Herbert W. H. Hundrich
Born in 1951 in Wittmund, Germany
Career Stages
Since 1981: freelance artist
1986–2007: France (Paris, Bourgogne, Brittany), Spain (Sineu, Mallorca)
Since 2007: main studio in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany
Long-term projects in the USA, India, Nepal, Ladakh, and the Republic of Seychelles
Current and Upcoming Projects
• 2025: THE RIVER, The Monument / Blog – The Journey
• 2025: THE RIVER, Documentation Center, former Stasi Detention Center + Kunsthalle Rostock,
• 2024: Invitation to the 61st Biennale di Venezia, European Cultural Centre, Italy (for 2026)
• 2024: Dedicated to the People, Installation, Künstlerbund MV, St. Jacobi, Stralsund, Germany
• 2024: Breaking News, Israel, Intervention/Installation, St. Jacobi, Stralsund, Germany
Selected Major Projects (since 2021)
• 2023: Poetry of the Moment, Kunstraum St. Georgen, Wismar, Germany
• 2023: the panic room, Film, Biennale of Architecture, Venice (Itsliquid Group)
• 2022: the panic room, Video/Performance, 59th Venice Biennale of Art
• 2022: The Wall – Dialogue Hong Kong + Germany, Somos Arts Berlin
• 2021: the ocean, 17th Venice Architecture Biennale
Important Exhibitions and Projects (Selected Earlier Works)
• 2019: Invitation to WATER EVENT, Yoko Ono, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany
• 2018: iLlegal housings, Venice Architecture Biennal, Italy
• 2014: the thin red line, Art Competition, Federal Ministry of Defense, Germany
• 2001–2005: Art loans to the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Embassy in Madrid, Spain
• 2000: EXPO 2000, German Pavilion, Norddeutsche Landesbank, Germany
• 1993: DER OZEAN, Ecumenical Church Project, Marktkirche Hannover, Germany
• 1990: TERR’T’IELL, Gesamtkunstwerk, Brandenburg Cathedral (GDR)
Awards and Residencies (Selected)
• 1985: Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
• 1986: MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H., USA
• 1994: DER OZEAN included in Thieme-Becker, Encyclopedia of Art from Antiquity to the Present, Volume VI, E.A. Seemann Verlag Leipzig, Germany
• 2018–2023: Artist in Residence, Palmyra Sculpture Garden, Islas Baleares, Spain
Collections (Selected)
• John Flaxman Library, Art Institute of Chicago
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Sprengel Museum Hannover
• Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel
• Stiftung Niedersachsen, Land Niedersachsen
• Krupp Foundation, Essen
• Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover/Hamburg
• Landesbank Saar
Land Art (Selected)
• 2000: AQUA I – 13 days water, Esporles, Mallorca, Spain
• 1995: The Inner Islands, Republic of Seychelles
• 1991: The Mountain Path, Ladakh, India
• 1986: MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H., USA
Public Projects and Installations (Selected)
• 2022: only the dead, Light Installation, Denkmal Kultur Mestlin, Germany
• 2021: the ocean begins under your feet, Palmyra Sculpture Garden, Spain
• 2019: Sculpture Garden Installation, Palmyra Sculpture Parc, Spain
• 2014: II. Moon, Schlosspark Pansevitz, Rügen, Germany
• 1997: 1+1=3 Hannover Airport Corporation / City of Hannover, Germany
Filmography (Selected)
• 2025: THE RIVER, Performance with Lydia Klammer, music by Theo Jörgensmann
• 2023: The days after the day we started counting the days, Kunstraum St. Georgen, Wismar
Music: Theo Jörgensmann, Ensemble of the Karl Orff Music School, Northwest Mecklenburg
Ukrainian-German cast: Yevheniia Hrahian, Kateryna Kulikova, Tetiana Kolisnychenko, Sofia
Nadenenko, Iryna Shylinhovska, Miro Zahra, Bianca Aenne Gablen, Runner: Burkhard Schlott
• 2022: the panicroom, Experimental Film, music: Alex Souris
• 1992: AL BAHR, Dance and Art Project, Turkey – Dance: Catherine Pouzet, Poetry: Mohamed Kacimi
• 1990: TEMPS, Experimental Film, rated “valuable” by the German Film Evaluation Board
Dance/Choreography: Catherine Pouzet, Music: Kent Carter
Links to Selected Films
• THE RIVER (2025) https://youtu.be/D2OtQJAhtus
• DER FLUSS (2025) https://youtu.be/XgmDn4QOdvA
• the days after the day we started counting the days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Zmhk0fboA
• the panicroom (2022) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYJFmgAQ0OY
• TEMPS – Transformation I (1988) https://hundrich.de/temps-transformation-i