DEEDS CALENDAR: Candida Höfer: Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024 – Akademie der Künste | until 24.09.2024

The Cologne-based photographer Candida Höfer will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. To mark the award ceremony, the Akademie der Künste is showing an exhibition of Candida Höfer’s latest works at its location on Pariser Platz. On display are large-format photographs from the work complexes Weimar (2004-2006) and Berlin (2020-2022), including images of the Komische Oper with its neo-baroque interior from 1882 and the Neue Nationalgalerie (1965-1968) as Berlin’s landmark of modernism. The prize will be awarded to the artist on September 13, 2024 by Academy President Manos Tsangaris, with Matthias Sauerbruch, member of the Architecture Section, delivering the laudatory speech. The exhibition will be opened from September 14 to September 24, 2024.

WHEN?

Award ceremony and opening: Friday, September 13, 2024, 6 pm
with Candida Höfer, Karin Sander, Matthias Sauerbruch, Rolf Tegtmeier, Manos Tsangaris

Exhibition dates: Saturday, September 14 – Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Opening hours: Tuesday – Friday, 2 – 7 p.m., Saturday – Sunday, public holidays, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

WHERE?

Akademie der Künste
Pariser Platz 4
10117 Berlin

COSTS?

Award ceremony and opening: free admission
10/7 EUR, free up to 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Image above: Candida Höfer, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin IV 2021, C-print, 184 x 255,6 cm (framed) © Candida Höfer / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024