Wolfgang Tillmans
The Point Is Matter
March 25 – May 11, 2024
Opening Reception: Monday, March 25, 3pm – 7pm
David Zwirner
5-6/F, H Queen’s
80 Queen’s Road Central
Central, Hong Kong
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 7pm
+852 21195900
David Zwirner is pleased to present The Point Is Matter, a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Wolfgang Tillmans at the gallery’s location in Hong Kong. The exhibition’s title stems from Tillmans’s long-term understanding of his work sitting between the physical reality and presence of the world he works and lives in and the conceptual, sociopolitical, sensual, and spiritual concerns that underpin his practice. Presented across both floors of the gallery, the works on view include depictions of changing forms of atmosphere and elusive natural phenomena; pictures that explore notions of time and temporality; and images that engage with the artist’s expansive conceptions of the still life and the portrait. Tillmans punctuates the exhibition with works made in Addis Ababa, Berlin, Lagos, and Mongolia, along with those taken in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, sensitively invoking resonant associations between the local and the world at large, while advocating for an experience of connectedness that is rooted in the process of looking.
This exhibition follows his 2023 solo exhibition Fold Me at David Zwirner New York and his major 2022–2023 traveling retrospective To look without fear at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This will be the artist’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery and his second at David Zwirner Hong Kong.
