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.