Ingmar König

Currently working on

Detourist
Steam Page

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

Cultural Climate Models
www.cultural-climate-models.org

Lecturer Advertising & Beyond
Willem de Kooning Academy

Personalia

Ingmar König
1988, Amersfoort
The Netherlands

Lives and works in
Rotterdam ~ Hamburg

Master of Interior Architecture
Piet Zwart Institute
(cum laude)

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

About

My practice revolves around the examination of human shortcomings in their environmental perception. I see interiors as interfaces and interfaces as interiors. By employing detourism as a methodology—creating experiences through unexpected pathways—I aim to reveal new perspectives. Through nesting, interpolating, and zooming out, I uncover broader contexts that embrace complexity and empathy, standing in opposition to the reductionism that simplifies and polarizes.

I do not believe in producing final outcomes, but rather in an enrichment of resolution of intellectual property over time, whereby all works are drafts and experiments that contribute to this process. When my work is present in physical or digital form, it is often in temporary, context-based installations or digital platforms.

Selection

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

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

residencies | Freizeit Normal - Ampelhaus | Oktoberfest - Hotel MariaKapel

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

'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

Thanks

Janneke Hendriks, Luuk Kuipers, Lasse Groeneveld, Sandra Heemskerk, Frank Koolen, Meinke ten Have, Elise 't Hart, Kees de Klein, Zoro Feigl, Christine Bax, Jorrit Paaijmans, Jeroen van der Hulst, Dario Bongiovanni, Kim David Bots, Koen Coppens, Marcelo Rezende, Noor Sanders, Philippa Lorenzen, Olivier Otten, Daphne Heemskerk, Füsun Türetken, Lara Tolman, Selina Parr, Clément Périssé, Federico Martelli, Golnar Abassi, Natasha Marie Llorens, Ephraim Joris, Jasmijn Visser

rendering human shortcomings by detouring through unfamiliar interfaces.

rendering
human
shortcomings
by
detouring
through
unfamiliar
interfaces.