Stephen Willats (1943, London) is a British artist, who lives and works in London. Since the early 1960s he has created works concerned with extending the territory in which art functions, while leading a critical examination of environments shaped by contemporary life.
Willats is one of the forerunners of conceptual art in Europe, embracing interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems, analysis, cybernetics, computer technology, semiotics and philosophy, in the furtherance of the element of interactivity which continues to be one of the key drivers in his work.
Willats is one of the forerunners of conceptual art in Europe, embracing interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems, analysis, cybernetics, computer technology, semiotics and philosophy, in the furtherance of the element of interactivity which continues to be one of the key drivers in his work.
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Stephen Willats (1943, London) is a British artist, who lives and works in London.
He is an international figure in contemporary art; he has worked in the Netherlands since the 1970’s where his work is represented in several public collections, it has been exhibited in the Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, De Gemeente Museum den Haag, Breda, Venlo etc. Most recently his work was seen in "Becoming Dutch" in the Van Abbe Museum.
His most recent exhibitions include: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 – 1982, Group Show at LACMA, 2023; Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 2022; Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951, Group show at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK, 2021; Atlas of Modernity Exercises, Group show at Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, 2021; Languages of Dissent, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019; Modern Buildings - Works & Drawings, Galerie Lumen Travo, 2019; Control, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2018; Endless, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
He is an international figure in contemporary art; he has worked in the Netherlands since the 1970’s where his work is represented in several public collections, it has been exhibited in the Van Abbe Museum Eindhoven, De Gemeente Museum den Haag, Breda, Venlo etc. Most recently his work was seen in "Becoming Dutch" in the Van Abbe Museum.
His most recent exhibitions include: Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 – 1982, Group Show at LACMA, 2023; Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, 2022; Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951, Group show at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK, 2021; Atlas of Modernity Exercises, Group show at Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland, 2021; Languages of Dissent, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland, 2019; Modern Buildings - Works & Drawings, Galerie Lumen Travo, 2019; Control, Tate Liverpool, UK, 2018; Endless, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany, 2018.
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BIOGRAPHY
1943 Born in London.
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1962-63 ‘The Ground Course’, Ealing School of Art
1965 to date Editor and publisher of Control Magazine
1972-73 Director of ‘The Centre for Behavioural Art’, London
1979-80 D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin
1990 Convenor of the Symposium, ‘Art Creating Society’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1991 Stephen Willats - Printed Archive’ established at the Victoria and Albert Museum
2003 Convenor of the Seminars ‘Art Intervention’, Control Magazine at Vilma Gold, London
2006 Multiple Clothing’ seminar and performance at Tate Modern, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent
University,
Nottingham
2019
Stephen Willats – Languages of Dissent, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Modern Buildings - Works & Drawings, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Control, Tate Liverpool, UK
Endless Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2017
Human Right, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
Stephen Willats: The Conceptual Designer, Art Feature at Basel Art Fair, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2016
Conversations With Buildings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Stephen Willats: THISWAY, Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Inside the Night, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2015
Publishing Interventions – Stephen Willats – Selected Publications 1965 – 2015, Tenderpixel, London, UK
Step Change, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephen Willats: Man from the 21st Century, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Strange Attractor Series No 28, Corner Space, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Becoming the Attractor, MD72, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Local, MD72, Berlin, Germany
How Tomorrow Looks From Here, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Attracting the Attractor, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Concrete Block: Drawings & Works on Paper, 1978 - 2005, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium
Concerning our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Representing the Possible, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Control: Work 1962-69, Raven Row, London, UK
2013
Living for Tomorrow, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2013 – 2014)
World Without Objects, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
World of Objects, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Conscious – Unconscious, In and Out the Reality Check, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012
Secret Language The Code Breakers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
How the Future Looks from Here, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Surfing with the Attractor, South London Gallery, London, UK
2011
The Strange Attractor, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA
The Information Nomad, MOT International, London, UK
Talking City, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France
The West London Social Resource Project Public Monitor 1972, Chelsea Space, London, UK
2010
Street Diagram, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
In Two Minds, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
The World As It Is and the World As It Could Be, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Counter Consciousness, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
In Two Minds, Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Cybernetic Still Life, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2009-2010)
In and Out the Underworld, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Assumptions and Identity - Identity and Assumptions, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Ideological Diagram, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2008
Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
