Angela Hampel was born in Räckelwitz (Saxony) in 1956. She studied at the Academy of Art in Dresden from 1977 to 1982. From 1984 she ran studios in Dresden and East Berlin. In 1989 she was a co-founder of the Dresdner Sezession 89. In 1990 she received the Marianne Werefkin Prize of the Association of Berlin Women Artists and in 1998 an exchange scholarship from the Ohio Arts Council in Cleveland (USA). Hampel lives and works in Dresden and Berlin.