Neues Museum Weimar II (Daniel Buren-Photo souvenir: Daurenstallation im Treppenhaus des neues Museum Weimar, 1994/December 1998)

This photograph depicts the convergence between old and new at one of Germany’s oldest public museums, the Neues Museum Weimar. The painted stripes that add a playful element to the imposing arches are an installation by artist Daniel Buren, completed when the museum was undergoing renovations in 1996.

Since the 1970s, Candida Höfer has photographed empty public places. She found that, surprisingly, photographing spaces without people reveals how the buildings and struc-tures shape and inform our daily activities.