WOLFGANG TILLMANS

Born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany
Lives and works in London and Berlin

Education & Residencies

1990–1992 Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth
1995 Ars Viva Prize, Germany
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen
1998–1999 Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
2000 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2001 Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Since 2003 Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M.
Since 2006 Runs exhibition space “Between Bridges”, London

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2008
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Strings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.
Maureen Paley, London, U.K.
Tegenwoordigheid van Geest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007
Paper drop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Beugung, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany.
Bali, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany.
Atair, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, U.S.A.

2006
Freedom from the Known, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (K), traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2007), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City (2008).

2005
2005, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain.
Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London, U.K.
Markt, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin, Germany.

2004
Freischwimmer, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Freischwimmer, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.

2003
if one thing matters, everything matters, Tate Britain, London, U.K.
View From Above, Louisiana Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebœk, Denmark.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2002
Veduta dall’ alto, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
Vue d’en Haut, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.

2001
Aufsicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
Science Fiction/hier und jetzt zufrieden sein (mit Isa Genzken), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Super Collider, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

1999
Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.
Soldiers, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany.
Wako Works of Art, Tokio, Japan.
Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid, Spain.

1997
I didn’t inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London, U.K.
Galleria Sales, Rome, Italy.

1996
Faltenwürfe, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.

1995
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany.

1994
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France.

1993
Daniel Buchholz – Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Interim Art, London, U.K.

Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany.


Group shows (selection)

2009
The reach of realism, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, U.S.A
Die Kunst ist Super !, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany.
PastPresentFuture – Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria.
Lyst, Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen, Danemark.
The Collectors (curated by Elmgreen & Dragset), The Nordic & Danish Pavilions, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Everywhere. Sexual Diversity Policies in Art, CGAC – Centro Galeco de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostella, Spain.
Extended. Collection Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medlentechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Holbein to Tillmans, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland.
Opera Rock, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France.
phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada.
Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. Life experiences in art from MUSAC Collection, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary.
Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman New York, U.S.A.
Sounds and Visions, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, U.S.A.
Bijoux de famille, Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan.
The Photographic Object, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, U.K.
Das Porträt, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria.
Form and Photo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
A little history of photography, CGAC (Galician Center for Contemporary Art), Coruña, Spain.

2008
50 Moons, Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy.
Accademia Tedesca, Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy.
Darkside, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
15 Years/ Part III (with Christopher Williams), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Folding, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany.
Hans Kemna Collection, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
Street & Studio, Tate Modern, London, touring to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
The Possible Document, Herald St, London, U.K.

2007
Visit(e), Palast der schönen Künste (Bozar), Brussels, Belgium.
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy.
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, U.S.A.
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, U.K.
What Does the Jellyfish Want, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Getroffen. Otto Dix und die Kunst des Portraits, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

2006
Click Double Click, Haus Der Kunst, München, Germany.
Studio, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, U.K.
Thank you for the music, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, U.K.
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, U.S.A.
Das 8. Feld, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

2005
Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany.
Oktobarski Salon, Belgrad, Serbia.
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Germany.
Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.

2004
The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum, DK, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Germany.
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany.
Inventory, Scott King, Donald Urquhart, Portikus, Frankfurt (curated by Wolfgang Tillmans), Germany.

2003
The Society for Contemporary Art Selection, The Art Institute Chicago, U.S.A.
Looking in – Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland.
actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany.
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2002
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, U.K.
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain.
Sensationen des Alltags, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.

2001
Open City – Street Photography 1950–2000, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, travelled to Hirshhorn, U.K.
Museum, Washington DC, U.S.A.
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany.
Contemporary Utopia, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia.
Uniforms, Order and Disorder, Pitti Immagine, Florence; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, U.S.A.
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, travelled to Tate, Liverpool, U.K.

2000
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, U.K.
Apocalypse, Royal Academy of Arts, London, U.K.
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, U.K.
Eine Munition unter anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia.
Dire AIDS. Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice della Bella Arte, Turin, Italy.
Deep Distance. Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
The British Art Show 5, organised by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; travelled to Edinburgh, Southhampton, Cardiff, Birmingham.

1999
Can You Hear Me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel;
Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany.
… om det sublima/… on the sublime, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden.
Zoom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany.

1998
Veronica’s Revenge, Lambert Collection, Geneva; Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,
Germany.
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Germany.
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fast Forward Image, Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany.
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.
Sunday by Matthew Higgs, Cabinet Gallery, London, U.K.

1997
We Gotta Get out of this Place, Cubitt, London, U.K.
Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
Absolute Landscape – Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan.
Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany.

1996
New Photography # 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Visitors’ Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A.
Das deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
By Night, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France.
Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.

1995
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany.
ars viva 95/96 Photographie, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany.
The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, U.S.A.
Human Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, U.S.A.
Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany.

1994
Streetstyle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, U.K.
The Winter of Love, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, U.S.A.
Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
L’Hiver de l’amour, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France.

1993
Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany.
Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, Cologne, (Galerie Daniel Buchholz) Germany.

1992
We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet, PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany.

1989
Die Hamburg Schachtel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.