Stephen Willats (British, born )

Timeline

1943
Born in London, UK
1962–1963
The Ground Course, Ealing School of Art
1965
Editor and publisher of "Control Magazine"
1972–1973
Director of the Centre of Behavioural Art, Gallery House, London
1979–1980
D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin
1990
Convenor of the Symposium, "Art Creating Society," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1991
"Stephen Willats Printed Archive" established at Victoria and Albert Museum
Lives and works in London, UK

Exhibitions

2012
Secret Language The Code Breakers , Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2010
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
2010
The World As It Is And The World As It Could Be, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2010
In Two Minds, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2010
Moving Images: Artists & Video/Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2010
Ground Level: Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II, QUAD, Derby, UK
2010
Counterconsciousness, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2009–2010
Unresolved Matters: Social Utopias Revisited, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
7 x 14: Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2009
Die Moderne als Ruine: Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2009
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2009
Die Moderne als Ruine: Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2009
Cybernetic Still Life, BaliceHertling, Paris, France
2009
The Ideological Diagram, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2009
In And Out The Underworld, European Kusthalle, Cologne, Germany
2009
Assumptions And Identity Identity And Assumptions, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2009
My Yard, British Council Collection exhibition (curated by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2009
At The Edge: British Art 1950-2000, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, UK
2009
Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hanover, Germany
2009
An Eye For An Eye, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, UK
2008
Building Dwelling Thinking, Laura Bartlett Gallery (curated by John Slyce), London, UK
2008
No One is Innocent. Kunst-Stil-Revolte, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008
A Town (Not A City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzwerland
2008
Mondo e Terra: La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN - Nuoro, Museo d’arte Provincia
2008
Punk. No One is Innocent. Kunst-Stil-Revolte, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008
The Speculative Diagram, Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, London, UK (solo)
2008
The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (solo)
2008
Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008
Person to Person/ People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Buckinghamshire, UK (solo)
2008
Sammlung/Collection, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2008
The Art of Participation, San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2008
Soziale Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (group)
2008
Manifesta 7 - Trentino / Tyrol, Rovereto, Italy (group)
2007
Person to Person. People to People. Stephen Willats, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, Great Britain
2007
Stephen Willats. Just between People, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
2007
The Secret Public. The last days of the British Underground 1978- 1988, ICA-Institute of Contemportary Arts, London
2007
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
2007
Beyond the Wall, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
2007
Oh Girl, It´s A Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
2007
Centre of the Creative Universe. Liverpool and the Avantgarde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2007
The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2007
The Speculative Diagram, CASCA, Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
2006
Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald Street Gallery, London (solo)
2006
The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
2006
Stephen Willats Multiple Clothing: Message - Interaction - Exchange (1965-1998), Tate Modern, London
2006
Wie die Welt ist und wie sie sein könnte: Stephen Willats, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
2006
From My Mind to Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2006
Going Home, MOT International, London
2006
Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2006
Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
2005
Stephen Willats-Street Talk Amsterdam, LUMEN TRAVO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005
Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005
Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2005
Wie Gesellschaft und Kunst ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2005
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2005
Barents Art Triennial, Kirkenes, Norway
2005
MULTICHANNEL LIFE, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2004
Streets, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004
Re:Location. 1-7 Shake, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
2004
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Tate Gallery, London, UK
2004
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Birmingham City Art Museum, UK
2004
La Collection Continue, FRAC Corse, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia, Korsika
2004
Vanishing Points: Landscape Art Beyond the Horizon, Southhampton city Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2004
Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany
2004
Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2004
Messages From The Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2004
L´Air du Temps - collection printemps/été 2004, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich
2003
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
2003
Personal Encounters in your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2003
Random Networks, ARTLAB 27 at Imperial College, London
2003
Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
2003
Collection 001, Frac Rhone-Alpes. Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2003
In Portraiture Irrelevance Is Ugliness, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges
2003
Art For Networks, Turnpike Gallery, Leith. Nr. Manchester, UK
2003
Urban Codes, coder/decoder, Espace de l’Art Concret, chateau de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2003
Air Guitar. Reconsidering Rock Music, Tulie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
2002–2003
In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Through your symbolic world, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2002
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2002
Cognition Control. From The Archives of Stephen Willats, Institute of Visuel Culture Fritzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Uk (solo)
2002
Private Views, London Print Studio, London, UK
2002
The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwald, Dortmund, Germany
2002
Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery and then touring
2002
Art For Networks, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff and then touring
2001
Arbeit Essen Angst, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2001
City Racing. A Partial Account, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2001
Conception. Conceptual Documents 1968-72, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
2001
Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2001
Antagonisms, Musee d’Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain
2001
The Map is not the Territory, England & Co., London, UK
2001
Traces and Signs, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2001
Rencontres et Co-operations 1979-2000, Galerie Gabriell Maubrie, Paris, France (solo)
2001
Man From The Twenty First Century, Nottingham 1970 – 1971 Clinique, London, Uk (solo)
2001
Works on Paper, Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001
Video Evidence, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, USA
2001
Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkins Gallery, London, UK
2001
Selbst Portrait, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg. Germany
2001
Stadsgezichten. Amsterdam vereeuwigd 1901-2001, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000
Democracy, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2000
Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2000
Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2000
Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London
2000
Live in your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1999
Multichanel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1999
Nur Wasser Lasst Sich Leichter Schneiden, Hamburg, germany
1999
Bildung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Switzerland
1999
Borderline PILOT, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands
1998
Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery, UK (solo)
1998
Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK (solo)
1998
Multicult Berlin, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1998
Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London, UK (solo)
1998
Addressing the Century, 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1998
Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1998
Blind Date With Reality, Galerie Bandstetter & Wyss, Zurich
1997
Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
1997
Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1997
The Grand Design, The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
1997
In Every Moment Everywhere, Porin Taidemuseo, Finland
1997
C’est ici que nous vivons (2), FRAC Rhones-Alpes, Lyon, France
1997
Photographie d’une Collection 3/97, de la Caise des Depots et Consignations, Paris, France
1997
Street Talk, Gallery Victoria Miro, London, UK (solo)
1997
MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
1996
In Response To Each Other, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1996
Les Contes de Fees se terminent bien, Frac Haute-Normandie, Chateau du Val, France
1996
Freneuse, Sotteville-sous-le-Val, France
1996
Radikale Images, 2nd Austrian Triennale for Photography, Neue Galerie, Graz, Switzerland
1996
Everybody’s Talking, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
1996
Du Hasard A l'Accord, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
1995
A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin
1995
Living together, Tramway Visual Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1995
Writing on the wall, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1995
Writing on the Wall, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Mapping Knowledge, The Minories Gallery, Colchester, UK
1995
Ars 95 Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
1995
I don’t actually have to go, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1995
Imprint 93, City Racing, London, UK
1995
Temples, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1995
Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1995
La Transparence Dans L’Art Du XXe Siecle, Museum des Beaux-Arts Malraux, Le Havre, France
1995
The Edge of Town, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Conn., USA
1995
Paste-Up, Past & Present, Kent Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Outsiders, Camerawork, London, UK
1994
Visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
1994
Sarah Staton Super Store Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
1994
Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994
Looking at Words: Reading Pictures, Elms Lester Painting Rooms, London, UK
1994
Lesezimmer II, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
1994
Multiple Clothing, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1994
Fateful combinations, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
1994
Museum Mosaic, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
1994
Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1994
Private Journeys, Heston Farm Estate, The Comunity Hall, Fenton House, Biscoe Close, Heston, Middlesex, West London
1994
Into the infrastructure, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994
Taking The Short Cut, St. Church Hall, Roydon/Essex, England
1993
Buildings and People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1993
Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1993
Meta Filter - A State of Agreement, The Tate Gallery, London
1993
Buildings and people - Berlin, 1979 - 1993, Goethe Institut, London, UK
1993
The Ideal Place, HCAK, Den Haag, Netherlands
1993
Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1993
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1993
Public and Private, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1993
The Ideal Place, HCAK, Den Haag, Netherlands
1993
Walking Between Objects, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1992
Wasteland, Photographic Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1992
Real Stories, Museet fur Photokunst, Odense, Denmark
1992
Instructions and Diagrams, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1992
Signs of Living, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
1991
Oikos, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
1991
Excavating the Present, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK
1991
Past Continuous, Artsite Trust, Bath Festival
1991
Shocks to the System, ACGB Touring Exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, UK
1991
Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Uk (solo)
1990
Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland (solo)
1990
Stephen Willats, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)

