Candida Höfer

• Born in 1944, Eberswalde, Germany
  Lives and works in Köln, Germany

Education

• 1976-1982        Photography class of Bernd Becher
  1973-1982        Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  1973-1976        Film class of Ole John
  1964-1968        Kölner Werkschule, Cologne, Germany

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024
  Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
  Europa / America - Curated by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Johnston Marklee, Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024, Akademie der Künste—Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
  RENASCENCE, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Memories in Fast Times, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  Candida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
  
  2023
  Candida Höfer: Epic Gaze, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
  Reflections of Spaces - Spaces of Reflection, KOTARO NUKAGA Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
  Candida Höfer: Inside Italian Architecture, Patricia Low Contemporary, Venezia, Venice, Italy
  Candida Höfer: Berlin und Anderswo, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer: Heaven on Earth - Curated by Toshiko Mori, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Candida Höfer, Jablonka Galerie, Böhm Chapel, Hürth Kalscheuren, Germany
  Lumière, Zander Galerie, Paris, France
  
  2022
  Candida Höfer: Uninterrupted Space, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  Bild und Raum, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach, California, US
  Candida Höfer: Liechtenstein, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  
  2021
  Candida Höfer: Belgisches Haus, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
  Candida Höfer: Libraries, Museums and A Theatre, Ben Brown Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
  
  2020
  Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  Candida Höfer: Enlightened Spaces, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
  Libraries: The Return, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Gladbeck, Germany
  Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland 
  Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany 
  Galerie Thomas Zander, Köln, Germany 
  Eugster // Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia 
  
  2019
  Candida Höfer. About Structures and Colors - Sobre Estructuras y Colores, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  Candida Höfer. Showing and Seeing, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
  Candida Höfer. In Moskau - В Mоскве, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
  Contemplations: The Large and the Small - The Still and the Moving, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Paris: Faces des Espaces, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
  Candida Höfer, The Hall Art Foundation | Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany
  Candida Höfer - In Mexico, Sean Kelly, New York, US
  
  2018
  Candida Höfer: Time, Places and Spaces, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey
  Candida Höfer: Paris Revisited, VNH Gallery, Paris, France
  Candida Höfer in Mexico, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, US
  Spaces of Enlightenment, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Portraits of Spaces, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
  Candida Höfer. Einblick – Insight, UAA Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne, Germany
  Candida Höfer. En México, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
  
  2017
  Candida Höfer. En México, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
  Candida Höfer. En México, Centro de las Artes, Moterrey, Mexico
  Candida Höfer: Spaces and Places, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  El Museo Internacional del Barroco, Puebla, Mexico
  
  2016
  Candida Höfer: Memory. Selected from the State Hermitage Museum Exhibition, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
  Candida Höfer: Palaces of St-Petersburg, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
  Candida Höfer, Nach Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer: In Mexico, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
  Candida Höfer: In Mexico, Antiguo Colegio de Illdefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
  Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Space, Hangzhou, China
  Candida Höfer, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Candida Höfer – Observations, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
  
  2015
  Candida Höfer: Memory, The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  Candida Höfer: On Methods, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
  Candida Höfer. Memory. Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
  Candida Hófer, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
  From Düsseldorf, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  Les Bourgeois de Calais a Venice, Ca’Pesaro Galleria Internazionale, Venice, Italy
  Spaces of Knowledge, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  
  2014
  Candida Höfer. Mantova, Museo Civico di Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
  Candida Höfer, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
  Candida Höfer. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
  Candida Höfe:. Düsseldorf, Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
  
  2013
  Candida Höfer: Dusseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Candida Höfer: Villa Borghese, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
  Candida Höfer: Bindings, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
  
  2012
  Candida Höfer: Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Neue Künstlerinnenräume im K21. Candida Höfer, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen,Düsseldorf, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
  Candida Höfer, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
  Candida Höfer,Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Candida Höfer, Artipelag Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
  
