Ingo Gunther

(Germany, 1957)

Artist, journalist, teacher and researcher. He studied Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Frankfurt (1977) and Sculpture and Media at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1982) in addition to Postgraduate studies at the same institution in 1983. Scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (PS1 residence, New York), Scholarship DAAD and Kunstfonds scholarship. He was a professor at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design. Advisor to the New York Hall of Science and the Museum of Emerging Sciences and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan. Researcher at Indiana University in Bloomington.

He developed his first works on sculptural media and journalistic projects on television and the written press. He worked as a correspondent for international news media. In 1989 he started the Worldprocessor project and founded the first independent television station in Eastern Europe (Channel X, Leipzig).

He has exhibited in spaces such as Nationalgalerie Berlin 1983 and 1985; Venice Biennale, 1984; documenta, Kassel, 1987; P3 Art and Environment, Tokyo, 1990, 1992, 1996 and 1997; Ars Electronica, Linz, 1991; Belem Cultural Center, Lisbon, 1995; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1996; New Museum Weserburg Bremen, 1999; Stroom, The Hague, 1999; V2 Rotterdam, 2003; Yokohama Triennial, Japan; Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, 2005; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2006; Telefónica Foundation Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2007; Iwaki City Museum, Japan, 2009; Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011; Museum of Emerging Sciences and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, 2012-14; CCCA, Barcelona, ​​2014; Somerset House, London, 2015; Kunstverein Hannover, 2015; DOX, Prague, 2017; Hood Museum, Dartmouth, NH, 2017; 11th Taipei Biennale, 2018; Kunsthaus Zurich and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, 2019; Macau Biennale, 2021; or at the Anchorage Museum, 2022.