Wolfgang Tillmans
This biography is structured in 3 parts: General biography, solo exhibitions and group shows.

Biografie / Biography (last updated 22 Nov 2023)

1968                  Geboren in Remscheid / Born in Remscheid, Germany
1987-1990 Lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg / Lives and works in Hamburg
1990-1992 Studium am / Studies at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, Bournemouth
1992-1994 Lebt und arbeitet in London / Lives and works in London
1994-1995 Lebt und arbeitet in New York / Lives and works in New York
1995 Ars Viva Prize, Germany Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße, Bremen
1996-2007 Lebt und arbeitet in London / Lives and works in London
1998-1999 Gastprofessur an der / Visiting professorship at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg
2000 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2001 Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth; Design of the AIDS memorial at Sendlinger Tor in Munich (winner of the contest)
2003-2009 Professor an der Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M. / Professorship of interdisciplinary art at Städelschule, Frankfurt a.M.
2006-2011 Ausstellungsraum / runs exhibition space "Between Bridges", London
Seit / since  
2007 Lebt und arbeitet in London und Berlin / Lives and works in London and Berlin
2009 Kulturpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie
2009-2014 Artist Trustee on the Board of Tate, London
Seit / since  
2011 Lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und London / Lives and works in Berlin and London
Seit / since  
2012 Mitglied der Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Seit / since  
2013 Mitglied der Royal Academy of Arts, London / Member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014 Wollaston Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014-2019 Ausstellungsraum / runs exhibition space "Between Bridges", Berlin
2015 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Gothenburg, Sweden
  Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship Award, Royal Photographic Society, London
2016 The Gold Medal of Honorary Patronage of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin
2017 BZ Kulturpreis, Berlin
  Foundation "Between Bridges"
2018 Kaiserring – Kunstpreis der Stadt Goslar
  Bundesverdienstkreuz (am Bande)
  Nino Gennaro Award (Sicilia Queer International New Visions filmfest 2018)
2019 Chair of the Institute of Contemporary Art, London
   
   


Einzelausstellungen / Solo exhibitions
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K = Katalog oder Künstlerbuch / catalogue or artist's book

1988 Approaches, Café Gnosa, Hamburg Blutsturz, Front, Hamburg Approaches, Fabrik - Foto - Forum, Hamburg, and Stadtbücherei Remscheid, Germany
1989 Café Gnosa, Hamburg
1991 Grauwert Galerie, Hamburg
1992 Diptychen, 1990-1992, PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg
1993 Daniel Buchholz - Buchholz & Buchholz, Cologne
L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt a.M.
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Interim Art, London
1994 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
1995 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Kunsthalle Zurich (K)
Stills, Gallery, Edinburgh
Portikus, Frankfurt a.M. (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Interim Art, London
1996 Faltenwürfe, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Kunstverein Elsterpark, Leipzig
arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Wer Liebe wagt lebt morgen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (K)
1997 Galleria Sales, Rome
I didn't inhale, Chisenhale Gallery, London
hale-Bopp, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Art Cologne, Cologne
1998 Café Gnosa, Hamburg
Fruiciones, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Espacio Uno, Madrid (K)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1999 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Saros, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne (K)
Eins ist sicher: Es kommt immer ganz anders als man denkt, Städtische Galerie, Remscheid, Germany
Soldiers – The Nineties, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
Part I: Recent Works / part II: Concorde, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Space between Two Buildings / Soldiers - The Nineties, Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London
Soldiers – The Nineties, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galleria Sales, Rome
Soldiers – The Nineties, arsFutura Galerie, Zurich
2000 Blushes, fig-1, London
Galerie Meyer Kainer (with Jochen Klein), Vienna
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle (with Thomas Ruff), Munich
2001 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Super Collider, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Aufsicht, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (K)
AC: Isa Genzken / Wolfgang Tillmans, Science Fiction/hier und jetzt zufrieden sein, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (K)
2002 Veduta dall' alto, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Torino, Italy (K)
Vue d'en Haut, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (K)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Lights (Body), Galerie Sales, Rome
Maureen Paley, Interim Art, London
Partnerschaften (with Jochen Klein), NGBK, Berlin (K)
Lights (Body), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Wolfgang Tillmans – Still Lives, Fogg Art Gallery, Busch Reisinger Museum, Harvard, Cambridge, MA (K)
2003 View From Above, Louisiana - Museum Of Modern Art, Humlebœk, Denmark (K)
if one thing matters, everything matters, Tate Britain, London (K)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004 neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Freischwimmer, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (K)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
2005 alería, Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Truth Study Center, Maureen Paley, London
Press To Exit Project Space, Skopje, Macedonia
Markt, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin
2006 Freedom from the Known, PS1 Contemporary Art Center/MoMA, New York (K)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (K)
München Installation, Pinakothek der Moderne (permanent collection), Munich
Helsinki-Festival, Taidehalli, Helsinki
Sprengel Installation (+4), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (permanent collection), Hannover, Germany (K)
2007 paper drop, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Bibliographie 1988–2007, Buchhandlung Walter König, Cologne
Faltung, Camera Austria, Graz, Austria
Bali, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Beugung, Kunstverein München, Munich
Richard Branson, White Cubicle Gallery, George&Dragon, London
Atair, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
All The Time / Time, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Carciofo - Still Lifes (curated by Werner Krüger), Oroom Gallery, Seoul (K)
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
2008 Lighter, Hamburger Bahnhof, Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (K)
Tegenwoordigheid van Geest (Presence of Mind), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (curated by WT)
Maureen Paley, London
Tate Britain (permanent collection), London
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Museum Kunstpalast (permanent collection), Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
String, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Half Page, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporanea, Mexico City
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2008, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Düsseldorf Raum 2001–2007, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
2010 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (K)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London (K)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
2011 Wolfgang Tillmans y Franz West, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
New Entrants, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Out of the Boxes Part 1, Gallery 3: Wolfgang Tillmans, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Out of the Boxes Part 2, Gallery 3: Wolfgang Tillmans, curated by Stefan Kalmar, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Zacheta Ermutigung, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (K)
2012 Works from the Arts Council Collection, Onion and Headlights, The Common Guild in Glasgow
MAM Museu de Arte Modernas de Sao Paulo (K)
Neue Welt, Kunsthalle Zürich (K)
Moderna Museet, Stockholm (K)
Museo del Banco de la Republica, Bogota
2013 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
Wolfgang Tillmans – Düsseldorf Raum 2001–2007, (collection display), Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
Silver, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
central nervous system, Maureen Paley, London
Neue Welt, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France (K)
from Neue Welt, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
MAVI –Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile
2014 Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (collection display curated by WT)
In Dialogue: Wolfgang Tillmans, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
U-Bahn, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany
Affinity, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
2015 Hasselblad Award 2015, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, (K)
Your Body is Yours, The National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan (K)
PCR, David Zwirner, New York
Lignine Duress, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Panoramabar, Berlin (permanent installation)
Book for Architects, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2016 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
