Candida Hofer


1944 Born in Eberswalde, Germany
1973 - 1976 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Duesseldorf
1976 - 1982 Photography by Bernd Becher
Lives and works in Cologne


Selected Exhibitions

2006
Candida Hofer Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Berlin Tokyo / Tokyo Berlin, Die Kunst zweier Stadte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Helga de Alvear Conceitos para uma coleccao, CCB Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Candida Hofer, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich

2005
Candida Hofer. Architecture of Absence. UAM, CSULB, Long Beach, CA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Johnen Galerie, Berlin
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco .

2004
Rudiger Schottle, Munich
Eingelagerte Welten, Candida Hofer in ethnographischen Sammlungen. Volkerkundemuseum, Zurich
German Art. Deutsche Kunst aus der Sammlung des Saint Louis Art Museum, Eine Ausstellung des ALTANA Kulturforums zu Gast im Stadel, Stadel, Frankfurt

2003
The Museum Moscow House of Photography
New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

2002
Photographies recentes. Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris
Die Welt des Wissens. Japanisches Palais, Staatliches Museum fur
Volkerkunde Dresden
Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe
Limits of Perception. Fundacion Miro, Barcelona

2001
Museum unserer Wunsche/Museum of our wishes. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Photographs, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachuttes
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber

2000
Natuurriumten, Naturmuseum Rotterdam

1999
"Not There", Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA

1998
Thirty Years Back, The British Council, Cologne
Centro de Fotografia, Universita de Salamanca.

1997
Centre Photographique d¡¯Ile de France, (C.P.I.F.), Pontault-Combault

1996
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
Robert Prime Gallery, London, GB

1995
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, CH, (& Stuhle von Donald Judd)

1994
"Das Genre Tier", Munich
Anderson O'Day Gallery London, England

1993
Photographie - Offentliche Innenraume, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden/ f-stop Gallery, Bath, GB
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg

1992
"Humpty Dumpty's Kaliedescope: A New Generation of German Artists", Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia

1991
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, CH

1990
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA
Nicole Klagsburn New York, NY

1989
"Accrochage II", Galerie Meert/ Rihoux Brussels
Fotografien, Kunstverein Bremerhaven

1988
Galerie Johnen & Schottle Cologne, Germany

1985
Raume, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich (& Ludger Gerdes)

1984
"Aus den Trummern", Rheinisches Landsmuseum Bonn

1982
Offentliche Innenraume 1979 - 1982, Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen

1979
Galerie Arno Kohnen, Dusseldorf

1976
"Nackbarschaft", Kunsthalle Dusseldorf

1975
Galerie Konrad Ficher Dusseldorf