  2011
  Interior Worlds, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
  Candida Höfer, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Türken in Deutschland, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
  Erinnern, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
  Spaces: Photographs by Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, US
  Candida Höfer, Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain
  Vorstellungen, Theater Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  You Are Here: Architecture and Experience (mit Cyprien Gaillard), Carnegie Museum of  Art, Pittsburgh, US
  Candida Hoefer/Kuehn Malvezzi at Galleria Marabini, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
  
  2010
  Infinite Moments, SCAD Savannah / Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, US
  Spaces of Their Own, La Ciudad de la Cultura de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  Projects: Done, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
  Candida Höfer in Italy. Naples and Florence, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  Paolini-Höfer, Villa Massimo, Roma, Italy
  Candida Höfer. David Claerbout, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
  Zoologische Gärten, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Naples and Florence, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
  Projects: Done, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
  Candida Höfer Kuehn Malvezzi, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
  
  2009
  Candida Höfer. Part II: Naples, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
  Candida Höfer. Spatial Portraits, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Firenze, Italy
  Capedimonte, Naple, Italy
  Casa Martelli, Florence, Italy
  Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
  Sonnabend gallery, New York, US
  Projects Done, Candida Hofer mit Kuehn Malvezzi, Leverkusen, Germany
  
  2008
  Weimarer Räume, Stiftung Schloss und Park Benrath, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Photographien, Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Weimarer Räume, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
  
  2007
  Candida Höfer. Weimarer Räume, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
  Candida Höfer. Bologne Series, Centro Arte Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
  Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Germany
  Centro Arti Visive Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy
  Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar, Germany
  Flash Cube, Samsung Museum of Art, Leeum, Seoul, Korea
  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, US
  CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
  
  2006
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  Räume einer Hochschule ETH Zürich, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
  Architecture of Absence, Frye Museum, Seattle, US
  Architecture of Absence, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
  Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, US
  Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
  
  2005
  Fotografie 2004/2005, Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
  Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, US
  Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
  Candida Höfer. Architecture of Absence, UAM, CSULB, Long Beach, US
  Gallery of Photography of the Sheldon Art Galleries, Saint Louis, US
  Johnen Gallerie, Berlin, Germany
  OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  2004
  Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Schloss St. Emmeram Regensburg, Marstall des Fürstlichen Schlosses, Regensburg, Germany
  Galerie Trabant, Vienna, Austria
  Candida Höfer en Santillana del Mar Tiempos y Espacios, Palacio de la Caja, Santillana del Mar, Spain
  Candida Höfer. Libraries, Ben Brown Gallery, London, UK
  Arte Contemporanea Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy
  Traces – Spuren, Goethe Institut New York, New York, US
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
  Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
  Eingelagerte Welten – Candida Höfer in ethnographischen Sammlungen, Völkerkundemuseum, Zürich, Switzerland
  Tschechische Botschaft: Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 44: Fotografien, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
  
  2003
  Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert (Gundel Gelbert und Johnen + Schöttle), Cologne, Germany
  Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
  New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Candida Höfer: Dresden Series and Other Woerks: Photography, Gallerie K, Oslo, Norway
  Zwölf Museumsräume: Fotografie, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  Magnani, London, UK
  Candida Höfer: Photographie, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, US
  50th Venice Biennale (with Martin Kippenberger), German Pavillion, Venice, Italy
  
  2002
  Kunstforum Baloîse, Basel, Switzerland
  Galerie Rudiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
  Galerie Karlheinz Meyer, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Leseräume II, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefelder, Germany
  Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert (Gundel Gelbert und Johnen + Schöttle), Cologne, Germany
  Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage-Solomon, Paris, France
  Bibliotheksbilder, Schirmer/Mosel Showroom, Munich, Germany
  Wien-Los Angeles, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
  Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt/M, Germany
  
  2001
  Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
  Douze. Twelve, Musée des Beaux Arts et de la dentelle, Calais, France
  The Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
  Photographies recentes, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
  Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
  Karyn Lovegrave Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
  Photographs, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  Photographs, Mildreed S. Lee Gallery, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, US
  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Fransisco, US
  
