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Guided tour of the Substitutes exhibition by Philipp Gufler with Tomas Adolfs

Date:
Sunday 4 June 2023
15:00—16:00
Location:
→ W139
Warmoesstraat 139
1012 JB Amsterdam
Admission
With ticket
Open today from 12:00 to 18:00

Guided tour of the Substitutes exhibition by Philipp Gufler with Tomas Adolfs
Sunday 4 June 2023
15:00-16:00
W139

Substitutes, initiated by Philipp Gufler, is on show at W139 from 22 April to 18 June 2023.

The exhibition engages with queer history and discourses around the body, gender, and sexuality. It features artists across several generations working in a variety of mediums to contextualise and converse with these discourses. The exhibition is about the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language we use to maintain or describe our bodies—costuming, staging, masks, layering, clothing. It questions the normative frameworks that queer and functionally diverse people are subjected to. The human body is, paradoxically, both absent and present within the exhibition. 

Initiated by the artist Philipp Gufler, Substitutes brings together works of Lorenza Böttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, Johannes Büttner, and Bruno Zhu. Philipp Gufler will show a new work titled Body/Text: a large-scale silk screen printed textile piece that draws inspiration from Elisàr von Kupffer’s panorama painting Klarwelt der Seligen (Clear World of the Blissful). By connecting contemporary discussions to historical perspectives, the exhibition aims to create a ‘living archive’. Drawing together artistic positions from then and now, the exhibition traces queer lives and networks from the past to our present. 

The exhibition is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00.

Visual identity by Jacob Hoving.

This exhibition is generously supported by Mondriaan Fonds, Gieskes Strijbis Fonds, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Goethe Institut, Centro Elisarion, Pro Elisarion Association, Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus, Forum Queeres Archiv München and Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.