Wolfgang Tillmans

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Wolfgang Tillmans
Nationality	German
Education	Bournemouth and Poole College of Art
Known for	Art and Photography
Awards	Turner Prize (2000)

Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German artist who lives in Berlin and London. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 2000.

Life and work

Wolfgang Tillmans was born on 16th August in Remscheid, Germany. He lived and worked in Hamburg at the end of the 1980s before moving to England. He studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art from 1990 to 1992.

Tillmans is mainly known for the use of multiple photographic genres in his gallery installations. His practice has also extended to video.

Since the mid-1980s, he has uniquely interpreted portraiture, still life, landscape and abstraction through the medium of photography. He employs a presentational practice that engages the dynamics of space, varying the size of his photographs based on the specific spatial setting of a venue and producing them as large inkjet prints and c-type-prints in multiple sizes. First recognized in the early 1990s for photographs of friends and street subculture he has developed a highly distinctive style of image making that freely embraces a broad range of subjects—from experiences of the everyday, the homo-erotic snapshot, to works that result from experiments with the photographic process.

His exhibition strategies are distinctive, and have changed the way in which photographic images are read and received in the exhibition context. An aspect of his work is to assume a curatorial role—he creates configurations with his photographs that draw formal, symbolic and ephemeral connections.

One of Tillmans' other chief modes of presentation is through the book form (see bibliography below). He has produced a number of artist’s books throughout his career. As well, there are numerous solo publications on his work including the most recent, Lighter, 2008.

He is the first artist working with photography at the center of his practice to have won the Turner Prize and as well the first non-British citizen to have done so.

Since 2006 Wolfgang Tillmans has run an exhibition space below his studio in London called Between Bridges.

Tillmans is a judge for New Contemporaries 2009.

Bibliography

Monographs, catalogues for solo exhibitions, and artist’s books

1995 Wolfgang Tillmans. Cologne: Taschen, reissued 2002. Wolfgang Tillmans. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Portikus Frankfurt am Main. Wolfgang Tillmans. Zurich: Kunsthalle Zürich.

1996 For When I’m Weak I’m Strong/Wer Liebe wagt lebt. morgen, exh. cat., Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Hatje Cantz Verlag.

1997 Concorde. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

1998 Fruiciones, exh. cat., Madrid: Museo Nacional Reina Sofia. Wolfgang Tillmans: Burg. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, reissued as Wolfgang Tillmans, 2002.

1999 Soldiers: The Nineties. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Total Solar Eclipse/Totale Sonnenfinsternis. Cologne, Germany: Galerie Daniel Buchholz. Wako Book 1999, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art.

2001 AC: Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans. edited by Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. Partnerschaften II, exh. cat., Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst. Portraits. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. View from Above/Aufsicht, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag. Wako Book 2, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art.

2002 Wolfgang Tillmans. London and New York: Phaidon Press. Wolfgang Tillmans: Still Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museum.

2003 if one thing matters, everything matters. London: Tate Publishing.

2004 Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer. Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Gallery. Wako Book 3, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art.

2005 truth study center. Cologne, Germany: Taschen.

2006 Freedom From The Known. New York and Göttingen, Germany: PS1 and Steidl Verlag. Wolfgang Tillmans. exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hammer Museum, LA, Chicago and Los Angeles, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

2007 The Conversation Series Vol. 6 – Wolfgang Tillmans. Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany. Carciofo – Still Lifes. Oroom Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Why we must provide HIV treatment information. (photography) HIV i-base, London, UK. Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual. Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany.

2008 Lighter. Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern. Wako book 4, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo.

Gallery Representation

Maureen Paley, London, UK. Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin and Cologne, Germany. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA. neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany. Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan. Galerie Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain. GALLERIA S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy.

