delpire & co presents a focus on Wolfgang Tillmans' publishing and musical practice. The exhibition Books are Liquids reveals approximately 80 publications, books, posters, ephemera, postcards, records, exhibition catalogs and magazine contributions by the artist over the past thirty years.

Wolfgang Tillmans has a multifaceted approach to photography. Very early on, he used the press as a means of disseminating his work, in periodicals such as i-D, The Big Issue, Spex, or Zeit Magazin. He also considers the book as a medium of creation and publishes artist books such as Wolfgang Tillmans (JRP Editions, 1995) or Concorde (König, 1997). Most of Tillmans’s exhibition catalogs are edited and designed by himself.

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