Wolfgang Tillmans RA (b. 1968)
Wolfang Tillmans studied at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art (1990 – 1992). He was the first photographer and non-British artist to win the Turner Prize (2000) and was awarded the Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Photographie in 2009.
Born in Remscheid, Germany, he held his first exhibitions in Hamburg, before moving to London in the 1990s where he soon became known for his intimate photographs, documenting his life and capturing the social and political nuances of youth culture at the time.
One of the most influential photographers of his generation, he draws on a diverse range of subject matter and techniques, configuring works of varying scales and materiality in non-hierarchical site-specific installations.
He is engaged with the processes of photography, pioneering the use of advanced lens- based and digital printing technology, and using camera-less chemical processes to create subtle abstracts works.
In 2013 alone he exhibited in Germany, UK, France, and Chile, and in 2014 had a solo exhibition at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan.
Profile
Born: 1968 in Remscheid, Germany
Nationality: German
Elected RA: 11 December 2013
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Photography
Works by Wolfgang Tillmans in the RA Collection
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Gallery of Selected Works
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Wolfgang Tillmans, Freischwimmer 230, 2012.
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Wolfgang Tillmans, Alyscamps I, 2013.
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Wolfgang Tillmans RA - Selected CV
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Recent Solo Exhibitions
2014 Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Neue Welt, Les Rencontres d’Arles, France
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
2012 Neue Welt, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
A New Installation, with Works from the Arts Council Collection, the Common Guild, Glasgow
2011 Franz West Installation, Wolfgang Tillmans New Works, Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Gallery 3: Wolfgang Tillmans, Out of the Boxes, Part 1, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Zach?ta Emutigung, Zach?ta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2010 Serpentine Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool -
Recent Group Exhibitions
2013 New York 1993, New Museum, New York
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, Millbank Project, London
The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
2012 Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London
Print/Out, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Relocated, Galerie Neu & MD 72, Berlin
New suite of Contemporary Displays, Tate Britain, London
Klang & Stille, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich
The Allure of the Collection, National Museum of Art, Osaka -
Selected Awards and Publications
Awards
2009 Kulturpreis 2009, The German Society of Photography, Heidelberg, Germany
2003-2009 Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2001 Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, England
2000 Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London
1995 Ars Viva Prize, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany
Recent Publications
2012 Wolfgang Tillmans, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Neue Welt, Taschen, Cologne
FESPA Digital / FRUIT LOGISTICA, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
2011 Zacheta Ermutigung, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Abstract Pictures, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
2007 Hans Ulrich Obrist: “The Conversation Series Vol. 6 – Wolfgang Tillmans”, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
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