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.
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 Hutteredit
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]
Exhibitionsedit
Solo exhibitionsedit
2002: Ingrid Mwangi - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2006: Man of War - Video, Installation, Fotografie - Kunstverein Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, Germany
2007: IngridMwangiRobertHutter: Select Videos, 2006-2007 - BRIC Rotunda Gallery, New York City, New York, United States
2007: MASK - James Cohan Gallery, New York City, New York, United States
2007: GOTH - Reality of the Departed World - Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan
2008: IngridMwangiRobertHutter - Along the Horizon - Galleria Il Trifoglio Nero, Genoa, Italy
2009: IngridMwangiRobertHutter: Masked - Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States
2009: In the Eye of the Beholder - Darb 1718 Contemporary Art and Culture Center, Cairo, Egypt
2013: Mwangi Hutter - Single Entities / @ Salon - ALEXANDER OCHS GALLERIES BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin, China
Referencesedit
^""Chameleon," Ingrid Mwangi Robert Hutter". Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. October 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-07-31.
^Mwangi, Ingrid. "Artist Profiles: Ingrid Mwangi". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved March 23, 2019.
^Glinkowska, Aneta (29 January 2008). "Creating a Myth: Conversation with IngridMwangiRobertHutter". Tokyo Art Beat.
^Kampen, Natalie Boymel (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford [England]: Oxford University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-19-514890-9.
^Gustafson, J. Rachel (July 8, 2014). "Artist Spotlight: The Collaboration of Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter". The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Archived from the original on August 4, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014.
^"Artist Talk: Mwangi Hutter". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
^"Mwangi Hutter". Mwangi Hutter. Retrieved 23 March 2019.