Wolfgang Tillmans
Born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany
Lives and works in London and Berlin
Education & awards (show/hide)
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
Selected solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2012
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Columbia.
Kunsthalle, Zürich, Switzerland.
The Common Guild in Glasgow, The Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland.
Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Museo de Arte de Lima, Perú.
K21, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Kunsthalle Zurich, Germany.
2011
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Zacheta, Warsaw.
Gallery 3: Wolfgang Tillmans: The Days before you came, curated by Stefan Kalmàr, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.
Franz West: Installation / Wolfgang Tillmans: New Works, Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2010
Wolfgang Tillmans, Serpentine Gallery, London.
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany.
Regen projects, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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
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, Tokyo, 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.
1988
Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany.
Selected group exhibitions (show/hide)
2012
MD 72, Berlin, Germany.
Adam Art Gallery at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.
2011
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A./kurimanzutto, Mexico D.F., Mexico.
Jean Genet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK.
MMK 1991 – 2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (upcoming june)
Falling Up: The Gravity of Art, The Courtault Gallery, London (upcoming june)
City of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (upcoming june)
Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (upcoming july)
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum Hannover (upcoming september)
Meer Licht (More Light), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands (upcoming october)
Dance your Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris (upcoming november)
Punk, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Dreamscapes, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
New Entrants - Permanent Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Eating Art, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona
New Space, New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
G-Tokyo, Art Fair and Exhibition, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo
British Art Show 7, touring to: Hayward Gallery, London
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
Anti-Photography, Focal Point and The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photography from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum New YorkThe Museum’s Collections, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Catalogue de l’Exposition / Catalogue of the Exhibition, Triple V, Paris
Die Deutsche Show, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prague
British Art Show 7, CCA, Glasgow (exh. cat.)
Streetlife and Homestories, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
2010
Robert Morris: Notes on Sculpture,
Objects, Installations, Films, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Not in Fashion, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main
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, Vienna, 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, Metro Pictures Gallery, 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 (curated by Wolfgang Tillmans), Portikus, Frankfurt, 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 travelled to 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.