{"product_id":"candida-hofer-contexts","title":"Candida Höfer - Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCandida Höfer\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSemper Oper Dresden. Contexts. \u003c\/em\u003eKöln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2024. Hardcover, 88 pp \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ewith 43 color illustrations, some full- and double-page. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e24.8 × 32 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCatalog edited by Doreen Mende. Dresden, 2024. Contributions by \u003cstrong\u003eHerbert Burkert, Jane Boddy\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eDoreen Mende\u003c\/strong\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis book presents \u003cstrong data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"149\"\u003eCandida Höfer’s 2023 photographs of the Semperoper Dresden\u003c\/strong\u003e in dialogue with works from the \u003cstrong data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"220\"\u003eStaatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden\u003c\/strong\u003e. Blending artist’s book and exhibition catalog, it explores Höfer’s practice while reflecting on the artistic representation of space. Her images of rehearsal, storage, performance, and working areas in the opera house are juxtaposed with prints and drawings from the Kupferstich-Kabinett, spanning the mid-16th century to the invention of photography, including works by \u003cstrong data-start=\"595\" data-end=\"660\"\u003eAlbrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"215\" data-start=\"166\"\u003eCandida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"512\" data-start=\"217\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"266\" data-start=\"217\"\u003eCandida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection\u003c\/strong\u003e brought together fourteen newly created works by the internationally acclaimed German photographer at the \u003ca rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Kupferstich-Kabinett\" href=\"https:\/\/kupferstich-kabinett.skd.museum\/ausstellungen\/candida-hoefer-kontexte-eine-dresdner-reflexion\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKupferstich-Kabinett \u003c\/strong\u003eDresden\u003c\/a\u003e from \u003cstrong\u003eMarch 22-July 21, 2024\u003c\/strong\u003e. At the artist’s own suggestion, the project focuses on the \u003cstrong data-end=\"447\" data-start=\"425\"\u003eSemperoper Dresden\u003c\/strong\u003e, forming a cohesive body of work titled \u003cem data-end=\"509\" data-start=\"488\"\u003eSemper Oper Dresden\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"554\" data-start=\"514\"\u003eA Dialogue Between Past and Present\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"978\" data-start=\"555\"\u003eHöfer’s photographs of the opera house are shown in direct conversation with prints and drawings from the \u003cstrong data-end=\"685\" data-start=\"661\"\u003eKupferstich-Kabinett\u003c\/strong\u003e, including works by \u003cstrong data-end=\"771\" data-start=\"706\"\u003eAlbrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi\u003c\/strong\u003e. The deliberate juxtaposition of contemporary photography with etchings, engravings, and woodcuts reveals the visual grammars that have shaped artistic thinking about architecture and space for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"1013\" data-start=\"980\"\u003eSpaces of Culture and Ritual\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1341\" data-start=\"1014\"\u003eThe book reflects on spaces of rehearsal, collecting, archiving, exhibiting, and working, places where cultural life is shaped both behind the scenes and in public view. Höfer’s photographs invite readers to see these environments not just as functional interiors but as architectural stages of cultural memory and continuity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 data-end=\"1379\" data-start=\"1343\"\u003eHöfer and the Düsseldorf School\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1772\" data-start=\"1380\"\u003eCandida Höfer (b. 1944, Eberswalde) studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where she belonged to the first generation of students taught by \u003cstrong data-end=\"1546\" data-start=\"1520\"\u003eBernd and Hilla Becher\u003c\/strong\u003e. Alongside her peers, she became a defining figure of postwar photography and remains a central voice in the international art world. In 2024 she received the \u003cstrong data-end=\"1730\" data-start=\"1706\"\u003eKäthe Kollwitz Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eContent\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMarion Ackermann, Stephanie Buck, Doreen Mende, Preface \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUrsula Gather, Greeting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUlrich Reuter, Greeting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCandida Höfer. Semper Oper Dresden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHerbert Burkert, The Contexts of Candida Höfer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJane Boddy, Perspective on Stage in Albrecht Dürer and Candida Höfer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDoreen Mende, Thinking with Images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKupferstich-Kabinett. 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