Willi Wagner graduated in architecture and art from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He has been invited as a guest critic and lecturer at several institutions, including Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio. Since 2018, he has lived and worked in Munich. Since 2024, he has been a research associate at the Chair of Johanna Meyer-Grohbrügge at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 2025, together with Maribel A Sengewald, he founded the studio SENGEWALD WAGNER in Munich.