The Speculative Diagram, Casco Projects - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
2007
Assumptions and Presumptions, Art on the Underground, Film Commission by Transport for London for Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town Underground stations, London, UK
Person to Person People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Just Between People, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2006
Going Home, (An Exhibition in 3 Chapters), MOT International, London, UK
How the World is and How it Could Be, Museum fur Gegenswartkunst Siegen, Germany
From My Mind To Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald St Gallery, London, UK
2005
Multichannel Life, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
Street Talk Amsterdam, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Going Home, MOT Gallery, London, UK
2004
Messages from the Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum, Nurnberg, Germany
2003
Personal Encounters in Your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Cognitive Control, Institute of Visual Culture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Through Your Symbolic World, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001
Traces And Signs, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rencontres et Cooperations 1970-2000, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Man From The Twenty First Century. Nottingham 1970-1971, Clinique, London, UK
2000
Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, UK
1999 Multichannel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1998 Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery
1998 Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery
1998 Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1998 Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London
1997 Street Talk, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1997 Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1997 MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
1995 Living Together, Tramway, Glasgow
1995 A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin
1994 Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London STEPHEN WILLATS 1994 Museum Mosaic, Tate
Gallery, Liverpool
1994 Fateful Combinations, The British School at Rome
1994 Into the Infra-Structure, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
1993 Buildings & People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1993 Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1991 Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1990 Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1989 Secret Language, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
1988 Transformers, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1987 Contemporary Living, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
1987 Between Objects And People, Leeds City Art Gallery
1986 City of Concrete, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1986 Grusse vom Medernen Lebe, Stadtische Galerie, Regensburg, West Germany
1996 Groeten uit het moderne leven, Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland
1996 Concepts and Models, ICA, London
1996 Vier Hiizen in Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
1996 Striking Back, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1984 Another City, Riverside Studios, London
1983 Inside The Night, Lisson Gallery, London
1982 Meta Filter and Related Works, Tate Gallery, London
1980 The Lurky Place, Galerie Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin
1980 Four Professionals, Lisson Gallery, London
1980 Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1980 4 Inseln in Berlin, National Galerie, West Berlin
1979 Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1978 Questions About Ourselves, Lisson Gallery, London
1978 Living Within Contained Conditions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1977 Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Southampton City Art Gallery
1976 Life Codes And Behaviour Parameters, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1976 Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Lisson Gallery, London
1975 Meta Filter, A State Of Agreement, The Gallery, London
1973 The Artist As An Instigator Of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour, Gallery House, London
1968 Visual Automatics & Visual Transmitters, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 – 1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2022
The School of Creators: The Art of Learning from the 1960s to Today, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2021
Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK
Atlas of Modernity Exercises, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Light Works from the Tate Collection, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
2020
Not Working - Artistic Production and Social Class, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Our Present, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
What if… On Utopia in Art, Architecture and Design, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
2019
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Writing for the History of the Future, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA
Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Objects of Wonder – British Sculpture 1950 – Present, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
The Aerodrome: an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
The Lie of the Land, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Family Ties: The Schröder Donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Robert Bolano – Amberes, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Pushing Paper – Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now, British Museum, London, UK; touring to The Oriental Museum, Durham (2020); Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2020); Cooper Gallery, Barnsley (2021-2022); Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (2022)
Bodies – Cities: Collections and Excursions, Museum of Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Germany
AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
KREISE ZIEHEN 3, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
Der Wert der Freiheit, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
2018
The Value of Freedom, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (2018 – 2019)
Exchanges, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK (2018 – 2019)
The Medium is the Message, Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, UK
Drawings, Models and Sculptures, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Dialogues With A Collection, LGLondon, London, UK
Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Front International: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Fashioned from Nature, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2017
Extra Bodies – The Use of the ‹Other Body› in Contemporary Art, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise - My Sweet Little Lamp, The Showroom, London, UK (2017-2018)
