1931 | born in Alkmaar |
1949-1951 | gardening school, Hoorn |
1951-1952 | agricultural work in France |
1952-1956 | Institute for Research in Plant Diseases, Wageningen |
1953 | "beginning of my life as an artist" |
informal drawings and paintings |
1956-1962 | informal collages [read the section label] |
1959-1963 | white paintings [read the section label] |
1960 | wit is overdaad [= white is superabundance] |
1960-1963 | white objects |
1961-1964 | [revue] nul = 0 |
1961-1968 | Institute for Applied Biological Research in Nature, Arnhem |
1962 | random objectivations [read the section label] |
white, other editions and reprints in 1967, 1980 and 2012 |
'natura artis magistra', first sound work |
participated in 'NUL', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
1964 | revue integration |
1965 | first experiments with language |
'there are no contradictions' |
1967 | travels to Eastern Europe and Russia |
1968 | 'argumentstellen' |
1969 | travels to Algeria, Sahara, Tunisia and Turkey |
first psychedelic experiences |
'die lust zur zerstörung ist zugleich eine schaffende lust' |
'what is rational?' |
1970 | travels to Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India and the Seychelles |
in Eschenau |
the real works [read the section label] |
1971 | travels to Southern India and Ceylon |
susanne |
1972 | 'my poetry is the world' |
chance and change [more information] |
experiments with film and photography |
1973 | travels to Morocco, Rio de Oro, Mauretania and Senegal |
'a random sample of the seeings of my beings' |
chance fields |
1974 | travels to Nepal, India, Thailand and Laos |
eschenau summer & temporary travelling press publications |
'to be all ways to be' |
1975 | poésie actuelle |
'here & everywhere' |
'exposition complète de luang-prabang' |
the poet in his poetry |
1976 | travels to India |
'this & no thing' |
1976-1978 | documents of a stream |
1978-2019 | 'the earth museum' |
1978 | travels to Sikkim |
1979 | film notes |
16 dm² |
das grosse rasenstück [read the section label] |
1980 | 'werke 1954-1980', Groninger Museum |
'gestern nicht kunst angefangen' |
1981-1982 | long stay on La Gomera |
1982 | 'here' herman de vries declares La Gomera as a work of art |
les très riches heures de herman de vries |
travels to Morocco |
1982-1989 | natural relations [more information] |
1983 | film and publication 'belladonna' |
1983 to present | from earth [read the section label] |
1984 | mind moving |
'die marokkanische sammlung' |
travels to Senegal |
1985-86 | scottish diary, journal [read the section label] |
1986-2018 | die wiese | the meadow [with slideshow] |
1989 | das verschlossene paradies |
'erfahrungsfelder' |
human life |
1990 (2012) | land consolidation project Weerselo-Dulder [with slideshow] |
1991-1995 | integration. journal for mind-moving plants and culture |
le témoin |
1992 | 'terre, vie et poésie', Mouans-Sartoux |
'the real works', Edinburgh |
'remember gustav theodor fechner' |
1993 | botanical works |
'ambulo ergo sum' |
sanctuary Stuttgart [with slideshow] |
1995 | 'physics & metaphysics are one' |
1995-1997 | tuindorpcollecties tilburg [with slideshow] |
1996 | 'this' |
1996-2007 | 'mesa' |
1997 | sanctuary Münster [with slideshow] |
1997-1998 | Watergoed, Weerribben (Overijssel) |
1997-2008 (2011) | 'trees museum', Wateringse Veld, The Hague [with slideshow] |
1998 | Oeuvre Award presented by the Netherlands Foundation for Fine Arts, Design and Architecture |
1999 | Digne-les-Bains |
1999-2001 | sanctuary zeewolde, Zeewolde (Woldstrand/Nuldernauw) |
1999-2003 | 'bois sacré' and 'sanctuaire de roche rousse', Digne-les-Bains [with slideshow] |
2001-2012 | 'traces & points' in Digne-les-Bains |
2001 | 'philosophische bemerkungen' |
2002 | 'wynfrith me caesit - herman me recreavit', Düsseldorf |
'different & identic', Lausanne |
2003-2005 | 'sacred space', created for the State of Sabotage territory in Baldrockistan (Australia) |
2004-2005 | 'les fenêtres', in the Vallon de Descoure, Digne-les-Bains |
2006 | 'spuren' in the Steigerwald [with slideshow] [app available] |
2007-2010 | steigerwald cosmology |
2008 | 'bomenmuseum = tree museum, Wateringseveld, The Hague [with slideshow] |
2009 | 'unity', Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo |
'all this here', Schloss Moyland and Kunsthalle Schweinfurt (2010) |
2010 | 'es ist da', Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin |
2010-2011 | 'gedenkstätte zwangsarbeiter schweinfurt', Schweinfurt/Oberndorf |
2011 | 'i am', Kunstvereniging Diepenheim |
2012-2024 | three gardens for Diepenheim [with slideshow] |
2013 | 'im winter auf dem grossen knetzberg • ein journal' |
2014 | 'all' and 'no thing', Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Ketelfactory, Schiedam |
the water lilies, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim [with slideshow] |
from the laguna of venice - a journal |
'ZERO. Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-1960s', Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
'ZERO. Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, Gropius Bau, Berlin |
2015 | 'ZERO. Let us Explore the Stars', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
herman de vries represented with 'to be all ways to be' The Netherlands at the Biennale Arte 2015, Venice |
sanctuary natura mater, Lazaretto Vecchio, Venice |
'basic values', Erasmus Huis, Jakarta. The exhibition travelled to Amsterdam and Sittard |
2016 | 'sculptures trouvés', Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg |
2014-2017 | 'le sommet des philosophes', project as part of the 'traces project' around Digne-les-Bains (Villard des Dourbes) |
2017 | sanctuary for HEART, Herning/DK |
'chance & change', MUSAC, Léon (SP) |
2019 | 'herman de vries. voor jullie voeten', Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar |
'herman de vries – all all all : werke 1957–2019', Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg. Exhibition to accompany the awarding of the Gerhard-Altenbourg-Preis 2019 |
2020 | 'herman de vries. how green is the grass?', Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
2021 | 'sanctuarium eschenau', first sanctuarium in a private collection |
2023 | 'sanctuary 'ödland', Fabrikschleichach (Steigerwald) |