Peder Lund

Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968 in Remscheid, Germany) is considered to be one of the most influential and significant artists of his generation. Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots of youths, clubs, and LGBTQ culture, Tillmans has increasingly moved towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Pushing boundaries and definitions of the photographic form, his installations and individual works reflect his engagement with what he describes as 'an abstraction grounded in the real world'.

Wolfgang Tillmans numerous solo exhibitions include shows at mumuk– Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2021); WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium (2020); Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France (2018); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2018).In 2012, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, showcased a selection of works from the past twenty-five years; the same exhibition was on view at K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, in 2013, while a comprehensive retrospective of Tillmans’s oeuvre toured South America. In 2014, installations by Tillmans were displayed at the 8th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 10, and as part of presentations of art from the collections at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, and the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany. His video installation Book for Architects, which made its public debut at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, subsequently traveled to the Metropolitan Museum, New York. A major solo exhibition opened at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and in Gothenburg in 2015 on the occasion of Tillmans’s receipt of the Hasselblad Award. In early 2016, he presented an extensive survey of his oeuvre at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal, followed by major exhibitions at Tate Modern, London, and Fondation Beyeler, Riehen near Basel, in 2017. In 2018, he was awarded the Kaiserring, the art prize of the City of Goslar. Produced in collaboration with the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in 2018, Tillmans’s traveling exhibition FRAGILE has toured venues in numerous African cities including Kinshasa, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, and Yaoundé. Aretrospective exhibition was organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; and the San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA through 2022. In the same year Peder Lund hosted Tillmans first exhibition in Norway titled After Venice, which featured a selection of works referring to his participation in the exhibition Fare Mondi – Making Worlds, at the Venice Biennale in 2009.