Update: WIELS is closed until further notice due to COVID-19 measures. Keep an eye on their website for further announcements regarding this exhibition.
Artist and activist extraordinaire Wolfgang Tillmans presents ‘Today Is The First Day’, a new solo show hosted at WIELS in Brussels. The title comes from a song lyric he wrote in 2016, ‘a celebration of Love Life Friends Together’. The exhibition features work from the past thirty years of Tillmans’ plentiful archive plus new photography and sound & video works, conceived especially by the artist for WIELS.
As we said in 2017, Wolfgang Tillmans ‘creates images that are instantly arresting in their intimacy; moments congealed in time, that you feel privileged to have gotten a glimpse of’. Exhibited over two floors, ‘Today Is The First Day’ is accompanied by an illustrated book published by Koenig Books. Created and designed by the artist, the book explores Tillmans’s work over the last three years. It includes two conversations with the artist as well as contributions by Devrim Bayar, Sarah Glennie, Olivia Laing, Brian Dillon, Eimear McBride, David Nash, Mark O’Kelly, Benjamin Stafford, Michaela Nash and Catherine Wood. The expo is curated by Devrim Bayar and Dirk Snauwaert. Go see this show before today is the last day!
Wolfgang Tillmans, 6407-35, 2007, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Wolfgang Tillmans, Wet Room, Gloves, 2010. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
(c) Wolfgang Tillmans
(c) Wolfgang Tillmans
Today Is The First Day
WOLFGANG TILLMANS
WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels
Tuesday – Sunday: 11 AM - 6 PM
Info & tickets here
(c) Header image: Wolfgang Tillmans ‘Freischwimmer’ series
