born 1975 in Nairobi, Kenya and 1964 in Ludwigshafen/ Rhein, Germany
reside in Ludwigshafen/ Rhein and Nairobi
EDUCATION
1996 - 2002, 1990 - 1996
Studies in New Artistic Media at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany under Professor Ulrike Rosenbach
1994 - 1996
Studies in Graphic Design at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany
1988 - 1990
Studies in Sculpture and painting at Freie Hochschule für Musische und Bildende Künste - Alanus Hochschule in Alfter/Bonn, Germany
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
"Trophies", Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Germany, 21.05 - 25.06.2006
"Collective Desires", Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium, 22.3. - 29.4.2006
2003
"Video Art - Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter", Nairobi Arts Trust, Center of Contemporary Art of East Africa / GoDown Arts Center, Nairobi, Kenya
"Ingrid Mwangi - Video installation", Focus Gallery, Museum for African Art, New York, USA
"Static Drifting", Placentia Arte Galerie, Piacenza, Italy
2002
"Your own Soul", Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken / 2003 Städische Galerie Erlangen, Germany
"African Heritage", Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
"To be in the World", Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2001
"My Heart of Darkness", Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Germany
"Thoughts about Things", ZeitRaum Galerie Mannheim, Germany
1998
"Man's World - Man's Fantasy", Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & VIDEO FESTIVALS
2006
"My private Vision", ZEPHYR, Mannheim, Germany, Dec. 2006 - Feb. 2007
"Africa Remix", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 27.05 - 31.08.2006 / Moderna Museet, Stock-holm, Sweden, Oct. 2006 - 07.01.2007 / Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa, Feb. - June 2007
"A Fiction of Authenticity. Contemporary Africa Abroad", Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Housten, Texas, USA, Sept. - Nov. 2006
"DAK'ART Biennale of African Contemporary Art. Afrique: entendus, sous-entendus, ma-lentendus", Dakar, Senegal, 05.05. - 05.06.2006
"Looking Both Ways. Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora", Museum of the African
Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA, 06.04. - 04.06.2006
"2006 Contemporary Commonwealth", Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia, 23.02. - 21.04.2006
"Access / Denied. Big River 3, International Artists' Workshop: ", Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad, West Indies, 23.02. - 12.03.2006
"Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation: Water as Metaphor for Identity", Tufts Universi-ty Art Gallery, Medford, MA, USA, 09.02. - 02.04.2006
2005
"International Triennale of Contemporary Art - Yokohama 2005. Art Circus - Jumping from the Ordinary", Yamashita Pier, Yokohama, Japan
"Tirana Biennale 3. Sweetest Taboos", Tirana, Albania
"15th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival. Performance", São Paulo, Brasil
"5th Ewha Media Art Presentation - Media Art in 'f' ", Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea
"8th Zanzibar International Film Festival of the Dhow Countries", Stone Town, Zanzibar,
Tanzania
"International Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005. A Second Sight", National Gallery ,
Prague, Czech Republic
"Between Skin and Orgasm. The Alchemistic Body", Historical spaces of the Belfort city of Brugge, Belgium
"(my private) Heroes", MARTa Herford, Germany
"Hair of the Matter", African Film Festival New York and Eyebeam, New York, USA
"Sharjah International Biennial 7. Belonging", Sharjah Art Museum / Expo Centre, Sharjah,
United Arab Emirates
"Can You See the Real Me?", Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
"Videoart Channel. World tune 2005", Kobe, Japan
"ART-ROBE: Women artists at the nexus of fashion and art", UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
2004
"HORIZONS- Voices from a Global Africa", The National Museum of World Cultures, Gothen-burg, Sweden, 28.12.2005 - Dec. 2006
"Femina", Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium / Paris, France
"beautés.afriques@nantes", le lieu unique, Nantes, Frankreich
"VideoZone 2. The 2nd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel", Tel Aviv, Israel
"Africa Remix. Contemporary Art of a Continent", museum kunst palast, Düsseldorf, Germany / 2005 Hayward Gallery, London, UK / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"7th Zanzibar International Film Festival of the Dhow Countries, Women's Panorama Art
Exhibition", Stone Town Cultural Center, Zanzibar, Tanzania
"We are the world", Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
"Private Impact. II. International Performance Art Meeting", OFFicina, Szczecin, Poland
"Veni Vidi Video II", Studio Museum in Harlem, New York , USA
"Les Afriques" at the occasion of Lille 2004, European City of Culture, Tri Postal, Lille, France
"John Coplans, Craigie Horsfield, Ingrid Mwangi", Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Video Screening in conjunction with "Corporal Identity - Body Language", Museum of Arts & Design, New York, USA
"In Movement. UNESCO salutes women artists of the world", Hall Ségur, UNESCO
