About

Joshua Gutowski is an artist-philosopher working at the intersection of phenomenology, material culture, and the philosophy of representation. His practice investigates how things disclose themselves; how presence, vitality, and meaning arise not as properties of objects but through the encounter between an object and the world that has shaped it.

His work moves between sound, print technologies, constructed objects, and computational media, and engages directly with museums, historical collections, and religious spaces as sites where these questions become live. A recurring concern across his practice is what is lost, and what persists, in the translation of things across different modes of representation, such as the archival photograph, the digital model, the AI-generated image, the handmade object.

He is currently completing his Diplomstudium at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), where his practice has developed in close dialogue with continental philosophy, particularly the ontology of Martin Heidegger. He received the Sue Gould Art Award in 2017. His work has been shown at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, the Kunstverein für den Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in Siegburg, and the Trinitatiskirche in Köln, among others.