Wolfgang Tillmans

Born in 1968, he lives and works in London and Berlin.

The visual language of Wolfgang Tillmans is characterized by a human approach to our environment and a special attention to people, moments, fragments and small things. Familiarity and empathy, friendship and closeness can be seen and felt in his images. His artistic work, made of compositions, is based on his continuous curiosity regarding the technical and aesthetic potential of the photographic medium he expands, such as a painting or an image.

In 2000, he was the first non-British photographer and artist to receive the Turner Prize from Tate Modern. The work of Wolfgang Tillmans has notably been the subject of solo exhibitions at MoMA, NY (2022) and Mumok, Vienna (2021); Wiels Brussels (2020); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2019); Carré d’art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Nîmes (2018); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel (2017); Tate Modern, London (2017).

His works are part of public collections of major museums, among others: Fondation Beyeler, Bâle ; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh ; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin ; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris ; Des Moines Art Center ; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris ; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin ; Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. ; Kunstmuseum Basel ; Kyoto National Museum of Art ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; Moderna Museet, Stockholm ; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux ; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (MUDAM), Luxembourg ; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI), Rome ; Museum Ludwig, Cologne ; Museum of Modern Art, New York ; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto ; Royal Academy of Arts, Londres ; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York ; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ; Tate Britain, Londres ; The Israel Museum, Jérusalem ; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.