Wolfgang Laib was born in Metzingen in 1950. He lives and works in a small village in southern Germany, in South India and New York. 

Wolfgang Laib's work is profoundly connected to experiences in India and Southeast Asia, which first began when traveling with his family as a young teenager. Wolfgang Laib's materials and working process both demonstrate a singular simplicity, purity and calm concentration.

His work is characterised less by innovation or formal development than by strict continuity: regular series of repeated processes, collecting and utilising the same basic essentials – Natural substances such as milk, pollen, rice, beeswax and marble – are designed to enhance awareness of the transience of phenomena, and to encourage the mental quest for serenity and closeness to the transcendental. The artist gives voice to the spiritual concept of infinity through a serial repetition typical of Indian rituals to which he is profoundly linked, transforming time into an eternal return to which he gives form through an essential symbolism that breaks down the boundaries of space. Post-minimalist structures are blended with archetypal forms, combining Western and extra-Western culture, harmonizing ideas of rationality with reflections on eternal themes. What amazes and fascinates is the ability to approach an almost spiritual dimension without rhetoric, without blunting the rigor of research.