Artist discussion
Wolfgang Tillmans in Vancouver

Critically acclaimed German artist in conversation

Wed, 10/26/2016
7:00 PM Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Supported by the Goethe-Institut

*SOLD OUT*

The Canadian Art Foundation and BMO Financial Group are presenting an exclusive speaking engagement with the critically acclaimed German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans. One of the most influential artists of his generation, Tillmans has radically redefined how photographic images are made, exhibited and encountered. The talk will mark Tillmans’s first visit to Canada in more than 20 years.

Tillmans will be joined in conversation by New York- and Toronto-based writer and critic Tom McDonough, a lead contributor to the recently published monograph Wolfgang Tillmans: What’s wrong with redistribution?

Based in Berlin and London, Wolfgang Tillmans was the recipient of the 2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. He has had numerous prestigious appointments, including artist trustee at Tate Britain, a professorship at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, and membership in the Royal Academy of Arts. In 2000, Tillmans was the first photographer, and non-British artist, to receive the Turner Prize.

In recent years, Tillmans’s practice has become ever more politically engaged. Most recently, he turned his Berlin project space over to matters related to Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, and shortly thereafter, he distributed writings and posters advocating against the “Brexit” and related anti-EU sentiments.

Part of the Goethe-Institut's focus on "Shaping the Future".