Ingo Baumgarten
Ingo Baumgarten
Hannover, b. 1964

Hannover, b. 1964
Born in Hanover in 1964, Baumgarten studied at the “Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe” and the “École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris”, later receiving his MFA from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1999. Since 2008, he has served as professor in the Department of Painting at Hongik University, establishing his practice in Seoul. His sustained artistic concern has been the hybridity of architecture and lived experience within urban neighborhoods. When he first visited Seoul in 1993, the dense vistas of red-brick and concrete houses climbing the hillsides struck him as at once unfamiliar and compelling. He has since focused on the hybrid landscapes born of the encounter between Western architectural order and Korean sensibilities of habitation, articulating them through his visual idiom.
1999
Masters in Fine Arts, painting (MFA) Tokyo National University for Arts and Music, Japan
1993
Institute for Higher Studies in Visual Arts (Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques), Paris, France
1992
State exam (degree on MA level), National Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany
Education
2007
Support of the Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate for exhibition-project in the Kaoyuan Art Center, Taiwan
Award
2025
<SEEN SCENE> CDA, Seoul, South Korea
2023
<Compromises> Imsoobin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2022
<4PM> Projectspace MIUM, Seoul, South Korea
Solo Exhibition
2019
“Migrant Bird artist residence program” of Wuhan Creative Capital two month residency in Wuhan, China
2017
“Migrant Bird artist residence program” of Wuhan Creative Capital two month residency in Wuhan, China
2005
Six month residency in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, Germany
Residency