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Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany. His work as an artist began when he was aged 20 and living in Hamburg. At the start of the 1990s he studied at the Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, England. From 1992 to 2007 he lived mainly in London, before relocating to Berlin. Tillmans’ work has earned recognition and been exhibited around the world since the early 1990s.
Catalogue «Wolfgang Tillmans»
In his creative artistic work, Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968 in Remscheid) revolutionized the medium of photography in an unprecedented way and opened it up towards other media. Beginning in the early nineties, Tillmans documented the people and situations in his immediate surroundings in scenes from London, New York, or Berlin, creating the portrait of a new generation in a style-defining manner. Since the late nineties he has been creating a greater number of cameraless, abstract images that develop from his direct work with and on photographic paper, some of which acquire a sculptural, object-like character. He has also been developing innovative, anti-hierarchical installations of his photographs in space in exhibition contexts. This catalogue is published on the occasion of an extensive exhibition of Tillmans’s oeuvre at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel and arranges and groups his works in a fresh way.
#WolfgangTillmansAssignment in cooperation with This ain't art school
#WolfgangTillmansAssignment in cooperation with This ain't art school on the occasion of our «Wolfgang Tillmans» exhibition.
The pictures selected for the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, and their installation in the twelve galleries of the museum, show how Tillmans uses the possibilities of photography to evoke visibility, and to develop a pictorial strategy that invests the perception of the world with a new, human quality. „Seeing per se means thinking about the world, and this actually takes place on different levels at the same time“, says Tillmans. Here is your assignment: Do something that Wolfgang Tillmans is actually doing constantly: Take photos that look at the world through fearless, open eyes and take the playful aspect seriously. Test, look, behold, probe with your eyes, comprehend things and depict what you have identified. Incorporate your feelings about the world. Please post your photos until September 3 using the hashtag #wolfgangtillmansassignment. The three best photos will be chosen by curator Theodora Vischer and by @thisaintartschool. An exhibition catalogue and a goodie bag are waiting for the three winners.