  2000
  Fotografien, Produzentengalerie, Hamburg, Germany
  Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain
  Neue Fotoarbeiten, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany
  Galerie Johnen+ Schöttle, Cologne, Germany
  Die Welt des Wissens: Archive, Bibliotheken, Museen, Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany
  Targeting images, objects + ideas, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, US
  Espais, Galerie Visor, Valencia, Spain
  Gregorio Magnani Gallery, London, UK
  Orte Jahre. Photographien 1968-1999, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nurnberg, Germany
  Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Natuurruimten. Fotografie van Candida Höfer, Natuurmuseum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
  Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025
  Civilization: How we live today, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
  Typologien, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
  
  2024
  Delicacies. Between Art and Cuisine, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
  Life with Photographs: 75 Years of the Eastman Museum, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, US
  Square and Space. From Malevich to GES-2, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
  Space Time Scenarios, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Epílogo [Epílogue], Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, Lieon, Spain
  Books, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  Exposure, MUDEC, Milan, Italy
  Matsumoto Architecture + Art Festival 2024, Matsumoto City Museum, Matsumoto, Japan
  
  2023
  BIBLIOMANIA – Das Buch in der Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
  Capturing the Moment: Painting After Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Contemporary Art Chamber, Dresden Castle, Dresden, Germany
  GEGENWARTSGESELLSCHAFT, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Exotermia: Semiótica de la ubicación en la Colección MUSAC, MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Leon, Spain
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  Dialectic of Presence, DZ Bank Art Foundation, Frankfurt, Germany
  Keep Collecting?!, Hildesheim Cathedral Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
  Making Space: Photographs of Architecture, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  What's New? Recent Acquisitions, Rollins Museum of Art, Winter Park, Florida, US
  The Gemma De Angelis Testa Donation, Ca' Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
  Eurêka: Sors de ta réserve #5, Frac Ile-de-France, Les Réserves, Romainville, France
  Calder to Capote: Innovation and Tradition, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida, US
  Photographic Notes: Works from the Contemporary Art Collection, MGKSiegen, Siegen, Germany
  Die Young Stay Pretty, Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, Japan 
  New Frontiers: Movements in Contemporary Art, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK
  Photography: Real and Imagined, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  
  2022
  The Big Picture: Photography's Moment, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, US
  Changes, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Musei San Domenico – Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì, Forlì, Italy
  Enter the Mirror, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  BIBLIOMANIA - Das Buch in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
  Die Oper ist tot – Es lebe die Oper!, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
  Schindler House Los Angeles: Space as a Medium of Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
  European Trails, Center for Contemporary Art, Augsburg, Germany
  History of a Collection with Civic Commitments, National Art Center, Tokyo & National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
  The Howard and Judie Ganek Collection, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida. US
  Our Selves: Photographs by Women artists from Helen Kornblum, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Photographic Concepts and Treasures - Works from the Collection, Photographic Collection/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
  (UN)COMMON VALUES. Two Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art Glamour Studio: Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der BMW-Schenkung, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Dialogues Across Disciplines, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, New York, US
  Full House, Museum Kuppersmuhle Duisburg, Germany
  Deutscher Kaviar. Die Fotografische Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
  
  2021
  Catastrophe and Recovery, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  More beautiful from earth: The collection of the MGKSiegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
  Writing the History of the Future. Signature Works of the Singular ZKM Media Art Collection, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
  Obayashi Collection: Self-History, WHAT Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  
  2020
  MONOCULTURE, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium
  fiftyfifty, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Collection Ensemble - 2020 Spring Rotation, umma (University of Michigan Museum of Art, Michigan, US
  SUBJECT and OBJECT. PHOTO RHINE RUHR, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Celebrating 10 Years in Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
  Modern Women: Modern Vision–Works from the Bank of America Collection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, US
  Animals in Art, ARKEN, Ishøj, Denmark
  Women and Photography. Ways of Seeing and Being Seen, St. John’s Barn / St. Giles, Oxford, UK 
  Street.Life.Photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
  