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1968 Born in Remscheid, Germany

1987–1990 Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

1990–1992 Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, England

1992–1994 Lives and works in London

1994–1995 Lives and works in New York

1995 Ars Viva Prize, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany

1995–1996 Works in Berlin for three months

Since 1996 Lives and works in London

1998–1999 Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (School of Fine Arts) Hamburg, Germany

2000 Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London

2001 Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, England

Since 2003 Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Since 2006 Runs Between Bridges exhibition space in London

Since 2007 Lives and works in London and Berlin

Solo Exhibitions

1988 Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany Approaches, Fabrik—Foto—Forum, Hamburg, Germany; Municipal Library, Remscheid, Germany Blutsturz, Front, Hamburg, Germany

1989 Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany

1991 Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

1992 Diptychen, 1990–1992, PPS. Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany

1993 arsFutura Galerie, Zurich Galerie Daniel Buchholz—Buchholz + Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Interim Art, London L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1994 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Fehlmann AG, Schoeftland, Switzerland Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

1995 Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Kunsthalle Zurich (exh. cat.) neugerriemschneider, Berlin Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.) Regen Projects, Los Angeles Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

1996 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York arsFutura Galerie, Zurich Faltenwürfe, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany For When I’m Weak I’m Strong/Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.) Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany

1997 Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome hale-Bopp, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany I Didn’t Inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1998 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany Le Case d’Arte di Pasquale Lecese, Milan, Italy Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid (exh. cat.)

1999 Eins ist sicher: Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid, Germany Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome neugerriemschneider, Berlin Regen Projects, Los Angeles Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Soldiers—The Nineties, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Soldiers—The Nineties, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich Soldiers—The Nineties, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv Space between Two Buildings/Soldiers—The Nineties, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2000 Blushes, fig–1, London Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Jochen Klein), Vienna Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich, Germany

2001 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Science Fiction/hier und jetzt zufrieden sein AC: Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.) Super Collider, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany View from Above/Aufsicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark (exh. cat.) Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2002 Lights (Body), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Lights (Body), Galeria S.A.L.E.S, Rome Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London Partnerschaften II (with Jochen Klein), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (exh. cat.) Regen Projects, Los Angeles sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv Veduta dall’ alto, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.) Vue d’en Haut, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (exh. cat.) Wolfgang Tillmans: still life, The Fogg Art Gallery, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard; Cambridge, Mass. (exh. cat.)

2003 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne if one thing matters, everything matters, Tate Britain, London (exh. cat.) View From Above, Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark (exh. cat.)

2004 Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.) neugerriemschneider, Berlin Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation) Regen Projects, Los Angeles Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony – Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2005 2005, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid Markt, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin Press to Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London

2006 Freedom From The Known, PS1, New York (exh. cat.) Helsinki-Festival, Taidehalli, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, (2007) (exh. cat.) Pinakothek der Moderne (permanent collection), Munich Sprengel Museum, Hanover (permanent collection). Hanover

2007 All The Time / Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome Atair, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Bali, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (exh. cat.) Beugung, Kunstverein Munich, Munich Bibliogaphie, Buchhhanhlung Walther König, Cologne Carciofo – Still Lifes, Oroom Gallery, Seoul, Korea (exh. cat.) Faltung, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria paper drop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne Richard Branson, White Cubicle Gallery, George & Dragon, London

2008 Strings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin (exh. cat.) Galerie Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid Maureen Paley, London Museum Kunstpalast (permanent collection), Düsseldorf (exh. cat.) Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Nuegeriemschneider, Belin, Germany Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA Tate Britain (permanent collection), London Tegenwoordigheid van Geest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2009 Peas / Snail, Yama Hotel Marmara Pera, Mesrutiyet Cad, Tepebasi, Istanbul, Turkey

Group Exhibitions

1989 Die Hamburg Schachtel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)

1991 Icons of a Mutinous Age: Three Photographers, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, England

1992 i-D Now, Pitti Image, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy tomorrow people, Imagination Gallery, London We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet, PPS, Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany

1993 Atelier, collaboration with Isa Genzken; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Christmasshop, Air de Paris, Paris Fuck the System, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy June, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris November Television, Videoprojekt Remscheid, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany, stand of the Galerie Daniel Buchholz Tresorraume, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany

