Candida Höfer’s oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, ranks among the photographic avant-garde of the present day. The large-format images show public and semi-public spaces such as libraries, storage rooms, museums and opera houses – places of encounter, communication, memory and knowledge. They are not architectural photographs, but rather portraits of spaces. Höfer uses them to explore architectural concepts and how they form the human experience. The exhibition catalogue contains numerous illustrations and an essay by Matthias Sauerbruch.