Out of Line, The Meeting, Bill Cournoyer, New York, NY, USA
The Making of Modern Art & The Way Beyond Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Case Study, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Space & Photography, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Control Issue 20, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
This Way Out of England. Gallery House in Retrospect, Raven Row, London, UK
You've got 1243 unread messages, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Idea Home Show, Mima, Middlesbrough, UK
Lines of Thought - Drawing From Michelangelo to now, British Museum exhibition touring to Poole Museum, Hull University, Ulster Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
2016
Art in Europe 1945-1968, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
You Don’t need a Weatherman, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2016-2017)
20 – An Exhibition in Three Acts, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Translocaciones, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979, Tate Britain, London, UK
Crossing Media: Good Space — Political, Aesthetic and Urban Spaces, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2015
Annexes, Emanuel Layr Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Subtle Patterns of Capital, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Radically Modern, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Welfare State, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
An English Summer, Elizabeth Dee, New York, USA
Imaginary Audience Scale, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014
Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2014 – 2015)
West:Berlin, Ephraim-Palais, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin (2014 – 2015)
Social Factory, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Sleeping Producers - part of curated by_vienna, Galerie Charim, Vienna
Traucum, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France
The Promise, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Was Modelle können (What models can do), Museum für Gegenswart Kunst, Siegen, Germany
Nouvelle Generation (New Generation), Frac Nord - Pas de Calais, France
Warm Math - Part 2, Gallery Balice Hertling, New York
Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Bibliologie, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
2013
Secret Codes, Galerie Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil (2013 – 2014)
Xerography, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, UK
Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (2013 – 2014)
Signs and Messages, Kate Macgarry, London, UK
L'Expérience des Marges, Un Coup de Dés [online] and Le Centre Photographique d'Île-De-France, Paris, France
Mom, am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennial 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Prologue - Part One - References, Paperclips and the Cha Cha Cha, AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
Nessun Oggetto é Innocente - part of Les Pleiades, 30 Years of Fracs, Frac Corse, Corsica
The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
Being on an Island (Inseldasein), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
A World of Wild Doubt, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Vertical Club, curated by Will Benedict, Gallery Bortolami, New York, USA
On the Move, European Kunsthalle at the KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Keywords, Iniva, London, UK
2012
La Collection Frac Haute-Normandie, La Maison Pour Tous, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France
PVM-2130, Furnished Space, London, UK
Fine Arts: On Signs and Bodies, curated by Thomas Locher, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion since Modernism, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Lugwig, Vienna, Austria
A Drawing While Waiting for an Idea, Large Glass, London, UK
Préférences Systeme: Édition et Photographie dans la Collection du Frac Haute-Normandie, ESADHAR, Campus de Rouen, France
Living with Art, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 United Enemies, The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
For Eindhoven: The City as Muse, part of VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Through Symbolic Worlds, International Project Space, School of Art Bournville, Birmingham, UK
Final Exhibition, Kleingartenkolonie am Potsdamer Guterbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Aftermath: Objects from Projects, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Indices, vestiges et prémonitions, Frac Corse, France
Balice Hertling, Independent Art Fair New York, NY, USA
The Logic of Association, MOMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Signal:Noise, The Showroom, London, UK
Front Desk Apparatus, Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York, USA
Stay Hungry, Kleingartenkolonie am Potsdamer Güterbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2010
Camera, light, action, abc (art berlin contemporary), Marshall House, Berlin, Germany
Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II, Quad Gallery, Derby, England (travelling to 2010 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, North Wales and Leamington Spa 2010 Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK)
Lisson presents 7, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Goodbye London; Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies, ngbk, Berlin, Germany
Modernologies; Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Moving Images. Artists & Video / Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Unresolved Matters. Social Utopias Revisited, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
7 x 14, Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Die Modern Als Ruine; Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Modernologies; Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2008 Getting Even, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2008-2009)
Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy
Cold War Modern: Design 1945 – 1970, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sammlung/Collection, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich, Switzerland
Monde e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
Volksgarten, Die Politik der Zöugehörigkeit, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Oh Girl It’s A Boy!, Kunsverein Munich, Munich
Punk No One Is Innocent, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
Soziale Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground, ICA, London, UK
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
Centre of the Creative Universe. Liverpool and the Avant-garde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Beyond the Wall, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
2006
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground, Kunstverein München, Germany
Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
2005
Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Wie Gesellschaft und Politik ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Borders Dialogues, Barents Art Triennial, Kirkenes, Norway
