Wolfgang Tillmans has shown his work in previous group exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), but this will be his first solo exhibition at the museum, and his first solo project in Ireland. The exhibition includes new works from the artist who had a major show at Tate Modern in London last year.
"Rebuilding the Future" comprises over 100 works and captures Tillmans’ unique way of working. This new exhibition for IMMA mixes works from throughout his career and in numerous formats, installed in IMMA’s galleries in direct relation to the physical spaces and atmosphere of the museum. While primarily a lens-based artist, Tillmans also works in a variety of other media. The exhibition includes works on paper made with and without a camera, sound work, moving image works and installation. Also central to Tillmans’ practice is the prolific production of books, catalogues and magazine editorials, and more recently, live and recorded music. An immersive new sound work, "I Want to Make a Film" (2018), which engages with concerns over the speed and development of personal technology and its effects, is shown here at IMMA for the first time.
"Rebuilding the Future" includes work that is concerned with the process of time, whether it be measured through people or places. The exhibition functions as an open question for the audience to interpret. This broad range of subject matter is reflected in the variety of production and display methods seen in the exhibition. In this, as in all exhibitions produced by Tillmans, the work is selected and installed to reflect both the nature of the physical space and Tillmans’ immediate concerns at the time of the exhibition.
Wolfgang Tillmans was born in Remscheid, Germany, 1968 and lives and works in Berlin and London. He has recently held solo exhibitions at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany, at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Switzerland, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015) and at the Tate Modern, London (2017) among others. He became popular in the 1990s when he portrayed Pop- and Youth culture at that time, establishing himself as the chronicler of a generation. Since then, he ranks among the most important contemporary photographers and artists. In October 2018 Tillmanns received the Kaiserring of Goslar, one of the most prestigious international art awards, which is given out by the German city Goslar every year since 1975.
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Supported by the Goethe-Institut Irland
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