Wolfgang Tillmans

As it prepares to close for the next five years while renovations are carried out, the Centre Pompidou is ceding the second floor of the Bibliothèque Publique d’Information to Wolfgang Tillmans, who is filling it with works he has made in the last 35 years (13 June–22 September). The first photographer – and only non-British person to date – to win the Turner Prize, Tillmans has always had wide-ranging interests. As well as photography of people, object and places, and more abstract works, he has a parallel career as an electro musician. This exhibition – of works arranged non-chronologically and in no obvious order – also conveys his artistic flexibility: he has created an accompanying installation comprising film, sound, music and performance art in a bid to bring the library – now stripped of its tables, chairs and bookshelves – back to life.

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Echo Beach (2017), Wolfgang Tillmans. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris/Maureen Paley, London/David Zwirner, New York

its only love give it away (2005), Wolfgang Tillmans. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris/Maureen Paley, London/David Zwirner, New York

Moon in Earthlight (2015), Wolfgang Tillmans. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris/Maureen Paley, London/David Zwirner, New York