1994 100 Umkleidekabinen, Bad zur Sonne, Graz, Austria (exh. cat.) Ars Lux, 100 artist billboard light boxes across Italy Expose Yourself, The Tannery, London, England Les Dimanches de l’amour, École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France Dinos and Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York L’Hiver de l’amour, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (exh. cat.) Homegrown, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany Mechanical Reproduction, AP, Amsterdam (exh. cat.) Photo ’94, The Photographer’s Gallery on Art 94, London Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (exh. cat.) Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.) Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Streetstyle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (exh. cat.) The Winter of Love, PS1, New York

1995 ars viva 95/96 Photographie, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Dessau, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (exh. cat.) Benefit Exhibition for D.E.A.F., Inc., Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, organized by Jeff Koons Bildermonde—Modebilder: Deutche Modephotographien von 1945–1995, Institute fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, organized by F. C. Gundlach (exh. cat.) The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Every Time I See You, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmö, Sweden; galleri index, Stockholm Galerie Analix B&L Polla, Geneva, Switzerland Guaranteed Personalities, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, curated by Thomas Nordanstad Human Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (exh. cat.) Mondo Nova, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy (exh. cat.) Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany (exh. cat.) White Columns, New York, Auction Benefit

1996 a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen (exh. cat.) Blind Spot: Photography—The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York By Night, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (exh. cat.) Das deutsche Auge—33 Photographen und ihre Reportagen, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Dites-le avec des fleurs, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Everything that’s Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Art Academy, Athens; Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen Festival International de la Photo de Mode, Biarritz, France Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.) I Feel Explosion, flat above Manchester Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, curated by Toland Grinnell and Matthew Ritchie New Photography #12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Nudo y Crudo: Sensitive Body, Visible Body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (exh. cat.) Pictures of Modern Life, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France Le Plaisir et les ombres, Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels Prospect ’96—Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.) The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, conceived and organized by France Morin; Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Shift, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, organized by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (exh. cat.) Traffic, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Urgence, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (exh. cat.) Visitors’ Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis wunderbar, Kunstraum Wein, Vienna; organized by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

1997 The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg— Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (exh. cat.) Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (exh. cat.) Kunst . . . Arbeit, Forum der Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (exh. cat.) Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (exh. cat.) Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945–1995, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exh. cat.) Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (exh. cat.) Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan Sous le Manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (exh. cat.) We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Cubitt, London Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945–1995, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Morris Healy Gallery, New York

1998 Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale Collection: Un autre regard, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Curatorial Program, New York Curatorial Program, New York The DG Bank Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Edifying Sappho and Socrates, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney Fashion at the Beach, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla., curated and organized by Charles Cowles and Dennis Christie; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Va.; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA (exh. cat.) Fast Forward Image, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.) From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exh. cat.) Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Germania Anno 00 . . . , Newsantandrea, Savona, Italy Kunstausstellung Holderbank, Holderbank Management und Beratung AG, Holderbank, Switzerland Look at Me, Kunsthal Rotterdam; The British Council Touring Exhibition New York Color School, Valerie’s Gallery, New York Die Parkett-Künstlereditionen im Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Photo Op, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass. Portrait: Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex Art, New York La Sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors Festival, Saint-Cloud, France Still Life: 1900–1998, Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (exh. cat.) Sunday by Matthew Higgs, Cabinet Gallery, London The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA Veronica’s Revenge, Lambert Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre d’art contemporain, Paris; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)

