INGRIDMWANGIROBERTHUTTER
born 1970 in NairobiLudwigshafen
lives and works in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, Germany and Nairobi, Kenya
1996 - 2002, 1990 - 1996
Studies in New Artistic Media at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany under Professor Ulrike Rosenbach
1988 - 1990
Studies in Sculpture and painting at Freie Hochschule für Musische und Bildende Künste - Alanus Hochschule in Bonn/Alfter, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
research year
"Sleepers on the way", Goethe-Institut, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
"Intruders", Goethe-Institut Nairobi, Kenya
"Masked", Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA
"In the Eye of the Beholder“, DARB 1718, Egyptian Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt
2008
"Red Line - IngridMwangiRobertHutter, 20 video works“, Pixel-Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"Along the Horizon“, Galleria Il Trifoglio Nero, Genova, Italy
2007
"IngridMwangiRobertHutter. Select Videos“, The Rotunda Gallery, New York, USA
2006
"Man of War“, Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Germany
"Trophies“, Kunstverein Wolfenbüttel, Germany
"Collective Desires", Galerie Les filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
2005
"Beauty/beast", Wella Museum, Darmstadt, Germany
"Intimate Distance", Kunsthalle Lophem, Belgium
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
"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
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
"Time is Love. 3", Werk-Raum, Berlin, Germany 30. April - 02. Mai
"13ª Muestra de cine Realizado por Mujeres", Centre d´Histoire, Zaragoza, Spain, 11. March - 20.March
"Caperucita ha crecido ", Galeria Antonia Puyo, Zaragoza, Spain, 18. March - 10. April
"A collective diary. An African contemporary journey", Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel 09 Januar - 06 April
2009
research year
"GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words“, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgien 04 Dezember - 14 March
"truestories.truesuccess", Freies Museum Berlin, Germany
"Hellwach gegenwärtig", Ausblicke auf die Sammlung Marta MARTa Herford, Germany
"Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009“, Museum for Modern Art, Arnheim, Netherlands
"The Ornamental Body“, Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium
"Hespérides II. Performances", Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
"All That Is Solid Melts into Air", MuHKA, Mechelen, Belgium
"BAMAKO 7th African Photography Meeting. In the city and beyond", Contemporary Cultural Center of Barcelona, Spain
"Urban scenographies", Residency with the Joubert Park Project and ScU2 Collective, Johannesburg, South Africa
2008
”11th International Cairo Biennale“, Cairo, Egypt
"Transnational Convergences in African Digital Art”, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
”Intervened Nature. Thoughts on Nature, Environment and New Technologies“, Espacio Inciarte, Seville, Spain
”Dwelling Place. Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition“, Hong-Gah Museum , Taipei City, Taiwan
”VideoZone 3. The 3rd International Video-Art Biennial in Israel", Tel Aviv, Israel
”El Juego Africano de lo Contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo UNION FENOSA, A Coruña, Spain
”Amnesia. Imagining Africa without the Crisis of Historical & Cultural Memory“, Nairobi Arts Trust / Centre for contemporary Art of East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
"Wandering. Art Taipei 2008 Year Project – Art & Tech", Taipei World Trade Center, Taiwan
"Old News 4“, Midway, Minneapolis, USA
”Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation. Water as Metaphor for Identity", Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gaimesville, USA
"Black Womanhood: Images, Icons and Ideologies of the African Body“, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH/San Diego Museum of Art, USA
"KHOJLIVE, 1st International Performance Art/Live Art Festival in New Delhi", Khoj, New Delhi, India
2007
"GOTH. Reality of the Departed World", Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
"MASK“, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
"Tapping Currents. Contemporary Arfican Art and the Diaspora", The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
"FACADES“, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA
"7e Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie de Bamako 2003. Dans la ville et au-delà“, Bamako, Mali
"52nd Venice Biennale. Check List", Arsenale Artiglierie, Venice, Italy
"Invention of Memory“, Saint-Denis, Reunion Island
"30 et presque-songes", Antananarivo, Madagascar
"Biennale d‘art contemporaine de Melle 2007. Eau, air, terre, la sagesse du jardinier", Melle, France
"Le corps. métamorphoses et identité", exhibition during the 18th Festival Couleur Cafe at ’Tour et Taxis‘, Brussels, Belgium
"Balance! Kunst im Heiligendamm", Bad Doberan, Germany
"Global Feminism", Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
"My Vision”, ZEPHYR and rem, Mannheim, Germany
"Cape 07", Cape Town, South Africa
"African Spots”, Evangelische Stadtakademie Frankfurt, Germany
"Luanda Triennial", Luanda, Angola
2006
"Fenenin El-Rahhal. Nomadic Artists", working artists’ summit, Western Desert and Cairo, Egypt
"Crossing the Screen", imai – inter media art institute at NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Confini“, MAN_Museo d‘Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sardegna, Italy
"Afrique-Europe : rêves croisés“, Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels, Belgium
“The International Festival of Video Art of Valencia“, Valencia, Spain
“After cage - 24 collections in motion / artists interventions”, museums in Aachen, Liège, Hasselt, Maastricht, Netherlands
“1st ACP Festival“, Santo Domingo, Dominican Repbublic
”Shift…Centre…/performance creation”, L’animal a l’esquena, Celrá, Spain
”Mankind. The Story of a Wound“, Saint-Peter‘s Church, Leuven, Belgium
"Art & life, TUNG BUNG et MELENTANE", Växjö Kunsthalle, Sweden
"SD Observatorio", Institute Valencià d‘Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
“Sweet Taboos - a Mini Tirana Biennale in New York”, apexart, New York, USA
"Ultra Peau", Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
"DAK'ART Biennale of African Contemporary Art. Afrique: entendus, sous-entendus, malentendus", Dakar, Senegal
"Looking Both Ways. Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora", Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, USA
“I Love You Positive or Negative”, Fondation Nationale des arts graphiques et plastiques,Paris, France
"2006 Contemporary Commonwealth", Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, Australia
"Me, Myself and I: Artist Self-Portraits from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection"Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,USA
"Access / Denied. Big River 3, International Artists' Workshop", Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad, West Indies
"Cross-Currents in Recent Video Installation. Water as Metaphor for Identity", Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, USA
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
"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 / 2006 Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan / Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden / 2007 Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
"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 profanes", 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 / 2006 Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Housten, Texas, 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
2000
"Blickwechsel. Afrikanische Videokunst", ifa-Galerie, Bonn/ Stuttgart /2001 ifa-Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Transmediale", Podewil, Berlin, Germany
"Letzte Nacht Erste Nacht" Galerie der Künstler, Munich, Germany
"Clan Comunication" German Pavillon, Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany
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
TEACHING
2009
Video art workshops at GirlsGoMovie, Short Film Festival for Girls and Young Women, Mannheim, Germany
2007
Video art workshop at Amakula Kampala Internationlal Film Festival, Uganda
2004 - 2005
Video art workshops at Goethe Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
2004
Artistic advisor for a Media (Art) Pedagogical Project at the Edith-Ruß-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany
2003
Guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, Germany
Performance art workshop at the Tshwane University of Technology, Department of fine and applied arts, Pretoria, South Africa
2001 - 2004
Lecturer at the Akademie für Bildende Künste der Johannes Gutenberg- Universität Mainz, Germany
1997 - 2003
Lecturer at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar, Saarbrücken, Germany
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 sec.
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
