YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Candida Höfe. Candida Höfer is a German artist working with photography. From 1973 to 1982 Candida Höfer had studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf first studying  Film with Ole John, before she joined Bernd Becher's first Photography class at that academy. Also at Düsseldorf, in 1975, she had her first solo exhibition at Konrad Fischer Gallery.

Her early work addresses the visual changes in German society brought about by migrant workers from Turkey. This subject raised her interest in the impact of the built environment on people. She turned to public and semi-public spaces ranging from railway stations, spas, to libraries, from museums to zoological gardens, from banks to opera houses, some of them well-known spectacular cultural icons, others everyday architecture that we may pass without noticing. She also realized that somewhat paradoxically such impacts are most intensely present when people are not in the image.

Her photographs investigate the forms and structures of spaces, as well as intriguing details. She examines the contradictions between intention and actual use as well as the layers of historical change. This approach leads her to very personal portraits of spaces. The images invite us to take time to discover  and reflect upon what spaces do to us and what we do to spaces.

In her recent more abstract work Candida Höfer  is focusing on the importance of details and their role in the aesthetic perception of space.
For the presentation of her work she not only uses the traditional photograph in various sizes adjusted to the demands of composition, but she also shows her work in projections recalling her early involvement in film and her appreciation of image sequences, an approach she also takes in her book publications which she sees as sequential exhibition spaces.

Candida Höfer's work is shown in museums like the Kunsthalle Basel, the Kunsthalle Berne, the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Power Plant, Toronto, the Kunsthaus Bregenz and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. In 2013 the artist had a solo show at the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf..

In 2002 Candida Höfer participated in documenta 11. In 2003 she represented Germany at the Biennale in Venice (together with the late Martin Kippenberger).

*image (left)
© Candida Höfer
courtesy of the artist