PCR, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Maureen Paley, London
Leben Ist Astronomisch Installation (2001-2012), K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Studio, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
Playback Room - Ein Raum für Studiomusik, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich
¿donde estamos? (project for billboard), Sonora 128 by kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Pictures from New World, The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
On the Verge of Visibility, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (K)
2017 2017, TATE Modern, London (K)
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (K)
Zwischen 1943 und 1973 lagen 30 Jahre. 30 Jahre nach 1973 war das Jahr 2003 (There were 30 years between 1943 and 1973. 30 years from 1973 was the year 2003), Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Wolfgang Tillmans from Xue Bing’s Collection, Pond Society, Shanghai
2018 Vereinsgabe 2018, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
War Requiem, English National Opera, London (stage design)
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg
Rebuilding the Future, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (K)
Kaiserringträger der Stadt Goslar 2018, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Germany (K)
Aidshilfe Goslar e.V., Germany (window display)
How likely is it that only I am right in this matter?, David Zwirner, New York
Albertinum-Installation (1992-2018), Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Circle Art Gallery und GoDown Arts Centre Nairobi
Qu’est ce qui est différent, Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes, France (K)
Fest, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Musée d'Art Contemporain et Multimédias, Kinshasa
David Zwirner, Hong Kong (K)
2019 Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Abeba
Maureen Paley, London
Peach alive, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Contemporary Art Gallery, Yaoundé
Centre d'art image/imatge, Orthez, France
2020 Today Is The First Day, WIELS, Brussels (K)
Isa Genzken und Wolfgang Tillmans, KAT_A, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf
How does it feel?, WAKO Works of Art , Tokyo (K)
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2021 Moon in Earthlight, Morena di Luna, Hove, UK
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), Museum for Science and Technology, Accra
Concrete Column, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Schall ist flüssig – Sound is liquid, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (K)
Your body is yours, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Lumiére du matin, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2022 After Venice, Peder Lund, Oslo
Fragile (ifa touring exhibition), MuCAT – Musée des Cultures Contemporaines Adama Toungara, Abobo, rond-point de la mairie Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
To look without fear, Museum of Modern Art, New York (K)
2023 Fold Me, David Zwirner, New York
Moments of Life, Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo
To look without fear, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (K)
To look without fear, SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (K)


Gruppenausstellungen / group shows
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1989 Die Hamburg Schachtel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (K)
1991 Icons of a Mutinous Age, Three Photographers, Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design, Bournemouth, UK
1992 We Haven't Stopped Dancing Yet, PPS. Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany
i-D Now, Pitti Imagine, Palazzo Corsini, Florence, Italy
1993 Christmasshop, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Phenylovethylamour, Unfair 1993, Cologne, Germany (Galerie Daniel Buchholz )
November Television, Videoprojekt Remscheid, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Fuck the System, Villa Rossi, Lucca, Italy
Atelier, collaboration with Isa Genzken; Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg, Germany
June, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1994 Streetstyle, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (K)
100 Umkleidekabinen, Bad zur Sonne, Graz, Austria (K)
The Winter of Love, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA
Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin Italy (K)
Rien à signaler, Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland (K)
Mechanical Reproduction, AP, Amsterdam, Netherlands (K)
Les Dimanches de l'amour, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France
Sonne München, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Dinos and Jake Chapman, Georgina Starr, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
L'Hiver de l'amour, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France (K)
Homegrown, Lotus Club, Cologne, Germany
1995 Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (K)
ars viva 95/96 Photographie, Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie Dessau; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (K)
The Enthusiast, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA
Photographies, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Mondo Nova, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy (K)
Human Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Every Time I See You, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Malmö; galleri index, Stockholm, Sweden
Take Me (I'm Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (K)
1996 New Photography # 12, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Shift, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (organized by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst), Berlin, Germany (K)
Visitors' Voices: Recomposing the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Pictures of Modern Life, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; Ecole régionale des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Belgium
Das deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Prospect '96 - Fotografie in der Gegenwartskunst, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (K)
Urgence, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (K)
Traffic, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
By Night, La Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France (K)
Nudo y Crudo: Sensitive Body, Visible Body, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (K)
Everything that's Interesting is New, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens; Art academy, Athens; Arken Museum for moderne kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (K)
Le Plaisir et les ombres, Fondation pour l'Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Glockengeschrei nach Deutz, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (K)
1997 We Gotta Get out of this Place, Cubitt, London, UK
Kunst … Arbeit, Forum der Südwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany (K)
Positionen künstlerischer Photographie in Deutschland von 1945-1995, Berlinische Galerie, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
The 90s: A Family of Man?, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg (K)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, USA
Projects, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (K)
Sous le Manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (K)
Absolute Landscape – Between Illusion and Reality, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (K)
Zeitgeist Becomes Form – German Fashion Photography 1945-1995, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; Morris Healy Gallery, New York, USA
Die Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (K)
1998 Veronica's Revenge, Lambert Collection, Geneva; Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (K)
Berlin/Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Germany
La Sphère de l'intime, Le Printemps de Cahors Festival, Saint-Cloud, France
The DG Bank Collection, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Stretch, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (K)
The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and the Shakers, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
From the Corner of the Eye, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands (K)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Portrait – Human Figure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Fast Forward Image, Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany (K)
The Sound of One Hand: The Collection of Côllier Schorr, Apex Art, New York, USA
Still Life: 1900-1998, Marlborough Graphics, Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, USA
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Sunday by Matthew Higgs, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
Collection, Un autre regard, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1999 Can You Hear Me?, 2nd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel; Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany
How Will We Behave?, Robert Prime, London, UK
Macht und Fürsorge – Das Bild der Mutter in der zeitgenössischen Kunst,Trinitatis church, Cologne, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Cologne, Germany (K)
Vision of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, Kyoto Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Hypertronix, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Italien (K)
Wohin kein Auge reicht – Von der Entdeckung des Unsichtbaren, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (K)
The Image of the Other, Fòrum Universal de les Cultures, Barcelona, Spain (K)
… om det sublima/ … on the sublime, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (K)
