Galerie Peter Herrmann
Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter


Curriculum Vitae

Ingrid Mwangi

1975 Born in Nairobi, Kenya
1990 Move to Germany
Ausbildung / Education 
1994-1996 Graphic design studies at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken
1996-2002 Studies in new artistic media under Professor Ulrike Rosenbach, HBKSaar
Einzelausstellungen
Solo Exhibitions 
2001 My Heart of Darkness, Skupturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl
2002 To Be in the World, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main
African Heritage, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main
Your own Soul, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken
2003 Static Drifting, Galleria Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy
Ingrid Mwangi – Video Installation, Focus Gallery. Museum of African Art, New York, USA
Your own Soul, Städtische Museum Galerie Erlangen
  Exhibition of Video Works - Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter, Nairobi Arts Trust/ Center of Contemporary Art of East Africa, GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

Ausgewählte Gruppenausstellungen, Performances, Video Festivals
Selected Group Exhibitions, Performances, Video Festivals

1998
 XIX Video Art Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
1999 3rd Festival of young experimental Art, Aktionsgalerie, Berlin, Große Kunstausstellung, Haus der Kunst, Munich
  European Media Art Festival 1999, Osnabrück, Germany
  Télé(o) Festival, Nantes, France
2000 Transmediale, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
Blickwechsel - Afrikanische Videokunst (A Shift in Viewpoint - African Video Art), ifa-Galerie, Bonn/Stuttgart, Germany
Expo 2000, German pavilion, Hannover, Germany
2001 Africa Alive Festival, Alte Nikolaikirche, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Blickwechsel - Afrikanische Videokunst, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Performance Passing Through, performances during a Joan Jonas exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany
Architecture by Ola-Dele Kuku, Video by Ingrid Mwangi, Film by Antonio Ole, Camouflage art. culture. politics, Brussels, Belgium
Tirana Biennale 1, Albania
SchwarzWeis, M.art.A, Herford, Germany
2002 Draußen, Drinnen und Dazwischen - Das Fremde als Projektion des Selbst (Outside, Inside and In Between - The Foreign as a Projection of the Self), Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
SchwarzWeis, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
Iconografias Metropolitanas, 25 Bienal de Sao Paolo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Goddess, Lelong Gallery, New York, USA
Video Caravan, Dordrecht City, Netherlands
Soundfestival Oorsmeer, Concertgebouw Brügge und Kulturzentrum Berchem, Antwerp, Belgium
Video-Zone, 1st International video-art Biennial in Israel, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 Body Politics, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, USA
  Inside Outliners: A probable anthology, Kunsthalle Lophem near Brugge, Belgium
  Globalica - WRO 03 10th International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
  I Muestra Internacional de Video El Salvador 2003, San Salvador, El Salvador
  Next Flag I: Ingrid Mwangi & Robert Hutter — Godfried Donkor, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
  Transferts-Exposition d'Art Contemporain,, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  The 1st Transmanchurian Video Festival, Changchun, Dalian, Shenyang, Tianjin und Beijing, Northeast China
A Fiction of Authenticity: Contemporary Africa Abroad, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  Parures de tête, Musée Dapper, Paris, France
  Sexuality und Tod: Aids in der zeitgenössischen afrikanischen Kunst (Sexuality and Death: Aids in contemporary African art), Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Museum for Ethnology, Cologne, Germany
  Looking Both Ways, Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
  Rites sacr?, rites profanes, Ves Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine Biennale de Bamako, Mali
  Digital Africa, African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, USA
2004 Bamako '03, Centre de Culture Contemporaine de Barcelona, Spain
  In Movement: UNESCO Salutes Women Video Artists of the World, Hall Ségur, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
Video Screening in conjunction with Corporal Identity - Body Language, Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA
Looking Both Ways, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
  John Coplans, Craigie Horsfield, Ingrid Mwangi, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
  Les Afriques, exhibition on the occasion of Lille 2004, European City of Culture, Lille, France
Veni Vidi Video II, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
  Pforzheim-Ludwigshafen-Hamburg-Berlin, Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin, Germany
2007 Balance. Alexander Ochs Galleries, Peter Herrmann Gallery.Heiligendamm, Bad Doberan, Berlin
Kommende Ausstellungen
Forthcoming Shows
2004
 Africa Remix, museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Looking Both Ways, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
  A Fiction of Authenticity, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
  (My private) Heroes, M.art.A Herford, Germany
  African Voices (working title), The National Museum of World Cultures, Göteborg, Sweden
  Intimate Distance, Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium (solo exhibition)

Preise
Awards

1998 - 2002 Stipend from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany
1999 1st Prize at the 10th SarrLorLux Film and Video Festival, Saarbrücken for Do Not Disturb and Breathe Out
1st Prize in the video clip competition of the Offener Kanal Saarland for Neger - 99 Secs
2000 1st Prize at the 9th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis for Neger
1st Prize at the 11th SarrLorLux Film - und Videofestival, Saarbrücken, for Wild Life
2002 Study residence and stipend at Atelier Rheinland-Pfalz, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Lehraufträge
Teaching
2001 - present Adjunct faculty at the Akademie für Bildende Künste der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany
2003 Adjunct faculty at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany
  Guest lecturer/Artist workshop at the Tschwane University of Technology, Department of fine and applied arts, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
  Artist Workshop at Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, Nairobi, Kenya