  2019
  Forgetting. Fragments of Remembrance, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria
  The New Photography. Upheaval and new beginnings 1970–1990, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  Crossing Lines, Constructing Home, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, US
  Candida Höfer – Hiroshi Sugimoto – Thomas Ruff Selected works, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  For Mario, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  A Small Investigation, Nicole Klagsbrun Inc., New York, US
  Highlights 1965-2017, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  The Memory of Space, Kim Chung Up Architecture Museum, Anyang, Korea
  The Dream of the Library, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
  Theaters of Fiction, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, US
  Travelling the World. Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
  
  2018
  Aplicación Murillo, Materialismo, Charitas Populismo, Espacio Santa Clara, Sevilla, Spain
  Still Live, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
  Photography + Books. Out of the Retina and Into the Brain: The Art Library of Aaron and Barbara Levine, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  The First Decade, Inna Contemporary Art Space, Hangzhou, China
  Civilization: The Way We Live Now, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Vende noticias 2007-2018, Fundación CALOSA, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
  THE FLÂNEUR: From Impressionism to the Present, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  The Sony World Photography Awards, Royal Villa of Monza, Monza, Italy
  The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moskva, Russia
  Doing the Document. Bartenbach Donation, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
  A gaze into architecture. Phases of Contemporary Photography and Architecture, Archi Depot Museum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  Charity Exhibition for Orange Ribbon, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Michael Oppitz. Bewegliche Mythen, Kolumba, Köln, Germany
  Lektüre. Bilder vom Lesen - Vom Lesen der Bilder, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
  (Space) Street. Life. Photography. Street Photography aus siebenn Jahrzehnten., Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen., Hamburg, Germany
  You are Faust: Goethe’s Drama in the Arts, Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany
  Photography from Dusseldorf – Bernd, Hilla and the Others, Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Light Sensitive 2: Photography from the Schaufler Collection, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
  Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, US
  EDIFICE, COMPLEX, VISIONARY, STRUCTURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
  
  2017
  Artists and Architecture: Projection/Convergence/Intersection, Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, US
  Du bist Faust. Goethes Drama in der Kunst, Kunstalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Ludwig, Munich, Germany
  Für Barbara, Hall Art Foundation, Derneberg, Germany
  Infinite Garden. From Giverny to the Amazon, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
  INVENTUR- Adolf Krischantiz, Architekturgalerie München, München; Artitekturforum Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
  Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. Eine Audiotour durch die Sammlung der GfZK Leipzig, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Lepzig, Germany
  Naturgeschichten. Spuren des Politischen, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
  Photographs Become Pictures. The Becher Class, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany; Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany 
  Photography Reinvented: The Collection of Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
  Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  The Present Order – Order the Present, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Vienna, Austria
  Travel Around the World, Instituto Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
  Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigung im Spiel ist. Sammlung Klein, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  Ways to see Brazil: 20 Years Itaú Cultural. Oca, Saõ Paolo, Brazil
  Work and Leisure, The Cube, Eschborn, Germany
  