Flashes - Contemporary Trends, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Centro Cultural de Belèm, Lissabon; Fondacio Miró, Barcelona, Spain; Centro Arte Contemporanea Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (K)
Zoom, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (K)
2000 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK
AutoWerke, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (K)
Apocalypse, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Vanishing Points, Groupe Première Heure, Saint-Cloud, France
Eine Munition unter anderen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (K)
Complicity, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia
The Sea & the Sky, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Philadelphia, USA (K)
Dire AIDS. Art in the Age of Aids, Promotrice della Bella Arte, Turin, Italy (K)
90 60 90, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela (K)
Deep Distance. Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (K)
Présumés innocents, Capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France (K)
The British Art Show 5, organised by the Hayward Gallery, London, for The Arts Council of England; travelled to Edinburgh, Southhampton, Cardiff, Birmingham, UK (K)
The Oldest Possible Memory, Collection Hauser and Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, Switzerland
Some Parts of this World, Helsinki Photography Festival, Helsinki, Finland (K)
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (K)
Quotidiana. The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Turin, Italy (K)
Landscape, organised by The British Council, Weimar, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rome, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Brazil (K)
2001 Open City – Street Photography 1950-2000, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (K), travelled to Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
Neue Welt, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany (K)
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfalen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (K)
Contemporary Utopia, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia (K)
Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK (K)
Uniforms, Order and Disorder, Pitti Immagine, Florence; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA (K)
La natura della natura morta, Galleria D'Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy (K)
Sex – Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany (K)
Un mundo feliz / Brave new world, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Record Collection, VTO gallery, London/International 3, Manchester / Forde, UK Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"Why bother?" The Burger King Exhibition, 90 Whitechapel High Street, London, UK
Club Club Club, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France Transform the world 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Shopping, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., travelled to Tate, Liverpool, UK
2002 Hossa – Arte Alemàn del 2000, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Remix: Contemporary Art & Pop, Tate Liverpool, UK (K)
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; travelled to Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Sensationen des Alltags, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 M_ARS – Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie Graz, Austria (K)
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (K)
Attack – Kunst und Krieg im Zeitalter der Medien, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (K)
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti/Ohio, USA
Anniversary Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, USA
Sex, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA
Mixtapes, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA
The Society for Contemporary Art Selection, The Art Institute Chicago, USA
Looking in – Looking Out, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
actionbutton, Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (K)
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany (K)
öffentlich/privat, Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany (K)
Berlin/Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (K)
outlook, cultural olympiade, Athens, Greece (K)
Warum!, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (K)
Auto-nom, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany
Deutsche Fotografie im 20. Jahrhundert, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
After the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Fast Forward, Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Montagna, Arte, Scienza, mito, Museo d'Arte di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2004 BISS – Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Museum der Arbeit, Hamburg, Germany (K)
Enthüllt, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany (K)
The Flower as Image, Louisiana Museum, DK (K), Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (K)
Jetzt und zehn Jahre davor, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (K)
Likeness: Portraits of artists by other artists, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (K)
Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece (K)
Rose C'est la Vie, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Werke aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Inventory, Scott King, Donald Urquhart, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (curated by Wolfgang Tillmans)
Im Rausch der Dinge, Fotomuseum Schweiz, Winterthur, Switzerland
Atmosphere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Encounters in the 21st Century, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Landscape 2, Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Il Nudo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (K)
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (K)
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, München, Germany
Colección Taschen, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2005 Shadowplay – A Homage to H.C. Andersen, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Landesgalerie Linz, Austria (K)
Superstar. Das Prinzip Prominenz in der Kunst, Kunsthalle und Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria (K)
Coolhunters, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (K)
Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (K)
Weltbilder, Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland (K)
Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Covering the Real, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Germany (K)
Ill Teatro dell'Arte, Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy
Always a Little Further, 51st International Art Exhibition, Biennale, Venice, Italy
Oktobarski Salon, Belgrad, Serbia (K)
Helga de Alvear Coll., MEIAC Museum, Badajoz, Spain
Arbeit an der Wirklichkeit, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Motor Blues, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Germany
Thank you for the Music, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers, München, Germany
Nischen – von der Architketur und Landschaft bis zur "Szene", Galerie der Stadt Tuttlingen, Germany
2006 Frankfurter Positionen, "Gut ist, was gefällt", Klasse Wolfgang Tillmans, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Gut ist was gefällt – Versuche über die zeitgenössische Urteilskraft, mit Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lucien Samaha, Wolfgang Tillmans und Klasse, How Queer Everything is Today, Queer Festival, Råhuset
The Sublime is Now!, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland (K)
Click Double Click, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Bozar Expo, Brussels, Belgium (K)
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper, New York, USA
Y Ahora Sin Ti…, Galería Juana De Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Abstract art now - floating forms, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (K)
Deckchair dreams, London's Royal Parks, London, UK
Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Thank you for the music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK
It's not a photo, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Landscapes, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Good Vibrations - Visual arts and Rock music, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy (K)
Toutes Compositions Florales, Counter Gallery, London, UK
As if by Magic, The Bethlehem Peace Centre, Palestine
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Das Achte Feld—Geschlechter, Leben und Begehren in der bildenden Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (K)
The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM / Museum für Neue Kunst, Germany
The Secret Public: The last days of the British underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Germany
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (K)
The Gold Standard, P.S.1, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2007)
Halmtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Studio, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland (K)
Peace Camp, The Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
2007 Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
No Such Thing as Society, Hayward Touring Exhibitions, UK
Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Hava Boslugu - Air Pocket, galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
The Droste Effect, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
What Does the Jellyfish Want, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Visit(e), Palast der schönen Künste (Bozar), Brüssel (K) traveled to Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008) (K)
Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Numerica, Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy (K)
Into Me / Out of Me, MACRO Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal
The Turner Prize: A Retrospective, Tate Britain, London, UK
The Naked Portrait, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Stardust or the Last Frontier, Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France (K)
At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, USA
Garten Eden - Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle Emden (K), Germany
Getroffen. Otto Dix und die Kunst des Portraits, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (K), Germany
Pop am Rhein, Stadtmuseum, Cologne, Germany (K)
MODE:BILDER - Fotografien aus der Sammlung F.C. Gundlach , NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Richter, Slominski, Tillmans, Welling, De Meutter, Yokoi: Pictures, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes LLC, New York
50 moons of Saturn: T2 Turin Triennale, Turin (K)
Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
When it’s a photograph, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (K)
Noli Me Legere, Michael Lett Gallery, Auckland (K)
Peter Saville – Accessories to an artwork, Paul Stopler, London
The Art of the Real, Vanmoerkerke Collection, Oostende, Belgium
Untitled (Vicarious), Gagosian Gallery, New York
Darkside. Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (K)
Summer Show, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz work related to Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery, New York
3 a.m. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd, London
REAL – Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ BANK, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (K)
Gewoon Anders! (Just Different!), Cobra Museum, Amsterdam
Spiegel geheimer Wünsche, Hamburger Kunsthalle; traveled to Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany
Street & Studio. An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen (K)
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier / Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern (K)
Vertrautes Terrain, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (K)
Life on Mars: Carnegie International 2008, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (K)
The implications of image – Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, MUAC – Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Every Body Counts, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Netherlands
History in the Making: A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Courtesy Hans Kemna – keuze uit de fotografiecollectie van Hans Kemna, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands (K)
Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, Kunst-Werke Berlin – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Konstellationen III – Neue Ankäufe und Schenkungen im Kontext der Sammlung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
The Real World, Ludlow 38, New York
Depreciation and Devastation, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Der große Wurf. Faltungen in der Gegenwartskunst, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (c)
The Possible Document, Herald St, London
Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield 08, Sheffield
Schöner wohnen, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
abstrakt / abstract, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria (K)
15 Years / Part III (with Christopher Williams), Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Body Work, Le Case d’Arte, Milan
Schöner wohnen, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2009 Fax, Drawing Center, New York; traveled to Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; Torrance Art Museum; Burnaby Art Gallery; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong (K)
Süsser Vogel Jugend, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
The reach of realism, MOCA Knight Exhibition Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Twentysix Gasoline Stations ed altri libri d’artista – Una Collezione, Museo Regionale di Messina, Italy
Processed: Considering Recent Photographic Practices, The Bertha And Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Carte Blanche IX: Vor heimischer Kulisse, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
Ten: 1999–2009 at Sommer Contemporary Art, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Against Exclusion, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (K)
Pete and Repeat – Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, Zabludowicz Art Projects, London (K)
Berlin 89 / 09 – Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (K)
I Love Malmö, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn
Das Gespinst. Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany (K)
Die Kunst ist super!, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv (K)
In Bewegung / in Motion – Leichtathletik und Fotografie 1984–2009, Akademie der Künste am Pariser Platz, Berlin (K)
Sehnsucht nach dem Abbild – Das Portrait im Wandel der Zeit, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
Sammlung Reloaded, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Das Porträt. Fotografie als Bühne, Kunsthalle Wien (K)
Fare Mondi – Making Worlds, La biennale di Venezia 53 – 53rd Venice Biennale (K)
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
En todas as partes – Everywhere. Políticas de la diversidad sexual en el arte, CGAC – Centro Galego de Arte contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (K)
60 Jahre – 60 Werke. Kunst aus der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949–2009, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (K)
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Met – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Lyst – Overgaden, Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen
The Photographic Object, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Extended – Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie and Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (K)
Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Holbein bis Tillmans. Prominente Gäste aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel (K)
Mi Vida – From Heaven to Hell. Life Experiences in Art From MUSAC Collection, Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest (K)
Incidental Affairs, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan (K)
Spazio Libro d’Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania
Bijoux de famille, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (K)
N’importe quoi, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon (K)
From Here To There, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth (K)
A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman, New York
Photography in the Abstract, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
Form and Photo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Third Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
2010 20 Jahre Texte zur Kunst: Mit Deiner Kunst, Editionen 1990–2010, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
Pleated Blinds, Petah Tivka Museum of Art, Petah Tivka, Israel (K)
BigMinis: Fetishes of Crisis, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (K)
The British Art Show 7. The Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London; traveled to Nottingham, Glasgow (K) and Plymouth
Lust und Laster, Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee (K)
Wolfgang Tillmans, Isa Genzken, abc – art berlin contemporary, Berlin (K)
The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York (K)
Malas Calles, IVAM – Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (K)
The Private Museum, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bergamo
Not in Fashion, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (K)
Portraits de collectionneurs. Collection Jocelyne & Fabrice Petignat, Muro, Geneva
Male, Maureen Paley, London
Internationale Kunst aus der Sammlung Reininghaus, Köln, Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Held up by Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York
I am a cliché, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2010, The International Photography Festival, Arles
Just a Matter of Time, Galerie Iris Kadel, Karlsruhe
Zu(m) Tisch. Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Ludwig von der Antike bis Picasso, von Dürer bis Demand, Ludwig Galerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany (K)
The Ground Around: idylls, earthworks & thunderbolts, Vilma Gold, London
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA (K)
Nothing is in the place, Photomonth, Krakow (K)
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst vom 17. Bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum; traveled to Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2011), Museum Wiesbaden (2011), Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (2011/12), Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus (2012) (c), Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (2014) (“Weltsichten – The landscape represented in six centuries of art”)
Julia Stoschek Collection – I want to see you, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (K)
John Baldessari, Thorsten Brinkmann, Christopher Brown, Carsten Holler …, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
In Praise of Simplicity, Fondazione Stelline, Milan
Territories of Desire, MUAC – Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (K)
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Brave New World, Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
PressArt. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
I Put a Frame on You, TÄT, Berlin
Through the Window, Martha Parrish & James Reinish, New York
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
In Praise of Simplicity, Fondazione Stelline, Milan
Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
N'Importe Quoi, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (K)
2011 Danser sa vie, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (K)
