BIOGRAPHY

Candida Höfer

Born in 1944, Eberswalde, Germany
Lives and works in Köln, Germany


Education

1976-1982        Photography class of Bernd Becher
1973-1982        Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1973-1976        Film class of Ole John
1964-1968        Kölner Werkschule, Cologne, Germany


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022
Bild und Raum, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany

2020
Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
Candida Höfer: Enlightened Spaces, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
Libraries: The Return, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland 
Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany 
Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 
Eugster // Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 

2019
Candida Höfer. About Structures and Colors - Sobre Estructuras y Colores, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Candida Höfer. Showing and Seeing, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Candida Höfer. In Moskau - В Mоскве, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Contemplations: The Large and the Small - The Still and the Moving, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paris: Faces des Espaces, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
Candida Höfer, The Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
Candida Höfer - In Mexico, Sean Kelly, New York, US

2018
Candida Höfer: Time, Places and Spaces, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
Candida Höfer: Paris Revisited, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
Candida Höfer in Mexico, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Spaces of Enlightenment, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Portraits of Spaces, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
Candida Höfer. Einblick – Insight, UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne, Germany
Candida Höfer. En México, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico

2017
Candida Höfer. En México, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Candida Höfer. En México, Centro de las Artes, Moterrey, Mexico
Candida Höfer: Spaces and Places, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
El Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico

2016
Candida Höfer: Memory. Selected from the State Hermitage Museum Exhibition, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Candida Höfer: Palaces of St-Petersburg, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Candida Höfer, Nach Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Candida Höfer, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Candida Höfer: In Mexico, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Candida Höfer: In Mexico, Antiguo Colegio de Illdefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Space, Hangzhou, China
Candida Höfer, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Candida Höfer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Candida Höfer – Observations, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

2015
Candida Höfer: Memory, The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Candida Höfer: On Methods, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Candida Höfer. Memory. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Candida Hófer, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
Les Bourgeois de Calais a Venice, Ca’Pesaro Galleria Internazionale, Venice, Italy
Spaces of Knowledge, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway

2014
Candida Höfer. Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Candida Höfer. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
Candida Höfe:. Düsseldorf, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

2013
Candida Höfer: Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Candida Höfer: Villa Borghese, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Candida Höfer: Bindings, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

2012
Candida Höfer: Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Neue Künstlerinnenräume im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen,Düsseldorf, Germany
Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Candida Höfer, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Candida Höfer,Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
Candida Höfer, Artipelag Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2011
Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Erinnern, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, US
Candida Höfer, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain
Vorstellungen, Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany
You Are Here: Architecture and Experience (mit Cyprien Gaillard), Carnegie Museum of  Art, Pittsburgh, US
Candida Hoefer/Kuehn Malvezzi at Galleria Marabini, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2010
Infinite Moments, SCAD Savannah / Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, US
Spaces of Their Own, La Ciudad de la Cultura de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Projects: Done, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Candida Höfer in Italy. Naples and Florence, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Paolini-Höfer, Villa Massimo, Roma, Italy
Candida Höfer. David Claerbout, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Zoologische Gärten, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Naples and Florence, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Projects: Done, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Candida Höfer Kuehn Malvezzi, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany

2009
Candida Höfer. Part II: Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Candida Höfer. Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, Italy
Capedimonte, Naple, Italy
Casa Martelli, Florence, Italy
Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
Sonnabend gallery, New York, US
Projects Done, Candida Hofer mit Kuehn Malvezzi, Leverkusen, Germany

2008
Weimarer Räume, Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany
Photographien, Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Weimarer Räume, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

2007
Candida Höfer. Weimarer Räume, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Candida Höfer. Bologne Series, Centro Arte Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Germany
Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Flash Cube, Samsung Museum of Art, Leeum, Seoul, Korea
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, US
CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain

2006
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Räume einer Hochschule ETH Zürich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Architecture of Absence, Frye Museum, Seattle, US
Architecture of Absence, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, US
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

