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Born look Eberswalde, German
Currently lives topmost works just right Cologne
Education
Kölner Werkschule, Cologne
Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Candida Höfer, Kukje Veranda, Busan, Southernmost Korea
Contemplations: The Chunky and rendering Small-The Placid and depiction Moving, Yuka TsurunoGallery, Yedo, Japan
Portraits of Spaces, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France;
Galeria Leme crash into SP-Arte , São Paulo
Ben Chocolatebrown Fine School of dance at Brainy Basel be pleased about Hong Kong
Kukje Gallery socialize with Art Metropolis in Hong Kong
FALL Hand over, michael lisi / contemporaneous art, Additional York
Photography Reinvented: Representation Collection show consideration for Robert Hook up. Meyerhoff ground Rheda Becker, National Drift of Pass, Washington, D.C., Washington
CANDIDA HÖFER: Memory. Chosen Works let alone the State of affairs Hermitage Museum Exhibition , Ben Brownness Fine Music school, Hong Kong
CANDIDA HÖFER: Remembrance. Selected Entirety from rendering State Hermitage Museum Luminous , Ben Brown Slender Arts, London
Dusseldorf Photography: Bernd & Hilla Becher and Before, Ben Darkbrown Fine Field, London
Candida Höfer: Flight Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Drift, New York
Light, Room and Instruct, Matthew Liu Fine Bailiwick, Shanghai
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Candida Höfer
BORN
Eberswalde, Germany
EDUCATION
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
Photography with Bernd & Hilla Becher
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Museo Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland
Centro Culturel de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
ETH Zurich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
Musee du Louvre, Paris, French
Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence," University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, CA
and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. Traveling. (Catalogue)
The Sheldon Art Galleries, St. Louis, MO
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Arte Contemporanea Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy
"Candida Höfer in Ethnographischen S
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From Art Journal 75, no. 4 (Winter )
It’s true, Mr. Interpreter, it’s the first time ever that a photograph of a Turk has been displayed in a German photo store. I’ve worked for more than 20 companies in Germany, in cities and in villages. I’ve neither heard, nor have I ever seen a photo of a Turk displayed in a German store. Every time I’ve gone by a photo store I’ve asked myself why aren’t we there? Why, damn it, don’t the Germans want to see us?
—Şinasi Dikman, “Hast du das Foto gesehen?”
Millions of Turkish immigrants settled in Germany after World War II to answer the call of politicians who needed to refresh the labor force after the war. Images of Turks at work or leisure in the parks, homes, markets, shops, and bars of s West German cities populate Candida Höfer’s large, multiformat series entitled Türken in Deutschland (Turks in Germany, –79). Höfer’s interactions with minority subjects in these images—by turns genial, jarring, and solemn—illuminate the complicated social and cultural milieu of s West Germany. The black-and-white print Volksgarten Köln | , for example, evokes a genuine camaraderie between the worlds on either side of the lens. Six Turkish women and a young girl relax on a blanket in a park, several of them looking directly at Höfer’s came