Candida Höfer

The Kunsthistorisches Institut Bonn, Yesterday and Today. The imposing presence of architecture captured in the absence of humans: that is the defining characteristic of the photographs with which Candida H fer (b. 1944, Eberswalde; lives and works in Cologne) has risen to international renown. In 1992, she captured the Kunsthistorisches Institut der Rheinischen Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universit t Bonn in ten analogue black-and-white pictures that have not been on public display. In 2020, H fer returned to the institute to take more pictures using a digital camera. The two series now make their public d but in the institute's halls and are gathered in this book. Undertaking a historically and aesthetically captivating comparison, H fer probes the ways in which university life has changed over almost three decades. Candida H fer was a member of Bernd Becher's inaugural photography class at the Kunstakademie D sseldorf. Her works were shown at documenta 11 in 2002, and in 2003, she and Martin Kippenberger represented Germany at the 50th Biennale di Venezia.