Wolfgang Tillmans
This biography is structured in 3 parts: General biography, solo exhibitions and group shows.

Biografie / Biography (last updated 20 Jun 2011)

1968 Geboren in Remscheid / Born in Remscheid, Germany
1987-1990 Lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg / Lives and works in Hamburg
1990-1992 Studium am / Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth
1992-1994 Lebt und arbeitet in London / Lives and works in London
1994-1995 Lebt und arbeitet in New York / Lives and works in New York
1995 Ars Viva Prize, Germany Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen
1996-2007 Lebt und arbeitet in London / Lives and works in London
1998-1999 Gastprofessur an der / Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
2000 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2001 Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth Design of the AIDS memorial at Sendlinger Tor in Munich (winner of the contest)
Seit / since 2003 Professor an der Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M. / Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M.
Seit / since 2006 Ausstellungsraum / runs exhibition space „Between Bridges“, London
Seit / since 2007 Lebt und arbeitet in London und Berlin / Lives and works in London and Berlin
2009 Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie
Seit / since 2009 Artist Trustee od Tate Board, London

Einzelausstellungen / Solo exhibitions
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K = Katalog oder Künstlerbuch / catalogue or artist’s book

1988 Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg Blutsturz, Front, Hamburg Approaches, Fabrik - Foto - Forum, Hamburg, and Stadtbücherei Remscheid
1989 Café Gnosa, Hamburg
1991 Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg
1992 Diptychen, 1990-1992, PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
1993 Daniel Buchholz - Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt a.M.
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Interim Art, London
1994 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
1995 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Kunsthalle Zurich (K)
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Portikus, Frankfurt a.M. (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Interim Art, London
1996 Faltenwürfe, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (K)
1997 Galleria Sales, Rome
I didn’t inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London
hale-Bopp, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Cologne, Cologne
1998 Café Gnosa, Hamburg
Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid (K)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1999 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (K)
Eins ist sicher: Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid
Soldiers, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Space between Two Buildings / Soldiers - The Nineties, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Soldiers – The Nineties, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galleria Sales, Rome
sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
Soldiers – The Nineties, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
2000 Blushes, fig-1, London
Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Jochen Klein), Vienna
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich
2001 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Super Collider, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Aufsicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (K)
Science Fiction/hier und jetzt zufrieden sein, AC: Isa Genzken / Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (K)
2002 Veduta dall’ alto, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (K)
Vue d’en Haut, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Lights (Body), Galerie Sales, Rome
Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London
Partnerschaften (with Jochen Klein), NGBK, Berlin (K)
Lights (Body), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
Wolfgang Tillmans – still lives, Fogg Art Gallery, Busch Reisinger Museum,
Harvard, Cambridge, MA (K)
2003 View From Above, Louisiana - Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebœk, Denmark (K)
if one thing matters, everything matters, Tate Britain, London (K)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Freischwimmer, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (K)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
2005 2005, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London
Press To Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia
Markt, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
2006 Freedom from the Known, PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York (K)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (K), traveled to Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2007), Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City (2008)
Pinakothek der Moderne (permanent collection), München
Helsinki-Festival, Taidehalli, Helsinki
Sprengel Museum, Hannover (permanent collection), Hannover
2007 paper drop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln
Bibliographie, Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne
Faltung, Camera Austria, Graz
Bali, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Beugung, Kunstverein München
Richard Branson, White Cubicle Gallery, George&Dragon, London
Atair, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
All The Time / Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Carciofo - Still Lifes (curated by Werner Krüger), Oroom Gallery, Seoul, Korea (K)
2008 Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (K)
Tegenwoordigheid van Geest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Maureen Paley, London
Tate Britain (permanent collection), London
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Museum Kunstpalast (permanent collection), Düsseldorf (K)
Strings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Half Page, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2008, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
2010 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
2011 together with Franz West, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Gruppenausstellungen / Group shows
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1989 Die Hamburg Schachtel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (K)
1991 Icons of a Mutinous Age, Three Photographers, Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design, Bournemouth, UK
1992 We Haven’t Stopped Dancing Yet, PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany
i-D Now, Pitti Imagine, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy
1993 Christmasshop, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, Cologne, germany (Galerie Daniel Buchholz )
November Television, Videoprojekt Remscheid, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Fuck the System, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy
Atelier, collaboration with Isa Genzken; Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
June, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1994 Streetstyle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (K)
100 Umkleidekabinen, Bad zur Sonne, Graz, Austria (K)
The Winter of Love, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA
Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin Italy (K)
Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (K)
Mechanical Reproduction, AP, Amsterdam, Netherlands (K)
Les Dimanches de l’amour, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France
Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Dinos and Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
L’Hiver de l’amour, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France (K)
Homegrown, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany
1995 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (K)
ars viva 95/96 Photographie, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (K)
The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Mondo Nova, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy (K)
Human Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Every Time I See You, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmö; galleri index, Stockholm, Sweden
Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (K)
1996 New Photography # 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Shift, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, organized by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (K)
Visitors’ Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Pictures of Modern Life, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Belgium
Das deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Prospect ’96 - Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (K)
Urgence, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (K)
Traffic, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
By Night, La Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France (K)
Nudo y Crudo: Sensitive Body, Visible Body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (K)
Everything that’s Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Art academy, Athens; Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (K)
Le Plaisir et les ombres, Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (K)
1997 We Gotta Get out of this Place, Cubitt, London, UK
Kunst … Arbeit, Forum der Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (K)
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945-1995, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (K)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, USA
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (K)
Sous le Manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (K)
Absolute Landscape – Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (K)
Zeitgeist Becomes Form – German Fashion Photography 1945-1995, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Morris Healy Gallery, New York, USA
Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (K)
1998 Veronica’s Revenge, Lambert Collection, Geneva; Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (K)
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Germany
La Sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors Festival, Saint-Cloud, France
The DG Bank Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (K)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands (K)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Portrait – Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Fast Forward Image, Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany (K)
The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Côllier Schorr, Apex Art, New York, USA
Still Life: 1900-1998, Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, USA
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Sunday by Matthew Higgs, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
Collection, Un autre regard, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1999 Can You Hear Me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel; Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
How Will We Behave?, Robert Prime, London, UK
Macht und Fürsorge – Das Bild der Mutter in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,Trinitatis church, Cologne, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Cologne, Germany (K)
Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Hypertronix, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Italien (K)
Wohin kein Auge reicht – Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (K)
The Image of the Other, Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain (K)
… om det sublima/ … on the sublime, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (K)
Flashes - Contemporary Trends, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lissabon; Fondacio Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (K)
Zoom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (K)
2000 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK
AutoWerke, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (K)
Apocalypse, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Vanishing Points, Groupe Première Heure, Saint-Cloud, France
Eine Munition unter anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (K)
Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
The Sea & the Sky, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Philadelphia, USA (K)
Dire AIDS. Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice della Bella Arte, Turin, Italy (K)
90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela (K)
Deep Distance. Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (K)
Présumés innocents, Capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (K)
The British Art Show 5, organised by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; travelled to Edinburgh, Southhampton, Cardiff, Birmingham, UK (K)
The Oldest Possible Memory, Collection Hauser and Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland
Some Parts of this World, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland (K)
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (K)
Quotidiana. The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy (K)
Landscape, organised by The British Council, Weimar, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rome, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil (K)
2001 Open City – Street Photography 1950-2000, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (K), travelled to Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (K)
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
Contemporary Utopia, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (K)
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK (K)
Uniforms, Order and Disorder, Pitti Immagine, Florence; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (K)
La natura della natura morta, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy (K)
Sex – Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany (K)
Un mundo feliz / Brave new world, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Record Collection, VTO gallery, London/International 3, Manchester / Forde, UK Espace d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Why bother?” The Burger King Exhibition, 90 Whitechapel High Street, London, UK
Club Club Club, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Transform the world 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., travelled to Tate, Liverpool, UK
2002 Hossa – Arte Alemàn del 2000, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, UK (K)
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Sensationen des Alltags, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 M_ARS – Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria (K)
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (K)
Attack – Kunst und Krieg im Zeitalter der Medien, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (K)
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti/Ohio, USA
Anniversary Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, USA
Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA
Mixtapes, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA
The Society for Contemporary Art Selection, The Art Institute Chicago, USA
Looking in – Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (K)
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (K)
öffentlich/privat, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (K)
Berlin/Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (K)
outlook, cultural olympiade, Athens, Greece (K)
Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Fast Forward, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Montagna, Arte, Scienza, mito, Museo d’Arte di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2004 BISS – Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany (K)
Enthüllt, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany (K)
The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum, DK (K), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (K)
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (K)
Likeness: Portraits of artists by other artists, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (K)
Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece (K)
Rose C’est la Vie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Inventory, Scott King, Donald Urquhart, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (curated by Wolfgang Tillmans)
Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland
Atmosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Encounters in the 21st Century, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Landscape 2, Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Il Nudo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (K)
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (K)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Colección Taschen, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2005 Shadowplay – A Homage to H.C. Andersen, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria (K)
Superstar. Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle und Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria (K)
Coolhunters, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (K)
Weltbilder, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland (K)
Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Germany (K)
Ill Teatro dell’Arte, Villa Manin, Passariano
Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition, Biennale, Venice, Italy
Oktobarski Salon, Belgrad, Serbia (K)
Helga de Alvear Coll., MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain
Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Motor Blues, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
Thank you for the Music, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers, München, Germany
Nischen – von der Architketur und Landschaft bis zur „Szene“, Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Germany
2006 Frankfurter Positionen, "Gut ist, was gefällt", Klasse Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Gut ist was gefällt – Versuche über die zeitgenössische Urteilskraft, mit Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lucien Samaha, Wolfgang Tillmans und Klasse, How Queer Everything is Today, Queer Festival, Råhuset
The Sublime is Now!, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland (K)
Click Double Click, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bozar Expo, Brussels, Belgium (K)
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper, New York, USA
Y Ahora Sin Ti…, Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Abstract art now - floating forms, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (K)
Deckchair dreams, London’s Royal Parks, London, UK
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Thank you for the music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
It’s not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Landscapes, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Good Vibrations - Visual arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (K)
Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
As if by Magic, The Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Das Achte Feld—Geschlecter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (K)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany
The Secret Public: The last days of the British underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Germany
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (K)
The Gold Standard, P.S.1, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2007)
Halmtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland (K)
Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
2007 Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
No Such Thing as Society, Hayward Touring Exhibitions, UK
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Hava Boşluğu - Air Pocket, galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
The Droste Effect, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
What Does the Jellyfish Want, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Visit(e), Palast der schönen Künste (Bozar), Brüssel (K) traveled to Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008) (K)
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Numerica, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (K)
Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Naked Portrait, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Stardust or the Last Frontier, Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France (K)
At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York
Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
Garten Eden - Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle Emden (K), Germany
Getroffen. Otto Dix und die Kunst des Portraits, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (K), Germany
Pop am Rhein, Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany (K)
MODE:BILDER - Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach , NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 15 Years/ Part III (with Christopher Williams), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield, UK
The Possible Document, Herald St, London, UK
Schöner wohnen, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Folding, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (K)
3 A.M. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, UK
De Collectie van Hans Kemna, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands (K)
Street & Studio, Tate Modern, London, traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (K)
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Life on Mars: Carnegie International 2008, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (K)
Just Different, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz work related to Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA
Ludlow 38, New York
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (K)
Untitled Vicarious, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY USA
The Art of the Real, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, Belgium
Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
When it’s a photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA (exh. cat)
8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY, USA
2009 Holbein to Tillmans, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Twilight Art, curated by Lisa Oppenheim and Jessie Washburne Harris,HarrisLieberman, New York, NY, USA
Photography in the Abstract, curated by Maureen Mahony, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX USA
Tel Aviv Time, curated by Nili Goren, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel (K)
Bijoux de famille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (K)
En todas partes. Politicas LGBTQ en el arte, Centro Galego de arte contemporanea, Santiago de la Compostela, Spain (K)
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Form and Photo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
60 Jahre – 60 Werke. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland von 1949-2009, Gropius Bau, Berlin (K)
Extended, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (K)
53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy (K)
Das Porträt, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (K)
Berlin 89/09, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
The Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
Sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
2010 Malas Calles, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
Nothing is in the place, Krakow, Poland (K)
Zu Tisch, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
Lust und Laster, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
In Praise of Simplicity, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy
The Ground Around: idylls, earthworks & thunderbolts, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Just a Matter of Time, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe, Germany
BigMinis: Festishes of Crisis, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (K)
Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Les Rencontres d'Arles 2010, The International photography Festival, Arles, France
N’Importe Quoi, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France, (K)
Not in Fashion, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (exh. cat)
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tivka Museum of Art, Petach Tivka, Israel, (K)
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Held up by Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
The Last Newspaper, curated by Richard Flood, New Museum, New York, USA
British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, Nottingham, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Castle Museum, New Art Exchange; London, Hayward Gallery; Glasgow, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tramway, Gallery of Modern Art; Plymouth, Peninsular Arts, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Royal William Yard Male, An exhibition curated by Vince Aletti, Maureen Paley, London, UK
Wolfgang Tillmans, Isa Genzken, abc - art berlin contemporary, Berlin (exh. cat)
I Put a Frame on You, TÄT, Berlin
Landschaft als Weltsicht, Stiftung Situation Kunst, Bochum, September to November 2010, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, January to April 2011, Museum Wiesbaden, May to September 2011, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, November 2011 to January 2012, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, April to June 2012
2011 Von Bengeln und Engeln, 400 Jahre Kinder im Portrait, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (K)
Playground and Field of Desaster, Pavillon des Images, Montpellier, France (K)
Portraits, Gerhardsen/Gerner, Berlin
The Gong Show, curated by Dieter Roelstrate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Anti-Photography, Focal Point and The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
British Art show, Hayward Gallery, London
Dreamscapes, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, LA
Eating Art, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona
Sin realidad no hay utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain (K)
Streetlife and Homestories, Museum Villa Stuck / Sammlung Goetz, Munich (K)
Die Deutsche Show, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prag