German photographers Frank Thiel and Candida Höfer are featured in Después de todo. Fotografía en la Colección Helga de Alvear, on view at Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Madrid, as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2025. Gathering photographs that chart a century of European upheaval and renewal, the exhibition traces three historical moments—World War I, the post-1950 industrial crisis, and the fall of the Berlin Wall—to examine architecture, memory, and urban change.

Drawn from the Helga de Alvear Collection, Höfer and Thiel’s works focus on interiors, façades, and industrial sites, highlighting the tension between documentary record and constructed image in a continent that perpetually rebuilds itself.