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.

In 1999 he visited the Lofoten, set up a provisional studio in Reine in a rorbu and painted the view over the harbor to the mountain range and the Moskstraumen.

[6] In 2001 he married Annette Kühl and they both spent a year in the South Seas: Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji, Vanuatu.

[7] Travels followed to Chile, where he painted the Picture cycle Landscapes of the End of the World (2005)[8] in Tierra del Fuego and circumnavigated Cape Horn on board of a sailing yacht (2009).

[16] These were followed by picture cycles such as Landschaften am Ende der Welt (2005)[8] and Das Haus am Watt (House on the Mudflats) (2015).

[17] Since 1986 he has been making sculptures in clay and plaster based on his drawings on the subject of architecture fantasies, one of them was cast in bronze in the art foundry Hermann Noack in 1988.

It served as a model for an accessible, unfinished and temporary architectural sculpture The Eighth Day on the Obermarkt in Görlitz (1996) as well as for several casts in plaster, acrystal and zellan.

An enlarged version of the Architecture Sculpture of 1988 was produced in 2009 (on a scale of 5: 1) and shown in the exhibition Art on the Beach in Rantum on Sylt.

In 2010 in Keitum on Sylt he created together with Tomulopa Deko from Papua New Guinea two carved and colored sculptures Wedding Chairs in the form of Kundu drums.