Candida hofer biography of michael
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Born in Eberswalde, German
Currently lives and works in Cologne
Education
Kölner Werkschule, Cologne
Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Contemplations: The Large and the Small-The Still and the Moving, Yuka TsurunoGallery, Tokyo, Japan
Portraits of Spaces, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France;
Galeria Leme at SP-Arte , São Paulo
Ben Brown Fine Arts at Art Basel in Hong Kong
Kukje Gallery at Art Basel in Hong Kong
FALL OFFERING, michael lisi / contemporary art, New York
Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Washington
CANDIDA HÖFER: Memory. Selected Works from the State Hermitage Museum Exhibition , Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
CANDIDA HÖFER: Memory. Selected Works from the State Hermi
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Candida Höfer
BORN
Eberswalde, Germany
EDUCATION
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf
Photography with Bernd & Hilla Becher
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo, Norway
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Museo Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Friedrich, Basel, Switzerland
Centro Culturel de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
ETH Zurich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
Musee du Louvre, Paris, French
Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Candida Höfer: Architecture of Absence,
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From Art Journal 75, no. 4 (Winter )
It’s true, Mr. Interpreter, it’s the first time ever that a photograph of a Turk has been displayed in a German photo store. I’ve worked for more than 20 companies in Germany, in cities and in villages. I’ve neither heard, nor have I ever seen a photo of a Turk displayed in a German store. Every time I’ve gone by a photo store I’ve asked myself why aren’t we there? Why, damn it, don’t the Germans want to see us?
—Şinasi Dikman, “Hast du das Foto gesehen?”
Millions of Turkish immigrants settled in Germany after World War II to answer the call of politicians who needed to refresh the labor force after the war. Images of Turks at work or leisure in the parks, homes, markets, shops, and bars of s West German cities populate Candida Höfer’s large, multiformat series entitled Türken in Deutschland (Turks in Germany, –79). Höfer’s interactions with minority subjects in these images—by turns genial, jarring, and solemn—illuminate the complicat