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4 unusual facts about Wolfgang Tillmans


Home and Dry

The song is infamous to Pet Shop Boys fans for its unusual video, directed by Wolfgang Tillmans, showing mice running across tracks and eating discarded food at Tottenham Court Road tube station.

Isa Genzken

and Wolfgang Tillmans, in whose exhibition space "Between Bridges" she exhibited in 2008.

Nick Berkeley

The 1990s were a fruitful period at the college: fellow photography students and lecturers included Nick Knight, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Parr and Melanie Manchot

Olivier Zahm

The "realistic", sometimes dubbed "anti-fashion"-, aesthetics of Purple was a reaction against the glamour of the 80’s, and can be linked with the global counterculture of that time, with the work of Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Mario Sorrenti.


Friedrich Christian Flick Collection

This donation includes works of the last forty years, including main works by artists like Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, David Claerbout, Stan Douglas, Martin Kippenberger, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades, and Wolfgang Tillmans.

Index Magazine

Covering the burgeoning Indie culture of the 1990s, index regularly employed such rising photographers as Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ryan McGinley, and featured interviews with figures like Björk, Brian Eno, Marc Jacobs, and Scarlett Johansson, mixing new talents and established names in music, film, architecture, fashion, art, and politics.

Inta Ruka

Until January 2007, her photographs were shown with works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Boris Mikhailov and others in the exhibition "In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century" at the Barbican Arts Centre in London.

Studio Voltaire

The organisation has subsequently developed a strong reputation for producing affordably priced artist editions including works by Cory Arcangel, Ryan McGinley and Wolfgang Tillmans.


see also

Svea Josephy

Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Candida Hoffer and Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Shore, Robert Adams, Paul Graham, Martin Parr and Ed Burtynsky.