清影

Candida Höfer born in Eberswalde, 1944 Lives and works in Cologne  

 

EDUCATION

1964-1968 Kölner Werkschule, Cologne 

1973-1982 Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf 

 

After completing her training at the Schmölz-Huth Studio, Candida Höfer began studying under the influential photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher in 1976. Höfer's internationally recognised work has been shown at the Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Kunsthalle Berne, Berne; Museé du Louvre, Paris; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and most recently at The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Höfer has represented Germany at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003), participated at Documenta 11 (2002), and her photographs are part of major museum collections across the globe, including Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; and The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg​.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2018

In México, Museo Amparo, Puebla

 

2017

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

In México, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City

 

2016

Memory, Selected Works from The State Hermitage Museum Exhibition 2015

Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

In México, OMR, Mexico City

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

Observations, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China

 

2015

Memory, Selected Works from The State Hermitage Museum Exhibition 2015, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

On Methods, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing

Les Bourgeois de Calais a Venice, Ca’Pesaro Galleria Internazionale, Venice

Spaces of Knowledge, Galleri K, Oslo

From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY

Memory, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

 

2014

Villa Borghese, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London  Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te

Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich 

Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich 

 

2013

A Return to Italy, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London Villa Borghese, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY Düsseldorf, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

Candida Höfer per la Galleria Borghese, Galleria Borghese, Rome

Bindings, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist 

Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantua

Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

 

2012

Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg

Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Johnen Galerie, Berlin

Neue Künstlerinnenräume im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf 

Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou

Galleria Borghese, Rome

Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Dusseldorf Affinities, Artipelag, Gustavsberg