Headquarters, Paris, France
"Bamako|03", Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2003
"Digital Africa", African Film Festival and Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, USA
"Ves Rencontres de la Photographie Africaine, Bamako 2003. Rites sacrés / Rites profa-nes", Bamako, Mali
"Looking Both Ways. Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora", Museum for African Art, New York, USA / 2004 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts / Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA / 2005 Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal / Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland
"Sexuality and Death. Aids in Contemporary African Art ", Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum,
Cologne, Germany
"Parures de tête. Hairstyles and Headdresses", Musée Dapper , Paris, France
"A Fiction of Authenticity. Contemporary Africa Abroad", Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA / 2004 Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA
"The 1st Transmanchurian Video Festival", Changchun, Dalian, Shenyang, Tianjin and Beijing, North East China
"Transferts. Exposition d'Art Contemporain", Palais des Beaux-arts, Brussels, Belgium
"Next Flag I. Ingrid Mwangi & Robert Hutter - Godfried Donkor ",Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
"I Muestra Internacional de Video El Salvador 2003",San Salvador, El Salvador
"Globalica. WRO 03 10th International Media Art Biennale", Wroclaw, Poland
"Inside Outliners. A probable anthology", Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium
"Body Politics", Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, USA
2002
"Video-Zone. The Ist International Video-Art Biennial in Israel", Tel Aviv, Israel
"Goddess", Lelong Gallery, New York, USA
"25ª Bienal de São Paulo. Iconografias Metropolitanas",São Paulo, Brazil
"Draußen, Drinnen und Dazwischen. Das Fremde als Projektion des Selbst", Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
"STYX. Projektionen", Europäische Kunstakademie, Trier, Germany
2001
"SchwarzWeis", MARTa Herford, Germany / 2002 Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
"Tirana Biennale 1", Tirana, Albania
"Architecture by Ola-Dele Kuku, Video by Ingrid Mwangi, Film by Antonio Ole", Camouflage art. culture. politics, Brussels, Belgium
1999
"Télé(o) Festival", Nantes, France
"13èmes Rencontres Vidéo Art Plastique", Basse-Normandie, France
"Grosse Kunstausstellung 1999" /2000 /2001 Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Emy Röder Preis" Kunstverein, Ludwigshafen, Germany
1998
"15. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofestival" / 2000, Kassel, Germany
"XIX Video Art Festival", Locarno, Switzerland
"European Media Art Festival 1998" /1999 / 2000 Osnabrück, Germany
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SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
2002 / 1997
Rheinland-Pfalz studio residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2000
1st Prize at the 9th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis for Neger
1st Prize at the 11th SaarLorLux Film - und Videofestival, Saarbrücken for Wild Life
1999
1st Prize at the 10th SaarLorLux 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
1998 - 2002 / 1993 - 1997
Study grants from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany
1997
Scholarship of the Sparkasse Südliche Weinstraße
Project grant from the Saar Toto Company
1996
Humanic art prize, Austria
1st Prize of the "Landeskunstausstellung", Rheinland-Pfalz
1995
Project scholarship from the Saarland Film Grant
Commendation at the Saar-Lor-Lux Film und Video Festival
1994
Scholarship of the 6th Marler Video-Kunst-Preis
Adolf Geyer Scholarship of Ludwigshafen
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TEACHING
2004 - 2005
Video workshops at Goethe Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
2004
Artistic advisor for a Media (Art) Pedagogical Project at the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Olden-burg, Germany
2003
Adjunct faculty at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany
Guest lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology, Department of fine and applied arts, Pre-toria, Republic of South Africa
2001 - 2004
Adjunct faculty at the Akademie für Bildende Künste der Johannes Gutenberg-
Universität Mainz, Germany
1997 - 2003
Adjunct faculty at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany
I am upset by the one-sided view of Africa that the media is constantly spreading in a diverse manner. One gets the impression that Africa is a poverty-stricken, disease-ridden continent with a confused post-colonial society, generally corrupted political systems and chaotic non-functional economical and infra structures. The global trend towards informing the public of war, conflicts, crisis' and critical social issues results in limited impressions of certain places, if one is to hear nothing more of them in other contexts. Thinking of Ethiopia, we think famine. Thinking of Rwanda, we only think war. At the mention of Africa, are we soon only to think AIDS?
Alone the terms underdeveloped, developing countries and third world strictly suggest the inferiority of the countries so called, which are considered to be lackin...