Candida Hofer
dal 10/4/2008 al 21/6/2008
Segnalato da
10/4/2008
Candida Hofer
Freie Akademie der Kunste, Hamburg
In her photos, the interior rooms of public buildings like universities, libraries, function rooms, coffee shops, and time and again museums gain their special effect through the almost complete absence of people. Chairs, books, shelves - traces of their actual 'raison d'etre' - let these deserted rooms appear weirdly alienated, sometimes enchanted, but never staged.
Since the end of the 1970’s, Candida Höfer has taken photographs inside buildings. In her photos, the interior rooms of public buildings like universities, libraries, function rooms, coffee shops, and time and again museums gain their special effect through the almost complete absence of people. Chairs, books, shelves – traces of their actual raison d’être – let these deserted rooms appear weirdly alienated, sometimes enchanted, but never staged.
Candida Höfer was born in 1944 in Eberswalde. She studied at first in Cologne and afterwards at the photo class of Bernd Becher at the art college in Düsseldorf. Nowadays, she is doubtlessly one of Germany’s internationally accepted photographers.
In 2002, Höfer took part in the documenta11 in Kassel, and she represented Germany at the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003. Her photography has been shown in exhibitions throughout Europe and in the United States. Today Candida Höfer lives in Cologne. Since 2003, she has been member of the media section of Hamburg’s Freie Akademie der Künste. In 2007, she was awarded the Finkenwerder Kunstpreis.
From the 11th to the 20th of April 2008 Hamburg will be Germany’s centre of photography. The event will be about getting creative people together to create new things, here and elsewhere.
opening: Friday, 11th April 2008, 5 pm
Freie Akademie der Kunste
Klosterwall 23, 20095 Hamburg
open: Tues thru Sun 11 am - 8 pm