As part of the Salzburg Summer Academy 2024, artist Philipp Gufler is exhibiting at the Galerie im Traklhaus. His theme: Confessing weakness – the visualization of queer history.

Philipp Gufler (born 1989) deals with the visualization of queer history and memory culture and connects them with current debates. His artistic work is dedicated to images and stories of queer life: historical personalities, current contemporaneity, social conditions and political events from different periods appear in his works and condense into a dialog with the futures of queer lifestyles beyond identity and role ascriptions.

Confessing Weakness

Philipp Gufler combines various media in his artistic work. These include screen prints on fabric and mirrors, artist books, performances and videos.

Gufler is also involved in the Forum Queeres Archiv München. Together with other queer archives from all over the world, such as Jakarta, Buenos Aires, Vienna and Warsaw, there is an exhibition with archive material from the aforementioned cities parallel to the exhibition in the Traklhaus. Queer history in the Zwergelgarten city gallery in Mirabellpark. Title: “Confessing Weakness: archives and their discontent”.

“School of seeing”

Both exhibitions are part of the Salzburg Summer Academy 2024. The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as a ‘school of seeing’. Since then, intensive workshops on current issues of art production have been held every year in Salzburg with outstanding artists from all over the world.

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The workshops last between one and four weeks. Currently, around 300 participants from over 50 countries attend around 20 courses each year at the two fixed course locations, Hohensalzburg Fortress and Untersberg Quarry in Fürstenbrunn, as well as sometimes at temporary locations in the city of Salzburg.

This year, the end of the Summer Academy coincides with the beginning of the Salzburg 2024 Pride Festival. Since the content of the Summer Academy workshops is always very queer or gender-oriented, it makes sense that international participants of the Summer Academy and visitors of the Pride Festival can meet on August 31st at the finissage of the exhibition in the Stadtgalerie Zwergelgarten and spend an interesting and inspiring evening. Peter Goebel