Commandez en click and collect et venez chercher vos livres à la librairie — Order with click and collect and pick-up your books at the shop —
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans

Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us - Wolfgang Tillmans

Prix normal

From June 13 to September 22, 2025, the Centre Pompidou is giving carte blanche to the artist Wolfgang Tillmans, who has come up with an original project to round off the programming of the Paris building. Occupying the entire second floor of the Public Information Library (Bpi), Tillmans’s experimental installation transforms the space, establishing a dialogue with the former library and questioning it both as architecture and as a locus for the transmission of knowledge. The exhibition explores over thirty-five years of artistic practice through various photographic genres and constitutes another, very personal representation of his universe, whose order and logic are activated in response to the library space.

The catalog traces this unique project. On the spreads of the section featuring the plates, images of the works alternate with numerous installation shots that show how the artist has made this space his own. A varied selection of essays by a younger generation of authors sheds new light on the various aspects of Tillmans’s work.

--

Du 13 juin au 22 septembre 2025, le Centre Pompidou donne carte blanche à l'artiste Wolfgang Tillmans, qui conçoit un projet original pour compléter la programmation du bâtiment parisien. Occupant tout le deuxième étage de la Bibliothèque publique d'information (BPI), l'installation expérimentale de Tillmans métamorphose l'espace, instaurant un dialogue avec l'ancienne bibliothèque et l'interrogeant à la fois comme architecture et comme lieu de transmission du savoir. L'exposition explore plus de trente-cinq ans de pratique artistique à travers différents genres photographiques et constitue une autre représentation, très personnelle, de son univers, dont l'ordre et la logique s'activent en interaction avec l'espace de la bibliothèque.

Le catalogue retrace ce projet singulier. Dans la section consacrée aux planches, des images des œuvres alternent avec de nombreux clichés de l'installation, illustrant comment l'artiste s'est approprié cet espace. Une sélection variée d'essais, signés par une jeune génération d'auteurs, éclaire d'un jour nouveau les différentes facettes du travail de Tillmans.

  • 272 pages
  • 22 x 28 cm
  • English
  • 2025
  • Spector Books / Editions du Centre Pompidou