Wolfgang Tillmans

1968
Born in Remscheid, Germany

1987-1990
Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

1990-1992
Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, England

1992-1994
Lives and works in London

1994-1995
Lives and works in New York

1995
Ars Viva Prize, Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen, Germany

1995-1996
Works in Berlin for three months

1996 - 2007
Lives and works in London

1998-1999
Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (School of Fine Arts) Hamburg, Germany

2000
Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London

2001
Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, England

Since 2003
Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Since 2006
Runs 'Between Bridges' exhibition space in London

Since 2007
Lives and works in London and Berlin

2009
Artist Trustee on the Board of Tate, London
Kulturpreis 2009, the German Society of Photography, Heidelberg, Germany

Since 2011
Lives and works in Berlin and London


Solo Exhibitions

1988
Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany
Approaches, Fabrik-Foto-Forum, Hamburg, Germany; Municipal Library, Remscheid, Germany
Blutsturz, Front, Hamburg, Germany

1989
Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany

1991
Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

1992
Diptychen, 1990-1992, PPS. Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany

1993
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Galerie Daniel Buchholz-Buchholz + Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Interim Art, London
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

1994
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Fehlmann AG, Schoeftland, Switzerland
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

1995
Interim Art, London
Kunsthalle Zurich (exh. cat.)
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh

1996
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Faltenwürfe, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
For When I'm Weak I'm Strong/Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig, Germany

1997
Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
hale-Bopp, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
I Didn't Inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London

1998
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Café Gnosa, Hamburg, Germany
Le Case d'Arte di Pasquale Lecese, Milan, Italy
Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid (exh. cat.)

1999
Eins ist sicher: Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid, Germany
Galleria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Soldiers-The Nineties, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Soldiers-The Nineties, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Soldiers-The Nineties, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
Space between Two Buildings/Soldiers-The Nineties, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2000
Blushes, fig-1, London
Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Jochen Klein), Vienna
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich, Germany

2001
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Science Fiction/hier und jetzt zufrieden sein AC:
Isa Genzken, Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.)
Super Collider, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
View from Above/Aufsicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark (exh. cat.)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2002
Lights (Body), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Lights (Body), Galeria S.A.L.E.S, Rome
Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Partnerschaften II (with Jochen Klein), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (exh. cat.)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
Veduta dall' alto, Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.)
Vue d'en Haut, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (exh. cat.)
Wolfgang Tillmans: still life, The Fogg Art Gallery, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard; Cambridge, Mass. (exh. cat.)

2003
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
if one thing matters, everything matters, Tate Britain, London (exh. cat.)
View From Above, Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark (exh. cat.)

2004
Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer, Tokyo Opera City
Art Gallery, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

2005
2005, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Markt, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
Press to Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia
Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London

2006
Freedom From The Known, PS1, New York (exh. cat.)
Helsinki-Festival, Taidehalli, Helsinki
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, (2007); Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (2008)(exh. cat.)
Pinakothek der Moderne (permanent collection), Munich, Germany

2007
All The Time / Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italy
Atair, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Faltung, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Bali, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
paper drop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK

2008
Strings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (exh. cat.)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Tate Britain (permanent collection), London, UK (exh. cat.)
Maureen Paley, London
Tegenwoordigheid van Geest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Strings, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Half Page, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Maureen Paley, London
Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Museum Kunstpalast (permanent collection), Düsseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.)
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid

2009
Peas / Snail, Yama Hotel Marmara Pera, Mesrutiyet Cad, Tepebasi, Istanbul, Turkey

2010
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Serpentine Gallery, London
Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2011
Franz West Installation, Wolfgang Tillmans New Works, Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Out of the Boxes Part 1, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gallery 3, New York, NY
Out of the Boxes Part 2, curated by Stefan Kalmár, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Gallery 3, New York, NY
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
WAKO WORKS OF ART, Tokyo
Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)

2012
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
A New Installation, with Works from the Arts Council Collection, The Common Guild, Glasgow, Scotland
Neue Welt, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm (catalogue)
Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia

2013
Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Welt, Rencontre d’Arles, Arles, France
Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago, Chile
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Silver, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Germany

2014
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan forthcoming

Group Exhibitions

1989
Die Hamburg Schachtel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)

1991
Icons of a Mutinous Age: Three Photographers,
Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth, England

1992
i-D Now, Pitti Image, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy
tomorrow people, Imagination Gallery, London
We Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet, PPS, Galerie F. C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany

1993
Atelier, collaboration with Isa Genzken; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Christmasshop, Air de Paris, Paris
Fuck the System, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy
June, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
November Television, Videoprojekt Remscheid, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany, stand of the Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Tresorraume, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany

1994
100 Umkleidekabinen, Bad zur Sonne, Graz, Austria (exh. cat.)
Ars Lux, 100 artist billboard light boxes across Italy
Expose Yourself, The Tannery, London, England
Les Dimanches de l'amour, École des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Rennes, France
Dinos and Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
L'Hiver de l'amour, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (exh. cat.)
Homegrown, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany
Mechanical Reproduction, AP, Amsterdam (exh. cat.)
Photo '94, The Photographer's Gallery on Art 94, London
Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.)
Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Streetstyle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (exh. cat.)
The Winter of Love, PS1, New York

1995
ars viva 95/96 Photographie, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau, Dessau, Germany; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Benefit Exhibition for D.E.A.F., Inc., Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, organized by Jeff Koons
Bildermonde-Modebilder: Deutche Modephotographien von 1945-1995, Institute fur Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, organized by F. C. Gundlach (exh. cat.)
The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Every Time I See You, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmö, Sweden; galleri index, Stockholm
Galerie Analix B&L Polla, Geneva, Switzerland
Guaranteed Personalities, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm, curated by Thomas Nordanstad
Human Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany (exh. cat.)
Mondo Nova, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy (exh. cat.)
Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Take Me (I'm Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London;
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
White Columns, New York, Auction Benefit

1996
a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, Bard
College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen (exh. cat.)
Blind Spot: Photography-The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
By Night, La Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris (exh. cat.)
Das deutsche Auge-33 Photographen und ihre Reportagen, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Dites-le avec des fleurs, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Everything that's Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Art Academy, Athens;
Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen
Festival International de la Photo de Mode, Biarritz, France
Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.)
I Feel Explosion, flat above Manchester Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK
Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, curated by Toland Grinnell and Matthew Ritchie
New Photography #12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nudo y Crudo: Sensitive Body, Visible Body,
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (exh. cat.)
Pictures of Modern Life, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France
Le Plaisir et les ombres, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels
Prospect '96-Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Sabbathday Lake, Maine, conceived and organized by France Morin; Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Shift, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, organized by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (exh. cat.)
Traffic, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Urgence, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (exh. cat.)
Visitors' Voices: Recomposing the Collection,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
wunderbar, Kunstraum Wein, Vienna; organized by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

1997
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg-
Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (exh. cat.)
Absolute Landscape: Between Illusion and Reality,
Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (exh. cat.)
Kunst . . . Arbeit, Forum der Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (exh. cat.)
Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (exh. cat.)
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945-1995, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exh. cat.)
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (exh. cat.)
Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Sous le Manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (exh. cat.)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Cubitt, London
Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945-1995, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Morris Healy Gallery, New York

1998
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale
Collection: Un autre regard, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Curatorial Program, New York Curatorial Program, New York
The DG Bank Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
Edifying Sappho and Socrates, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney
Fashion at the Beach, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Fla., curated and organized by Charles Cowles and Dennis Christie; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Va.; Orange County
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA (exh. cat.)
Fast Forward Image, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exh. cat.)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Germania Anno 00 . . . , Newsantandrea, Savona, Italy
Kunstausstellung Holderbank, Holderbank Management und Beratung AG, Holderbank, Switzerland
Look at Me, Kunsthal Rotterdam; The British Council Touring Exhibition
New York Color School, Valerie's Gallery, New York
Die Parkett-Künstlereditionen im Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Photo Op, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass.
Portrait: Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex Art, New York
La Sphère de l'intime, Le Printemps de Cahors Festival, Saint-Cloud, France
Still Life: 1900-1998, Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (exh. cat.)
Sunday by Matthew Higgs, Cabinet Gallery, London
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Veronica's Revenge, Lambert Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Centre d'art contemporain, Paris; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)

