Guy Tillim

Guy Tillim (* 1962 in Johannesburg ) is a South African photographer . After working as a press photographer at the beginning of his career, Tillim has also been successful in the international art world since the late 1990s .

Guy Tillim in Neu-Ulm, Walther Collection, August 2015

Life

Guy Tillim studied at the University of Cape Town and graduated in 1985 with a BA in Economics. In 1986 he joined the South African photography association Afrapix and started working for Reuters South Africa. From 1988 he worked as a freelancer for other press agencies (especially for AFP ).

His artistic work includes series of images of political trouble spots in Africa, portraits and urban works that are close to investigative reportage journalism. Tillim prefers to work in color ; his pictures are characterized by restrained contrasts in brightness and an elegiac construction.

“For Guy Tillim, his artistic attitude is formulated on the delicate border between empathy and distancing. His ways through the countries of southern Africa are not dictated by predetermined goals, but seem to follow an initially unprejudiced attention to the circumstances and the worlds of life that the people themselves have brought about and into which they are equally placed. Tillim is not looking for the 'right', the 'successful' motif, he lets himself be found by pictures, so to speak, lets them approach him in order to circling them at the same time in a directed movement, to describe them. [...] Tillim does not provide us with any photographic findings that can be used by journalists, despite precise location and situation information, but draws us into the cycle of interpretations and standpoints, points of view and interpretations; he forces us into an openness to references and references, which the apparent 'weakness' of the judgment is converted into the strength of precise and repeated observations. "

- Renate Wiehager : Living on earth and being able to see stars

Tillim lives and works in Cape Town .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 2015: Points Of View, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
• 2014: Jo'burg: Points Of View, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2014: Jo'burg, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
• 2013: Libreville, Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2012: Second Nature . Huis Marseille, Amsterdam .
• 2012: Second Nature, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
• 2011: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
• 2010: Avenue Patrice Lumumba, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
• 2008: Guy Tillim . Haunch of Venison, Zurich .
• 2008: Petros Village . House for Art Uri, Altdorf (Switzerland).
• 2007: Congo Democratic . Extraspazio, Rome .
• 2005: Leopold and Mobutu . Photographers' Gallery, London .
• 2004: Jo'burg . South African National Gallery, Cape Town.
• 2004: DaimlerChrysler Award exhibition at DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, then Sindelfingen.
• 2003: Departure . PhotoZA, Johannesburg.
• 2001: Kuito, Angola . South African Museum, Cape Town.
• 1996: Kabul, Afghanistan . Durban Center for Photography, Durban .

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

• 2017: 10 YEARS OLD // 2007–2017: a history of the world told through the images of the Fondazione Cassa di risparmio di Modena Collection, Modena, Foro Boario
• 2016: On the Subject of the Ready-made, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
• 2015: Strange Worlds - Works from the collection, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy
• 2015: The Order of Things - Photography from The Walther Collection, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm
• 2015: Making Africa - A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
• 2014: Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age, Barbican Art Gallery, London, Great Britain
• 2014: Room Service - From the hotel to art and artists in the hotel, State Art Gallery Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
• 2014: The Divine Comedy. Heaven, Hell, Purgatory from the perspective of African contemporary artists, Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt / Main
• 2013: Cityscapes - Cinco Fábulas Urbanas, CENTROCENTRO CIBELES DE CULTURA Y CIUDADANÍA, Madrid, Spain
• 2012: Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
• 2012: Lost Places - Places of Photography, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
• 2011: Appropriated Landscapes, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm
• 2011: Figures & Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London, Great Britain
• 2010: The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
• 2009: Face of Our Time, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
• 2008 Cities in Crisis - Photographs of the South African Urban Landscape, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2008: A Look Away - South African Photography Today, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin. Curated by Christian Ganzenberg.
• 2008: Biennale Cuvée - world selection of contemporary art. OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz . The work Leopold and Mobutu was shown .
• 2007: Global Cities . Tate Modern , London.
• 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work Congo Democratic was shown .
• 2007: Africa Remix . Johannesburg Art Gallery , Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 2007: Reality check - contemporary photo art from South Africa. Shown in the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin, in the gallery of the city of Sindelfingen , in the Museum Bochum , as well as in the Chemnitz art collections .
• 2006: Photography, Video, Mixed Media III . DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin.
• 2006: SLUM: Art and life in the here and now of the civil age. New Gallery Graz .
• 2006: 27th São Paulo Biennial .
• 2006: Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography . International Center of Photography, New York.
• 2005: Outside Europe - From the DaimlerChrysler Collection, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin.
• 2004: Unsettled . National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen .
• 2004: Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent . Shown u. a. at the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf and Center Pompidou , Paris.
• 1998: eyeAfrica: African Photography 1840–1998 . Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town.
• 1996: Colors: Art from South Africa . House of World Cultures , Berlin.