  2016
  A Cor do Brasil: de Visconti a Volpi, de Sued a Milhazes, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
  And Now the Good News: Works from the Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, MASI Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
  Arte e Architettura: punti di vista, Casa Mantegna, Mantua, Italy 
  Bilerstrom. Der Rhein una die Fotografie 2016-1853, LVR Museum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  Der typologische Blick: Ausstellung für Hilla Becher, Die Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, Germany
  Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte. Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Don’t Look Back: The 1990’s at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Elbphilharmonie. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 
  Großes Kino. Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany
  Inszeniert. Spektakel und Rollenspiel in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturetiftung, Munich, Germany 
  Inventur von Adolf Krischanitz, Galerie Mauroner, Vienna, Austria
  Mikro Makro, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Sammlung Viehof, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Barbican Centre, London; Manchester Gallery, Manchester, UK
  The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitnössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Venedig: Stadt der Künstler, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, Germany
  Viaje alrededor del mundo, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
  Weitsicht, Kurpfäziches Museum, Heidelberg, Germany 
  Wir nennen es Ludwig: Das Museum Ludwig wird 40, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  
  2015
  Design by Choice - Origins of Mass Customisation in Europe, bureau europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  Die Kunst des Aufbewahrens, Draiflessen Collection GbR, Mettingen, Germany
  Patrice Chéreau. Un Musée imaginaire. Collection Lambert en Avignon. Avignon, France
  Time Present. Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection. Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  A Beautiful New World, Second Nanjing International Art Festival. Nanjing, China
  Enlight my Space. Kunst nach 1990, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  Tiere schauen, Hegenbarth Sammlung Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon
  Framing Desire: Photography and Video, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, US
  Arche Noah – Über Tier und Mensch in der Kunst, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
  Las Lágrimas De Las Cosas, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
  Der Göttliche. Michelangelo als Inspiration, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
  All the World’s a Stage. Works from the Goetz Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
  Words and Images. Books Beyond Artists, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
  Ikonen und Konzepte. Von August Sander zu Jim Dine, Stiftung Schloss Neuhardenberg. Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
  No ver, no oir y callar. 1990-2015, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
  
  2014
  Unbeugsam und ungebändigt - Dokumentarische Fotografie um 1979, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  The First International Biennial of Contemporary Art Foundation of Cartagena de Indias, Centro Calle de las Damas, Bogota, Colombia
  ROOM SERVICE. Vom Hotel in der Kunst und Künstlern im Hotel, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  Le noir et le bleu, un rêve méditerranéen, Museum of Civilizations from Europe and the Mediterranean, Marseille, France
  Foto A-Z: Photographers we have featured, and those still on our wish list, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Fronteiras Incertas – arte e fotografia no acervo mac usp, Museu de Art Contemporánea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  Weltreise: Kunst aus Deutschland unterwags, ZKM Karlsruhe I Museum für Kunst und Mediantechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of an Artwork by the Artist, the Museum, and the Public, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern; Palais des Beaux-Art BOZAR, Bruxelles, Belgium
  Drunter und Drüber: Der Eigelstein, Kölnisches Stadtmuseum, Köln, Germany
  
  2013
  House of Vettii, Koenig & Clinton, New York, US
  Nak Benefizauktion, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
  Mínima Resistencia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
  Candida Höfer & Flor Garduño, Espaivisor - Galería Visor, Valencia, Spain
  Space, Place, And Order, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Still - Photography in the Museum, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
  El Arte del Presente, ColecciÓn Helga de Alvear - Mecenazgo al Servicio del Arte - CENTROCENTRO CIBELES DE CULTURA Y CIUDADANÍA, Madrid, Spain
  Bookhouse, La Forma Del Libro - MARCA - Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
  Stadt in Sicht, Werke aus der Sammlung Deutsche Bank. Von Feininger bis Gursky - Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
  Schenkung Herbert Lange. Fotografien 1925 – 2009, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
  The Art is Present, Helga de Alvear Collection, Centro Cibeles de Cultura y Ciudadania, Madrid, Spain
  
  2012
  Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Animism. Modernity through the Looking Glass, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
  Flipper, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Before the Law. Post-War Sculptures and Space of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  El museu com a pretext, Can Palauet, Mataró, Spain
  An Orchestrated Vision: The Theater of Contemporary Photography, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, US
  Der Mensch und seine Objekte, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
  Aus Passion. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Hanck, Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
  