2005
Fotografie 2004/2005, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, US
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
Candida Höfer. Architecture of Absence, UAM, CSULB, Long Beach, US
Gallery of Photography of the Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, US
Johnen Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2004
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Schloss St. Emmeram Regensburg, Marstall des Fürstlichen Schlosses, Regensburg, Germany
Galerie Trabant, Vienna, Austria
Candida Höfer en Santillana del Mar Tiempos y Espacios, Palacio de la Caja, Santillana del Mar, Spain
Candida Höfer. Libraries, Ben Brown Gallery, London, UK
Arte Contemporanea Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy
Traces – Spuren, Goethe Institut New York, New York, US
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Eingelagerte Welten – Candida Höfer in ethnographischen Sammlungen, Völkerkundemuseum, Zürich, Switzerland
Tschechische Botschaft: Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 44: Fotografien, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2003
Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert (Gundel Gelbert und Johnen + Schöttle), Cologne, Germany
Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Candida Höfer: Dresden Series and Other Woerks: Photography, Gallerie K, Oslo, Norway
Zwölf Museumsräume: Fotografie, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Magnani, London, UK
Candida Höfer: Photographie, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, US
50th Venice Biennale (with Martin Kippenberger), German Pavillion, Venice, Italy

2002
Kunstforum Baloîse, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
Leseräume II, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefelder, Germany
Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert (Gundel Gelbert und Johnen + Schöttle), Cologne, Germany
Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage-Solomon, Paris, France
Bibliotheksbilder, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
Wien-Los Angeles, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt/M, Germany

2001
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Douze. Twelve, Musée des Beaux Arts et de la dentelle, Calais, France
The Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Karyn Lovegrave Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Photographs, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Photographs, Mildreed S. Lee Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, US
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Fransisco, US

2000
Fotografien, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain
Neue Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Galerie Johnen+ Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Die Welt des Wissens: Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany
Targeting images, objects + ideas, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US
Espais, Galerie Visor, Valencia, Spain
Gregorio Magnani Gallery, London, UK
Orte Jahre. Photographien 1968-1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nurnberg, Germany
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Natuurruimten. Fotografie van Candida Höfer, Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US


Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Schindler House Los Angeles: Space as a Medium of Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
European Trails, Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, Germany
Photographic Concepts and Treasures - Works from the Collection, Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2021
Catastrophe and Recovery, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
More beautiful from earth: The collection of the MGKSiegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
Writing the History of the Future. Signature Works of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
Obayashi Collection: Self-History, WHAT Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2020
MONOCULTURE, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
fiftyfifty, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
Collection Ensemble - 2020 Spring Rotation, umma (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, US
SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Celebrating 10 Years in Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Modern Women: Modern Vision–Works from the Bank of America Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, US
Animals in Art, ARKEN, Ishøj, Denmark
Women and Photography. Ways of Seeing and Being Seen, St. John’s Barn / St. Giles, Oxford, UK 
Street.Life.Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2019
Forgetting. Fragments of Remembrance, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
The New Photography. Upheaval and new beginnings 1970–1990, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, US
Candida Höfer – Hiroshi Sugimoto – Thomas Ruff Selected works, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
For Mario, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
A Small Investigation, Nicole Klagsbrun Inc., New York, US
Highlights 1965-2017, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Memory of Space, Kim Chung Up Architecture Museum, Anyang, Korea
The Dream of the Library, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Theaters of Fiction, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, US
Travelling the World. Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia

2018
Aplicación Murillo, Materialismo, Charitas Populismo, Espacio Santa Clara, Sevilla, Spain
Still Live, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Photography + Books. Out of the Retina and Into the Brain: The Art Library of Aaron and Barbara Levine, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
The First Decade, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Vende noticias 2007-2018, Fundación CALOSA, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
THE FLÂNEUR: From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Sony World Photography Awards, Royal Villa of Monza, Monza, Italy
The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moskva, Russia
Doing the Document. Bartenbach Donation, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
A gaze into architecture. Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture, Archi Depot Museum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Charity Exhibition for Orange Ribbon, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Michael Oppitz. Bewegliche Mythen, Kolumba, Köln, Germany
Lektüre. Bilder vom Lesen - Vom Lesen der Bilder, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
(Space) Street. Life. Photography. Street Photography aus siebenn Jahrzehnten., Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen., Hamburg, Germany
You are Faust: Goethe’s Drama in the Arts, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
Photography from Dusseldorf – Bernd, Hilla and the Others, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Light Sensitive 2: Photography from the Schaufler Collection, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, US
EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US

