewski has been publisher and editor-in-chief of DIK Fagazine; he founded the Queer Archives Institute in 2015.

Philipp Gufler (Germany / Netherlands) 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. Philipp Gufler attended artist residencies De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2015-2017), Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (2019) and Delfina Foundation, London, UK (2021).