Cultured nature, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Photography Calling! Fotografie und Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (K)
25 Jahre! Sammlung Henri Nannen, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany (K)
Fame, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main
Meer Licht (More Light), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
Lichtempfindlich – Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany (K)
Quodlibet III – Alphabets and Instruments, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin
Objective, Sammlung Haubrok – Haubrokshows, Berlin
Jean Genet. Act 1 & Act 2, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Loud Flash: British Punk on Paper, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (K)
It’s Great To Be In New Jersey, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
Distant Star – an exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles; traveled to Kurimanzotto, Mexico City
Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New generation, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf (K)
Falling Up: The Gravity of Art, The Courtault Gallery, London
MMK 1991–2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Street Life and Home Stories, Museum Villa Stuck / Sammlung Goetz, Munich (K)
Gallery Selection – 
Slominski, Tillmans, Visch, Hayakawa, Hirokawa, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (K)
Die Deutsche Show, Divus Prager Kabarett, Prague
Catalogue de l’Exposition, Triple V, Paris
Sin realidad no hay utopia, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (K)
Collections contemporaines du Centre Pompidou des années 1960 à nos jours, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (collection display)
The Art of Pop Video, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
The First Last Decade, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photography from the Collection (organized by Douglas Eklund), The Met – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Von Engeln und Bengeln – 400 Jahre Kinder im Portrait, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (K)
Supervision, Le Case d’Arte, Milan
Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Portraits, Gerhardsen / Gerner, Berlin
The Gong Show, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
New Space, New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Nature Morte Vivante, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Dreamscapes, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
Playground and Field of Disaster, Pavillon des Images, Montpellier (K)
Anti-Photography, Focal Point and The Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK
Eating Art, Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona
Past Present Future #2, Contemporary Art Centre Winzavod, Moscow (K)
British Art show, Hayward Gallery, London
New Entrants, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
The Museum's Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris
British Art Show 7, CCA, Glasgow (K)
2012 Slg. Wilhelm Otto Nachf. Werkräume von Kai Althoff bis Thomas Zipp, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany (K)
A Bigger Splash: Painting After Performance, Tate Modern, London (K)
Color, Upon Paper Space, Berlin
Private / Corporate VII, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (K)
Durchsucht, fixiert, geordnet – Zeitgenössische Fotografie in der Sammlung Rheingold, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Juwelen im Rheingold, Sammlung Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (K)
Inaugural Exhibition in new Hollywood space, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Met – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; traveled to The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2013) (K)
Bernadette Corporation – 2000 Wasted Years, Artists Space, New York (K)
Verlangsamte Performance, Van Horn, Düsseldorf (K)
Intérieur jour, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
The Feverish Library (organized in cooperation with Matthew Higgs), Petzel Gallery, New York; traveled to Capitain / Petzel, Berlin (2013)
Figure and Form in Contemporary Photography, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Wir sind die anderen, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main
Treffpunkt: Berlin, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej (K)
Abstraction and Motion, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (collection display)
Paper, Musée d’Art moderne et d’Art contemporain, Nice (K)
Zauberspiegel: Die Sammlung nach 1945, Kunsthalle Bremen
Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Reflecting Fashion – Kunst und Mode seit der Moderne, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Malerei in Fotografie. Strategien der Aneignung, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (K)
Boy: A Contemporary Portrait, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai
Fotografie Total. Werke aus der Sammlung, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Powerflower – Blütenzauber in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart (K)
Dark Sky, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, UK (K)
Klang und Stille, Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Munich (K)
Contemporary collection display: The Space Between, Tate Britain, London (collection display)
The Sports Show, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
30 Künstler / 30 Räume, Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Neues Museum in Nürnberg, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (K)
German Photography 1960–2012: A Survey, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Relocated, Galerie Neu & MD 72, Berlin
Measuring the Universe: from the transit of Venus to the edge of the cosmos, Royal Observatory Greenwich, London
Gegenwartskunst (1945 – heute) im Städel Museum, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (K)
Circus Wols – Eine Hommage, Stiftung Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (K)
Inside a book a house of gold. Artists’ editions with Parkett, UCCA – Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Print / Out, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
Living with Video, The Pavilion Downtown Dubai
Lost & Found: Anonymous Photography in Reflection, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles
Boros Collection #2, Sammlung Boros, Berlin (collection display) (K)
Stedelijk Room, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (collection display)
Freischwimmer: The World of Contemporary Photography, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2013 Macho Man. Tell It To My Heart, Collected by Julie Ault, Museum f. Gegenwartskunst Basel; travelled to Culturgest, Lisbon and Artists Space, New York (K)
Ausweitung der Kampfzone. Die Sammlung 1968–2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Weltreise. Kunst aus Deutschland unterwegs. Werke aus dem Kunstbestand des ifa 1949 – heute, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany (K); travelled to Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2014)
A Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, Pittsburgh (K)
Foto Europa. 1840 to present, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Heimat – no place like home – Fotografien aus der DZ BANK-Kunstsammlung, Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt, Germany (K)
Aquatopia. The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; travelled to Tate St Ives, UK (K)
Xerography, First Site, Colchester, UK (K)
Der Schein. Glanz, Glamour, Illusion, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (K)
Dear Portrait, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK
When Now is Minimal. Die unbekannte Seite der Sammlung Goetz, Neues Museum, Nuremberg; travelled to Museion, Bolzano, Italy (K)
Think First, Shoot Later: Photography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (collection display)
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, New York
Vue d’en Haut, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (K)
Sin motivo aparente, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (K)
Kunst nach 1945, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich (collection display) (K)
Tate Britain, London (collection display) (K)
Abstrakt, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
Paint it Black, Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York (K)
La Sentinelle, CAPC – Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
Looking at the View (collection display), Tate Britain, Millbank Project, London
Cranford Collection – Out of the House, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid (K)
The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK (collection display)
2014 Dancing Light / Let it move you, Huis Marseille / Museum voor fotografie, Amsterdam
Dan Graham Collection, 3A Gallery, New York
Second Exhibition, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (collection display)
They used to call it the moon, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Lumières: carte blanche à Christian Lacroix, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris (K)
Formes Simples, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (K)
Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (collection display) (K)
Manifesta 10 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg (K)
In NO time, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Colour on Paper, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo
(Mis)Understanding Photography. Werke und Manifeste, Museum Folkwang, Essen (K)
Space Interventions – Gordon Matta Clark and beyond, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
A Private View präsentiert: Die ROCCA Stiftung, Autocenter, Berlin
Dark Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy of Arts, London
KAOS – Visions of KAOS, The Flying Dutchman & Mori + Stein Gallery, London
