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Caption: Dawoud Bey, PC Frank Ishman
Groundbreaking American artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and film installations engage the oft disappeared histories of the Black presence in America. Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, “Harlem, U.S.A,,” that were exhibited to critical acclaim in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. His work has since been the subject of numerous major museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, with works held in numerous public collections.
Recent solo museum exhibitions include Elegy (2023-2024), an exhibition of the artist’s history-based photographs and film works at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts which travels to the New Orleans Museum of Art later this year; and Dawoud Bey: An American Project (2020-2022), which was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and traveled to the High Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His work was also recently the subject of the two-person exhibition Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems: In Dialogue organized by the Grand Rapids Museum of Art that traveled to the
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Photo by Lissa Rivera
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Galerie Thomas Zander
Galerie Thomas Zander is delighted to present a selection of new dye transfer prints by Candida Höfer, which was developed in collaboration with the gallery this year and is now on view for the first time, juxtaposed with recent large-scale colour images of interiors.
Candida Höfer, born in Eberswalde in 1944, is a representative of The Düsseldorf School of Photography and was a member of Bernd Becher’s inaugural class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2002 the Cologne based artist participated in documenta 11, in the following year she exhibited at the German Pavilion during the Venice Biennale and is recognised as one of the most important contemporary artists in Germany today.
Informed by the notion of visual memory and an interest in how people shape their environment, her projects explore the aesthetics of photographed spaces. Since the early 1980s Höfer has photographed libraries, museums and opera houses with a respectful distance and arranged in meticulous compositions. The absence of people in these cultural institutions of preserving, representing, mediating, dwelling – properties that are also inherent to photography – allow the artist to focus attention on the inner structures of the spaces. On view are concentrated, surprisingly minimal