  2011
  ERSCHAUTE BAUTEN. Architektur im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunstfotografie, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, Austria
  El museu com a pretext, Museu d’Art Jaume Morera, Lleida, Spain
  Library Science, New Haven Museum, New Haven, US
  Real Venice, Somerset House, London, UK
  OMA /Progress, Barbican Centre, London, UK
  El museu com a pretext, Antic Escorxador, Tortosa, Spain
  Eyes on Paris. Paris im Fotobuch. 1890 bis heute, Haus der Photographie / Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  Die Erfindung der Wirklichkeit - Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf von 1970 bis heute, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Animismus. Moderne hinter den Spiegeln, Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria
  Kunst macht Schule, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
  Photographie an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
  El museu com a pretext, Monestir, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain
  Beziehungsarbeit / Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus, Wien, Austria
  Streetlife und Homestories. Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany
  Real Venice / Venezia Autentica, Monasterio San Giorgio Maggiore, Venezia, Italy
  Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia, Italy
  Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, US
  LITOS – GRAFERA, Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
  Herein!, DZ Bank (Kunstsammlung), Frankfurt, Germany
  Historias de vida Material, Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
  El museu com a pretext, Espai d’Art Moritz, Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain
  Things are Queer. Highlights der Sammlung UniCredit, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
  Happy Tech. Macchine dal Volto Umano, Triennale Bovisa, Milano, Italy
  Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
  Happy Tech. Macchine dal Volto Umano, Palazzo Re Enzo, Bologna, Italy
  Testing Ground. Time Scale, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  El museu com a pretext, Museu d’Art de Sabadell, Sabadell, Spain
  Zwiebelfische. Jimmy Ernst & der chinesische Zirkel. Glückstadt - New York, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany
  LITOS GRAFERA. Litografi af internationale samtidskunstnere, Kunstcenter Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg, Denmark
  
  2010
  Dopplereffekt. Bilder in Kunst und Wissenschaft, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
  La photographie n’est pas l’art - Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France
  Radical Conceptual. Positionen aus der Sammlung des MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
  David Chipperfield Architects- Form Matters, Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, A Coruna, Spain
  Past Present Future. Le collezioni Fondazione Cariverona e UniCredit Group: arte per la città, Palazzo della Ragione, Verona, Italy
  Konversationsstücke. Act III CLIMAX, Johnen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
  15x1 \\ 45+, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
  Ruhrblicke. Ein Fotografieprojekt der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe, Zeche Zollverein (Sanaa-Gebäude), Essen, Germany
  Photography, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
  El museu com a pretext, Musée de l’Emporda, Figueres, Spain
  Ein neuer Blick. Architekturfotografie aus den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, Germany
  Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany
  Auswertung der Flugdaten. Kunst der 80er. Eine Düsseldorfer Perspektive, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Der Rote Bulli. Stephen Shore und die Neue Düsseldorfer Fotografie 1971-87, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  In & Out - Six from Düsseldorf, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, Italy
  Italian Journey. Thirty-five international artists in the Italy of today, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
  Hyper Real. Die Passion des Realen in Malerei und Fotografie, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
  David Chipperfield Architects- Form Matters, Arsenali Medicei, Pisa, Italy
  Out of the office. Unternehmensgalerie Ruhr.2010 / Kunstwerke aus Firmensammlungen, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, National Arts Club, New York, US
  Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey
  Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
  
  2009
  Traces: IMMA Limited Editions, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  Kunst und Kalter Krieg. Deutsche Positionen 1945-89, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
  Vision Building. Architecture in Contemporary Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) / Gutstein Gallery, Savannah, US
  Flexible Aura, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
  Past Present Future. Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
  David Chipperfield - Form Matters, Design Museum, London, UK
  La photographie n’est pas l’art - Collection Sylvio Perlstein, Musée communal d’Ixelles. Bruxelles, Belgium
  Die Düsseldorfer Schule. Photographien 1970 - 2008 aus der Sammlung Lothar Schirmer, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München, Germany
  Feedback - Werke aus der Sammlung von Arp bis Herold, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Rolandseck, Germany
  Best of 50 Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
  just what is it ... 100 Jahre Kunst der Moderne aus privaten Sammlungen in Baden-Württemberg. 10 Jahre Museum für Neue Kunst im ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst/ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Beautiful Fictions. Photography at the AGO - featuring the Vivian & David Campbell Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
  
