Starting this fall, as part of the new visiting professor program, Beaux-Arts de Paris will welcome an international artist each year.
This invitation has been made possible thanks to a partnership between Beaux-Arts de Paris and the Institut français x Cité internationale des arts residency program.
For 2025-2026, Beaux-Arts de Paris is delighted to welcome Wolfgang Tillmans.
Born in 1968 in Remscheid, Germany, Wolfgang Tillmans is an artist working primarily in photography, whose practice encompasses three-dimensional installations, photographs generated with and without a camera, sound and video, bookmaking, journalism, and writing.
Since the early 1990s, Tillmans has challenged the possibilities of image-making. His work has epitomised a new kind of subjectivity in photography, pairing intimacy and playfulness with social critique and a persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies. Through his seamless integration of genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies, he has expanded conventional approaches to the medium. His practice continues to explore the fundamental question of what it means to create images in an increasingly image-saturated world.
Tillmans has exhibited widely in major international institutions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Rien ne nous y préparait − Tout nous y préparait (Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2025); Ausstellung in Remscheid, Haus Cleff, Remscheid (2025); Weltraum, Albertinum, Dresden (2025); To look without fear, MoMA, New York (2022–23); Sound is Liquid, mumok, Vienna (2021–22); Today Is The First Day, WIELS, Brussels (2020); Wolfgang Tillmans, Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2017); and 2017, Tate Modern, London (2017). Fragile, a traveling exhibition of the artist’s work, opened in 2018 at the Musée d’Art Contemporain et Multimédias in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, organized by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany, and traveled throughout Africa, with its last venue at Art Twenty One and Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria in 2022.