Fundamentals, La Biennale di Venezia – 14th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice (K)
8. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst – 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin (K)
I’m Isa Genzken, The Only Female Fool, Kunsthalle Wien (K)
1984–1999. La Décennie, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Intimität – Intimacy, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Germany
The Disappearence of the Fireflies, The Collection Lambert at Prison St. Anne, Avignon (collection display) (K)
Somewhat Abstract – Selections from The Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, Aperture Foundation David Wojnarowicz, London (K)
Booster – Kunst Sound Maschine, Marta Herford, Germany
Love Aids Riot Sex 2, nGbK – neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin (K)
The Body Issue, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Art Project XXY, Gallery of contemporary art «Ў», Minsk
Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2015 A Few Free Years: Von Absalon bis Zobernig, Schenkungen von Friedrich Christian Flick an die Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (Collection Display) (K)
The Storyteller, Art Projects Ibiza, Spain
Stranger than Paradise, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf
Contemporary Art from Germany, Umm El Fahem Art Gallery, Umm el-Fahem; Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (K)
New Skin, Aishti Foundation, Beirut (collection display) (K)
Fotografia Contemporanea Dall’Europa Nord Ouest. Capitolo I, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Italy (collection display) (K)
Take Me (I’m Yours), Monnaie de Paris; traveled to Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2017); Villa Medici, Rome (2018)
Queerfest 2015, St. Petersburg
We The People, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
What We Call Love, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (K)
A Perfect Match, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (K)
Animal Photographers, Acud Projektraum, Berlin
Colección Jumex. In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Ident-alter-ity. Organizing body: 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
The Persistence of Objects, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Australia
The Day Will Come When Man Falls, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (Collection Display)
Slash: In Between the Normative and the Fantasy, kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (Collection Display) (K)
Summer Exhibition 2015, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years of Collecting: Between Discovery and Invention, Zabludowicz Collection, London (collection display)
Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Zoom! Architektur und Stadt im Bild, Architekturmuseum der TU München, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (K)
Partial Presence, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Land in Sight: 400 Years of Landscapes, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
Open Rhapsody. A Journey into Photography and Video Collection, Beirut Exhibition Center (K)
HE: The Hergott Shepard, Photography Collection University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA (K)
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
flats, Team Gallery, New York
The Gesamtsexwerk (presented by M/L artspace), The Spectrum, New York
The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Weltsichten. Landschaft in der Kunst seit dem 15. Jahrhundert, Museum unter Tage, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
2016 œuvres de la Collection du CAPC/works from the CAPC Collection, Centre d’arts plastiques contemporains (CAPC) Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Mit anderen Augen. Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunsthalle Nürnberg im KunstKulturQuartier, Nuremberg, Germany
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
Sammlung Viehof – Internationale Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Die Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Zu Gast in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany (K)
Protest, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Ether, Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
My Abstract World, me collectors Room (collection display) – Sammlung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Bilderstrom. Der Rhein und die Fotografie. 2016–1853, Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany (K)
Jugendzimmer, Galerie Crone Wien, Vienna, Austria
Academician’s Room, Keepers House, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Inside – Contemporary Artists and Writiers in Reading Prison. Reading Prison, Reading, UK
Folding, Refraction, Touch: Modern and Contemporary Art in Dialogue with Wolfgang Tillmans (collection display), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Universe and Art“, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (K)
Night in the Museum – An Arts Council Collection Exhibition, Longside Gallery, London, UK
LUX: The Radiant Sea, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, USA
Wolken / clouds, Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, Germany
Terminal P, La Panacée, Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier, France
130% Sprengel (collection display), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Collected, Pier 24, San Francisco, USA (K)
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
BRD, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Fotografie_Installation, KAT_A_2, Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf, Germany
presently, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
The Family of the Invisibles – Collections du Centre National des Arts Plastiques et du Frac Aquitane, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, South Korea (K)
Eine Geschichte: Zeitgenössische Kunst aus dem Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
The BILL – for Collective Unconscious, Artspace New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand
ICH. Neue Formen des Selbstporträts, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (K)
Image Tech: Making Pictures in a Post Digital Age, The College of New Jersey, USA
A History of Photography: The Body, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (K)
Mit anderen Augen – Das Porträt in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (K)
Natureza Franciscana, MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brasil
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection: From Shōhaku and Rosanjin to Anselm Kiefer, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan
2017 Domestic Space, Neue Galerie Landshut, Germany
aroundabout Jack Jaeger, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
Artist Spaces, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Jump into the future – Art from the 90’s and 2000’s – The Borgmann Donation, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (K)
Raum & Fotografie, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
De La Habana ha venido un…, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Wolfgang Tillmans and Oscar Powell, Club to Club # C2C17, Turin, Italy (Performance)
Like a Moth to a Flame, OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy
The Trick Brain, Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Beirut
Historias de Secualidade – Histories of Sexualities, MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Beazley Designs of the Year Awards, The Design Museum London
Les Visitants: Guillermo Kuitca y la colleción de la Fondation Cartier, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires
Photography on a postcard, theprintspace, London
The Photographic I – Other Pictures, S.M.A.K., Gent (K)
Show and Tell, Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
We dream under the same sky, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Art of Dissonance, SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art
Farewell Photography, Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
(X) A Fantasy, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Iself Collection: The End of Love, Whitechapel Gallery, London
This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, The San José Museum of Art, USA (K)
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender & Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Mix it. Pop Music and Video Art, Marta Herford, Germany
Optional Art Activity: Letter, Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Face2Face, Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, UK
Design Talks Politics, designxport, Hamburg
Close up: The ROCCA Foundation Dresden / Berlin, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
Thread Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner, New York
25 years: MMK Museum of Modern Art, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main
Picture Industry, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Fall is Cancelled, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Home is not a Place. Contemporary Art from Berlin and London, Embassy Of The Federal Republic Of Germany, German Ambassador’s Residence, London
Corpus: The Body Unbound, Southbank Centre, London
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London
10 Years Julia Stoschek Collection – Generation Loss, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (K)
The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness, The School, Kinderhook and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection, National Art School, Sydney; traveled to Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne; Canberra Regional Museum
How To Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier, Vienna
Faraway Focus – Photographers Go Travelling (1880–2015), Berlinische Galerie (K)
Space Force Construction, Palazzo delle Zattere, Venice
The Collective, Workspace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand – Die Sammlung KiCo im Kunstmuseum Bonn und im Lenbachhaus München, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München (collection display) (K)
Gestures of Resistance, Romantso Cultural Center, Athens
The Absent Museum, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels
Autophoto, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Assorted Paper, The Sunday Painter, London
You Are Looking At Something That Never Occurred, Zabludowicz Collection, London (K)
The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Transparency, Walker Art Gallery, London
Utopia/Dystopia Part II, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wolfgang Tillmans from Xue Bing’s Collection, Pond Society, Shanghai
Jardin infini. De Giverny à l’Amazonie, Centre Pompidou Metz (K)
Moving is in every direction, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin (K)
Jardins, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris (K)
10 Years Old, Fondazione Fotographia Modena, Italy
Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Posthuman Complicities, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Versus Rodin: Bodies across Space and Time, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (K)
Light Play: Experiments in Photography – 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Freiheit, die ich meine …, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany
Disappearance at Sea, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
We need to talk… Artists and the public respond to the present conditions in America, Petzel Gallery, New York
2018 Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Baton Rouge, USA; traveled to C/O Berlin; Foam, Amsterdam; Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Local Histories, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Bauhaus and Photography, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf
Lush Strokes, Phantom Forms, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
Revolutionize. Reflections on revolutionary history unfolding in the present, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (K)
Archiv Galerie 2018/19: Archives in Residence – AAP Archiv Künstlerpublikationen, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Ekstase, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (K)
The Moment is Eternity – Works from the Olbricht Collection, Me Collectors Room, Olbricht Foundation Berlin (K)
Surface Matters – A photographic collection on ceramics, MUT Mutina for art, Fiorano, Italy (K)
Der Duft der Bilder – Werke der colección olorVISUAL, Barcelona, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany (K)
The State We Are In. Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Galeria Labirynth, Lublin
Ubu asks, ‘Tell me, what is the difference between actuality and potentiality?’, r/e projects, Madrid
Doing the Document. Fotografien von Diane Arbus bis Piet Zwart Die Schenkung Bartenbach, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Shop it! / Money with a Capital ‘M’, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
What is Love? Von Amor bis Tinder, Kunsthalle Bremen
O ontem morreu hoje, o hoje morre amanha, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal
Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
This Is Not a Prop, David Zwirner, New York
Resist! The 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy, Bozar, Brussels
Do I Have To Draw You A Picture, The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, UK
There not There, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
I Still Believe In Miracles – Works from Selvaag Art Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
[Space] Street. Life. Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (K)
Artists for Artangel – A Fund for the Future, Cork Street Galleries, London (K)
Soziale Fassaden – Ein Dialog der Sammlungen des MMK und der DekaBank, MMK –  Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Une collection de photographies, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Whose Land Have I Lit On Now, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
#myMuseum – 175 Years Staatsgalerie, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (Collection display)
General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MOMA and Kadist, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Pull of a Well Placed Comma, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal
Fashion Drive – Extreme Mode in der Kunst, Kunsthaus Zürich
LICHTEMPFINDLICH 2 – Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Schaufler, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Germany (K)
German Art, Galleri K, Oslo
Image Profile – Aspects of the Documentary in MMK’s Photography Collection, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
That Obscure Object of Desire, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Galeria, Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro
Tacita Dean: Still life, National Gallery, London (K)
Wasser & Wein. Neupräsentation der Sammlung I, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
2019 Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Made in Düsseldorf #2: Natascha Schmitten/Wolfgang Tillmans, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf (K)
Wilhelm Leibl – Gut sehen ist alles!, Kunsthaus Zürich (K)
A New Moma, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (Collection display)
Maison d'histoire(s) (non)naturelle(s), Nicoletti Contemporary, London
Dämonkratie, Emma – Kreativzentrum, Pforzheim, Germany
Some people. Fotografie da Von Gloeden a Warhol, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
No Photos On The Dancefloor – Berlin 1989 – Today, C/O Berlin (K)
Selbstbildnis, Société, Berlin
Street. Life. Photography. Seven Decades of Street Photography, Kunst Haus Wien, Museum Hundertwasser
Never Again: Art Against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
United by AIDS – An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in Response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (K)
Syncopation: Contemporary encounters with the Modern Masters, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
Singing the Body Electric, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Very British, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany (K)
Lost in Time like Tears in Rain, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
La Pintura – un Reto Permanente / Painting: an ongoing challenge, La Caixa Collection, Barcelona
Ombres – De la Renaissance à nos jours, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne
Studio Photography: 1887–2019, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
The Warmth of Other Suns, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Collection of Fondation Louis Vuitton: Selected Works, Puschkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow
It’s Urgent!, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (in collaboration with Heartland Festival); traveled to Luma Westbau, Zurich
Summer Exhibition 2019, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Los cinco elementos de la Naturaleza – The Five Elements of Nature, r/e projects, espacio artkunstarte, Madrid
Cities: 9 Microfictions, Galeria Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Madrid
Kunst Über Kunst, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Super Erotic Group Show, 8. Salon e.V., Hamburg
What are you looking at? Works from the Louisiana Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Forever Young – 10 Jahre Museum Brandhorst, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Another Music In a Different Kitchen: Studio Recordings & Records by Artists, Karma Gallery, New York
Ekstase, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
If I was a rich girl, Kunst Raum Riehen, Switzerland
Europa Endlos, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (in collaboration with CPH:DOX)
Stereotypen – Werke aus der Grafischen Sammlung des Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bonn
Fiction and Fabrication, MAAT – The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
Fire, Company Gallery, New York
So wie wir sind 1.0, Weserburg – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Hyper. A Journey into Art and Music, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (K)
Between the Lines, r/e projects, Madrid
Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Subjects Of Life: Photography In The Mudam Collection, Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
Travelling the World: Art from Germany. Artworks from the ifa Collection, 1949 to the Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Fuck Your Fear, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Germany
Good Night: Energy Flash, Storage, Seoul
2020 Träume von Freiheit. Russische und deutsche Romantik, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
10 Jahre Stiftung Ann und Jürgen Wilde an den Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Crossing borders – Sammeln für die Zukunft, Kupferstichkabinett Dresden (collection presentation) (K)
Fuckers, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria
In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (K)
20/20, David Zwirner, New York
00s – Cranford Collection – the 2000s, MO.CO. Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France (K)
Foundling Portraits Campaign, Foundling Museum, London
The Window: A Journey of Art and Architecture through Windows, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; The MIMOCA Foundation; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Window Research Institute, Tokyo
Michael Clark, Barbican Centre, London; traveled to V&A Dundee, UK (K)
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Der Goldene Reiter in Faustrecht der Freiheit a.k.a. Fox and his Friends, CFA – Contemporary Fine Arts Galerie, Berlin
MY C ART OGRAPHY – The Erling Kagge Collection, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
