A brush with... Wolfgang Tillmans-podcast

"Tillmans, born in Remscheid, Germany, in 1968, has changed the history of photography. He has taken established genres of art and the photographic medium, from portraiture to still life, landscape, political subjects and abstraction, and relentlessly experimented with the framing, printing and presentation of his images and photographic objects. His subjects include everything from urgent imagery of social events like protests or club nights, formal portraits and experimental cameraless photography."

"From the very start of his now close to four-decade career, Tillmans has shown his works in installations that respond specifically to the intricacies of the spaces in which they are displayed, with the photographs presented in formats that range from postcard size to vast and enveloping prints. The images might abut the corner of a room, be hung high up the walls or unorthodoxly low, or adjacent to bureaucratic elements like fire exit signs."

He was born in Remscheid, Germany, in 1968 and has reshaped photographic practice across portraiture, still life, landscape, political subjects and abstraction. He experiments relentlessly with framing, printing and presentation of images and photographic objects. Subjects range from urgent social-event imagery such as protests and club nights to formal portraits and cameraless experiments. From the start of his nearly four-decade career, he has presented works in site-responsive installations, using sizes from postcards to vast prints and arranging images in constellations, grids or flurries. He reenergises his archive by juxtaposing images taken years apart and has expanded into video, text, sound and music. Early influences include Kurt Schwitters, Francisco de Zurbarán, Isa Genzken, Laurie Anderson and Jiddu Krishnamurti, and he maintains an active studio practice.

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