Birgit Wenninghoff

1988 – 1994 // Training and studies in business administration, Administrative and Business Academy
1994 // Graduate degree in business administration (VWA)
1994 – 2000 // Strategic controlling/marketing consultant
2001 – 2010 // Studies at Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Department of Design, Product Design program with a focus on porcelain, ceramics and glass design
2010 // Diploma in product design, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, graduated with distinction
since 2010 // freelance artistic work and material development and research in the field of glass
2011 – 2013 // Studies in Fine Arts (Master of Fine Arts) with a focus on sculpture and installation at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences in Alfter near Bonn
2013 // Master of Fine Arts, Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences, graduated with distinction
since 2016 // Artistic associate in the Department of Fine Arts at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
since 2023 // Doctorate in Artistic Research in the PhD program at the University of Art and Design Linz, Linz/Austria
since 2024 // Lecturer for Special Tasks in the Department of Fine Arts at Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences

Exhibitions (selection)

2024
“Birgit Wenninghoff and Panka Chirer-Geyer”, Raum für Kunst und Natur – Galerie Cornelia Genschow, Bonn (solo exhibition)
“Becoming Mycelial” – KH7 Artspace, Aarhus/Denmark (group exhibition)
2023
“New gallery program”, Raum für Kunst und Natur – Galerie Cornelia Genschow, Bonn (group exhibition)
2022
“German Caviar – The Photographic Collection”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (group exhibition)
“Eigenfragment” Kunstverein “Kunst und Krefeld” – Alte Post, Krefeld (solo exhibition)
2021
“d r i f t”, Künstlerforum Bonn, exhibition on the occasion of the presentation of the Gabriele Vossebein Prize and the Graphic Arts Prize of GEDOK Bonn, Bonn (solo exhibition)
“The Nature of Wishes”, Stadtmuseum Hüfingen, with Panka Chirer-Geyer, Hüfingen (group exhibition)
2020
“sense – cut – fill – compose”, Kurfürstliches Gärtnerhaus Bonn, Bonn (solo exhibition)
2018
“Injection and Reflection”, Art Museum of Sichuan University, Chengdu/China, catalog (group exhibition) “Fragile”, Bonn Bad Godesberg (group exhibition)
“Best of”, Glass Museum Immenhausen (group exhibition)
“Art Route Ehrenfeld”, Atelier Catherine Ollier, Cologne (solo exhibition)
2017 
“RE-VISION 817”, Kunstverein Villingen Schwenningen, Villingen, catalog (group exhibition)
“brand”, Kunstforum Eifel, Schleiden (group exhibition)
“spectrum”, S.Y.L.A.NTENHEIM, Bonn (solo exhibition)
2016 
“Contained Emptiness”, Museum Folkwang, Essen, brochure (group exhibition)
“Bildstörung”, Krefeld Art Association, guest artist with Prof. Gerhard Hahn
“White as Material and Metaphor”, Kunstforum Eifel, Schleiden (group exhibition)
“Body 2.0”, Museum Fabry, Hilden, catalog (group exhibition)
Atelier Catherine Ollier, Open Studios Cologne, Cologne (group exhibition)
2015 
“manu factum 2015”, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, catalog (group exhibition)
“Places of Memory”, former children’s home Cologne-Sülz, Cologne, catalog (group exhibition)
2014 
“second faces”, NASPA Ceramics Advancement Award, Wiesbaden, catalog (group exhibition)
2013 
“figurativ / the figure”, Westerwald Ceramics Museum NASPA Ceramics Advancement Award, Höhr-Grenzhausen, catalog (group exhibition)
“juxtapositions”, Künstlerforum Bonn, Bonn (group exhibition)
“Art in Focus – a Palestinian-German encounter of art students and artists”, Women’s Museum, Bonn, catalog (group exhibition)
“Wunderkammer”,  galerie.bruehl, Brühl, with Panka Chirer-Geyer (solo exhibition)
2012 
“Immenhausen Glass Prize”, Glass Museum Immenhausen, catalog (group exhibition)
Prison Museum of Al Quds University, Abu Dis / Palestine (group exhibition)
2011 
“Vessels – not only made of glass”, Glass Museum Immenhausen (group exhibition) 
“manu factum 2011”, District Museum Zons, catalog (group exhibition)
2010 
“Design Diplomas”, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Krefeld (group exhibition)
“Counterparts”, galerie.bruehl, Brühl (solo exhibition)
2009 
“Immenhausen Glass Prize”, Glass Museum Immenhausen, catalog (group exhibition)
“Friend Heiner”, galerie.bruehl, Brühl (solo exhibition)
2008 
“Kulttuuri”, Fabrik Heeder, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences and University of Art and Design Helsinki, Krefeld, catalog (group exhibition)
“Pictures under Water”, Galerie Atelier 385, Mönchengladbach (solo exhibition) 
“Building Bridges”, Galerie Jutta Idelmann, ceramic art, Gelsenkirchen (group exhibition) 
2007 
“Off Track”, Fabrik Heeder, Krefeld (group exhibition)
2005 
“°C”, Westerwald Ceramics Museum, Höhr-Grenzhausen, catalog (group exhibition)
“°C”, European Industrial Museum for Porcelain, Selb, catalog (group exhibition)

Awards and funding

2022
Funded by Erasmus+, Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Training, Linz/Austria
University of Art and Design Linz, Department/Program “Sculptural Conceptions – Ceramics”
2021
Recipient of the Gabriele Vossebein Prize of GEDOK Bonn
Recipient of the Graphic Arts Prize of GEDOK Bonn
2020
Guest artist at Raketenstation Hombroich (August 2020), together with Frieder Falk, Beate Jakob and Christiane Wien
2019
Funded by Erasmus+, Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Training, Krakow/Poland
2018
“RE-VISION 817”, Kunstverein Villingen Schwenningen, Audience Award
2017
Funded by Erasmus+, Mobility Agreement Staff Mobility For Training, Abu Dis/Palestine
2015
Nomination for the North Rhine-Westphalia State Prize for Arts and Crafts
2013
“NASPA Ceramics Advancement Award” 2013, jury commendation
2012
“Immenhausen Glass Prize“ 2012, recipient of 3rd prize
2011
Nomination for the North Rhine-Westphalia State Prize for Arts and Crafts
2009
“Immenhausen Glass Prize“ 2009, jury commendation