Crossing Views. Regards sur un choix d’œuvres de la Collection, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Freischwimmer: Fotografie der Sammlung Viehof & des Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
Au rendez-vous des amis. Klassische Moderne im Dialog mit Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Goetz, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Spectrum – Art of the new Millennial from Private Collections, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
myselves, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Studio. Berlin, Berghain, Berlin (K)
Being laid up was no excuse for not making art – Corona Sound System, Kunstverein Hamburg
At Sea (Online Viewing Room), David Zwirner, New York
Just Connect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
After Monet – Pictorialism in the Mart Collections, Mart, Rovereto, Italy
Black Album / White Cube. A Journey into Art and Music, Kunsthal Rotterdam (K)
Read/ing, Quinta do Queztal, Vidigueira, Portugal
Collective Care: A House with Many Guests, M Woods, Beijing
Back to the Present – New perspectives, new works – The collection from 1945 to today, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (collection presentation)
Lixià, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Ressentiment / Risentimento, Kunst Meran – Merano Arte, Italy (K)
Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London
Wolfgang Tillmans – Lights (Body), CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (special presentation for ARCO)
Resonance – Photography on Niemeyer, Halle 9, Techne Sphere, Leipzig (K)
New Visions, The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (K)
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, London; traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Body & Soul. Denken, Fühlen, Zähneputzen, Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U. Dortmund
Silent Water, Galeria Mascota, Mexico City
Gegenüber. Porträts von August Sander bis Rineke Dijkstra, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
National Portrait Gallery, London (autumn contemporary collection)
Brainwashed – Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Scènes dans une bulle de cristal | Seen in a crystal ball, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Out of Order. Werke aus der Sammlung Haubrok. Teil 2, Neues Museum Nürnberg
On Display, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 
2021 HIV/Aids, the epidemic isn’t over!, Mucem – Musée des civilisations d’Europe et de la Méditerrannée, Marseille (K)
Documents from The Edges of Conflict, James Hockey Gallery, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature, John Handsard Gallery, Southampton (K)
Jetzt oder nie – 50 Jahre Sammlung LBBW, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Allied Editions 10th Anniversary, Allied Editions, No. 9 Cork Street, London
Blanc International Contemporary Art Space, Art Blanc Space, Beijing
The Next Mutation – Artists from the Macba and Fundació La Caixa collections, La Caixa Collection, Barcelona
The Point of Sculpture, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Nulla è perduto. Arte e materia in trasformazione, GAMeC, Bergamo
Windows, The Artist Room, London
Adam, Eve and the Serpent: Works from the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn (K)
Träume von Freiheit – Romantik in Russland und Deutschland, Albertinum, Dresden
Crip Time, MMK – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
L’Image et son double, Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Ocean, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
E/MOTION. Fashion in Transition, MoMu – ModeMuseum, Antwerp (K)
Oil. Schönheit und Schrecken des Erdölzeitalters, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (K)
The Narrow Gate of the Here-and-Now, IMMA – Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Any distance between us, RISD – Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA
Breaking the Waves, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai
Tomorrow is a Different Day: Collection. 1980-now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Distant Bodies Moving Eyes, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Artists’ Library: 1989 – 2021, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
Natureculture, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Heimaten. Eine Ausstellung und Umfrage, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Diversity United. Contemporary European Art. Moscow. Berlin. Paris, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin; traveled to The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (K)
Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Panoramas, Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Sensing Scale, Kunsthalle Münster, Germany
Face à Arcimboldo – Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (K)
Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (K)
Club Quarantina, Grimmuseum, Berlin; traveled to Wildpalms, Düsseldorf
X is Not a Small Country, MAAT – The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon (K)
Here to Stay. New arrivals to the Collection, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
The Way We Are 3.0, Weserburg – Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
Collection 3: Between Visible and Invisible, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Same Same But Different: Art from Germany and Austria, Crone Side, Berlin
Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
Happy together, Pavillon Carré de Baudouin, Paris
Die Sammlungen. The Collections. Les Collections, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
2022 Broken Music Vol. 2, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin
Je suis la chaise, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (K)
Habitat. The forms and ways of Nature, Palazzo Bisaccioni, Jesi, Italy (K)
Je Veux, Vienna 1975–2022, Meyer*Kainer, Vienna
Phänomen Großmann trifft auf künstlerische Fotografie, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany (K)
TO BE SEEN. queer lives 1900-1950, NS-Dokumentationszentrum, Munich (K)
Bells, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Tracing Absence, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection, SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tuntenhaus Forellenhof 1990: Der kurze Sommer des schwulen Kommunismus, Schwules Museum, Berlin
Une Seconde D’Éternité, Bourse de Commerce Pinault Collection, Paris (K)
Skopje Pride Weekend 2022, Skopje (K)
Charlotte March, Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Reframed: The Woman in the Window, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
At Dawn, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin
Heute Nacht geträumt. Eine Ausstellung von Ruth Buchanan, Kunstmuseum Basel
body / spaces. Fotografie, eine Raumerfahrung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920-2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London
My Reflection of You, The Perimeter, London
Images for Sounds: Artist Covers for Music Records, Villa Lontana, Rome
something new, something old, something desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Through You I See Myself, 8smička, Humpolec, Czech Republic (K)
Pleasure Beach, Sammlung Goetz / Unter Deck, Munich
Mixed Feelings, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
2023 Glitch. Die Kunst der Störung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Yuen-Yeung, Shanghai K11 Art Mall, Shanghai
To Weave The Sky: Textile Abstractions (from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection), El Espacio 23, Miami
Eine Ausstellung von Hans Dieter Huber, DZ Bank Kunststiftung, Frankfurt am Main
Kyiv Biennale, Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
40 ans du frac ! Exposition Gunaikeîon, Réserves of the Frac Île-de-France / Chaufferie of the Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, France
Sammlung Fondation Beyeler remixed. Von Cézanne bis Tillmans, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
New Acquisitions II, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Through the Unfolding Glass, Palazzo del Podesta, Bologna
papier & klang Festival, Haus des Papiers im Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin
Deep Deep Down, Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg
Over the Rainbow, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Before Tomorrow, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Interstellar, Foundation Opale, Lens, France
The Mind’s Eye, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland (collection presentation)
Generation*. Jugend trotz(t) Krise, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Abenteuer Abstraktion. Von der Moderne bis zur Gegenwart, Sprengel Museum, Hannover
the collection, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin (collection presentation)
Rang d’oignons, The Frac Île-de-France’s reserves in Romainville, France
Rooms of Resonance, Cloud Seven, Brussels
Pictures, Le Frac Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
Amour systémique, Capc – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley, Morena Di Luna, Hove, UK
BOHEMIA: History of an Idea, 1950–2000, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague
Jochen Klein – After The Light, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome
Nan Goldin & Works from the collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (collection presentation)
Reaching for the Stars: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Behind Abstract Forms, Fragment, New York
Grace Ndiritu Reimagines the FOMU Collection, Foto Museum, Antwerp
Interior Visions. From Bonnard to Tillmans and Contemporary Artists, Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan
(Un)Defining Queer, The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK
The Royal Academy Platinum Jubilee Gift, The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London