With great objectivity and precision, Candida Höfer photographs for the most part deserted interiors of cultural sites such as libraries, museums, palaces, concert halls, theaters, and churches. Here, she provides a view into the large, empty exhibition space of Alfred Schmela’s gallery building, which he opened in Düsseldorf in 1971 and where art history had been written for many years. The image captivates though the clarity of its structure, as well as through an almost classical simplicity and sobriety. With her photographs, the artist presents something that is “actually not modern, something that exudes a sense of longevity” (Candida Höfer, 2001). The artist gifted this C-print to the Friends in 2017.