Wolfgang Tillmans is a celebrated German photographer, the first non-British recipient of the prestigious Turner Prize. His work has been exhibited in some of the world’s leading museums, including MoMA in New York, Tate Modern and Moderna Museet. To mark the start of the renovation project for the Centre Pompidou, which will close for five years, the photographer has been given “carte blanche” to occupy the 6.000 square meters Level 2 of the Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi). The artist promises to create an unforgettable intervention that will explore both the form of the library itself, its architecture and layout, and its functions, such as the transmission of knowledge, accessibility and sharing of resources, through the lens of Tillmans’s aesthetic universe.