2017
Artists and Architecture: Projection/Convergence/Intersection, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, US
Du bist Faust. Goethes Drama in der Kunst, Kunstalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Ludwig, Munich, Germany
Für Barbara, Hall Art Foundation, Derneberg, Germany
Infinite Garden. From Giverny to the Amazon, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
INVENTUR- Adolf Krischantiz, Architekturgalerie München, München; Artitekturforum Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch die Sammlung der GfZK Leipzig, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Lepzig, Germany
Naturgeschichten. Spuren des Politischen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Photographs Become Pictures. The Becher Class, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany 
Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
The Present Order – Order the Present, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Vienna, Austria
Travel Around the World, Instituto Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigung im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Ways to see Brazil: 20 Years Itaú Cultural. Oca, Saõ Paolo, Brazil
Work and Leisure, The Cube, Eschborn, Germany

2016
A Cor do Brasil: de Visconti a Volpi, de Sued a Milhazes, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
And Now the Good News: Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, MASI Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Arte e Architettura: punti di vista, Casa Mantegna, Mantua, Italy 
Bilerstrom. Der Rhein una die Fotografie 2016-1853, LVR Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Der typologische Blick: Ausstellung für Hilla Becher, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Don’t Look Back: The 1990’s at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Elbphilharmonie. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 
Großes Kino. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Inszeniert. Spektakel und Rollenspiel in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturetiftung, Munich, Germany 
Inventur von Adolf Krischanitz, Galerie Mauroner, Vienna, Austria
Mikro Makro, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sammlung Viehof, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Centre, London; Manchester Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitnössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Venedig: Stadt der Künstler, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
Viaje alrededor del mundo, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Weitsicht, Kurpfäziches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany 
Wir nennen es Ludwig: Das Museum Ludwig wird 40, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2015
Design by Choice - Origins of Mass Customisation in Europe, bureau europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Die Kunst des Aufbewahrens, Draiflessen Collection GbR, Mettingen, Germany
Patrice Chéreau. Un Musée imaginaire. Collection Lambert en Avignon. Avignon, France
Time Present. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
A Beautiful New World, Second Nanjing International Art Festival. Nanjing, China
Enlight my Space. Kunst nach 1990, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Tiere schauen, Hegenbarth Sammlung Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Framing Desire: Photography and Video, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, US
Arche Noah – Über Tier und Mensch in der Kunst, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
Las Lágrimas De Las Cosas, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Der Göttliche. Michelangelo als Inspiration, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
All the World’s a Stage. Works from the Goetz Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
Words and Images. Books Beyond Artists, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
Ikonen und Konzepte. Von August Sander zu Jim Dine, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg. Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
No ver, no oir y callar. 1990-2015, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

2014
Unbeugsam und ungebändigt - Dokumentarische Fotografie um 1979, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art Foundation of Cartagena de Indias, Centro Calle de las Damas, Bogota, Colombia
ROOM SERVICE. Vom Hotel in der Kunst und Künstlern im Hotel, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Le noir et le bleu, un rêve méditerranéen, Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France
Foto A-Z: Photographers we have featured, and those still on our wish list, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fronteiras Incertas – arte e fotografia no acervo mac usp, Museu de Art Contemporánea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Weltreise: Kunst aus Deutschland unterwags, ZKM Karlsruhe I Museum für Kunst und Mediantechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of an Artwork by the Artist, the Museum, and the Public, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern; Palais des Beaux-Art BOZAR, Bruxelles, Belgium
Drunter und Drüber: Der Eigelstein, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln, Germany

2013
House of Vettii, Koenig & Clinton, New York, US
Nak Benefizauktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Mínima Resistencia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Candida Höfer & Flor Garduño, Espaivisor - Galería Visor, Valencia, Spain
Space, Place, And Order, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
Still - Photography in the Museum, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
El Arte del Presente, ColecciÓn Helga de Alvear - Mecenazgo al Servicio del Arte - CENTROCENTRO CIBELES DE CULTURA Y CIUDADANÍA, Madrid, Spain
Bookhouse, La Forma Del Libro - MARCA - Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Stadt in Sicht, Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank. Von Feininger bis Gursky - Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
Schenkung Herbert Lange. Fotografien 1925 – 2009, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
The Art is Present, Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadania, Madrid, Spain

