Born in Eberswalde, Germany
ARTISTS
Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer is one of the leading artists from Germany, and an internationally renowned photographer part of the Becher school together with Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff. After studying film at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, she joined Bernd Becher’s first photography class at the academy. She has gained international attention for her large scale works that photograph interiors of extravagant architectural spaces such as libraries and palaces.
Born 1944 in Germany, lives in Cologne. Höfer has exhibited in numerous museums such as the Kunsthalle Basel, Kunsthalle Bern, Museum MMK für Moderne Kunst, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She participated in Documenta 11 in 2002, and represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Her works are in the collections of museums around the wall, including the Centre Pompidou (France), Guggenheim, Museum of Modern Art in New York (New York), and the Basel Kunstmuseum.
WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
NEWS
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[Exhibition] Candida Höfer “Obayashi Collection Exhibition ‘Self-History'”2021.09.25 - 2022.02.13
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[Art Fair] Yuka Tsuruno Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in Art Fair Tokyo.2021.03.19 - 2021.03.21
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[News] Candida Höfer2020.10.14
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[Exhibition] Candida Höfer “Candida Höfer”2020.09.18 - 2020.11.08
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[Exhibition] Candida Höfer “Libraries: The Return”2020.08.28 - 2020.10.30
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[Exhibition] Candida Höfer “Architectural Photography +”2020.01.15 - 2020.03.31
CV
- Candida HÖFER
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1944
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1976 - 82
Photography with Bernd & Hilla Becher
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1973 - 76
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
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2020
Candida Höfer, KUKJE GALLERY, Busan
Libraries: The Return, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck -
2019
The Large and The Small – The Still and The Moving, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo
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2018
Spaces of Enlightenment, KUKJE GALLERY, South Korea
Portraits d’espaces, Bibliotèque Carré d’Art, France
Elbphilharmonie 2016, UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Germany
Candida Höfer en México, Museo Amparo, México -
2017
Candida Höfer en México, Centro de las Artes, México
Candida Höfer, Arendt House, Luxembourg
Candida Höfer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Candida Höfer in Mexico, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City -
2016
Candida Höfer, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Observations, GALERIE THOMAS ZANDER, Cologne
Candida Höfer, Inna Art Space, China
Candida Höfer in Mexico, OMR, Mexico City
Candida Höfer: Memory, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong -
2015
On Methods, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing,
China Auguste Robin und Candida Höfer. Innocation und Ort., Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Memory, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
Spaces of Knowledge, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Arche Noah – Uber Tier und Mensch in der Kunst, The Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany -
2014
Candida Höfer: Düsseldorf, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria
Candida Höfer, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Candida Höfer: Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy
Candida Höfer: Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza, Italy
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
Candida Höfer: Villa Borghese, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Candida Höfer: Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucern, Switzerland
Candida Höfer: Closer, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland -
2013
Candida Höfer: “A Return to Italy”, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
Candida Höfer per la Galleria Borghese, Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
Candida Höfer: Frühe Arbeiten, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Candida Höfer: Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Candida Höfer: Bindings, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Candida Höfer: Villa Borghese, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA -
2012
Candida Höfer: Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Candida Höfer: Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Neue Künstlerinnenräume im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
Candida Höfer, Villa Borghese, Rome
Candida Höfer, Nordrhein – Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf
Candida Höfer, Artipelag Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden -
2011
Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA
Candida Höfer/Kuehn Malvezzi at Galleria Marabini, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Vorstellungen, Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Galleria Marabini, Milan, Italy
Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain -
2010
Candida Höfer Kuehn Malvezzi, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Candida Höfer, Projects: Done, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Candida Höfer, Zoologische Gärten, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Candida Höfer, Philadelphia, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen, Germany
Candida Höfer, Projects: Done, centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain -
2009
Candida Höfer, Part II: Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
Candida Höfer, Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, Italy
Candida Höfer: abundacia ausente, Galeria OMR, Mexico
Candida Höfer, Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Candida Höfer, Part I: Florence, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
Candida Höfer, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, Portugal
Candida Höfer, Projects: Done, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Candida Höfer, Bologna Series, Galleria Marabini, Milano, Italy
Candida Höfer, Some Versailles and Paris Spaces, Galleri K auf Art Cologne, Köln, Germany
