Dipl. Des., M.F.A.
Birgit Wenninghoff
Artist, lecturer for sculpture, PhD candidate
Department for Fine Arts
Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, Alfter, Germany
Lives and works in Bornheim, Germany
German-based artist Birgit Wenninghoff is interested in the many ways in which life manifests itself in its interwoven and complex nature, both in general and in her artistic work. Through various processes of selection, fragmentation and recomposition, she attempts to open up a new perspective on experience. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Art and Design in Linz investigates the conditions of place perception and identity formation. This question methodologically touches on the fields of structuralism and phenomenology. Her interest in fungi is based on their ambivalent character, which is reflected both in their appearance as fragile and rapidly decaying carposomes on the earth's surface and in their uncontrollable but stable rhizome-like life underground. For some years now she has been exploring the possibilities of translating the manifestations of carposomes artistically.
Birgit Wenninghoff studied product design (Dipl. Des.) at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, specialising in ceramics, porcelain and glass design, and fine arts (M.F.A.) at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, where she now runs the ceramics workshop and teaches sculpture.
Field of research | Area of activity
Art, artistic research, structuralism, phenomenology
Keywords related to mycelial space
Material interactions, process-based art, materiality and mediality, aesthetic research
Related projects
Birgit Wenninghoff is represented by Raum für Kunst und Natur (Bonn, Germany), an art gallery and cultural space where art closely linked to natural phenomena is displayed and discussed.
Selected exhibitions
2023 Neues Galerieprogramm, Raum für Kunst und Natur – Gallery Cornelia Genschow, Bonn, Germany (group)
2022 Deutscher Kaviar – Die fotografische Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (group)
2022 Eigenfragment, Kunstverein »Kunst und Krefeld«, Germany (solo)
2021 drift, Künstlerforum Bonn, Germany (solo)
2021 Die Beschaffenheit der Wünsche, Stadtmuseum Hüfingen, Germany (with Panka Chirer-Geyer)
2020 sense–cut–fill–compose, Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus Bonn, Germany (solo)
2020 Artist in residence, Raketenstation Hombroich/Haus für Musiker, Germany (with Frieder Falk, Beate Jakob und Christiane Wien)
2018 Injection and Reflection, Art Museum of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China (group)
2017 RE-VISION 817, Kunstverein Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany (with Panka Chirer-Geyer)
2017 spectrum, S.Y.L.A.NTENHEIM, Bonn, Germany (solo)
2016 Gefasste Leere, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (group)
2016 Bildstörung, Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany (group)
2016 Transmitter, cooperation project, HS Niederrhein & Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany