This summer, the Fondation Beyeler in Basel dedicates an exhibition to German artist Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968). Around 200 photographic works dating from 1986 to 2017 will be on show together with a new audiovisual installation.
Wolfgang Tillmans
The Fondation Beyeler in Basel dedicates a major exhibition to German artist Wolfgang Tillmans focusing on his photographic production from 1986 to 2017.
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- 17 June 2017
- Basel
The show marks the first comprehensive engagement with the medium of photography at the Fondation Beyeler. It will show how Tillmans’ work is concerned with the creation of a new visual language rather than with photography in the conventional sense. The exhibition attempts a different approach to his work. It is conceived not in terms of a specific theme or a narrative context, but starts from and revolves around the images themselves.
Tillmans’ oeuvre is frequently perceived in connection with his personality. The artist’s involvement and position in different social contexts yield a narrative that is taken — often all too unquestioningly – as a key to the understanding of his works. As a consequence, what the pictures by Tillmans really are, and what makes them unique – something that is less directly tangible, and which remains hard to put into words – is relegated to the background.
until 1 October 2017
Wolfgang Tillmans
Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101, Basel
Switzerland