Wolfgang Tillmans

Background• He was born in Remscheid

Germany on August 15, 1968.

• He grew up taking pictures and writing in journals since the age of six.

• He lived and worked in Hamburg till the end of the 1980s before moving to England.

Education

• From 1990 to 1992 he studied at Bournemouth and Poole college of Art.

• Most of his learning was done as a boy on his own though.

Personal life

• Wolfgang tries to keep his personal life private.

• The few things that we do know are very personal like that he just got out of rehab which he checked himself into and that he is not married.

• He tries to live by the quote “love is life, and life is love.”

Photography• He uses his art to

challenge the modern world.

• His art work is very intimate and evocative in his still life photographs mainly.

• They are often captured in seemingly casual poses or focus in on objects or people in everyday life that are usually overlooked.

• Many of his paintings also create allusions.

Interesting Facts

• Tillmans’ work has been the subject of many publications including Burg, Portraits, View from above, Truth study center, and most recently Manual.

• They’re have also been many catalogues published about him and his artwork.

• He invented a presentational practice that makes space objects seem more dynamic and help have a more specific space venue.

timeline• 1968- Born in Remscheid, Germany • 1987- Lived and worked in Hamburg, Germany • 1990 – • 1992 Studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design,

Bournemouth, England • 1992 - 1994 Lived and worked in London • 1994 - 1995 Lived and worked in New York City • 1995 - ars viva Prize from the Kulturkreis der Deutschen Wirtschaft

1995 Böttcherstrasse Prize, Bremen • 1995 - 1996 Worked for three months in Berlin • 1998 - 1999 Guest professorship at the Hochschule für Bildende

Künste (School of Fine Arts) in Hamburg • 2000 -Turner Prize winner • 2001- Honorary Fellow, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth,

Großbritannien 2003- Professor, Städelschule Frankfurt/Main • 1996 - present Lives and works in London

Exhibitions• 1997 - hale-Bopp, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art

Cologne, Cologne• 1998 - Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia,

Espacio Uno, Madrid (cat.) • 1999  Soldiers – The Nineties, Andrea Rosen

Gallery, New York (cat.) • 2000-  Galerie Rüdiger Schötte (with Thomas

Ruff), Munich • 2001 - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York • 2002-  Lights (Body), Andrea Rosen Gallery,

New York • 2003-  “if one thing matters, everything

matters”, Tate Britain, London (catalogue)

• 2004-  Regen Projects, Los Angeles • 2005  Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

• 2006  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 20 – August 20, 2006 (traveling)

• 2007-  Camera Austria, Graz, Austria, July 7 – September 9, 2007

• 2008-  Maureen Paley, London

references

• Works Cited• harvard university art museums. 5 Dec. 2007

<http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/exhibitions/busch/     tillmans.html>. hirshorn. 5 Dec. 2007 <http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/description.asp?Type=&ID=42>. the-artist. 5 Dec. 2007 <http://www.artnet.com/artist/16647/wolfgang-tillmans.html>. wikapedia. 5 Dec. 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Tillmans>.