1999
Can You Hear Me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of
Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Flashes: Contemporary Trends, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lisbon; Fondacion Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (exh. cat.)
The Garden of Eros, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
How Will We Behave?, Robert Prime, London
Hypertronix, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain (exh. cat.)
The Image of the Other, Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain (exh. cat.)
In Your Face, New Langton Fine Arts, San Francisco, curated by Robert Shimshak
Macht und Fürsorge: Das Bild der Mutter in der
zeitgenössischen Kunst, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Trinitatis Church, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.)
. . . om det sublima/ . . . on the sublime, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (exh. cat.)
der siebte himmel, Christuskirche Köln, Cologne, Germany
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
Wohin kein Auge reicht-Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life, Clare College Mission Church, London
Zoom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

2000
90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut, Caracas, Venezuela (exh. cat.)
All Dressed Up, Apex Art, New York
Apocalypse: Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The arsFutura Show, arsFutura, Zurich
Arts & Facts, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
AutoWerke-Europäische und amerikanische Fotografie 1998-2000, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
The British Art Show 5, organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh, UK; John Hasard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK: Southampton
City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Millais Gallery, Southampton, UK; Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK; Ikon
Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat.)
Collection Première Heure, Groupe Premiere Heure, Saint-Cloud, France
Collector's Choice, Exit Art, New York
Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
Conversione di Saulo, Palazzo Odescalchi, Rome
Deep Distance: Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Dire AIDS: Arte nell'epoca del AIDS/Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice delle Bella Arte, Turin, Italy (exh. cat.)
German Photoworks, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
'high five' im warmen Monat Mai, Galerie Schedler, Zurich
Joitakin Osia Maailmasta/Some Parts of this World, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki (exh. cat.)
Landscape, organized by The British Council, London; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Sofia Municipal Gallery of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria; Centro Cultural del Conde Duque, Madrid; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, Russia; Central House
of Artists, Moscow; ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany (exh. cat.)
Look at Me: Fashion and Photography in Britain, 1960 to the present, The British Council, Madrid; Kunsthal, Rotterdam; Fondazion Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy; Marina Alla Scala Art Centre, Milan, Italy; Centre
for Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw; Mali Manezh, Moscow; State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia; Tallinna Kunstihoone Fond, Tallin, Estonia; Øksnehallen, Copenhagen; Museu de Documantatio I Museu Textill, Terrasa, Spain; Recinto Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain; Palacio de abrantes, Salamanca, Spain; House of Art, Bratislava, Slovakia (exh. cat.)
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat.)
Eine Munition unter anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.)
The Oldest Possible Memory, Collection Hauser and Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Platforma, sommercontemporaryart, Tel Aviv
Photography Now, Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, La. (exh. cat.)
Présumés innocents, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (exh. cat.)
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Quotidiana: The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th
Century Art, Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte
Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin (exh. cat.)
The Sea & the Sky, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pa. (exh. cat.)
Les Trahisons du modéle, corps et attitudes II, Stéfane Ackermann agence d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
Turner Prize 2000, Tate Britain, London
Vanishing Points, Groupe Première Heure, Saint-Cloud, France

2001
Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
AC: Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Beauty of Intimacy: Lens and Paper, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London (exh. cat.)
Club Club Club, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Contemporary Utopia, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (exh. cat.)
Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Freestyle, Werke Aus Der Sammlung Boros,
Das Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Un mundo feliz/Brave new world, OMR, Mexico City
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
La natura della natura morta, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (exh. cat.)
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exh. cat.)
Open City: Street Photographs, 1950-2000,
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; The Lowry, Manchester, UK; Museo de Belles Artes de Bilbao, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Places in the Mind: Modern Photographs from the
Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Portrait, Lindig in Paludetto, Turin, Italy; Zeitgenossische Kunst Milchof, Nuremberg, Germany
Record Collection, VTO gallery, London; International 3, Manchester Gallery, Manchester, UK; Forde Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Some German Photography, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif.
Some Options in Abstraction, Harvard University
Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Mass.
Sex-Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany (exh. cat.)
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Tattoo Show, Modern Art Inc., London
Uniforms, Order and Disorder, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (exh. cat.)
"Why bother?" The Burger King Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (exh. cat.)

2002
Beyond Barbizon, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Mass.
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
HOSSA-Arte Alemàn del 2000, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
International Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
In the Making, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco, Calif.
Jochen Klein (1967-1997) und Wolfgang Tillmans,
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain (2003)
Museum unserer wünsche, The museum of our wishes, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Painted, Printed and Produced in Great Britain,
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (exh. cat.)
Sensationen des Alltags, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Transform the World 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2003
20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Anniversary Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (exh. cat.)
Attack-Kunst und Krieg im Zeitalter der Medien,
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.)
Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Berlin/Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exh. cat.)
Dubrow International, Roger Smith Gallery, New York
Fast Forward, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.)
Here and There, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia
Looking In-Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
M_ARS-Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria (exh. cat.)
Montagna: Arte, acienza, mito, Museo d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Mixtapes, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Calif.
My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (But Now They're Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), Team Gallery, New York, USA
outlook, cultural olympiade, Athens (exh. cat.)
öffentlich/privat, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.)
Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
Society for Contemporary Art Selection, The Art Institute of Chicago
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Von Korpern und anderen Dingen: Deutsche Fotografie im 20 Jahrhundert, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004
Atmosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
BISS-Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Museum
der Arbeit, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Colección Taschen, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
Encounters in the 21st Century, 21st Century Museum
of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Enthüllt, Städtische Museen, Heilbronn, Germany (exh. cat.)
The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum for moderne kunst, Humlebœk, Denmark; Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (exh. cat.)
Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Schweiz, Winterthur, Germany
Inventory, Scott King, Donald Urquhart, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, curated by Wolfgang Tillmans
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, Kunstwerke, Berlin (exh. cat.)
Landscape 2, Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists, California College of Arts, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Calif.; McColl Center for
Visual Art, Charlotte, N.C.; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass.; Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Calif.; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Va. (exh. cat.)
Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens (exh. cat.)
Il Nudo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Rose C'est la Vie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.)

2005
Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit-German Contemporary Photography, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
Coolhunters, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.)
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, Ny.
Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
Helga de Alvear Collection, MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain
Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.)
Oktobarski Salon, Belgrade
Shadowplay-An Homage to H. C. Andersen,
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Landesgalerie Linz, Linz, Austria (exh. cat.)
Superstar, Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle und Kunstforum, Vienna (exh. cat.)
Il Teatro dell'Arte, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy
Thank you for the Music, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany
Weltbilder, Helmhaus, Zurich (exh. cat.)

2006
Abstract art now - floating forms, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper, New York, USA
As if by Magic, The Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine
Click Double Click, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bozar Expo, Brussels, Belgium
Das Achte Feld-Geschlecter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (exh. cat.)
Deckchair dreams, London's Royal Parks, London, UK
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany
Frankfurter Positionen: Klasse Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Good Vibrations - Visual arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (exh. cat.)
How Queer Everything is Today, Queer Festival, Råhuset, Halmtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
It's not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Landscapes, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
Surprise Surprise, Institue of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Thank you for the music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
The Gold Standard, P.S.1, New York, USA
The Secret Public: The last days of the British underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2007)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
The Sublime is Now!, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
Y Ahora Sin Ti…, Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain

2007
At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York.
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
Hava Boşluğu - Air Pocket, galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Numerica, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, (exh. cat.)
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Seeing Things, Dorsky gallery, Long Island City, USA
The Droste Effect, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Naked Portrait, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
What Does the Jellyfish Want, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2008
Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield, UK
The Possible Document, Herald St, London, UK
Street & Studio, Tate Modern, London, traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (exh. cat.)
Schöner wohnen, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Ludlow 38, New York
Hans Kemna Collection, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL (exh. cat.)
Just Different, Cobra Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Folding, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (exh. cat.)
3 A.M. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London, UK
15 Years/ Part III (with Christopher Williams), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Carnegie International 2008, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (exh. cat)
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (exh. cat.)
Street & Studio, Tate, London, UK (exh. cat.)
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 (exh. cat.)
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz work related to Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York, USA
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
Processed, Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, USA (exh.cat.)
Trade, Phil, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fax, Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA
Holbein to Tillmans, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, traveled to Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA, USA
53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy (exh. cat.)
A Twilight Art, curated by Lisa Oppenheim and Jessie Washburne Harris, HarrisLieberman, New York, NY, USA
Form and Photo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 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 (exh. cat.)
Bijoux de famille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
Das Porträt, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Surface Tension, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The Reach of Realism, curated by Ruba Katrib, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
3 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. (exh. cat.)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2009, Wolfgang Tillmans one of four on the selection panel, Cornerhouse, Manchester, touring to A Foundation, London. (exh. cat.)
The Collectors (curated by Elmgreen and Dragset), The Nordic and Danish Pavilions,
Das Porträt, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

From Heaven to Hell, MUSAC, León, Spain.
From Here To There, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK
The Perpetual Dialogue, (curatorial contributor), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Everywhere. Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Extended, Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (exh. cat.)
In Motion, Athletics and Photography 1884-2009, Academy of Arts at Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany (exh. cat.)
Mi Vida, From Heaven to Hell. Life Experiences in Art From MUSAC Collection, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León (exh. cat.)
Pete and Repeat, Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, 176, London (exh. cat.)
Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Sammlung Reloaded, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Sixty Years. Sixty Works. Art from the Federal Republic of Germany from '49 to '09, Martin Gropius –Bau, Berlin.
The Photographic Object, The Photographers' Gallery, London
The Portrait, Photograpghy As Stage, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat.)
Quand La première ivresse des success bruyants, La Chateau Guiraud, Sauternes, France (exh. cat.)
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne.

2010
University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai.
The Last Newspaper, The New Museum, New York, NY
Through the Window, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, New York, NY
British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pleated Blinds, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach-Tikva, Isreal
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg,
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (exh. cat.)

2011
Franz West and Wolfgang Tillmans, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Spain
Without Reality There is No Utopia, Centro Andaluz de arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain (catalogue)
Black Swan: The Exhibition, curated by Dominic Sidhu, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
Dreamscapes, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MO
New Entrants – Permanent Collection, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Eating Art, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
The Museum's Collections, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Catalogue de l'Exposition/Catalogue of the Exhibition, Triple V, Paris, France
Die Deutsche Show, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prague, Czech Republic
British Art Show 7, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
Streetlife and Homestories, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Falling Up: The Gravity of Art, The Courtauld Gallery, London
City of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Jean Genet, Act 1 & Act 2, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Distant Star: an exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Traveling to: Kurimanzotto, Mexico City, Mexico
It's Great to Be In New Jersey, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany forthcoming
Meer Licht (More Light), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands forthcoming
Dance Your Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France forthcoming

