1944  Born in Eberswalde, German

Currently lives and works in Cologne

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Education

1964-1968  Kölner Werkschule, Cologne

1973-1982  Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea 

2019 Contemplations: The Large and the Small-The Still and the Moving, Yuka TsurunoGallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2018 Portraits of Spaces, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France; 

2017  Galeria Leme at SP-Arte 2017, São Paulo

2017  Ben Brown Fine Arts at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017

2017  Kukje Gallery at Art Basel in Hong Kong 2017

2016  FALL OFFERING, michael lisi / contemporary art, New York

2016  Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Washington

2016  CANDIDA HÖFER: Memory. Selected Works from the State Hermitage Museum Exhibition 2015, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

2015  CANDIDA HÖFER: Memory. Selected Works from the State Hermitage Museum Exhibition 2015, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2015  Dusseldorf Photography: Bernd & Hilla Becher and Beyond, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2015  Candida Höfer: From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

2014  Light, Space and Order, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai

2014  Villa Borghese, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2014  Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

2014  Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza

2014  Galerie Rüdiger Schötle, Munich

2014  Dusseldorf, Museum of Art Lucerne, Luzern

2014  Landesgalerie Linz, Linz

2014  Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich                                                         

2013  A Return to Italy, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2013  Villa Borghese, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

2013  Dusseldorf , Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf

2013  Candida Höer per la Galleria Borghese, Galleria Borghese, Rome

2013  Bindings, Patrick de Brock gallery, Knokke

2013  Frühe Arbeiten, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

2013  Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo

2013  Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantua

2013  Immagini di Architettura, Fondazione Bisazza, Vicenza

2013  Galerie Rüdiger Schötle, Munich

2013  Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich

2012  Türken in Deutschland, Museum Für Neue Kunst, Freiburg

2012  Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2012  Johnen Galerie, Berlin

2012  Neue Künstlerinnenräme im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf

2012  Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou

2012  Galleria Borghese, Rome

2012  Nordrhein-Westfäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Dusseldorf

2012  Affinities, Artipelag, Gustavsberg

2011  Interior Worlds, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2010  In Italy – Florence and Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

2010  Kuehn Malvezzi, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg

2010  Projects: Done, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo

2010  Zoologische Gäten, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010  Philadelphia, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Tuttlingen

2010  Projects: Done, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville Galerie Rüdiger Schötle, Munich

2009  In Italy - Part II: Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2009  In Italy - Part I: Florence, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2009  Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence

2009  Abundacia ausente, Galeria OMR, Mexico City

2009  Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

2009  Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga

2009  Projects: Done, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen

2009  Bologna Series, Galleria Marabini, Milan

2009  Some Versailles and Paris Spaces, Galleri K auf Art Cologne, Cologne

2009  Philadelphia, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2009  Philadelphia, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

2008  Photographien, Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, Hamburg

2008  Weimarer Räume, Schloβ Benrath, Dusseldorf

2008  Paris Series, Yvon Lambert Paris, Paris

2008  Recent Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008  Werkgruppen siet 1968, ZKM Karlsruhe I Museum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

2007  Palaces, Theatres, Churches and a Casino, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2007  Museo Pescheria, Pesaro Galleria Marabini, Bologna Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke

2006  Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe Galleria Marabini, Bologna

2006  Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin The Louvre, Paris

2006  Em Portugal, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon

2005  Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005  Architecture of Absence, University Art Museum, CSU Long Beach, CA

2005  Fotografie 2004/2005, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

2005  Candida Höfer: Photographs, Michigan Avenue Galleries, Chicago, IL

2005  Candida Höfer fotografa l’opera di Carlo Scarpa,. Querini Stampalia Foundation, Venice

2005  Fotografias de Candida Höfer, OMR, Guadalajara

2004  Libraries, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

2004  Arte Contemporanea, Alberto Peola, Turin in Ethnographischen Sammlungen, Völkerkundemuseum, Zurich

2004  Tschechische Botschaft, Berlin Wilhelmstrasse 44-Fotografien, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel

2004  Schloss St. Emmeram Regensburg, Marstall des Fürstlichen Schlosses, Regensburg

2004  Traces—Spuren, Goethe Institut, New York, NY

2003  New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003  German Pavillion, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice

2002  Zwölf, Georg-Kolbe-Museum, Berlin

2002  Zwölf - Twelve, Documenta 11, Kassel

2002  The World of Knowledge, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Japanisches

2002  Palais and Das Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden

2002  Bibliotheksbilder, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich

2002  Candida Höfer Basel, Ausstellung im Kunstforum Baloise, Basel

2002  Leseräume II, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

2001  Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001  Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris

2001  Photographs, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2001  Douze.-Twelve, Musee des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais

2001  Photographs, Galleri K, Oslo

2000  Natuurruimten, Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam

2000  Orte Jahre. Photogragraphien 1968-1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg

2000  Neue Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich

2000  Targeting images, objects + ideas, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

2000  Espais, Galería Visor, Valencia

2000  MODULO, Centro Difusor de Arte, Lisbon

2000  Fotografien, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg