Wolfgang Tillmans

(German, born 1968)

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Lunar Landscape, 2022

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Structure For Advertising, 2022

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Sirius Through a Defocused Telescope, a, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Summer Storm Rain Drops Freeze Frame, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Ulaanbaatar Still Life, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

San Francisco Still Life, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

My 25 Year Old Cactus, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

View From Fasanenstrasse 31, 2023

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Wolfgang Tillmans

Jodie with the fish from Memphis, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1968
Born in Remscheid, Germany
1987 - 1990
Lives and works in Hamburg
1990 - 1992
Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, UK
1992 - 1994
Lives and works in London
1994 - 1995
Lives and works in New York
1995
Ars Viva Prize, Germany
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen
1996 - 2007
Lives and works in London
1998 - 1999
Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
2000
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London

Exhibitions

2021
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2021:
Schall ist flüssig – Sound is liquid, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (c) (solo exhibition)
Concrete Column, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
Lumière du matin, Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo exhibition)
Moon in Earthlight, Maureen Paley at Morena di Luna, Brighton Hove) (solo exhibition)
FRAGILE, Museum for Science and Technology, Accra (solo exhibition)
Your body is yours, Trafó Gallery, Budapest (solo exhibition)
2020
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
Wolfgang Tillmans, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Isa Genzken und Wolfgang Tillmans: KAT_A , Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf
Today Is The First Day, WIELS, Brussels
2019
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2019
Wolfgang Tillmans, Image/Imatge, Orthez, France
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Peach alive, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Maureen Paley, London (solo exhibition)
2018
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Wolfgang Tillmans: War Requiem, English National Opera, London (stage design); traveled to National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Taipei (2020) (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Fest, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Fragile, Musée d´Art Contemporain et Multimédias in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo [itinerary: Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi; The GoDown Arts Centre, Nairobi; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg] [organized by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Goethe-Institut Kinshasa, and Académie des BeauxArts, Democratic Republic of Congo] (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Kaiserring Goslar, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Qu'est-ce qui est différent?, Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, David Zwirner, Hong Kong (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo exhibition)
2017
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Wolfgang Tillmans: Zwischen 1943 und 1973 lagen 30 Jahre. 30 Jahre Nach 1973 War Das Jahr 2003, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Tate Modern, London (solo exhibition)
2016
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Wolfgang Tillmans: ¿dónde estamos?, Mexico City [project for billboard] (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Leben Ist Astronomisch Installation (2001–2012), K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: On the Verge of Visibility, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Pictures from the World, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Playback Room – Ein Raum für Studiomusik, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Studio, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Maureen Paley, London (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2015
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Wolfgang Tillmans: Book for Architects, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Lignine Duress, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: PCR, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Your Body is Yours, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Dům Umění - Galerie Současného Umění České Budějovice, Czech Republic (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden [organized on occasion of the artist receiving the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography]
2014
Wolfgang Tillmans Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Beyeler Collection: Wolfgang Tillmans, Fondation Beyeler, Basel [collection display curated by the artist] (solo exhibition)
In Dialogue: Wolfgang Tillmans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo exhibition)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Affinity, Wako Works of Art
2013
Galleria S.a.l.e.s, Roma, Italy (solo)
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Maureen Paley, London, England (solo)
Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago, Chile (solo)
Neue Welt, Rencontre d’Arles, Arles, France (solo)
From Neue Welt, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lost & Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2012
Recent Acquisitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Freischwimmer: The World of Contemporary Photography, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Treffpunkt: Berlin, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
Powerflower – Blütenzauber in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart, Germany
Klang & Stille, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Das zeitgenössische Städel, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Relocated, Galerie Neu & MD 72, Berlin, Germany
Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia (solo)
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Dark Sky, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Circus Wols, Eine Hommage, curated by Olaf Metzel, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
Boy: A Contemporary Project, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
The Sports Show, curated by David E. Little, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Print/Out, organized by Christophe Cherix, Ellen Gallagher, and Sarah Suzuki, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Regarding Warhol: Fifty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Public Collections

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Literature

2020
Today Is The First Day, exh. cat. IMMA, Dublin and WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
Wolfgang Tillmans (four books. 40th Anniversary Edition), Taschen, Cologne, Germany
2018
What is different?, Jahresring 64, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
Fragile, exh. cat. Ifa tour, Stuttgart 2018 (Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédias, Kinshasa, DR Congo; Circle Art Gallery and GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg; Modern Art Museum-Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa (2019) and Galerie d’Art Contemporain de Yaoundé (GACY), Yaoundé, Kamerun (2019)
Qu’est-ce qui est différent?, exh. cat. Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, Jahresring 64, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
DZHK Book 2018, exh. cat. David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Kaiserringträger der Stadt Goslar 2018, exh. cat. Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany
Was ist anders?, Jahresring 64, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany
There were 30 years between 1943 and 1973. 30 years from 1973 was the year 2003, exh. cat. Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
2017
2017, exh. cat. Tate Modern, London, UK