Candida Höfer: Philadelphia, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Candida Höfer: Philadelphia, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY -
2008
Candida Höfer, Photographien, Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, Humburg, Germany
Candida Höfer, Weimarer Räume, Schloβ Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany
Candida Höfer, Paris Series, Yvon Lambert Paris, Paris, France
Candida Höfer, Recent Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Candida Höfer, Werkgruppen siet 1968, ZKM Karlsruhe I Museum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany -
2007
Candida Höfer, Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland, 2006
Candida Höfer, Le Louvre, Paris, France
Candida Höfer, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Candida Höfer, Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Candida Höfer: Em Portugal, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal -
2005
Candida Höfer: fotografie 2004/2005, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
Candida Höfer: Fotografien 2004/2005, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
fotografias de Candida Höfer, OMR, Guadalajara, Mexico
Candida Höfer, Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Franisco, CA, USA
Candida Höfer, Architecture of Absence, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. Traveling. (Catalogue)
Candida Höfer, The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO, USA
Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany -
2004
Candida Höfer, Arte Contemporanea Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy
Candida Höfer in Ethnographischen Sammlungen, Völkerkundemuseum, Zürich, Switzerland (Catalogue)
Tschechische Botschaft, Berlin Wilhelmstrasse 44 – Fotografien, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany
Schloss St. Emmeram Regensburg, Marstall des Fürstlichen Schlosses, Regensburg, Germany
/hier groeien boeken uit de grond, /books grow out of the ground here, Dutch Libraries and Librarians photographed by Candida Höfer and Bert Nienhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Candida Höfer, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Candida Höfer, Ben Brown, London, UK
Traces—Spuren, Goethe Institut, New York, NY, USA -
2003
Candida Höfer, Antiquariat Grundel Gelbert, Köln, Germany
Candida Höfer, New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Candida Höfer, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany
Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany 50th Venice Biennale, German Pavillion (with Martin Kippenberger) -
2002
Zwölf, Georg – Kolbe – Museum, Berlin, Germany
Candida Höfer, Altonaer Museum, Hamburg, Germany (Catalogue)
Zwölf – Twelve, Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (Catalogue)
Candida Höfer, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
The World of Knowledge II, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Japanisches Palais and Das Kupferstich – Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
Candida Höfer: Bibliotheksbilder, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
Candida Höfer Basel, Ausstellung im Kunstforum Baloise, Basel, Switzerland
Leseräume II von Candida Höfer, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Kaiser Wilelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany -
2001
Candida Höfer: Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Candida Höfer, Sonnaband Gallery, New York, USA
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage – Salomon, Paris France Galerie Hauser and Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
Candida Höfer: Photographs, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
Candida Höfer. Douze.- Twelve, Musee des Beaux – Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France (Catalogue)
Candida Höfer: Photographs, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium -
2000
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gregorio Magnani, London, UK
Natuurruimten, Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Netherlands
Orte Jahre. Photogragraphien 1968 – 1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (Catalogue) and The National Museum of Photography, DETKGL BIBLIOTEK, Copenhagen, Denmark Galerie Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
Museumsbilder, Kupferstich – Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
Die Welt des Wissens. Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Staattliche Museum, Dresden, Germany
Neue Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
Targeting images, objects + ideas, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA
Palacio del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain (Catalogue)
Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain
Espais, Galería Visor, Valencia, Spain
MODULO, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
Fotografien, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Germany -
1999
Leseräume, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Photografien, OldenburgerKunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Conceptual Environment I, Raumbilder Fotografien, Goethe Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
Patrick de Brock Galerie, Knokke, Belgium -
1998
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany
Photographie, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany
Photographie, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
Galerie Laage Salomon, Paris, France Centro de Fotografía, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain -
1997
Centre Photographique d’lle de France, Pontault – Combault, France Intérieurs, Goethe – Institut, Galerie Condé, Paris, France
Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (with Dan Graham)
Bilder, Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany (with Elke Denda) -
1996
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Fotomanía, Rottersam, Netherlands
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Robert Prime, London, UK
Bibliotheken, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (with Michael Krebber) -
1995
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Bernd & Hilla Becher)
Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Germany
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland (with Stühle and Donald Judd) -
1994
Anderson O’Day Gallery, London, UK
Galerie KarlheinzMeyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aix-la-Chapelle, France
Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (with Günter Förg)
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA (with Roy Arden)
L’Aquarium Galerie d’Ecole des Beaux – Arts de Valenciennes, France -
1993
