About

Joshua Gutowski is an artist 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 com­pleted his Dip­loma at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) in 2026 with hon­ors, where his prac­tice developed in close dia­logue with con­tin­ental philo­sophy, par­tic­u­larly the onto­logy of Mar­tin Heidegger. His work has been shown at the Kunst-Sta­tion Sankt Peter Köln, the Zen­trum für Kunst und Medien Karls­ruhe, and the Kunst­ver­ein für den Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in Siegburg among oth­ers.