Who is Wolfgang Tillmans?

 

From intimate still-lifes and portraits, to images that address vital political issues, discover the photographs of Wolfgang Tillmans.

 

German-born, international in outlook and exhibited around the world, Tillmans spent many years in the UK and is currently based in Berlin. In 2000, he was the first photographer and first non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize.

 

Alongside portraiture, landscape and intimate still lifes, Tillmans pushes the boundaries of the photographic form in abstract artworks that range from the sculptural to the immersive.

Wolfgang Tillmans. Solo Exhibition at Tate Modern, London

Since the early 1990s, German artist Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. In 2000, he was the first photographer and first non-British artist to receive the Turner Prize. Tillmans spent many years in the UK and is currently based in Berlin. Wolfgang Tillmans’ current show is Wolfgang Tillmans’s first ever exhibition at Tate Modern and brings together works in a variety of media – mainly photographs, but also video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music. The show has its focus on the artist’s work produced in the fourteen years since his exhibition at Tate Britain. The year 2003 is the exhibition’s point of departure, representing for Tillmans the moment the world changed, with the invasion of Iraq and anti-war demonstrations. The social and political form a rich vein throughout the artist’s work. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough on the occasion of the press view of the show.

Wolfgang Tillmans / Tate Modern, London. Press view, February 14, 2017.

Whaam! Roy Lichtenstein at Tate Modern

Michael Craig-Martin on Educating Damien Hirst

Artist Michael Craig-Martin, the man who helped foster the development of the 'Young British Artists', discusses the early work of one of his most famous pupils, Damien Hirst.

Artist Michael Craig-Martin was an influential teacher at Goldsmith's College, London in the 1980s, where he became mentor to a gifted group of students, later known as the 'Young British Artists'. Among them was Damien Hirst.
 
TateShots caught up with Craig-Martin at Tate Modern, and asked him to revisit that fertile period, which saw Hirst create his first Spot paintings, Medicine Cabinets and his iconic installation 'A Thousand Years'.

Michael Craig-Martin _ TateShots