1999 Can You Hear Me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany Flashes: Contemporary Trends, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lisbon; Fondacion Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (exh. cat.) The Garden of Eros, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain How Will We Behave?, Robert Prime, London Hypertronix, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain (exh. cat.) The Image of the Other, Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain (exh. cat.) In Your Face, New Langton Fine Arts, San Francisco, curated by Robert Shimshak Macht und Fürsorge: Das Bild der Mutter in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Trinitatis Church, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.) . . . om det sublima/ . . . on the sublime, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (exh. cat.) der siebte himmel, Christuskirche Köln, Cologne, Germany Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Wohin kein Auge reicht—Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.) Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life, Clare College Mission Church, London Zoom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2000 90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut, Caracas, Venezuela (exh. cat.) All Dressed Up, Apex Art, New York Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London (exh. cat.) The arsFutura Show, arsFutura, Zurich Arts & Facts, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy AutoWerke—Europäische und amerikanische Fotografie 1998–2000, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.) The British Art Show 5, organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; John Hasard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK; Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat.) Collection Première Heure, Groupe Premiere Heure, Saint-Cloud, France Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney Conversione di Saulo, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome Deep Distance: Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (exh. cat.) Dire AIDS: Arte nell’epoca del AIDS/Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice delle Bella Arte, Turin, Italy (exh. cat.) German Photoworks, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo high five im warmen Monat Mai, Galerie Schedler, Zurich Joitakin Osia Maailmasta/Some Parts of this World, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki (exh. cat.) Landscape, organized by The British Council, London; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia; Central House of Artists, Moscow; ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany (exh. cat.) Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain, 1960 to the present, The British Council, Madrid; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Fondazion Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy; Marina Alla Scala Art Centre, Milan, Italy; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Mali Manezh, Moscow; State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Tallinna Kunstihoone Fond, Tallin, Estonia; Øksnehallen, Copenhagen; Museu de Documantatio I Museu Textill, Terrasa, Spain; Recinto Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain; Palacio de abrantes, Salamanca, Spain; House of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia (exh. cat.) Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat.) Eine Munition unter anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.) The Oldest Possible Memory, Collection Hauser and Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Platforma, sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, La. (exh. cat.) Présumés innocents, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (exh. cat.) Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.) The Sea & the Sky, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pa. (exh. cat.) Les Trahisons du modéle, corps et attitudes II, Stéfane Ackermann agence d’art contemporain, Luxembourg Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London Vanishing Points, Groupe Première Heure, Saint-Cloud, France

2001 Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria AC: Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany The Beauty of Intimacy: Lens and Paper, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London (exh. cat.) Club Club Club, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Contemporary Utopia, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (exh. cat.) Espace d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Freestyle, Werke Aus Der Sammlung Boros, Das Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Un mundo feliz/Brave new world, OMR, Mexico City Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany La natura della natura morta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (exh. cat.) Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.) Open City: Street Photographs, 1950–2000, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; The Lowry, Manchester, UK; Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Places in the Mind: Modern Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Portrait, Lindig in Paludetto, Turin, Italy; Zeitgenossische Kunst Milchof, Nuremberg, Germany Record Collection, VTO gallery, London; International 3, Manchester Gallery, Manchester, UK; Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland Some German Photography, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif. Some Options in Abstraction, Harvard University Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Mass. Sex—Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany (exh. cat.) Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London Uniforms, Order and Disorder, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (exh. cat.) Why bother?, The Burger King Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.)

2002 Beyond Barbizon, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Mass. From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York HOSSA—Arte Alemàn del 2000, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain International Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City In the Making, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Calif. Jochen Klein (1967–1997) und Wolfgang Tillmans, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2003) Museum unserer wünsche, The museum of our wishes, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany Painted, Printed and Produced in Great Britain, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (exh. cat.) Sensationen des Alltags, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.) Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2003 20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Anniversary Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (exh. cat.) Attack—Kunst und Krieg im Zeitalter der Medien, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.) Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany Berlin/Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exh. cat.) Dubrow International, Roger Smith Gallery, New York Fast Forward, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.) Here and There, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia Looking In—Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland M_ARS—Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria (exh. cat.) Montagna: Arte, acienza, mito, Museo d’Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy Mixtapes, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA. My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (But Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), Team Gallery, New York, USA outlook, cultural olympiade, Athens (exh. cat.) öffentlich/privat, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.) Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.) Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles Society for Contemporary Art Selection, The Art Institute of Chicago Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Von Korpern und anderen Dingen: Deutsche Fotografie im 20 Jahrhundert, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004 Atmosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago BISS—Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.) Colección Taschen, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid Encounters in the 21st Century, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan Enthüllt, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany (exh. cat.) The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (exh. cat.) Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (exh. cat.) Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Schweiz, Winterthur, Germany Inventory, Scott King, Donald Urquhart, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, curated by Wolfgang Tillmans Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, Kunstwerke, Berlin (exh. cat.) Landscape 2, Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, California College of Arts, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Calif.; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, N.C.; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass.; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Calif.; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Va. (exh. cat.) Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens (exh. cat.) Il Nudo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy Rose C’est la Vie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.)

