Candida Höfer: Dresden and elsewhere

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle is pleased to present Candida Höfer’s latest works in the exhibition “Dresden and elsewhere.” One of the most culturally rich opera houses in the German-speaking world, the Semper Opera in Dresden, was still missing from her series of interior photographs of world-famous opera houses. Last year, the artist succeeded in including the much-performed opera house in her œuvre. Candida Höfer was able to use several days of the theater’s summer break to take pictures with her large format camera. The result is fourteen spatial portraits that provide different perspectives of the stage, the auditorium, the workshops, the cloakroom and the staircase. The complete series has been on display in March 2024 in the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden alongside selected woodcuts, copperplate engravings and etchings by Albrecht Dürer, Daniel Hopfer and Giovanni Battista Piranesi.