AndThe close-up of a vulva, the vastness of the starry sky seen from an airplane window, a mobile phone leaning against a bottle of water: everything can become the object of Wolfgang Tillmans’ curiosity. The exhibition, which the New York Museum of Modern Art dedicates to the artist, born in Remscheid in 1968, shows the full range of his work – and this includes not only photographs, but also videos, music and the installation “Truth Centro Studios. “The exhibition occupies the entire sixth floor of MoMA. 350 works have been announced, 417 are said to have finally become: Tillmans has never been shown so widely in New York.” To Look Without Fear “- without fear of looking or looking – it should also be an invitation to look again and again without masking, says the artist in an interview.
His exhibition is not the only major exhibition of German photographers currently underway in New York. The Metropolitan Museum presents the posthumous retrospective of the works of Bernd and Hilla Becher. The series of industrial monuments that have entered the canon of modern photography and have been created over a period of over forty years are enclosed in strictly organized groups that reveal their diversity and vitality only at second glance. Pictures of the Concordia coal mine in Oberhausen occupy a gallery, and a collection of water towers from five different countries spans nearly two decades. The exhibition in honor of the founders of the Düsseldorf School of Photography, who passed away in 2007 and 2015, includes more than 400 works.
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