Saturday 2 November - Remembering Cosy, a performance by Philipp Gufler
After a festive opening of the Triënnale fan Beetstersweach 2024 we are excited to share the public program taking place during the last three weekends of the exhibition. No need to register or buy a ticket, just come by to listen, talk, and have a drink at artist bar De Bult. Each session is preceded by a tour of the exhibition by a member of the curatorial team.
Saturday 2 November 2024
Artist Philipp Gufler pays homage to artist Cosy Pièro with a new live performance titled Remembering Cosy. The performance touches upon the different aspects of their friendship and collaboration. In the artist’s own words ‘‘I became friends with Cosy and her wife Anne Osmers regardless of our age difference and this developed into something like a queer art family for me.” The performance questions how to physically carry and make space for queer genealogies and intergenerational dialogue. The afternoon concludes with a conversation about Cosy, followed by a performative reading by Lou Lou Sainsbury.
13.30-14.30 Exhibition tour - Starting at Kunsthuis SYB, with Titus Nouwens
16.00 Remembering Cosy, a new performance by Philipp Gufler
15.00 - 19.00 De Bult bar hosted by artist Lou Lou Sainsbury
*During this afternoon, the ceramic works of artist Charlotte Eta Mumm are activated with a special treat.
About Remembering Cosy
Philipp Gufler: “I first heard of the artist Cosy Pièro through my artistic research on the lost queer spaces with Publik Universal Frxnd, which led to the bars Moby Dyke at Lothringer 13_Florida in Munich in 2015, and Bei Cosy at Rongwrong in Amsterdam in 2017. I was immediately fascinated by her work and heard about her impressive life story through conversations with contemporary witnesses. Cosy tirelessly told young people about her life as an artist in various contemporary witness talks in queer-feminist contexts. Especially a young and queer generation of artists could identify with her independent work, her courage and her sensitivity. In 2022 she received the art award of the City of Munich for her life achievement as an artist. She died on June 28, 2023. I became friends with Cosy and her wife Anne Osmers regardless of our age difference and this developed into something like a queer art family for me. Our friendship allowed me to get to know her artistic work better.”
For the performance about her life and art Philipp shares scenes from a documentary from 1985 and an interview by Philipp with Cosy from 2015, that was filmed in their first bar Moby Dyke and has never been presented publicly. Cosy’s own lesbian chansons, which she composed herself and sang every Sunday evening at Bei Cosy, form the soundtrack to the performance.
In January 2023, Philipp published in collaboration with Ruine Munich Cosy Bei Cosy: a fanzine about the artist Cosy Pièro and her bar Bei Cosy. New run published soon via HVM Books.
Biography
Philipp Gufler uses various media, including silk-screen printing on fabric and mirror, artist books, performance and video installation. He co-curated a touring survey exhibition of Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen, Rabe perplexum and accomplices, as well as the seminal exhibition Substitutes at W139 in Amsterdam, with work by Louwrien Wijers and Lorenza Böttner, amongst others. Solo exhibitions by Philipp were presented at Kunsthalle Mainz, International Summer Academy Salzburg, Kevin Space, BQ and Marwan.
Charlotte Eta Mumm is an artist whose practice moves between abstract and representational, questioning the presence of things, perspectives and the definition of space versus surface. She works with multiple mediums and materials, such as drawing, sculpture, mud and ceramics. Her work has been exhibited internationally, amongst other, at Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Phoinix, Bratislava, Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, Leeuwarden and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam.
Lou Lou Sainsbury is an artist working across moving image, live-performance, poetry, drawing, sculpture and textiles. A self-described time traveler, Sainsbury’s work seeks to tell stories exploring histories of resistance, transformation and entanglement within both human and more-than-human worlds. Collaboration is at the core of this practice. Lou Lou’s work has been exhibited at Roodkapje Rotterdam, Gasworks, London and Ehrlich Steinberg, LA.
Titus Nouwens works as a curator and writer at the intersection of visual art and performance. For the 4th edition of the Triënnale fan Beetstersweach he works as Associate Curator.