Zoologische Gärten, Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
Leonhardi Museum, Dresden, Germany
F-Stop Gallery, Bath; Anderson/O’Day Gallery, London, UK
Photographie II–Zoologische Gärten, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunsthalle Bern (with Shirley Wiitasalo), Germany (Catalogue)
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany -
1992
Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA
Städtische Galerie Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany (Catalogue)
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany (with James Welling)
Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (Catalogue)
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Photografie, Hagener Kunstverein, Hagen, Netherlands (Catalogue) -
1991
Galerie Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
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1990
Nicole Klagsb
run, New York, NY, USA
Franz Paludetto, Turin, Italy
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Michael Bach)
Galerie Faust, Genf, Switzerland
Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Netherlands (with Axel Hütte) -
1989
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstverein, Bremerhaven, Germany -
1988
Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
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1985
Räume, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (with Ludger Gerdes)
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1984
Innenraum Fotografien 1979 – 1984, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany (Catalogue)
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1982
Fotographische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (Catalogue)
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1979
Galerie Arno Kohnen, Düsseldorf, Germany
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1975
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, German
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2021
Obayashi Collection Exhibition “Self History”, WHAT Museum, Tokyo
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2018
Michael Oppitz. Mobile Myth, Kolumba, Germany
SPACE: STREET.LIFE.PHOTOGRAPHY, Haus der Photographie, Germany
Animals & Us, Turner Contemporary, UK
The Sonnabend Collection. Half a Century of American and European Art. Part II, Museu de Serralves, Portugal
Portraits d’espaces, Bibliotèque Carré d’Art, France
Transfer Bernwardsäule, Dommuseum, Germany
LIGHT SENSITIVE 2 PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE SCHAUFLER COLLECTION, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingent, Germany
Image Building:How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Museum of Art, Water Mill/NY
Bernd, Hilla and the Others: Photography from Düsseldorf, Huis Marseille Museum Voor Fotografie, Amsterdam
Your Are Faust. Goethe’s Drama In The Arts, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München
Michael Oppitz: Forschungen an den Rändern der Schrift, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City -
2017
From One Louvre to Another, Louvre Abu Dhabi
On with the Show, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Rodin : tops, flops, etc.., Museum of Fine Arts in Calais, France
Natural Histories: Traces of the Political, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Order the Present, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
Photographs Become Pictures, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
ELBPHILHARMONIE REVISITED, DEICHTORHALLEN, Hamburg
Artists and Architecture: Projection/Convergence/Intersection, Moss Arts Center, Virginia -
2016
Renaissances, A contemporary tribute to Florence, Hôtel de la Salle, Paris
Mikro Makro, North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, Düsseldorf
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
VIEHOF COLLECTION – INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART, DEICHTORHALLEN HAMBURG, Hamburg
INVENTUR – Adolf Krischanitz, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
Venice. City of Artists, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
Weitsicht – Fotografische Werke aus der Kunstsammlung der MLP AG, Kurpfälzisches Museum der Stadt Heidelberg, Heidelberg
The Flow of Pictures. The Rhine and Photography 1847-2016, LVR-LandesMuseum, Bonn
We Call It Ludwig. The Museum is turning 40!, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
STAGED: SPECTACLE AND ROLE PLAYING IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
The colour of Brazil, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro
fotokunst aus der sammlung, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Bank, Luxembourg
THE ADVENTURE OF OUR COLLECTION I, KAISER WILHELM MUSEUM, Krefeld
#1 The Magic of Things. Perfidious Objects, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
KAT_A_ 2. Fotografie_Installation, KAT-A, Bad Honnef
Elective Affinities: German Art Since the Late 1960s, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga
The Typological View – An Exhibition for Hilla Becher, Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne
Studenten der Becher Klasse 1974-1985, ex AdA, Dusseldorf
The Rome Room, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Großes Kino, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne
And Now the Good News. Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, MASI Lugano, Lugano
Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles -
2015
Time Present – Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Hara Museum, Tokyo
Dusseldorf Photography. Bernd & Hilla Becher and Beyond., Ben Brown Fine Arts, London -
2014
Le noir et le bleu, un rêve méditerranéen, Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France
FotoA-Z: Photographers we have featured, and those still on our wish list, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
Fronteiras Incertas – artee fotografia no acervo mac usp, Museu de Art Contempor á nea da Universidade de 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 Valenci à d’Art Modern; Palais des Beaux – Art BOZAR, Bruxelles, Belgium
Drunter und Drüber: Der Eigelstein, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln, Germany
Master Mould and Copy Room, CAFA Art Museum, Beijin, China
Arche Noah – Uber Tier und Mensch in der Kunst ,The Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany -
2013
The Art is Present, Helga de Alvear Collection: Centro Cibeles de Culturay Ciudadania, Madrid, Spain
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2012
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Flipper, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – West falen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Before the Law. Post – War Sculptures and Space of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany -
2011
Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francis Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Things are Queer, Highlighs der Sammlung UniCredit, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
El museu com a pretext, Museu d’Art de Sabadell, Spain
Zweibelfische, Jimmy Ernst & der chinesische Zirkel, Glückstadt – New York, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany
Krupp – Fotografien and zwei Jahrhunderten, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany
Streetlife und Homestories, Fotografien aus der Sammlung Gotees, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich,Germany
Ileana Sonnabend, An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
LITOS – GRAFERA, Stavenger Kunstmuseum, Stavenger, Norway/Kunstcenter Silkebord Bad, Silkebord, Denmark
Historias de vida Material, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Testing Ground, Time Scale, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK -
2010
El museu com a pretext, Museu Emordá, Figueras, Spain
Realismus, Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Dopplereffekt, Bilder in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Kunsthalle 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, La 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
15×1 45+, Kupferstich – Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
Ruhrblicke, Ein Fotografieprojekt der Sparkassen – Finanzgruppe, Zeche
Zollverein (Sanaa – Gebäude), Essen, Germany
Photography, Galleri K. Oslo, Norway
Ein neuer Blick, Architekturfotographie aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Fotographie, Berlin, Germany
Realismus, Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo – Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
PressArt, Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Auswertung der Flugdaten, Kunst der 80er, Eine Düsseldorfer Perspektive, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
In & Out – Six from Düsseldorf, Santa Moria 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, Vienna, Austria
Out of the office, Unternehmensgalerie Ruhr.2010/Kunstwerke aus Firmensammlungen, kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York
Past Present Future: Highlights from the UNICredit Group Collection, Tapo Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA -
2009
Of Other Spaces, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Welkugel, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Objectivites. La photographie a Dusseldorf, Musee d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
INSIDE//OUTSIDE: Innen und Ausblick in der zeitgenössischen deutschen Fotografie, Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
BESart. Banco Espirito Santo Collection. The Present: an Infinite Dimension, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
Accrochage, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Toluca éditions. 2003 2009. 16 Títulos. Fotografía, Lieteratura, Diseño, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
The Complete Schirmer/Mosel Collector’s Editions 2001 – 2008, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
Sigmar Polke. Wir Kleinburger! Clique, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
1968. Die Groβe Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
La vida privada. Coleccion Josep M Civit, Museo Bellas Artes Gravina, Barcelona, Spain
Die Trop en. Ansichten von der Mitte der Weltkugel, Iziko South African National Gallery, Kapstadt, South Africa
Holbein bis Tillmans. Prominente Gaste aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
seitenwechsel. Unsere sammlung neu gesehen, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
60 Jahre – 60 Werke. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Martin – Gropius – Bau, Berlin, Germany
Labyrinth:: Freiheit/Labirinto::Libertà/Larirint::Lidëza, Festung Franzensfeste, Franzensfeste, Italy
Bücher, Bücher, Bücher, nichts als Bucher, Ursula – Blickle – Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Kunst und Kalter Krieg. Deutsche Positionen 1945 -89, Germanisches National museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Espacios Urbanos. Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Axel Hutte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Decline and Fall, Rena Bransten Gallery, Los Angeles
Sigmar Polke: Wir Kleinburger! Pop, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Spielarten. Fotografie und Literatur, Konstanzer Kulturzentrum am Munster, Richentalsaal, Konstanz, Germany
BAM Photography Portfolio III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/List Visual Arts Center (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Beautiful Fictions. Photography at the AGO – featuring the Vivian & David Campbell Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Traces: IMMA Limited Edtions, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Kunst und Klater 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, USA
Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, South Korea
Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
David Chipperfield – Form Matters, Design Museum, London, England
Die Dusseldorfer Schule. Photographien 1970 – 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Bayerische Akademie der Schonen Kunste, Munich
Feedback – Werke aus der Smmlung 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 – Wurttemberg. 10 Jahre Museum fur Neue Kunst im ZKM, Museum fur Neue Kunst/ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Ruhrblicke, Zeche Zollverein (Sanaa – Gebaude), Essen, Germany -
2008
Stadt – Bild – Köln. Photographien von 1880 bis heute, Goethe-Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Art is for the Spirit: Works from the UBS Art collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936). Architekt – Lehrer – Künstler, Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
Die Tropen. Ansichten von der Mitte der Welkugel, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Inside Architecture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, MOCA, LosAngeles, USA
Museen: Schoner Bauen – Besser Schauen. Architecktur & Denkbilder, Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerlan
Sichtbarwerden, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Paraisos indefinidos, Patio de Escuelas, Centro de Fotografia Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
‘We Are Stardust. We Are Golden.’ Women at Johnen + Schöttle since 1984, Johnen + Schöttle, Köln, Germany
Kavalierstart 1978 – 1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Le Louvre a Québec. Les arts et la vie, Musée national des beaux – arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