2012
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Flipper, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Before the Law. Post-War Sculptures and Space of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
El museu com a pretext, Can Palauet, Mataró, Spain
An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, US
Der Mensch und seine Objekte, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Aus Passion. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany

2011
ERSCHAUTE BAUTEN. Architektur im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria
El museu com a pretext, Museu d’Art Jaume Morera, Lleida, Spain
Library Science, New Haven Museum, New Haven, US
Real Venice, Somerset House, London, UK
OMA /Progress, Barbican Centre, London, UK
El museu com a pretext, Antic Escorxador, Tortosa, Spain
Eyes on Paris. Paris im Fotobuch. 1890 bis heute, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit - Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1970 bis heute, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Animismus. Moderne hinter den Spiegeln, Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria
Kunst macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
El museu com a pretext, Monestir, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
Beziehungsarbeit / Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Wien, Austria
Streetlife und Homestories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany
Real Venice / Venezia Autentica, Monasterio San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia, Italy
Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, Italy
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US
LITOS – GRAFERA, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
Herein!, DZ Bank (Kunstsammlung), Frankfurt, Germany
Historias de vida Material, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
El museu com a pretext, Espai d’Art Moritz, Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain
Things are Queer. Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Happy Tech. Macchine dal Volto Umano, Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Happy Tech. Macchine dal Volto Umano, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
Testing Ground. Time Scale, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
El museu com a pretext, Museu d’Art de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain
Zwiebelfische. Jimmy Ernst & der chinesische Zirkel. Glückstadt - New York, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany
LITOS GRAFERA. Litografi af internationale samtidskunstnere, Kunstcenter Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark

2010
Dopplereffekt. Bilder in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
La photographie n’est pas l’art - Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Radical Conceptual. Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects- Form Matters, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, A Coruna, Spain
Past Present Future. Le collezioni Fondazione Cariverona e UniCredit Group: arte per la città, Palazzo della Ragione, Verona, Italy
Konversationsstücke. Act III CLIMAX, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
15x1 \\ 45+, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
Ruhrblicke. Ein Fotografieprojekt der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, Zeche Zollverein (Sanaa-Gebäude), Essen, Germany
Photography, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
El museu com a pretext, Musée de l’Emporda, Figueres, Spain
Ein neuer Blick. Architekturfotografie aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany
Auswertung der Flugdaten. Kunst der 80er. Eine Düsseldorfer Perspektive, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Der Rote Bulli. Stephen Shore und die Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie 1971-87, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
In & Out - Six from Düsseldorf, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
Italian Journey. Thirty-five international artists in the Italy of today, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
Hyper Real. Die Passion des Realen in Malerei und Fotografie, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
David Chipperfield Architects- Form Matters, Arsenali Medicei, Pisa, Italy
Out of the office. Unternehmensgalerie Ruhr.2010 / Kunstwerke aus Firmensammlungen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York, US
Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany

2009
Traces: IMMA Limited Editions, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Kunst und Kalter Krieg. Deutsche Positionen 1945-89, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
Vision Building. Architecture in Contemporary Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) / Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, US
Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
David Chipperfield - Form Matters, Design Museum, London, UK
La photographie n’est pas l’art - Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée communal d’Ixelles. Bruxelles, Belgium
Die Düsseldorfer Schule. Photographien 1970 - 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München, Germany
Feedback - Werke aus der Sammlung von Arp bis Herold, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Rolandseck, Germany
Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
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
Beautiful Fictions. Photography at the AGO - featuring the Vivian & David Campbell Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2007
Existencias, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leòn, Leon, Spain
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate, Liverpool, UK
What does the jellyfish want? Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
Welt-Bilder 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Auf/Zu, Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moskow, Russia
Gartenlust, Der Garten in der Kunst, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

