Wolfgang Aichner graduated in Fine Arts at the University of East London. Amongst other awards, he has received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, and he has taught at three universities. Besides developing further his individual work, in 2005 he founded the partnership GÆG (global aesthetic genetics), with the Munich based Artist Thomas Huber. Aichner lives and works as a freelancing artist in Munich.