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<tc>Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us</tc>
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Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us

Spector Books

A catalogue of the exhibition "Wolfgang Tillmans. Rien ne nous y préparait – Tout nous y préparait".

From June 13 to September 22, 2025, the Centre Pompidou gave German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans carte blanche for a large-scale project that concluded the institution’s programme before its five-year renovation. His experimental installation occupied the entire second floor of the Public Information Library (BPI), transforming the space from within and entering into a dialogue with the former library. The exhibition explored over thirty-five years of artistic practice across diverse photographic genres while questioning the building both as architecture and as a site for the transmission of knowledge, presenting Tillmans’s personal worldview in direct response to the library environment.

This book documents that unique project. In the plates section, images of individual works alternate with numerous installation views, showing how the artist made the space his own. A varied selection of essays by a younger generation of authors offers fresh perspectives on Tillmans’s practice.

As the last project before the closure of the Centre Pompidou for extensive renovations, the book captures a bold yet nuanced experiment by one of the leading figures in contemporary photography. With 272 pages and over 600 illustrations, it provides a comprehensive view of this singular undertaking.

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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, August 2025
Format: Softcover with flaps, thread-sewn
Pages: 272, over 600 colour illustrations
Size: 220 × 280 mm
Language: English
Edition: First edition
ISBN: 9783959059213
Price: ¥9,350

Article: Transforming Images, Crossing Boundaries—Wolfgang Tillmans and Contemporary Photography
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