In 2014, Carrie Mae Weems was the first Black artist to have a retrospective at the Guggenheim. The show was mostly centered around Weems’s photography, and it included her important “Kitchen Table Series” from 1990: using black-and-white film, she photographed herself every day at the same table—sometimes with her family, other times with friends—under the same pallid white light. “I know what it meant for me,” she has said of the series, “but I didn’t know what it would mean historically.” Weems is now 68. In her first solo show in Germany, images from the “Kitchen Table Series” are on view alongside works both old and new. —Elena Clavarino