The internationally renowned German artist Candida Höfer took photographs for a project at the Semperoper in Dresden last year. The resulting large-format photographs of rooms in front of and behind the scenes will be on display at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett from March 22, as announced by the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) on Wednesday. In the exhibition "Candida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection", they will be in dialog with woodcuts, engravings and etchings by Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer or Giovanni Battista Piranesi from the museum's collection - as a juxtaposition of Höfer's visual language with the pictorial languages of the Renaissance and Enlightenment on architecture as places of cultural rituals.
Höfer (80) comes from Brandenburg. She studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1973, where she was part of the first generation of artists in Bernd and Hilla Becher's class, which is now regarded as the international photographic avant-garde of post-war modernism. The artist lives and works in Cologne. She exhibited at the documenta in 2002 and represented Germany at the Venice Biennale the following year. Her works can be seen in collections in Germany and abroad.
