ARTFORM
Photography
GUIDING INTERESTS
Candida Höfer is internationally well-known for her photographs of interior public spaces in absence of the public. Her pictures of museums, libraries, schools, zoos, etc. are of an abstract timelessness and open up a perspective that transcends the spaces‘ functionality.
QUOTE
“I take photos in public and semi-public spaces from different eras. They are spaces that are accessible to everyone. They are places of encounter, communication, knowledge, relaxation and recreation. There are spas, hotels, waiting rooms, museums, libraries, universities, banks, churches and, for some years now, zoological gardens. All rooms have a task, and the things in the rooms usually also have a task.” art-in.de Candida Höfer, accessed on 29.10.2020
EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2020 | Gladbeck.de | Neue Galerie Gladbeck
2015 | London.uk | Ben Brown Fine Arts
2015 | New York.us | Sean Kelly Gallery
2012 | Berlin.de | Haus der Kulturen der Welt
2011 | Baltimore.us | Baltimore Museum of Art
2010 | Kiel.de | Kunsthalle Kiel
2009 | Karlsruhe.de| ZKM
2003 | Venice.it | 50. Biennale
2002 | Kassel.de | documenta11
AWARDS
2015 | Cologne-Fine-Arts-Award
2015 | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 2007| Art Award Finkenwerder
FORMATION
1997 | Karlsruhe.de | Professor of Photography
1973 | Düsseldorf.de | Student of Hilla and Bernd Becher at the Art Academy
1968 | Cologne.de | Freelance Photographer
1964 | Cologne.de | Student at Werkschule
1963 | Cologne.de | Trainee in Photo Studio
BIO
Grew up and lives in Cologne.de
1944 | Born in Eberswalde.de
Trailer on Sense of Space, a Film by Ralph Goertz about Candida Höfer
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LINKS
Deutsche Börse.de: Candida Höfer
Wikiwand: Candida Höfer
Galerie Gladbeck: Candida Höfer
FEATURED IMAGE
Candida Höfer, Real Gabinete Português de Leitura Rio de Janeiro IV 2005
© Candida Höfer, Köln / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
accessed on Galerie Gladbeck, 29.10.2020