Public Collections

Caisse de depots et Consignations, Paris, France
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Helsingen Kaupungin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Stichting Volkshuisversting in de Kunst, Den Haag, Netherlands
Victoria & Albert Museum (Artist’s Book Collection, archive of writings and publications)
Hounslow Borough Counicl, London, UK
Museum de Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France
Frac Course Centre of Contemporary Art, Corsica
Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland, USA
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Gimpel Fils Galery, London, Uk
Victoria & Albert Museum, Drawing Dept., London, UK
The British Museum, Prints & Drawings Dept., London
National Gallery, Gdansk
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Conneticut, USA
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Documentation on the West London Social Resource Project commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain housed at Osterley Library
Southampton City Art Gallery & Museum
Kunstmuseum Zürich, Switzerland
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
The Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
De Beyerd Centrum voor Actuelle Kunst, Breda, Netherlands
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Contemporary Art Society, London
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori
Frac Haute-Normandie
Middlesborough Art Gallery, UK
South London Art Gallery
Frac Poitou Charentes
Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon
Art Gallery of Bew South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Literature

2000
"Art and Social Function" (Reprint of 1976 original) Elipsis, London
2000
"Multiple Clothing", Walther Konig, Köln
2000
Spring Art and Social Foundation. "Stephen Willats." Reprint of book first published in 1976 by Ellipsis. London. September.
1998
"Random Encounter", Southampton Art Gallery
1997
"The Art Museum in Society. Collected Writings", Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1996
"Between Buildings and People", Academy Editions, London
English (US)

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