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12 Facts About Ingo Niermann

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Ingo Niermann has lived in Berlin, to the eastern part of which he allegedly moved in late 1989.

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Ingo Niermann lived in New York from 2013 to 2014, before moving to Basel, Switzerland, where he is currently based.

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Ingo Niermann has conducted interviews for German literary magazine Der Freund and contributed a series of interviews labelled Die Beste aller Welten [~ "The best of all worlds imaginable"] to the German art magazine Monopol.

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In 1999, Ingo Niermann first contributed a short story to the anthology "Mesopotamia" edited by Swiss writer Christian Kracht.

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Ingo Niermann successfully veered from this perception with his acclaimed 2003 book Minusvisionen [best translated as "Negative-only visions"; a neologism in German], published by Suhrkamp.

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Also in 2008, Ingo Niermann's take on the miscellanea wave, entitled The Curious World of Drugs and co-authored with journalist Adriano Sack was published by Plume.

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In October 2008, Ingo Niermann had his first solo exhibition as an artist entitled JOIN THE US ARMY at ZERN Gallery, Berlin.

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8.

In 2010, Ingo Niermann wrote and co-produced the documentary The Future of Art, followed by the book The Future of Art.

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In 2014, Ingo Niermann participated in the group exhibition and event series opti-Me* with the artist-run space Auto Italia South East.

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The project saw Ingo Niermann contributing research from Drill Practice, a project initiated at dOCUMTA13.

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Ingo Niermann is the co-founder of the digital publishing project Fiktion, established by German- and English-language writers in cooperation with Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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In 2016, Ingo Niermann started an ongoing art-video collaboration with filmmaker Alexa Karolinski.