Aus dem Kreis der Alumnae*i: Philipp Gufler, Johanna Gonschorek und Rabe Perplexum 

The exhibition brings together works of Lorenza Böttner, Johannes Büttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, and Bruno Zhu. By connecting contemporary discussions to historical perspectives, Substitutes aims to create a "living archive" that brings the past to life for current generations.

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). Body/Text will reflect the larger concerns of the exhibition, namely the absence of bodies, the abstraction of the body, and the tools and language used to maintain and describe our bodies—costuming, staging, masks, layering, clothing. It questions the normative frameworks that queer and functionally diverse bodies are subjected to. The human body will be, paradoxically, both absent and present within the exhibition.

Lorenza Böttner, Johannes Büttner, Johanna Gonschorek, Philipp Gufler, Elisàr von Kupffer, Rabe perplexum, Louwrien Wijers, and Bruno Zhu