Publications

• 2006: Petros Village, Punctum Editions, Rome
• 2008: Avenue Patrice Lumumba . Prestel, Munich / Berlin / London / New York City, ISBN 978-3-7913-4066-1 .
• 2012: Second Nature . Prestel, Munich, ISBN 978-3-7913-4690-8 .
• 2014: JOBURG: Points of View, Punctum Press, Rome, ISBN 978-88-95410-22-7 .
• 2015: O Futuro Certo - Steidl, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86930-649-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Guy Tillim in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Guy Tillim in the documenta archive
• Guy Tillim on kunstaspekte.de
• Guy Tillim at the Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog text on the occasion of the Daimler Award for South African Art 2004 available online ( memento of the original from September 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008) 
2. ^ Second Nature . Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie, Amsterdam, March 2 to June 3, 2012. (Accessed March 1, 2012.)
3. ↑ Guy Tillim . Haunch of Venison, Zurich. April 18 - May 24, 2008. Available online ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.) 
4. ↑ Guy Tillim: Petros Village . Haus Für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, March 15 - May 18, 2008. Available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.)  
5. ^ Congo Democratic . Extraspazio, Rome, January 19 - March 3, 2007. Available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.)  
6. ^ Leopold and Mobutu . Photographers' Gallery, London, August 12 - September 25, 2005. Available online ( memento of the original from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.) 
7. ↑ Guy Tillim . DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, June 17 - August 22, 2004. Catalog published in Berlin 2004. Available online ( memento of the original from October 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.) 
8. ^ Biennale Cuvée OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, February 29 - April 27, 2008. Together with the Contemporary Art Center Vilnius and the Kunsthalle Lund. Curated by Martin Sturm. Available online ( memento of the original from April 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 29, 2008.) 
9. ↑ Global Cities Tate Modern, June 20 - August 27, 2007. Available online ( memento of the original from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 29, 2008.) 
10. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the works by Guy Tillim shown on the official documenta blog: Available online ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 29, 2008) 
11. ↑ Reality check NBK Berlin, January 13th - March 11th 2007. Curated by Pam Warne. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 29, 2008.) 
12. ↑ Reality check . Sindelfingen City Gallery, July 1 - September 2, 2007. Available online (Accessed April 29, 2008.)
13. ↑ Reality check . Museum Bochum, September 15 - November 4, 2007.
14. ↑ Photography, Video, Mixed Media III . DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, September 29 - January 8, 2007. Available online ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.) 
15. ↑ Slum . Neue Galerie Graz, September 24th - October 15th, 2006. Curated by Peter Weibel, Christa Steinle, and Günther Holler-Schuster. Available online (Retrieved April 30, 2008)
16. ^ Snap Judgments . International Center of Photography, New York, 2006. Curated by Okwui Enwezor. Catalog published by ICP / Steidl, 2006. ISBN 3-86521-224-7 . Available online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved April 30, 2008.)  
17. ↑ Unsettled . National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen. Catalog published by The National Museum of Photography, 2004. ISBN 87-7023-445-0 .
18. ↑ Africa Remix . Curated by Simon Njami. Catalog published by Hatje Cantz. Ostfildern-Ruit 2004. ISBN 3-7757-1472-3 . Available online (Retrieved April 30, 2008)