  2007
  Existencias, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leòn, Leon, Spain
  Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, Tate, Liverpool, UK
  What does the jellyfish want? Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany
  Welt-Bilder 2, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
  Auf/Zu, Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
  Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moskow, Russia
  Gartenlust, Der Garten in der Kunst, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  
  2006
  Berlin Tokyo / Tokyo Berlin, Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
  Helga de Alvear – Conceitos para uma colecção, CCB Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
  Mythos Dresden. Eine kulturhistorische Revue, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
  Why Pictures Now. Fotografie, Film, Video heute, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
  
  2005
  Museum Folkwang Essen, Das Tier. Nützlich, süss und museal, Fotografische Sammlung, Essen
  CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre dʼart, Helden heute – Das Heldenbild in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Biel, Switzerland
  Bulger Gallery, Bibliotheca, Toronto, Canada
  Museum der Moderne, Les Grandes Spectacles: 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Salzburg, Austria
  Kühn Malvezzi Architekten, Berlin, Germany
  
  2004
  German Art. Deutsche Kunst aus der Sammlung des Saint Louis Art Museum, Eine, Germany
  Ausstellung des ALTANA Kulturforums zu Gast im Städel, Städel, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  2003
  New Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
  
  2002
  Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
  Limits of Perception, Fundación Miró, Barcelona, Spain
  
  2001
  Museum unserer Wünsche/Museum of our wishes, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  Photographs, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, US
  
  2000
  Natuurriumten, Naturmuseum Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Selected Awards

• 2024
  Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024
  
  2022
  Achievement in Architecture, Lucie Awards 
  
  2018               
  Outstanding Contribution to Photography, Sony World Photography Awards
  
  2015               
  Cologne Fine Art Prize
  
  2007               
  Kunstpreis Finkenwerder
  
  1968               
  Ars Viva-Preis des Kulturkreises der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V.

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Aaron and Barbara Levine Collection, Washington D.C., US
  Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Artists Management Group, Beverly Hills, US
  Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
  AXA Art Versicherung AG, Köln, Germany
  Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
  Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
  Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, US
  Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
  Charles Cowles Collection, Miami / New York, US
  Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva, Barcelona, Spain
  Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain, Pantin, France
  Collection Neuflize Vie, Neuflize Vie, France
  Collection of Helga de Alvear, Keuruu, Finland
  Collection Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
  Collection Sylvio Perstein, Belgium
  Collezione Anna Rosa e Giovanni COTRONEO, Roma, Italy
  Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, US
  Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Die Art Collection Neue Börse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Köln, Germany
  DZ Bank Sammlung im Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  Flick Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
  Fondazione Guastalla, Mendrisio, Switzerland
  Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Puteaux, France
  Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) - Ile-de-France, Paris, France
  Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Spain
  Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  Hammer Contemporary Collection at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Helen Kornblum Collection - The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, US
  International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, US
  Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
  Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
  Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
  Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  MIT, Cambridge, US
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
  Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  Museos Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
  Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia
  National Museum of Art, Department of Architecture, Oslo, Norway
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  NATIONAL-BANK AG, Essen, Germany
  Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design , Nürnberg, Germany
  Pakyoung Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
  Robert Hiscox Collection, London, UK
  Rubell Family Collection, Miami Beach, US
  Sammlung Goetz, München, Germany
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Sten Stenersen jr. Collection, Oslo, Norway
  Strauss Collection, US
  Swiss Reinsurance Company, Zurich, Switzerland
  Telefónica Foundation Photography Collection, Madrid, Spain
  The Metropolitan Bank & Trust Collection, Cleveland, US
  The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US
  The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  The National Museum of Photography - Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
  The Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach - Fotosammlung Jeane von Oppenheim, West Palm Beach, US
  The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  The Roland Berger Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany
  UniCredit Group, Milano, Italy
  Vivian & David Campbell Collection, Toronto, Canada
  Wilfried Lentz Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany