Candida Höfer

Eberswalde, Germany, 1944.
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany.

Consecrated photographer of monumental and empty architectural spaces, the German artist studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, first, film with Ole John, then photography with Bernd Becher. Her photographs investigate the structure of public spaces and the means by which architecture can manipulate human experience. At times, her images foregrounds the excess of ornamentation of a particular place and the impact this exerts on the observer; in others, it is the dominance of geometry and its ordering principle, which often goes unnoticed by those who walk around and pass through these spaces.

Höfer’s works invite us to reflect on the sensations that these spaces produce in us, and how we are influenced by them. Her work has been shown in museums like the Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunsthalle Berne, the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Power Plant, Toronto, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. In 2002 Candida Höfer participated in documenta11 and in 2003 she represented Germany at the Venice Biennale.

Eberswalde, Germany, 1944. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

Education

1973-1982 Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany

1973-76 Cinema with Ole John

1976-82 Photography with Bernd Becher

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Candida Höfer: Fotografieren, Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

2025 Candida Höfer: Sentiments on Steps and Other Memories, Mathew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China

2024 Candida Höfer: Kontexte. Eine Dresdner Reflexion (curated by not informed), Kupferstich-Kabinett, Residenzschloss der Kunst und Wissenschaft, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany

2024 Candida Höfer: Memorias en tiempos veloces, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2024 Candida Höfer: RENASCENCE, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2024 Candida Höfer: Dresden and elsewhere, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2024 Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz-Preis 2024, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2024 Candida Höfer: Europa / America, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA

2024 Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom

2023 Candida Höfer, Böhm Chapel, Germany

2023 Candida Höfer: Epic Gaze, Macao Museum of Art, China

2022 Candida Höfer, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, United States

2022 Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein – Im Dialog mit den Sammlungen des Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein und der Hilti Art Foundation. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein und Hilti Art Foundation. Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2022 Bild und Raum: Candida Höfer im Dialog mit der Sammlung Fotografie der Kunstbibliothek. Museum für Fotografie. Berlin, Germany

2021 Libraries, Museums and A Theatre, Ben Brown Fine Arts, England

2021 Candida Höfer. Belgisches Haus. Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

2021 Candida Höfer. Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn.Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

2020 Candida Höfer in Moskau – B Mockbe, Galerie Rüdgier Schöttle, München, Germany

2020 Showing and Seeing, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, Great Britain

2020 About Structures and Colors – Sobre Estructuras y Colores, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2020 Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea

2020 Elinghtened Spaces, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China

2020 Libraries: The Return, Neue Galerie, Gladbeck, Germany

2019 About Structures and Colors, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2019 Showing and Seeing, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK

2019 In Moskau – B. Mockbe, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2019 The Large and The Small – The Still and The Moving, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Munich, Germany

2019 Candida Höfer, Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg, Germany

2019 Paris: faces des espaces, VnH Gallery, Paris, France

2019 Candida Höfer. In Mexico, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2018 Time, Places and Spaces, Dirimart Dolapdere, Dirimart Nişantaşı, Instanbul, Turkey

2018 Candida Höfer. Paris revisited, VNH Gallery, Paris, France

2018 Candida Höfer. En México, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA

2018 Spaces of Enlightenment, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2018 Candida Höfer. Elbphilharmonie 2016, UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Köln, Germany

2018 Candida Höfer. Portraits d’espaces, Rencontres d’Arles 2018, Bibliotèque Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France; Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2017 Candida Höfer, Arendt House, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2017 Diálogos contemporâneos: Candida Hofer, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil

2017 Candida Höfer: Spaces and Places, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2017 Candida Höfer. In Mexico, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico; Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico

2016 Candida Höfer. In Mexico, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2016 Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2016 Candida Höfer, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany

2016 Candida Höfer. Nach Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin, Germany

2016 Candida Höfer. The Space, The Detail, The Image, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2016 Candida Höfer. Bibliotheken, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2016 Candida Höfer. Hermitage, Multimedia Art Museum / Museum “Moscow House of Photography”, Moscow, Russia

2016 Candida Höfer. Memory, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China

2015 Candida Höfer. Memory. Ben Brown Fine Arts. London, England

2015 Candida Höfer. On Methods, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China

2015 Candida Höfer. память. Memory, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2015 Candida Höfer, From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly, New York, USA

2015 Candida Höfer. Les Bourgeois de Calais à Venise, Ca’Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy

2015 Candida Höfer. Spaces of Knowledge, Galleri K, Oslo, Noruega

2014 Candida Höfer. Heritage, The State Hermitage Museum, São Petersburgo, Rússia

2014 Candida Höfer. Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Pequim, China

2014 Candida Höfer, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokio, Japan

2014 Candida Höfer. Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza, Italy

2014 Candida Höfer, Closer, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2014 Candida Höfer, Light, Space and Order, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shangai, China

2014 Candida Höfer, Villa Borghese, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

2014 Candida Höfer. Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy

2014 Candida Höfer. Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria; Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany

2013 Candida Höfer per la Galleria Borghese, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

2013 Candida Höfer. Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast. Düsseldorf, Germany

2013 Candida Höfer. Frühe Arbeiten, Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany

2012 Luz, Linhas, Lugares, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil

2012 Studio Michael Royen, Vettelschoß, Germany

2012 Affinities/Affinitäten/Affiniteter, Artipelag Konsthall, Gustafsberg, Sweden

2012 Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012 Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2012 Neue Künstlerinnenräume im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012 Neues Museum Berlin, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2011 Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2011 Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

2011 Building Time, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2011 Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany

2011 Erinnern, Yvon Lambert Paris, Paris, France

2011 Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA

2011 Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

2011 Vorstellungen, Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany

2011 You Are Here: Architecture and Experience (with Cyprien Gaillard), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

2011 Candida Höfer/Kuehn Malvezzi at Galleria Marabini, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2010 Infinite Moments, SCAD Savannah / Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, USA

2010 Spaces of Their Own, Claustro Alto del Monasterio de San Martín Pinario, La Ciudad de la Cultura de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2010 Infinite Moments, SCAD Atlanta / ACA Gallery of SCAD, Atlanta, USA

2010 Projects: Done, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

2010 Candida Höfer in Italy. Naples and Florence, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China

2010 Paolini-Höfer, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy

2010 Philadelphia, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, Germany

2010 David Claerbout, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2010 Zoologische Gärten, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2010 Naples and Florence, Sonnabend Gallery, New York City, USA

2010 Projects: Done, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

2010 Candida Höfer /Kuehn Malvezzi, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

2010 Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy

2010 Part II: Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

2009 Candida Höfer en Florencia, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Galleria dei Medici, Florence, Italy

2009 Candida Höfer, Sonnabend gallery, New York, USA

2009 Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy

2009 Candida Höfer, Part II: Naples. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

2009 Candida Höfer, Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy

2008 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2008 Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2008 Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2008 Werkgruppen seit 1968. ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2008 Paris Serie, Yvon Lambert Paris, Paris, France

2008 Weimarer Räume. Schloß Benrath. Düsseldorf, Germany

2008 Photographien. Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2007 Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

2007 Ben Brown Gallery. London, England

2007 Candida Höfer a Portugal, Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain

2007 Candida Höfer. Weimarer Räume, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany

2007 Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert, Cologne, Germany

2007 Architecture of Absence, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA

2007 Buenos Aires, Gallerie K auf der Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2007 Louvre, Brasil and Other Places, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway

2007 Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland

2007 Palaces, Theatres, Churches and a Casino, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

2007 Brussels Series, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium; Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2007 Lippische Gesellschaft für Kunst im Schloss Detmold, Detmold, Germany

2007 Fotografien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2007 Candida Höfer in Portugal, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

2007 Bologna Series, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2007 Bologna Series, Centro Arte Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy

2006 Opere 1981-2004, Galleria Marabini, Bologna. Italy

2006 Candida Höfer: Architecture of absence, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA

2006 Candida Höfer Dublín, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2006 Musée du Louvre. Paris, France

2006 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

2006 Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany

2006 Candida Höfer: Louvre, Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

2006 Candida Höfer. Em Portugal, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal

2005 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2005 The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, USA

2005 Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2005 Candida Höfer, University Art Museum, West Palm Beach, USA

2004 Hier groeien boeken uit de grond, Huis Marseille, Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004 Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2004 BenBrown, London, England

2004 Traces – Spuren, Goethe Institut, New York, USA

2004 Eingelagerte Welten, Völkerkundemuseum der Universitat Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2004 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

2004 Libraries”. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England

2004 Candida Höfer. Tiempos y espacios, Palacio de Caja Cantabria, Santillana del Mar, Spain

2003 Zwölf Museumsräume. Fotografien, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

2003 Bienal de Veneza, Pavilhão da Alemanha (with Martin Kippenberger), Venice, Italy

2003 Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert, Cologne, Germany

2003 Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

2002 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf. Frankfurt, Germany

2002 Bibliotheksbilder, Schirmer/Mosel showroom, Munich, Germany

2002 Galerie Laage- Salomon, Paris, France

2002 Galeria Fúcares, Almagro, Spain

2002 Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland

2002 Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany

2002 Zwölf-Twelve, Georg- Kolbe- Museum, Berlin, Germany

2002 Hamburg, Jenish Haus, Museum für Kunst und Kultur an der Elbe, Hamburg, Germany

2002 Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany

2002 Basel, Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland

2001 Photographs, Galeri K, Oslo, Norway; Mildred S. Lee Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, Waltham, USA

2001 Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2001 Douze-Twelve, Musée des Beaux Arts de Calais, Calais, France

2001 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2001 Photographies récentes, Galerie Laage- Salomon, Paris, France

2001 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

2001 Galerie Hauser& Wirth & Presenhuber, Munich, Germany

2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2000 Natuurruimten, Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2000 Karyn Lovegrove, Los Angeles, USA

2000 Photogragraphien 1968-1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

2000 Orte Jahre, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

2000 Museumsbilder, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany

2000 Galerie Johnen+ Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

2000 Neue Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

2000 The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA

2000 Galería Visor, Valencia, Spain

2000 Die Welt des Wissens. Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Staattliche Museum, Dresden, Germany

2000 Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

2000 Orte Jahre, Photographs 1968-1999, Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark

1999 Galerie Fiedrich, Bern, Switzerland

1999 Photografien, Oldenburger Kunstverein. Oldenburg, Germany

1999 Orte Jahre, Die Photographie Sammlung/SK-Stiftung Kultur. Cologne, Germany

1999 Conceptual Enviroment I. Raumbilder Fotografien, Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1999 Leseräume, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

1999 Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

1999 Karlheinz Meyer Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany

1999 Patrick de Brock Galerie, Knokke, Belgium

1998 Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

1998 Photographie, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany; Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany

1998 Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain

1998 Thirty Years Back, The British Council, Cologne, Germany

1998 Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France

1998 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1997 Galerie Fotohof. Salzburg, Austria

1997 Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

1997 Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

1997 Bilder, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany

1997 Goethe-Institut. Galeria Condé, Paris, France

1997 Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, France

1996 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

1996 Galerie Fotomanía, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1996 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria

1996 Robert Prime, London, England

1996 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1996 Bibliotheken, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

1995 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

1995 Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark

1995 Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1994 Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany

1994 Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, England

1994 Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany

1994 Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy

1994 Galerie Johnen & Shottle, Cologne, Germany

1994 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA

1994 L’Aquarium Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes, France

1993 Photographie II – Zoologische Gärten, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1993 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany

1993 Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

1993 Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1993 Photographie-Öffentliche Innenräume, Leonhardi-Museum, Dresden, Germany

1993 f-stop Gallery, Bath, Germany

1992 Räume, Städtische galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany

1992 Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany

1992 Räumes/Spaces, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

1992 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria

1992 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA

1992 Photografie, Hagener Kunstverein, Hagen, Germany

1991 Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland

1990 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA

1990 Galerie Franz Paludetto, Turin, Italy

1990 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany

1990 Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

1989 Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany

1989 Fotografien, Kunstverein Bremerhaven, Germany

1989 Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland

1989 Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1988 Galerie Johnen & Schötten, Cologne, Germany

1985 Räume, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

1984 Innenraum, Fotografien 1979-84, Regionalmuseum Xanten; Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany

1982 Öffentliche Innenräume 1979-82, Collection photographique, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1979 Galería Arno Kohnen, Düsseldorf, Germany

1975 Galería Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2025 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Kunsthalle, Munich, Germany

2025 Typologien: Photography in 20th-Century Germany, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

2025 Después de todo. Fotografía en la Colección Helga de Alvear. Photo España 2025. Espacio Cultural Serrería Belga, Madrid, Spain

2025 Delikatessen: Zwischen Kunst und Küche, Museum Brot und Kunst, Ulm, Germany

2025 Parsifal, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain

2024 Brasília, The Art of Democracy (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff), Museu Nacional da República, Brasília, Brazil

2024 Marino’s Favorites. Chapter I: From Idea to Matter, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna, Italy

2024 Matsumoto Architecture Art Festival, Matsumoto City Museum, Matsumoto, Japan

2024 EXPOSURE: Arte, culture, moda dentro e fuori la vetrina, Museo delle Culture di Milano, Milan, Italy

2024 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2024 Architecture: A Scenario Written by Space and Time, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2024 Retrospektiv! Eine fotografische Geschichte von Schloss Benrath 1870 bis heute, Schloß Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany

2024 Alte und neue Freunde, KAT_A, Bad Honnef, Germany

2024 Square And Space: From Malevich To GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2024 DIS-PLACED, Konschthal Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

2024 Biennale IMAGES, Vevey, Switzerland

2024 Das ist Gesellschaft: Soziale Fotografie in Düsseldorf, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2024 Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA

2024 Another Avant-Garde: Photography 1970-2000, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China

2024 Delikatessen: Zwischen Kunst und Küche, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

2024 La Tiranía de Cronos, Banco de España, Madrid, Spain

2024 Canção Contemporânea: Works from the Mário Teixeira da Silva Collection, Serralves Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal

2023 Making Space: Photographs of Architecture, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Great Britain

2023 Dialektik der Präsenz, DZ Bank (Kunstsammlung), Frankfurt, Germany

2023 Kunstkammer Gegenwart – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Residenzschloß Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany

2023 Die Young, Stay Pretty (curated by Carlos Rolón and Tomokazu Matsuyama), Kotaro Nukaga, Japan

2023 What’s New? Recent Acquisitions, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, United States

2023 CIVILIZATION: The Way We Live Now (curated by William Ewing, Holly Roussell Perret-Gentil and Bartomeu Marí), Saatchi Gallery, England

2023 CAPTURING THE MOMENT: Painting after Photography, Tate Modern, London, England

2023 “Weiter sammeln?!”, Dommuseum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

2023 BIBLIOMANIA – Das Buch in der Kunst, Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany

2022 The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA

2022 Photographische Konzepte und Kostbarkeiten, Sammlungspräsentation, Teil 1 Porträt, Landschaft, Botanik, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2022 body/spaces, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

2022 European Trails, H2 – Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg, Germany

2022 Schindler House Los Angeles: Raum als Medium der Kunst, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

2022 Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum, MOMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2022 (UN)COMMON VALUES, The National Bank of Belgium, Belgium

2022 Glamour Studio: Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der BMW-Schenkung, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2022 FULL HOUSE: Balkenhol – Dienst – Florschuetz – Höfer – Immendorff – Rissa – Sieverding – Trockel – aus der Sammlung Ströher, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

2022 Deutscher Kaviar – Die fotografische Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

2022 Das Buch in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany

2022 Photographische Konzepte und Kostbarkeiten – Urbanes Leben, Architektur, Industrie, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2022 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musei San Domenico – Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì, Forlì, Italy

2022 Candida Höfer in Dialogues Across Disciplines (curated by Tracy L. Adler and Alexander Jarman), Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, USA

2022 Die Oper ist tot – Es lebe die Oper!, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2022 Changes, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2022 The Big Picture: Photography’s Moment, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA

2021 Freischwimmer: Fotografie der Sammlung Viehof & des Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany

2021 PUNCTUM. Eine fotografische Sammlung, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

2021 VON BECHER BIS BLUME. Photographien aus der Sammlung Garnatz und der Photographischen Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur im Dialog, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2021 Animals in Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2021 Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musée des Civilisations de L’Europe et de la Méditerranée (Mucem), Marseille, France

2021 Mexichrome: Fotografíay color en México / Mexichrome: Photography and Color in Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

2021 Groups and Spots: Zeitgenössische Kunst bei der Baloise, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland

2021 Trautes Heim, Allein., Schloss Kummerow, Kummerow, Germany

2021 Von Erde schöner: Die Sammlungen des MGKSiegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

2021 HAPPY HOUR, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China

2021 In Spain: Photography, Commissions, Territories 1983-2009., Museo ICO, Madrid, Spain

2021 Cohabitation, Betonhalle im Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin, Germany

2021 Vor Ort: Fotogeschichten zur Migration, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2021 “Photography!” Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany

2021 BLÜHSTREIFEN_zwischen Traum und Zaun, Kunstmuseen Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

2021 Im Krankenhaus: Ludwig Kuffer, Andreas Langfeld, Elisabeth Neudörfl, Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2021 DIE KUNST ZU HELFEN – 25 Jahre fiftyfifty, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021 Self-History. Obayashi Collection, WHAT, Tokyo, Japan

2021 Coleción Jumex: Temperatura ambiente, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

2021 Writing the History of the Future: Signature Works of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea

2021 Räume des Wissens: Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

2020 Books, Thomas Zander Köln Hinzuweisen, Cologne, Germany

2020 Die Neue Fotografie: Umbruch und Aufbruch 1970-1990, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

2020 Vergessen: Fragmente der Erinnerung, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria

2020 Gottfried Böhm, Böhm Chapel, Hürth, Germany

2020 Perspektiven der Fotografie, Ludorff, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020 SUBJEKT und OBJEKT: FOTO RHEIN RUHR, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020 Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany

2020 Animals in Art, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

2020 Emotion and Structure: Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

2020 Collection Ensemble – 2020 Spring Rotation (curated by Vera Grant), UMMA – University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, USA

2020 Street.Life.Photography. Street Photography aus sieben Jahrzehnten (curated by Sabine Schnakenberg), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2020 Technology, Transformation, Fotografie und Video in der Kunstsammlung, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

2020 Hyper Real. Die Passion des Realen in Malerei und Fotografie, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2019 Kunst und Kalter Krieg. Deutsche Positionen 1945-89, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

2019 Kunst und Kalter Krieg. Deutsche Positionen 1945-89. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

2019 Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection. Bank Austria, Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria

2019 La photographie n’est pas l’art – Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée communal d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

2019 Die Düsseldorfer Schule. Photographien 1970 – 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich, Germany

2019 Feedback – Werke aus der Sammlung von Arp bis Herold, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Rolandseck, Germany

2019 Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

2019 Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China

2019 just what is it … 100 Jahre Kunst der Moderne aus privaten Sammlungen in Baden-Württemberg. 10 Jahre Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Collections

Acervo Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

Albertiunum, Dresden, Germany

Astrup-Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway

Badische Landesmuseum, Kahrlruhe, Germany

Bibliothèque Nacionale de France Paris, France

Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

Centro de Fotografía Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca Spain

Centro Pompidou, Paris, France

Colección Telefónica, Madrid, Spain

Colección Los Bragales, Santander, Spain

Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Die Art Collection Neue Börse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Die Photographische Sammlung /SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany

Flick Collection, Zürich, Swiss

FNAC (Fonds National d’Árt Contemporain), Puteaux, France

Fotosammlung Jeane von Oppenheim, Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach, Pasadena, USA

FRAC (Fonds Regional d´Art Contemporain) Ile-de-France, Paris, France; Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France

Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zürich, Switzerland

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Helen Kornblum Collection (The Saint Louis Art Museum), Missouri, USA

ICP (Internacional Center of Photography), New York, USA

Kunsthalle, Basel, Swiss

Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria

Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland

Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr- Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein- Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

LA Colección Jumex, Mexico

MAC, São Paulo, Brazil

MIT, Cambrige, USA

MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

Musèe des Beuaux- Arts et de la Dentelles, Calais, France

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santander, Santander, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Museum Folkwang, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen, Germany

Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Regionalmuseum, Xanten, Germany

Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany

Sammlung Basler Verschicherungen, Basel, Switzerland

Sammlung DG Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Sammlung Goetz, Münich, Germany

Sammlung Bernd F. Künne, Hannover, Germany

Sammlung Landesbank, Baden- Württemberg, Germany

Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Münich, Germany

Sammlung Michael Loulakis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Desing Nürnberg, Germany

Staatliche Galerie, Kahrlruhe, Germany; Wolfsburg, Germany

Strauss Collection, University Art Museum, College of the Arts, California State University, Long Beach, USA

The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, USA

The National Museum of Photography, DET KGL BIBLIOTEK, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Vereins- und Westbank, Hamburg, Germany

ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

Colección Banco de España, Madrid, Spain

  • Dialogues with the collection: Candida Höfer

    Pinacoteca de São Paulo presents the exhibition “Candida Hofer” German artist rethinks the use and re-examines the structure of spaces with great historic value through her photographs. Opening Saturday, February 18th, 2017, at 11 am | Visitation until May 22nd, 2017 As from February 18th, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum of the Secretariat […]

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