Wolfgang Tillmans
Soldiers - The Nineties

For his third solo show at arsFutura Wolfgang Tillmans presents Soldiers - The Nineties' an installation of newspaper cuttings and photographs that represents the culmination of a decade-long study into the mediated portrayal of young men in uniform.

Whether taken from conflicts in Kosovo, the Persian Gulf or Northern Ireland, what emerges from these images is the apparent preference of the post-Cold War media for, as opposed to actively engaged in, the act of war. Viewed en masse, one is forced to question the function of this abundant, yet almost inherently redundant imagery, to look beyond their roles as generic signifiers and view them for the studies of human interaction that they actually are.

The exhibition is accompanied by the book Wolfgang Tillmans, Soldiers - TheNineties, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 1999. SFr. 48.--. IBSN 3-88375-377-7.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Biographie

1968 : in Remscheid geboren
1987-90 : lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg
1990-92 : Studium am Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design, England
1992-94 : lebt und arbeitet in London
1994-95 : lebt und arbeitet in New York
1995 : Kunstpreis ars viva des Kulturkreises der Deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI
1995 : kunstpreis der Boetcherstrabe in Bremen
Seit 1996 : lebt und arbeitet in London
1998 : Gastprofessur Fachbereich Freie kunst, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg

Ausstellungen (Auswahl) / selected Exhibitions

1999
SoIdiers - The Nineties, arsFutura Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
How will we behave?, Robert Prime, London
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo)
Soldiers - The Nineties, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
Space Between Two Buildings Soldiers -The Nineties, Interim Art, London (solo)
Mutter; Die Trinitatis-Kirsche in KöIn, Siemens Kulturprogramm, köln
Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, kyoto Museum of Modem Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (solo)
Eins ist sicher Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid (solo)
Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
Soldiers - The Nineties, Neueraachenerkunstverein, Aachen (solo)
Hypertronix, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castellion
The Garden of Eros, Palau de Ia Virreina, Barcelona
Triennale der Photographie, 'Wohin Kein Auge reicht5', Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
The Image of the Other; Forum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona
Word Enough to Save a Life, Word Enough to Take a Life, Clare College Mission Church, London.
neugerriemschneider, Berlin (solo)
On the subilme, Rooseum, Malmö

1998
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
Fruiciones, Museo Reina Sofia1 Espacio Uno, Madrid (catalogue) (solo)
Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste und Kunstwerke, Berlin
Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm (catalogue)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers. The Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (pamphlet)
From the Comer of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
Still Life: 19O~1998, Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery, New York

1997
hale-Bopp, Art Cologne, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
I Didn't Inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo)
We gotta get out of this place, Cubitt, London
Positionen kunstletischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945-1995, Berlinische Galerie
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Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalogue)
Projects, Irish Museum of Modem Art, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
Absolute Landscape - Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)

1996
Wer Liebe wagt Iebt morgen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (catalogue) (solo)
New Photography #12, The Museum of Modem Art, New York
Faltenwurf, arsFutura Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Visitors' Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
wunderbar Kunstraum Wien, Vienna; Kunstverein Hamburg
Urgence, capc Musée' d'Art contemporain Entrepot, Bordeaux, France (catalogue)

1995
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (solo)
Portikus, Frankfurt (catalogue) (solo)
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue) (solo)
neugerriemschneider, Berlin (solo)

1994
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (solo)
L'Hiver de l'Amour; Musée d'Art Moderne de Ia Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)

1993
Interim Art, London (solo)
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Daniel Buchholz - Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
June, Galerie Thaddaeus Roppac, Paris
Approaches, Cafe Gnosa, Hamburg (solo)

Monographs / Monographien

Soldiers - The Nineties, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, KöIn, 1999
Wako Book 1999, publ by Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 1999
Totale Sonnenflnstemis / Total Solar Eclipse, publ. by Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, 1999
Burg, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1998
Concorde, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 1997
Wer Liebe wagt Iebt morgen and for when I'm weak I'm strong, publ. by Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg and Cantz, Osifidem, 1996
Wolfgang Tillmans, publ. by Portikus Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 1995
Wolfgang Tillmans, publ. by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, 1995
Wollgang Tillmans, ed. by Burkhard Riemschneider, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, 1995