Candida Höfer German, b. 1944
Architectural interiors are a central subject in Candida Höfer’s photography, from libraries and museums to theaters and other shared spaces. Her large color images attend to the arrangement of rooms, the fall of light, and the repetition of architectural details. Often photographed without occupants, these settings suggest the customs of the people who use them.
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Teatro Colón Buenos Aires , 2006-2008
Born 1944, Eberswalde, Germany; lives in Cologne, Germany.
Candida Höfer produces large-format color photographs of architectural interiors that double as systematic visual studies of social and public spaces, usually shown without occupants. Her works chronicle the physiology of social architecture and are noted for their subtle allusions to human activity.
Höfer is meticulous in her practice and is determined to do “justice” to the places she photographs; throughout her career she has photographed cultural spaces including libraries, museums, theaters, universities, as well as historic houses and palaces.
Candida Höfer has exhibited widely in her native Germany and abroad, in museums such as Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen in Dusseldorf; Museum Ludwig in Cologne; Newport Harbor Art Museum in Newport Beach, California; Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia and the Saint Louis Art Museum in Saint Louis, Missouri, to name a few.
Her photographs are found in public and private collections throughout the world, including the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.