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detouring
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unfamiliar
interfaces.

Ingmar König
Hamburg ~ Rotterdam
Currently working on

Detourist
Steam Page

The Weather Has Been Cancelled
Game Development, 3D Modelling, Animation

Personalia

Ingmar König, 1988
Hamburg ~ Rotterdam

Master of Interior Architecture
Piet Zwart Institute
(cum laude)

Bachelor of Fine Arts
Utrecht University of the Arts
(with honours)

About

My work is examining human shortcomings in their environmental perception, for this I create uncanny spaces in-between interiors and interfaces, that function as an environment for detourism.

Selection

collaborations | Jasmijn Visser '22-'25 | Cultural Climate Models '23-'25 |

teaching | WDKA - Lecturer Advertising & Beyond '22-'25 |

awards | Finalist Creative Hack Award - WIRED | Alumni Research Award - MIARD |Shortlist Piet Bakker Prijs - HKU |

stipends | PRO Invest - Stroom |Jong Talent + Opdrachtgever - MondriaanFonds | Jong Talent - MondriaanFonds | Contemporary Art Fund - Outset |

solo | Stroom Ondertussen - Stroom | Contraband - Galerie Gabriel Rolt | Detourist - P///akt |

group | Under Matters - Cookies HQ Rotterdam | Loophole - Roodkapje Rotterdam | Reading Picture - Chunart Museum Shanghai China| Happy Like Yesterday - Nest The Hague | Misfit Love - Galerie Gabriel Rolt Amsterdam | On Observation and Construction - Chongqin Air China | Concept Store - Nest The Hague | Piet Bakker Prijs - AcademieGalerie Utrecht | Oktoberfest - Hotel MariaKapel Hoorn | Let There Be Light - Nest The Hague |

residencies | Freizeit Normal - Ampelhaus | Oktoberfest - Hotel MariaKapel

fairs | Art Brussels - 1 HOUR SOLO | Art Rotterdam - Represented by Galerie Gabriel Rolt | Art Rotterdam - Mondriaanfonds Prospects & Concepts | Unfair Amsterdam | Unfair x Christie's Auction |

reviews | Metropolis M - Nostalgie in een.. - George Vermeij | Metropolis M - Invest Week #5 - Bob van der Sterre | Metropolis M - Misfit Love - George Vermeij | Metropolis M - Spel/Buitenspel - Julia Steenhuisen | Metropolis M - Interne Logica - Tessa Verheul |

past projects

'25

Cultural-Climate-Models.org

Lecturer Advertising & Beyond - WdKA

'24 - '23

Under The Weather - w/ Jasmijn Visser

Phosphorus's Detour (working title) - proximity reaction based game

Cultural Climate Models (visual identity/website) w/ Jasmijn visser

Tokyo Creative Salon

'22 - '21

Finalist Creative Hack Award - WIRED Japan

MIARD Alumni Database & Infrastructure Project

Lecturer at Advertising & Beyond, Willem de Kooning Academy

'20 - '18

Master Interior Architecture (cum laude), Piet Zwart Institute

Research Award, Piet Zwart Institute

Under Matters, Cookies HQ (group)

Project Management Buildup Unfair Amsterdam; with Boris de Beijer

Loophole, Roodkapje (group)

Reading Picture, Chunart Museum Shanghai (group)

Project Management Buildup Unfair Amsterdam; with Boris de Beijer

'17

Studio visits at BFA 4th year, Utrecht School of the Arts

Review Metropolis M, Nostalgie in een lo.. by George Vermeij

Happy Like Yesterday, Nest (group)

Lecture at History,Culture&Communication, Erasmus University

Art Brussels, Plague in collaboration with Nest, The Hague

Stroom Ondertussen, Stroom (solo)

'16

Unfair Amsterdam

Metropolis M, Invest Week Interview #5,by Bob van der Sterre

Art Rotterdam, Prospects & Concepts, Mondriaan Fund

Studio visits at BFA, Utrecht School of the Arts

Christies auction with Unfair X Christies

Stipend Mondriaanfonds, werkbijdrage J T + Opdrachtgever (Nest)

'15

Contraband, Galerie Gabriel Rolt (solo)

Lecture at History,Culture&Communication, Erasmus University

Art Brussels, 1-hour solo, NL/BE 120 Minutes Project

Stipend Stroom; PRO Invest

Review Metropolis M, Misfit Love,by George Vermeij

Misfit Love, Galerie Gabriel Rolt (group)

Art Rotterdam, represented by Galerie Gabriel Rolt

'14

Stipend Mondriaanfonds, werkbijdrage Jong Talent

Unfair Amsterdam

On Observation and Construction, Chongqin Air (group)

Concept Store, Nest (group)

Freizeit Normal, Ampelhaus DE (residency)

Review Metropolis M, Spel/Buitenspel Julia Steenhuisen

'13

Detourist, P///akt (solo)

Piet Bakker Prijs (shortlist), Academie Galerie (group)

Oktoberfest, Hotel Mariakapel (group)

Incentive Award Cayacz

Let There Be Light, Nest (group)

Review Metropolis M, Interne Logica, by Tessa Verheul

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Utrecht School of the Arts

'88

Born in Amersfoort, The Netherlands