Ingrid Mwangi Explained

Ingrid Mwangi
Birth Place:Nairobi, Kenya
Alma Mater:Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar
Spouse:Robert Hutter
Children:4

Ingrid Mwangi (born 1975) is a German artist, of Kenyan-German descent. She works with photography, sculpture and in multimedia, performance, and installation art. In 2005, she co-founded Mwangi Hutter.

Early life and education

Ingrid Njeri Mwangi was born in 1975 in Nairobi, Kenya to a German mother and a Kenyan father.[1] She moved to Germany at the age of 15. She attended Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany, from 1996–2002.[2]

Career

Mwangi works and lives in Berlin, Germany with her husband and collaborator Robert Hutter.[3] They have four children.[4]

Mwangi's work is concerned with social conventions and identity. She participated in the 2007 Brooklyn Museum exhibition Global Feminisms. Her 2001 series of photographs, Static Drift, was included. The work makes use of images evoking national and racial identities projected onto her body.[5] Mwangi's 2000 work Neger Don't Call Me features photographs of her face covered with masks made from her dreadlocks.[6]

Mwangi Hutter

In 2005, she and her husband Robert Hutter merged their biographies and names to form one artist, Mwangi Hutter.[7] As a creative strategy to resist fixed notions of identity based upon gender, race, and cultural backgrounds, Mwangi Hutter strategically merged names and biographies to become one artist. They consciously use themselves as the sounding board to reflect on changing societal realities, creating an aesthetics of self-knowledge and interrelationship. Mwangi Hutter reflect on the subjects of border-crossing and finding identity, which both can be understood in a political, as well as a very personal, intimate sense. Their works can be seen as a vision of unification and the pacification of contrasts: female-male, African-European, black-white and the borders separating you and me.[8]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

External links

Book chapter about Mwangi Hutter: by BM Van Hoesen in

"German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies",[9] 2023

Notes and References

  1. Web site: "Chameleon," Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter. Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. October 2013. 2014-07-31. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304082727/http://museum.spelman.edu/object-of-the-month/chameleon-ingrid-mwangi-robert-hutter-september-2013/. dead.
  2. Web site: Mwangi. Ingrid. Artist Profiles: Ingrid Mwangi. March 23, 2019. National Museum of Women in the Arts.
  3. Web site: Ingrid Mwangi with Robert Hutter. dead. Australian Centre for the Moving Image. 30 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20160305013614/http://www.acmi.net.au/2006/artists/acmi/mawangiandhutter.html. 5 March 2016.
  4. News: Glinkowska. Aneta. 29 January 2008. Creating a Myth: Conversation with IngridMwangiRobertHutter. Tokyo Art Beat.
  5. Book: Kampen. Natalie Boymel. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. 2008. Oxford University Press. Oxford [England]. 978-0-19-514890-9. 149.
  6. Web site: Gustafson. J. Rachel. Artist Spotlight: The Collaboration of Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter. The National Museum of Women in the Arts. July 8, 2014. July 31, 2014. August 4, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140804171057/http://broadstrokes.org/2014/07/08/artist-spotlight-the-collaboration-of-ingrid-mwangi-and-robert-hutter/. dead.
  7. Web site: Artist Talk: Mwangi Hutter. National Museum of Women in the Arts. 30 July 2014.
  8. Web site: Mwangi Hutter. Mwangi Hutter. 23 March 2019.
  9. Book: Van Hoesen . BM . German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies . 2023 . Bloomsbury.

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