2005 Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit—German Contemporary Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.) Coolhunters, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.) Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (exh. cat.) Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, Ny. Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK Helga de Alvear Collection, MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.) Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade Shadowplay—An Homage to H. C. Andersen, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria (exh. cat.) Superstar, Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle und Kunstforum, Vienna (exh. cat.) Il Teatro dell’Arte, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy Thank you for the Music, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany Weltbilder, Helmhaus, Zurich (exh. cat.)

2006 Abstract art now – floating forms, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper, New York, USA As if by Magic, The Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine Click Double Click, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bozar Expo, Brussels, Belgium Das Achte Feld—Geschlecter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.) Deckchair dreams, London’s Royal Parks, London, UK Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany Frankfurter Positionen: Klasse Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, USA Good Vibrations – Visual arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (exh. cat.) How Queer Everything is Today, Queer Festival, Råhuset, Halmtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK It’s not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA Landscapes, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK Surprise Surprise, Institue of Contemporary Arts, London, UK Thank you for the music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK The Gold Standard, P.S.1, New York, USA The Secret Public: The last days of the British underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2007) The Starry Messenger Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK (exh. cat.) The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland The Sublime is Now!, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK Y Ahora Sin Ti…, Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

2007 At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal Garten Eden, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany, (exh. cat.) Hava Boşluğu - Air Pocket, galerist, Istanbul, Turkey Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Match: Otto Dix and the Art of Portraiture, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Mode:Bilder, Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach, NRW Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf No Such Thing as Society, Hayward Touring Exhibitions, UK Numerica, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, (exh. cat.) Pop am Rhein, Stadtmuseum, Cologne (ex. cat) Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA Seeing Things, Dorsky gallery, Long Island City, USA The Droste Effect, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK The Naked Portrait, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK Visit(e) Palast der schönen Künste (Bozar), Brüssel (K) traveled to Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008) (exh. cat.) What Does the Jellyfish Want, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Stardust or the Last Frontier, Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France, (exh. cat.)

2008 3 A.M. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, UK 50 Moons, Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy Accademia Tedesca di Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (exh. cat.) De Collectie van Hans Kemna, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands Folding, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (exh. cat.) Hans Kemna Collection, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (exh. cat.) History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz work related to Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA Just Different, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Life on Mars: 2008 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (exh. cat) Ludlow 38, New York, USA Noli Me Legere, Michael Lett, Auckland, New Zealand Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Peter Saville, Accessories to an artwork, Paul Stopler, London, UK Pictures, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan. When it’s a Photograph, Bolksy Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA (exh. cat.) Schöner wohen, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Still Life Fom Five Centuries, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, UK traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (exh. cat.) Summer Show, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan The Art of the Real, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, Belgium The Possible Document, Herald St, London, UK Untitled (Vicarious) Photographing The Constructed Object, Gagosian, New York, USA Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield O8, Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, UK Wako Works of Art: 15 Years/ Part III, (with Christopher Williams), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan 8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes LLC, New York, USA

2009 Bijoux de famille, Chantal Crousel, Paris The Collectors (curated by Elmgreen and Dragset), The Nordic and Danish Pavilions, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale Di Venezia. Das Porträt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Everywhere. Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Extended, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.) Form and Photo, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA From Heaven to Hell, MUSAC, León, Spain. From Here To There, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK Holbein to Tillmans, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka La Biennale di Venezia (Curated by Daniel Birnbaum), Venice Pete and Repeat, 176, London Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Sixty Years. Sixty Works. Art from the Federal Republic of Germany from ’49 to ’09, Martin Gropius –Bau, Berlin. Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (exh. cat.) Trade, Phil, Los Angeles A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York The Photographic Object, The Photographers’ Gallery, London Quand La première ivresse des success bruyants, La Chateau Guiraud, Sauternes, France (exh. cat.) Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

References

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External links

• Wolfgang Tillmans Website
• Maureen Paley Website
• Galerie Daniel Buchholz Website
• Andrea Rosen Gallery Website
• Between Bridges Website