2012
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Paper, Musee d'Art moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice (catalogue)
Print/Out, organized by Christophe Cherix, Ellen Gallagher, and Sarah Suzuki, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Sports Show, curated by David E. Little, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
Boy: A Contemporary Project, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Circus Wols, Eine Hommage, curated by Olaf Metzel, Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
Dark Sky, Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Relocated, Galerie Neu & MD 72, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Das zeitgenössische Städel, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
Klang & Stille, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Powerflower – Blütenzauber in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, curated by Tilman and Gabriele Osterwold, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart, Germany
Treffpunkt: Berlin, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
Freischwimmer: The World of Contemporary Photography, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Recent Acquisitions, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Bernadette Corporation 200 Wasted Years, Artists Space, New York, NY
The Feverish Library, organized in cooperation with Matthew Higgs, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, Tate Modern, London, UK
Slg.Wilhelm Otto Nachf. Werkräume von Kai Althoff bis Thomas Zipp, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Fotografie Total. Works From the MMK Collection, MMK Musuem für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

2013
Cranford Collection: Out of the House, Sala de Arte Santander, Madrid, Spain
La Sentinelle, curated by Didier Arnaudet, Contemporary Art Museum of Bordeaux, France
Sin motivo aparente, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, travels to: Lissabon Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal; Artists Space, New York, NY
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY
Lenbachhaus, München, Germany
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Vues d’en Haut, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
El Cazador Y La Fabrica, La Collección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico
A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG 72° 19' W, organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY
Dear Portrait, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK
Looking at the View, Tate Britain, Millbank Project, London, UK
Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, travels to: Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
Punctum: Fotografie zwischen Inszenierung und Dokumentation, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
The Fragmented Body, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Xerography, Firstsite, Essex, UK
L'oeil Photographique, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Paint it Black, Le Plateau, Paris, France
Il fascino discreto dell'oggetto, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
The Arctic, Louisiana Musuem of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

2014
The Body Issue, curated by Frank Benson, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA forthcoming
Simple Shapes, curated by Jean de Loisy, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France forthcoming

Bibliography

Monographs, catalogues for solo exhibitions, and artist's books

1995
Wolfgang Tillmans. Cologne: Taschen, reissued 2002
Wolfgang Tillmans. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Portikus Frankfurt am Main
Wolfgang Tillmans. Zurich: Kunsthalle Zürich

1996
For When I'm Weak I'm Strong/Wer Liebe wagt lebt
morgen, exh. cat., Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany:
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Hatje Cantz Verlag

1997
Concorde. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König

1998
Fruiciones, exh. cat., Madrid: Museo Nacional Reina Sofia
Wolfgang Tillmans: Burg. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, reissued as Wolfgang Tillmans, 2002

1999
Soldiers: The Nineties. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Total Solar Eclipse/Totale Sonnenfinsternis. Cologne, Germany: Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Wako Book 1999, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art

2001
AC: Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans. edited by Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
Partnerschaften II, exh. cat., Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst
Portraits. Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
View from Above/Aufsicht, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag
Wako Book 2, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art

2002
Wolfgang Tillmans. London and New York: Phaidon Press
Wolfgang Tillmans: Still Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Art Museum

2003
if one thing matters, everything matters. London: Tate Publishing

2004
Wolfgang Tillmans: Freischwimmer. Tokyo: Tokyo Opera City Gallery
Wako Book 3, exh. cat., Tokyo: Wako Works of Art

2005
truth study center. Cologne, Germany: Taschen

2006
Freedom From The Known. New York and Göttingen, Germany: PS1 and Steidl Verlag
Wolfgang Tillmans. exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Hammer Museum, LA, Chicago and Los Angeles, Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Why we must provide HIV treatment information. (photography) HIV i-base, London, UK
Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual. Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany

2007
Wolfgang Tillmans and Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Conversation Series 6. Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany.

2008
Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
Wako book 4, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

2010
O'Brien, Sophie and Melissa Larner. Wolfgang Tillmans. London: Serpentine Gallery, 2010.

2011
Tillmans, Wolfgang, and Dominic Eichler. Abstract Pictures. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2011
Zacheta Ermutigung, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2011

2012
FESPA Digital / FRUIT LOGISTICA, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne
Neue Welt, Taschen, Cologne
Wolfgang Tillmans, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.