Wolfgang Tillmans returns to Paris with a brand new pictures exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel

WOLFGANG TILLMANS, ‘Omen,’ 1991

A brand new pictures exhibition by Wolfgang Tillmans is to be hosted by Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris this autumn. The exhibition will run from September fifth to October tenth, 2026. Following his main presentation on the Centre Pompidou final 12 months, the German artist can be showcasing a brand new collection of works that construct upon his decades-long exploration of pictures, notion, and the connection between the non-public and the common.

A grasp of the fleeting picture, Tillmans has regularly expanded the vocabulary of pictures. His work strikes fluidly between private expertise, abstraction, and social commentary, overlaying topics starting from Berlin’s rave tradition and portraits of a era to oceans, skies, and on a regular basis objects.

Wolfgang Tillmans’ work turns pictures into an open language of seeing

The exhibition continues a visible language that has made Wolfgang Tillmans’ work immediately recognisable whereas resisting a hard and fast signature. Throughout his profession, he has questioned what makes {a photograph} and the way photos purchase which means. Portraits, nonetheless lifes, landscapes, abstractions and documentary photos coexist, creating surprising visible connections.

His images may be intimate and playful, but carry a pointed social edge. By collapsing distinctions between genres, topics and methods, Tillmans challenges pictures’s conventional hierarchies. An picture could also be monumental or incidental, meticulously composed or formed by probability; the important act is trying.

This openness has outlined his profession. In 2000, Tillmans turned the primary photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize. He later acquired the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 2015 and the Kaiserring prize in 2018.

The undertaking adopted Tillmans’ appointment as a visiting professor on the Beaux-Arts de Paris for 2025–2026, extending his position as each artist and trainer. His return to Galerie Chantal Crousel continues this dialogue with the town whereas revisiting a query that has lengthy formed his follow: what does it imply to make footage in a world saturated with photos?