REAL. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank, Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
En Prival 1, Es Baluard Museu de’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Spain
memoria. casting a gaze, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Fotografis, Collection Reloaded, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria -
2006
Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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2005
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Worth a Thousand Words: the Book as Image, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, USA -
2004
Artitecture, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
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2003
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
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2002
Zwichen Schonheit und Sachlichkeit, Kunsthalle in Emben, Germany
Today til now: Contemporary Photography from Düsseldorf, Part 1, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany -
2001
Museum as Subjects, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
minimalismos, un signo de los tiempos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Aldeasa, Madrid, Spain
In Between: Art and Architecture, Austrian Museum of Applied Art, Vienna, Austria
Depicting Absence/Implying Presence, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, USA
Show Time, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA -
2000
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Inside Out: Reality or Fiction?, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Ansicht Aussicht Einsicht, (Gursky, Höfer Hütte, Ruff, Struth), Crakow (Catalogue) Kunsthalle Kornwestheim, Stuttgart (Germany)
Architecture without shadow, Centro de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona(Catalogue)
BMW exhibition, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (Catalogue) -
1999
Not There, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
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1998
Spread, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Stilleben, Kunstverein Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany -
1997
Elke Denda/Candida Höfer, SalzburgerKunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
Normotic, One Great Jones, New York -
1995
Giovani Artisti Tedeschi, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Zimmerdenkmaler, Blumenstrasse, Bochum, Germany
Five Photographers, Rena Bransten Gallery, CA, USA -
1994
Bey ond Recognition, Contemporary International Photography, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia (traveling exhibition)
Das Genre Tier, Munich, Germany
Deutsche Kunst mit Photographie. Die 90er Jahre, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Architektur in der Fotographie, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Los Gerneros de la Pintura, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderna, Las Palma, Spain -
1993
Photographie in der deutschen Gegenwartskunst, Museum Ludwig, Germany
Dis tanz und Nahe, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany -
1992
Gilles Porret, Christoph Rutimann, Candida Hofer, Kunsthalle Palazzo, LiestalGalerie, Italy
Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Humpty Dumpty’s Kaleidoscope: A New Generation of German Artist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Finale, Josef – Haubrich – Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Four Visions of Interior and Exterior Landscapes, Galerie Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland -
1991
Typologies: Nine Contemporary Photographers, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, Beach, CA, USA
Aus der Distanz – Photographien von Bernd und Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hutte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein – Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Paesaggi – La Scuola di Rivara, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy -
1990
German Photography. Documentation and Introspection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Perspectives on Place – Attitudes Toward the Built Environment, University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA, USA
Gunther Forg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff, Kunstverein, Ulm, Germany -
1989
Shifting Focus, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol: Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Sei Artisti Tedeschi, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
Accrochage II, Galerie Meert/Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium -
1988
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
Fotografen, APAC, Neuer, Germany
Klasse Bernhard Becher, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany -
1987
Foto/Realismen, Kunstverein Munich: Nationalgalerie im Kunstforum der Rundkreditbank Berlin, Germany: Villa Dessauer, Bamberg, Germany
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1986
Gursky, Hofer, Hutte, Ausstellungsraum Brukenstrasse, Dusseldorf, Germany
Fotografie und Skulptur, Hansaallee, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sieben Fotgrafen, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany -
1984
Aus den Trummern, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany
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1983
22 Fotgrafinnen. Ein Querschnitt Zeitgenossisher Fotografie, Hahnentorburg, Cologne, Germany
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1982
Work by Young Photographers from Germany, Art Galaxy, New York, USA
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1981
Galerie Konrad Fischer (Forderprogramm fur junge Kunst), Internationaler Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
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1979
In Deutschland – Aspekte gegenwartiger Dokumentarfotografie, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Schlaglichter. Eine Bestandsaufnahme aktueller Kunst im Rheinland 1979, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany -
1978
Europa und Vorderasien, Museum fur Volkerkunde, Hamburg, Germany
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1976
Nachbarschaft, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
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Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Centro de Fotografia Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
DG Bank Collection, Germany
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Museum Folkwang, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany