Ingrid Hertfelder

Ingrid Hertfelder is a German artist, working at the intersection of photography and spatial perception, informed by a transdisciplinary background in music and the visual arts.

Her practice develops an expanded notion of landscape—not as a fixed geography, but as a perceptual and relational condition. Fragments, bodies, and surfaces become landscapes when shaped through processes of attention, perception, memory, and projection.

"Beyond the surface life begins" forms the conceptual axis of her work. The surface is not an endpoint, but a threshold: a site where interior and exterior, presence and withdrawal, visibility and opacity continuously negotiate.

Her images do not represent reality; they examine how it comes into being. Human existence appears not as separate from nature, but as entangled within its temporal and material conditions.

Music informs her visual language structurally rather than metaphorically. Rhythm, suspension, and resonance operate as compositional forces, shaping perception rather than illustrating content. Influenced by an ongoing engagement with contemplative philosophy, Hertfelder’s work articulates states of attention rather than narrative. Observation becomes a mode of thinking; stillness becomes a...

Master Student of Frank Stewart (Cooper Union, NYC) 2005
Savannah College of Art & Design, BFA Photography, 2008

- AURA, Simone Klein Showroom Fotografie, 2026
- FRAGMENTS, CMS Stuttgart, 2025
- GLOOMY SUNDAY, group show, König Galerie,
Mexico City, 2024
- HAND-WERK, Art in Architecture, Code-n, Stuttgart, 2024
- DAS FÜNFTE ELEMENT, Galerie Wiedman,
Stuttgart, 2023 / 2024
- ROOTS, private residence / collection, Stuttgart, 2023
- BUSINESS PARK, Code-n, Stuttgart, 2022
- NADA BRAHMA - The World is Sound, Code-n, Stuttgart, 2022
- Artist in Residence, Code-n, Stuttgart, 2022
- NADA BRAHMA - The World is Sound, Ministry of the Interior,
Baden-Württemberg
- NADA BRAHMA - The World is Sound, Prolab,
Stuttgart, 2021 / 2022
- ARTIST SCHOLARSHIP (STIPENDIUM FÜR KÜNSTLERINNEN
UND KÜNSTLER) des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung
und Kunst des Landes Baden-Württemberg, 2021
- BRUTAL SCHÖN, Stadtverwaltung Aalen, Art on Building,
Aalen, 2021
- KREATIVE KÖPFE, Gmünder Kunstverein,
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2021
- BOULEVARD DER PARTNERSTÄDTE, Art in Public Spaces,,
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2021
- TRANSFORMATION, Art in Architecture, Kulturbahnhof,
Stadtverwaltung Aalen, 2020
- FACES OF FKK, Prediger Innenhof, Museum im Prediger,
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2020
- KREATIVE KÖPFE, Art in Architecture, Hotel am Remspark,
Schwäbisch Gmünd, 202...