2006
Berlin Tokyo / Tokyo Berlin, Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Helga de Alvear – Conceitos para uma colecção, CCB Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Mythos Dresden. Eine kulturhistorische Revue, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
Why Pictures Now. Fotografie, Film, Video heute, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

2005
Museum Folkwang Essen, Das Tier. Nützlich, süss und museal, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen
CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre dʼart, Helden heute – Das Heldenbild in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Biel, Switzerland
Bulger Gallery, Bibliotheca, Toronto, Canada
Museum der Moderne, Les Grandes Spectacles: 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Salzburg, Austria
Kühn Malvezzi Architekten, Berlin, Germany

2004
German Art. Deutsche Kunst aus der Sammlung des Saint Louis Art Museum, Eine, Germany
Ausstellung des ALTANA Kulturforums zu Gast im Städel, Städel, Frankfurt, Germany

2003
New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US

2002
Limits of Perception, Fundación Miró, Barcelona, Spain

2001
Museum unserer Wünsche/Museum of our wishes, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Photographs, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, US

2000
Natuurriumten, Naturmuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Selected Awards

2022
Achievement in Architecture, Lucie Awards 

2018               
Outstanding Contribution to Photography

2015               
Cologne Fine Art Prize

2007               
Kunstpreis Finkenwerder

1968               
Ars Viva-Preis des Kulturkreises der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V.


Selected Public and Private Collections

Aaron and Barbara Levine Collection, Washington D.C., US
Art Sonjae Center Museum, Seoul, Korea
Artists Management Group, Beverly Hills, US
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
AXA Art Versicherung AG, Köln, Germany
Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, US
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
Charles Cowles Collection, Miami / New York, US
Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva, Barcelona, Spain
Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Pantin, France
Collection Neuflize Vie, Neuflize Vie, France
Collection of Helga de Alvear, Keuruu, Finland
Collection Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
Collection Sylvio Perstein, Belgium
Collezione Anna Rosa e Giovanni COTRONEO, Roma, Italy
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Art Collection Neue Börse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany
DZ Bank Sammlung im Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Flick Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Fondazione Guastalla, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Puteaux, France
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) - Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Hammer Contemporary Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Helen Kornblum Collection - The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, US
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
MIT, Cambridge, US
Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museos Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Art, Department of Architecture, Oslo, Norway
NATIONAL-BANK AG, Essen, Germany
neues museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design , Nürnberg, Germany
Pakyoung Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
Robert Hiscox Collection, London, UK
Rubell Family Collection, Miami Beach, US
Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Sten Stenersen jr. Collection, Oslo, Norway
Strauss Collection, US
Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich, Switzerland
Telefónica Foundation Photography Collection, Madrid, Spain
The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, US
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US
The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The National Museum of Photography - Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach - Fotosammlung Jeane von Oppenheim, West Palm Beach, US
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
The Roland Berger Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany
UniCredit Group, Milano, Italy
Vivian & David Campbell Collection, Toronto, Canada
Wilfried Lentz Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany



EXHIBITIONS

Candida Höfer
Sep 18, 2020 - Nov 8, 2020

SPACES OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Jul 26, 2018 - Aug 26, 2018

Candida Höfer
Nov 25, 2011 - Dec 31, 2011

Candida Höfer
Jan 25, 2008 - Feb 26, 2008

TIMESPACES
Aug 30, 2005 - Sep 30, 2005

ARTWORKS

Neues Museum Berlin VIII
2009
C-print
184 x 222 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery, Seoul

Neues Museum Berlin XVI
2009
C-print
163 x 225 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Kukje Gallery, Seoul

Neues Museum Berlin XV
2009
C-print
163 x 125 cm

Neues Museum Berlin VI
2009
C-print
163 x 118 cm

Palácio da Bolsa Porto IV
2006
Color photograph
120 x 132 cm

Opernhaus Köln II
2007
C-print
180 x 286 cm

San Francesco di Paola Napoli I
2009
C-print
162 x 127 cm
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Artist Interview
Greetings from Candida Höfer

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Candida Höfer

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Candida Höfer

Installation Video
Candida Höfer: Spaces of Enlightenment

Teaser Trailer
Candida Höfer: SPACES OF ENLIGHTENMENT


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