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Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us

Spector Books

A publication tracing Wolfgang Tillmans’s large-scale intervention at the Centre Pompidou through installation views, artworks and newly commissioned texts.

Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us is a monograph by German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, published on the occasion of his major project at the Centre Pompidou, held from 13 June to 22 September 2025. Granted a carte blanche as the final chapter of the institution’s programme before its five-year closure for renovation, Tillmans transformed the entire second floor of the Bibliothèque publique d’information into an experimental installation that entered into dialogue with the former library space. Questioning the nature of architecture and the transmission of knowledge, the project explored more than thirty-five years of Tillmans’s artistic practice across a wide range of photographic genres, while presenting his worldview in direct relation to the site itself.

This publication documents the trajectory of that singular undertaking. In the plate section, reproductions of works alternate with numerous installation views, showing how Tillmans made the space his own. The book also includes a range of newly commissioned essays by younger-generation writers, each casting fresh light on his work. Published in conjunction with the final project staged at the Centre Pompidou before its closure, this volume offers a richly layered record of one of Tillmans’s boldest and most nuanced recent installations, across 272 pages and more than 600 colour illustrations.

Article
Transforming Images, Traversing Fields — Wolfgang Tillmans and Contemporary Photography
by Yukihito Kono

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Title: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us
Artist: Wolfgang Tillmans
Editor: Florian Ebner and Olga Frydryszak-Rétat
Designer: deValence, Lyosha Kritsouk
Publisher: Spector Books, 2025
Format: Softcover with flaps, thread-sewn
Pages: 272, over 600 colour illustrations
Size: 220 × 280 mm
Language: English
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 9783959059213
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