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25/2/2010

Candida Hofer

MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo

An exhibition by Candida Höfer with Kuehn Malvezzi

Curators Markus Heinzelmann and Doreen Mende

WORKS EXHIBITED
This solo exhibition by Candida Höfer, one the most outstanding figures of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which offers a selection of her late 40 years' work in a setting planned in collaboration with the prestigious studio of architecture Kuehn Malvezzi.
The exhibition 'PROJECTS: DONE' includes works belonging to projects realised between 1968 and 2008: Liverpool; Flipper [Pinball Machine]; Räume [Spaces]; Franz West; On Kawara; Kuehn Malvezzi; Zwölf. Die Bürger von Calais [Twelve, The Burghers of Calais]; Zoologische Gärten [Zoological Gardens]; Possessions. The series Türken in Deutschland [Turks in Germany] and 80 Pictures, taken in the 70's and the 80's, are shown here as a slide projection (1979) and double slide projection (1996), respectively. Furthermore, the exhibition at MARCO shows a film of the catalogue, also conceived as a project within the context of this exhibition.

'PROJECTS: DONE' is showing works from projects by Candida Höfer completed between 1968 and 2008. Photographer Candida Höfer, the architects Kuehn Malvezzi, who developed the displays in close cooperation with Candida Höfer, and the curators of 'PROJECTS: DONE' have placed the interplay between photography, architecture and presentation in the centre of their common project.
Here a 'project' is seen as a form of work that either runs for a previously planned period of time and/or is completed — 'done' — once a goal defined in its theme has been achieved. So the works chosen to be shown are distinct from work that is better described as regular artistic activity.

This difference is not necessarily discernible in the project themes. Certainly some of them form a contrast with Candida Höfer's usual subject matter at a first glance, the works relating to Flipper [Pinball Machine], for example — dating from Höfer's early working years — , intended as an publication project, or the Liverpool complex, with its numerous street images. But these works too are not unrelated to Candida Höfer's central theme of creating images of space, of its different content, its use, what a space shows and how it shows it. The distinction lies more in the limitations set by each project, and in the allocating the images to each particular project. So the exhibition is also an invitation to investigate the projects through the lens of this kind of inner order.

Another project is the presentation of the exhibition itself, which Höfer has developed jointly with Kuehn Malvezzi. This project is based on co-operation between the artist and the architects that started in 2002, when Kuehn Malvezzi converted the spaces in the Binding Brewery for Documenta 11, at which Candida Höfer showed the Bürger von Calais (Burghers of Calais). Addressing exhibiting as a project conceptually revokes the division into projects and regular work that has just been stressed: projects — it becomes clear — are 'done' only when they are exhibited, and every exhibition drawn from an artist's regular work is for its part ultimately a project with a prescribed time limit and a theme — in this case: the project for showing spaces as images, and at the same time showing how spaces show images. This showing of images can take place in private, possibly semi-public spaces, like On Kawara's Date Paintings in private collections or in a conscious architectural act, as in the images relating to Kuehn Malvezzi's exhibition architecture, both exhibited projects as well. Thus in this exhibition the artist's practices are combined with the architects' practices, and require comparative understanding of the different.

Candida Höfer
Candida Höfer studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, first film with Ole John, then photography with Bernd Becher. Her work has been shown in museums such as the Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunsthalle Bern, the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, and the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The artist has participated in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Power Plant, Toronto; the Kunsthaus Bregenz; and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. In 2002 Candida Höfer participated in Documenta 11, and in 2003 she represented Germany at the Venice Biennale (together with the late Martin Kippenberger). The artist lives in Cologne.

Kuehn Malvezzi
Kuehn Malvezzi was founded in Berlin in 2001 by the architects Simona Malvezzi, Wilfried Kuehn, and Johannes Kuehn. In addition to buildings for public and private clients, the architects have designed the architecture for numerous exhibitions. They designed the exhibition spaces for Documenta 11 in Kassel (2002), the extension to the Hamburger Bahnhof — Museum für Gegenwart for the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection (2004), and the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf (2007). They are currently converting the baroque Unteres Belvedere (Lower Belvedere) in Vienna into an exhibition venue for modern art, as well as designing an expansion to the Museum Berggruen in Berlin and new presentations of various historical collections, including the Liebieghaus Frankfurt, the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig, the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin. Their work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including in the German Pavilion of the 10th Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 2006.

---- BIBLIOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION. 'The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf'

Library-Documentation Centre, MARCO (First Floor)
From February 26 to May 23 2010
Opening hours: Tuesdays to Fridays, from 11am to 2pm and from 4pm to 8pm

On the occasion of the show by Candida Höfer, the Library-Documentation Centre at MARCO shows a selection of solo exhibition catalogues by the most outstanding photographers of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, addressed to users and general visitors. They will be available to the public during the regular opening hours of the Library and throughout the whole exhibition period.

Image: Köln 1974, from 80 Pictures 1996. Double slide projection © Candida Höfer / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2010

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