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Ingo Kühl (born 29 June 1953 in Bovenau) is a German painter, sculptor and architect.

Life


Grown up in Bovenau near Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein as a son of a policeman, Ingo Kühl attended the Theodor-Storm-Realschule in Hanerau-Hademarschen and after having trained as a carpenter and a Technical Drawer he studied Architecture at the Technical College Kiel and Architecture and Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts. Drawings influenced by Surrealism arise durind this time and he developed Architectural Fantasies. He turns towards painting, travels in Europa (first sketchbooks). 1977 followed a trip to Israel, Sinai Peninsula, 1978 he participatied in an excursion to Teheran led by Prof. Rainer Ernst, with a sojourn in Isfahan. Since 1980 he ran apart from Berlin additional studios on the North Sea peninsula Eiderstedt (until 1994), subsequently on Amrum, Nordstrand and (since 2002) on Sylt. 1982 he ran a Studio in Brooklyn, New York. 1984 he became a Member of the Chamber of Architects Berlin as "self-employed architect". Attempt to build Hermann Finsterlin's Architecture Visions. In 1987 he resigned from the Chamber of Architects. In 1988 he published the book "Luft und Wasser - Gedichte und Bilder" with Sarah Kirsch in the Steidl Verlag. First bronze casting of an Architectural Sculpture.

In 1998 he created the Image cycle „Four Seasons“, and won the 1st prize at the Johanniter hospital in Fläming, Treuenbrietzen near Berlin. In 2000 he made a trip around the world: Thailand, Laos, New Zealand, South Pacific, Peru. In 2001 he married Annette Kühl and they both spent a year in the South Pacific: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, Vanuatu. He painted South Pacific pictures. Travels followed to Chile (Picture cycle „Landscapes of the End of the World“) and Papua New Guinea (2010 and 2012). In 2019 he took part in the project "Tisch am Kliff" (Table on the Cliff): Two bronze plates each on the theme of 5000 years of Sylt history designed and assembled into a table plate by five artists, set up on the Wadden Sea in the immediate vicinity near the Sylt Museum in Keitum / Sylt.

Ingo Kühl lives in Berlin and Keitum / Sylt

Solo exhibitions

 * Figures and Formkomposits, The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1982.


 * Luft und Wasser, Nordfriesisches Museum, Nissenhaus Husum, 1988.


 * Winterreise nach Franz Schubert, Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), Haus des Rundfunks (1996) and Philharmonie, Berlin 1997.


 * Dance – Masks – Ceremonies, National Museum of Vanuatu, Port Vila, South Pacific, 2002.


 * Südseewellen, Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen Dahlem, 2004/05.


 * Macht der Natur, Museum der Stadt Bad Hersfeld, 2005.


 * The Creation / Die Schöpfung, University of Goroka, Papua New Guinea, 2010.


 * Rund um Kap Hoorn, Botschaft der Republik Chile, Berlin, 2013/14.


 * In der Nähe des Meeres, Nordfriesland Museum, Nissenhaus, Husum, 2018.

Participations

 * Villa Massimo Applications for the Rom Stipend, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig (1988) and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen / Rhein, 1991.


 * Neuerwerbungen und Bilder aus dem Bestand des Söl'ring Foriining, with Albert Aereboe, Franz Korwan among others, Sylt Museum, Keitum / Sylt 2003.


 * Felsenküste – Azoren, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, since 2018.

Museum presence

 * Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig


 * Nordfriesland Museum, Nissenhaus, Husum


 * National Museum of Vanuatu, Port Vila, Vanuatu


 * Sylt Museum, Keitum

Catalogues and books by Ingo Kühl

 * Architektur-Phantasien, Silkscreen prints, hand-coloured, texts by Curt Grützmacher, and Ingo Kühl, 1981.


 * Zeichnungen 1976–81’', exhibition catalogue, Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek of the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, No. 1–99 with Original-Drawing, 1982.


 * Nordsee-Bilder 1980–1983, No. 1–20 with an Original picture, 1983.


 * Hommage à Hermann Finsterlin. In: Exhibition catalogue Kunstimpulse II – Hommage – Künstler zu Werken von Künstlern, p. 10, Obere Galerie – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 1984.


 * Paul Scheerbart Ingo Kühl Glasarchitektur, Texts Paul Scheerbart (1914) and Curt Grützmacher (editor), with 48 Silkscreen prints by Ingo Kühl, 1988.


 * Sarah Kirsch Ingo Kühl Luft und Wasser – Neue Gedichte und Bilder’', ISBN 3-88243-096-6.


 * Winterreise – 24 Bilder zum gleichnamigen Liederzyklus von Franz Schubert – nach Gedichten von Wilhelm Müller – gemalt nach der Interpretation von Barry McDaniel, Gesang – Jonathan Alder, Klavier, Berlin 1996.


 * Seligpreisungen der Bergpredigt – coloured  Lithographs by Ingo Kühl, Berlin 1997.


 * Färöer – Bilderzyklus 15 Aquarelle · 9 Ölbilder, Berlin 1998.


 * Sea and Sky, exhibition catalogue, Galeria de Arte Vale do Lobo, Algarve, Portugal, Loulé 2002.


 * Nordsee – Südsee. Ölbilder · Arbeiten auf Papier · Tonreliefs 2002–2003, exhibition catalogue Südsee-Wellen – Bilder von Ingo Kühl at the Ethnologischen Museum, Berlin, 2004, ISBN 3-86530-001-4


 * Macht der Natur – Bilder von Ingo Kühl auf Sylt gemalt, 2005, ISBN 3-7793-1097-X


 * Landschaften am Ende der Welt – Bilder von Ingo Kühl in Patagonien und Feuerland gemalt / Paisajes del fin del mundo – Cuadros de Ingo Kühl pintados en la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego’’, Texts Antonio Skármeta and Ingo Kühl, Berlin 2006. 


 * Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte – Monografie mit Werkverzeichnis der Ölbilder 1978–2007’’, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6. 


 * Skizzenbuch Neuseeland – Südsee – Peru, 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-51-7


 * Papua New Guinea’’, Text by Ingo Kühl (German / English), 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-122-8


 * Architectural Fantasies with Texts by Heinz Spielmann, Rainer W. Ernst and Ingo Kühl and catalogues raisonné of the drawings, paintings, sculptures“ (German / English) 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-470-0 


 * Das Haus am Watt – Kampener Skizzen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-473-1


 * In der Nähe des Meeres – Monografie und Werkverzeichnis der Ölbilder 2007-2017. Ergänzungsband zur Monografie "Auf dem Weg ins Unbekannte" (2007), Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-693-3