Candida Höfer - Fotografien

In the organizer's words:

Candida Höfer is one of the world's most recognized German photographers. Like Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff, she is one of Bernd and Hilla Becher's students at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art and one of the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. She studied there from 1973 to 1982 and became known for her precisely composed photographs of the interiors of public buildings. In large format, she shows deserted halls in museums, opera houses, theaters, churches, zoological gardens or libraries, places of encounter, communication, remembrance and knowledge, but also of relaxation and recreation. The artist does not see her works as architectural photographs, but as portraits of spaces whose function and cultural significance become visible.

Candida Höfer's oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, ranks among the photographic avant-garde of the present day. Important national and international solo and group exhibitions at major institutions have shown her work, such as the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf in 1991, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney in 1992, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 1993 and the St. Louis Art Museum in 1997. The Cologne-based photographer has received numerous awards for her work, most recently the prestigious Käthe Kollwitz Prize from the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2024.

The exhibition "Candida Höfer. Photographs" presents a broad overview of the artist's work. The breathtaking large formats with portraits of large halls will be on display as well as more recent photo series in which Candida Höfer deals with provisional lighting fixtures, for example.

The exhibition is being put together in cooperation with the artist especially for the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and will be presented in the immediate vicinity of the "Block Beuys".

Price information:

Regular 9 euros / Reduced 6 euros / Group price: 7 euros / Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18