20:TWENTY. A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985 - 2005, Cornerhouse Manchester, International
Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, Manchester, UK
2004
3rd Berlin Biennial, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
L’Air dy Temps, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Streets, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Engagierte Kunst 70/90, Neus museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Re:Location. 1-7 Shake, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Birmingham City Art Museum, Birmingham, UK
La Collection Continue, FRAC Corse, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia, France
Vanishing Points: Landscape Art Beyond The Horizon, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
70/90. Engagierte Kunst, Neuesmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
2003
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Urban Codes, code/decoder, Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Art for Networks, Turnpike Gallery, Leith, Nr Manchester, UK
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered. Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, curated by Claudia Seidel, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Collection 001, Frac Rhone-Alpes, Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2002
Blast to Freeze. British Art in the Twentieth Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Art for Networks, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales; Touring to The FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2000
Democracy, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Live In Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
ein/raumen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1999
Bildung, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz, Austria
1998
Addressing the Century, 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1997
The Grand Design, The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
1996
Les Contes de Fees se terminent bien, Frac Haute-Normandie, Chateau du Val Freneuse, Sottevillesous-le-Val
Radikale Images, 2nd Austrian Triennale for Photograph, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
1995
Ars 95 Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
La Transparence Dans L’Art Du XXe Siecle, Museum des Beaux-Arts Malraux, Le Havre, France
The Edge of Town, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, USA
1994
visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
1993
Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1992
Real Stories, Museet fur Photokunst, Odense, Denmark
Instructions and Diagrams, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1990
Art Creating Society, Exhibition to accompany Symposium at the MOMA, Oxford, UK
1989
Tekens Van Verzet, Beeld Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland
1988
Beyond the City, The Metropolis, Triennale di Milano, Italy
New Urban Landscape, World Financial Centre, Battery Park, New York, USA
100 Years of British Art, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
1987
Art and Craft made and designed in the Twentieth Century, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1985
Sculpture Alternatives - Aspects of Photography and Sculpture in Britain 1965 - 82, Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Art Show, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The British Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Austrailia (traveling exhibition throughout Australia)
1983
New Art and the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Sculpture Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Past - Present - Future, Wuttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Enweiterte Fotografie, Wiener Secession, Wiener, Austria
Aperto ‘82, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1981
Kunst und Politik, Basischer Kunstverein, Karlsuhe, Germany
Die Kehrseite der Wunschbilder, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1979
Certain Art Anglais, ARC 2, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Anglo-Belgium Exhibition, JP2 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1977
Social Criticism and Art Practice, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
10th Biennale of Paris, Paris, France
1976
Art as Thought Process, British Council Touring Exhibition for France
Twentieth Century Artist’s Photographs, Israel Museum, Israel
1974
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1972
Survey of the Avant-Guarde, Gallery House, London, UK
Cognition Control, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Cognition Control, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1968
Public Eye, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
1967 K 4, Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK
1966 Kust Licht Kunst, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
1943 Born in London.
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
1962-63 ‘The Ground Course’, Ealing School of Art
1965 to date Editor and publisher of Control Magazine
1972-73 Director of ‘The Centre for Behavioural Art’, London
1979-80 D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin
1990 Convenor of the Symposium, ‘Art Creating Society’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1991 Stephen Willats - Printed Archive’ established at the Victoria and Albert Museum
2003 Convenor of the Seminars ‘Art Intervention’, Control Magazine at Vilma Gold, London
2006 Multiple Clothing’ seminar and performance at Tate Modern, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent
University,
Nottingham
2019
Stephen Willats – Languages of Dissent, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Modern Buildings - Works & Drawings, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
Control, Tate Liverpool, UK
Endless Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2017
Human Right, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
Stephen Willats: The Conceptual Designer, Art Feature at Basel Art Fair, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2016
Conversations With Buildings, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Stephen Willats: THISWAY, Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Inside the Night, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2015
Publishing Interventions – Stephen Willats – Selected Publications 1965 – 2015, Tenderpixel, London, UK
Step Change, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stephen Willats: Man from the 21st Century, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2014 Strange Attractor Series No 28, Corner Space, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Becoming the Attractor, MD72, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Local, MD72, Berlin, Germany
How Tomorrow Looks From Here, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Attracting the Attractor, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Concrete Block: Drawings & Works on Paper, 1978 - 2005, MOT International, Brussels, Belgium
Concerning our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Representing the Possible, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Control: Work 1962-69, Raven Row, London, UK
2013
Living for Tomorrow, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2013 – 2014)
World Without Objects, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
World of Objects, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Conscious – Unconscious, In and Out the Reality Check, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2012
Secret Language The Code Breakers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
How the Future Looks from Here, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Surfing with the Attractor, South London Gallery, London, UK
2011
The Strange Attractor, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA
The Information Nomad, MOT International, London, UK
Talking City, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest, France
The West London Social Resource Project Public Monitor 1972, Chelsea Space, London, UK
2010
Street Diagram, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
In Two Minds, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium
The World As It Is and the World As It Could Be, Victoria Miro, London, UK
Counter Consciousness, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
In Two Minds, Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009
Cybernetic Still Life, Balice Hertling, Paris, France (2009-2010)
In and Out the Underworld, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Assumptions and Identity - Identity and Assumptions, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Ideological Diagram, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
2008
Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
The Speculative Diagram, Casco Projects - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
2007
Assumptions and Presumptions, Art on the Underground, Film Commission by Transport for London for Rayners Lane and Sudbury Town Underground stations, London, UK
Person to Person People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Just Between People, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2006
Going Home, (An Exhibition in 3 Chapters), MOT International, London, UK
How the World is and How it Could Be, Museum fur Gegenswartkunst Siegen, Germany
From My Mind To Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald St Gallery, London, UK
2005
Multichannel Life, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany
Street Talk Amsterdam, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Going Home, MOT Gallery, London, UK
2004
Messages from the Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum, Nurnberg, Germany
2003
Personal Encounters in Your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Cognitive Control, Institute of Visual Culture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Through Your Symbolic World, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001
Traces And Signs, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rencontres et Cooperations 1970-2000, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Man From The Twenty First Century. Nottingham 1970-1971, Clinique, London, UK
2000
Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, UK
1999 Multichannel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
1998 Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery
1998 Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery
1998 Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1998 Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London
1997 Street Talk, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1997 Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1997 MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
1995 Living Together, Tramway, Glasgow
1995 A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin
1994 Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London STEPHEN WILLATS 1994 Museum Mosaic, Tate
Gallery, Liverpool
1994 Fateful Combinations, The British School at Rome
1994 Into the Infra-Structure, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
1993 Buildings & People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
1993 Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1991 Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1990 Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1989 Secret Language, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester
1988 Transformers, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
1987 Contemporary Living, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent
1987 Between Objects And People, Leeds City Art Gallery
1986 City of Concrete, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1986 Grusse vom Medernen Lebe, Stadtische Galerie, Regensburg, West Germany
1996 Groeten uit het moderne leven, Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland
1996 Concepts and Models, ICA, London
1996 Vier Hiizen in Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
1996 Striking Back, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1984 Another City, Riverside Studios, London
1983 Inside The Night, Lisson Gallery, London
1982 Meta Filter and Related Works, Tate Gallery, London
1980 The Lurky Place, Galerie Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin
1980 Four Professionals, Lisson Gallery, London
1980 Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1980 4 Inseln in Berlin, National Galerie, West Berlin
1979 Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1978 Questions About Ourselves, Lisson Gallery, London
1978 Living Within Contained Conditions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1977 Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Southampton City Art Gallery
1976 Life Codes And Behaviour Parameters, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1976 Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Lisson Gallery, London
1975 Meta Filter, A State Of Agreement, The Gallery, London
1973 The Artist As An Instigator Of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour, Gallery House, London
1968 Visual Automatics & Visual Transmitters, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952 – 1982, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2022
The School of Creators: The Art of Learning from the 1960s to Today, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2021
Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich, UK
Atlas of Modernity Exercises, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Light Works from the Tate Collection, Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai, China
2020
Not Working - Artistic Production and Social Class, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Our Present, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
What if… On Utopia in Art, Architecture and Design, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
2019
Objects of Wonder: From Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
Writing for the History of the Future, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA
Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Objects of Wonder – British Sculpture 1950 – Present, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
The Aerodrome: an exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
The Lie of the Land, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Family Ties: The Schröder Donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Robert Bolano – Amberes, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Pushing Paper – Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now, British Museum, London, UK; touring to The Oriental Museum, Durham (2020); Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2020); Cooper Gallery, Barnsley (2021-2022); Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney (2022)
Bodies – Cities: Collections and Excursions, Museum of Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Germany
AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
KREISE ZIEHEN 3, nGbK, Berlin, Germany
Der Wert der Freiheit, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
2018
The Value of Freedom, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (2018 – 2019)
Exchanges, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK (2018 – 2019)
The Medium is the Message, Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, UK
Drawings, Models and Sculptures, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Dialogues With A Collection, LGLondon, London, UK
Open Codes - Living in Digital Worlds, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Front International: Cleveland Triennial of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Fashioned from Nature, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
2017
Extra Bodies – The Use of the ‹Other Body› in Contemporary Art, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Everything We See Could Also Be Otherwise - My Sweet Little Lamp, The Showroom, London, UK (2017-2018)
Out of Line, The Meeting, Bill Cournoyer, New York, NY, USA
The Making of Modern Art & The Way Beyond Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Case Study, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Space & Photography, Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Control Issue 20, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK
This Way Out of England. Gallery House in Retrospect, Raven Row, London, UK
You've got 1243 unread messages, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Idea Home Show, Mima, Middlesbrough, UK
Lines of Thought - Drawing From Michelangelo to now, British Museum exhibition touring to Poole Museum, Hull University, Ulster Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
2016
Art in Europe 1945-1968, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
You Don’t need a Weatherman, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (2016-2017)
20 – An Exhibition in Three Acts, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Translocaciones, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979, Tate Britain, London, UK
Crossing Media: Good Space — Political, Aesthetic and Urban Spaces, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2015
Annexes, Emanuel Layr Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Subtle Patterns of Capital, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Radically Modern, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Welfare State, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
An English Summer, Elizabeth Dee, New York, USA
Imaginary Audience Scale, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915 – 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014
Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (2014 – 2015)
West:Berlin, Ephraim-Palais, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin (2014 – 2015)
Social Factory, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Sleeping Producers - part of curated by_vienna, Galerie Charim, Vienna
Traucum, Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux, France
The Promise, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Was Modelle können (What models can do), Museum für Gegenswart Kunst, Siegen, Germany
Nouvelle Generation (New Generation), Frac Nord - Pas de Calais, France
Warm Math - Part 2, Gallery Balice Hertling, New York
Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary, UK
Bibliologie, Frac Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Rouen, France
2013
Secret Codes, Galerie Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil (2013 – 2014)
Xerography, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, UK
Pop Art Design, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK (2013 – 2014)
Signs and Messages, Kate Macgarry, London, UK
L'Expérience des Marges, Un Coup de Dés [online] and Le Centre Photographique d'Île-De-France, Paris, France
Mom, am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennial 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
Prologue - Part One - References, Paperclips and the Cha Cha Cha, AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy
Nessun Oggetto é Innocente - part of Les Pleiades, 30 Years of Fracs, Frac Corse, Corsica
The Content of Form, Generali Foundation, Salzburg, Austria
Being on an Island (Inseldasein), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
A World of Wild Doubt, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
Vertical Club, curated by Will Benedict, Gallery Bortolami, New York, USA
On the Move, European Kunsthalle at the KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Keywords, Iniva, London, UK
2012
La Collection Frac Haute-Normandie, La Maison Pour Tous, Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France
PVM-2130, Furnished Space, London, UK
Fine Arts: On Signs and Bodies, curated by Thomas Locher, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
Reflecting Fashion: Art and Fashion since Modernism, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Lugwig, Vienna, Austria
A Drawing While Waiting for an Idea, Large Glass, London, UK
Préférences Systeme: Édition et Photographie dans la Collection du Frac Haute-Normandie, ESADHAR, Campus de Rouen, France
Living with Art, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2011 United Enemies, The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
For Eindhoven: The City as Muse, part of VANUIT HIER - OUT OF HERE, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Through Symbolic Worlds, International Project Space, School of Art Bournville, Birmingham, UK
Final Exhibition, Kleingartenkolonie am Potsdamer Guterbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Aftermath: Objects from Projects, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, UK
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Indices, vestiges et prémonitions, Frac Corse, France
Balice Hertling, Independent Art Fair New York, NY, USA
The Logic of Association, MOMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Signal:Noise, The Showroom, London, UK
Front Desk Apparatus, Balice Hertling & Lewis, New York, USA
Stay Hungry, Kleingartenkolonie am Potsdamer Güterbahnhof, Berlin, Germany
2010
Camera, light, action, abc (art berlin contemporary), Marshall House, Berlin, Germany
Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II, Quad Gallery, Derby, England (travelling to 2010 Oriel Mostyn Gallery, North Wales and Leamington Spa 2010 Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa, UK)
Lisson presents 7, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Goodbye London; Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies, ngbk, Berlin, Germany
Modernologies; Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Moving Images. Artists & Video / Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Unresolved Matters. Social Utopias Revisited, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2009
7 x 14, Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Die Modern Als Ruine; Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Modernologies; Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2008 Getting Even, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland (2008-2009)
Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy
Cold War Modern: Design 1945 – 1970, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Brought to Light: Photography and the Invisible, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sammlung/Collection, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zürich, Switzerland
Monde e Terra, La collezione del FRAC Corsica, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
Volksgarten, Die Politik der Zöugehörigkeit, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Oh Girl It’s A Boy!, Kunsverein Munich, Munich
Punk No One Is Innocent, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
Soziale Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2007
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground, ICA, London, UK
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
Centre of the Creative Universe. Liverpool and the Avant-garde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Beyond the Wall, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
2006
The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground, Kunstverein München, Germany
Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg, Sweden
2005
Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Wie Gesellschaft und Politik ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Borders Dialogues, Barents Art Triennial, Kirkenes, Norway
20:TWENTY. A Timeline of Cornerhouse Exhibitions 1985 - 2005, Cornerhouse Manchester, International
Centre for Contemporary Visual Arts and Film, Manchester, UK
2004
3rd Berlin Biennial, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
L’Air dy Temps, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Streets, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Engagierte Kunst 70/90, Neus museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Re:Location. 1-7 Shake, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Germany
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Birmingham City Art Museum, Birmingham, UK
La Collection Continue, FRAC Corse, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia, France
Vanishing Points: Landscape Art Beyond The Horizon, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
70/90. Engagierte Kunst, Neuesmuseum, Nürnberg, Germany
2003
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Urban Codes, code/decoder, Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Art for Networks, Turnpike Gallery, Leith, Nr Manchester, UK
Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered. Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, curated by Claudia Seidel, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
Collection 001, Frac Rhone-Alpes, Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2002
Blast to Freeze. British Art in the Twentieth Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Art for Networks, Chapter, Cardiff, Wales; Touring to The FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2000
Democracy, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Live In Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
ein/raumen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1999
Bildung, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz, Austria
1998
Addressing the Century, 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1997
The Grand Design, The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
1996
Les Contes de Fees se terminent bien, Frac Haute-Normandie, Chateau du Val Freneuse, Sottevillesous-le-Val
Radikale Images, 2nd Austrian Triennale for Photograph, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
1995
Ars 95 Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
La Transparence Dans L’Art Du XXe Siecle, Museum des Beaux-Arts Malraux, Le Havre, France
The Edge of Town, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, USA
1994
visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy
1993
Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1992
Real Stories, Museet fur Photokunst, Odense, Denmark
Instructions and Diagrams, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1990
Art Creating Society, Exhibition to accompany Symposium at the MOMA, Oxford, UK
1989
Tekens Van Verzet, Beeld Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Holland
1988
Beyond the City, The Metropolis, Triennale di Milano, Italy
New Urban Landscape, World Financial Centre, Battery Park, New York, USA
100 Years of British Art, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
1987
Art and Craft made and designed in the Twentieth Century, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1985
Sculpture Alternatives - Aspects of Photography and Sculpture in Britain 1965 - 82, Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Art Show, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
The British Show, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Austrailia (traveling exhibition throughout Australia)
1983
New Art and the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Sculpture Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Past - Present - Future, Wuttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Enweiterte Fotografie, Wiener Secession, Wiener, Austria
Aperto ‘82, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1981
Kunst und Politik, Basischer Kunstverein, Karlsuhe, Germany
Die Kehrseite der Wunschbilder, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1979
Certain Art Anglais, ARC 2, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Anglo-Belgium Exhibition, JP2 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1977
Social Criticism and Art Practice, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
10th Biennale of Paris, Paris, France
1976
Art as Thought Process, British Council Touring Exhibition for France
Twentieth Century Artist’s Photographs, Israel Museum, Israel
1974
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1972
Survey of the Avant-Guarde, Gallery House, London, UK
Cognition Control, Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Cognition Control, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1968
Public Eye, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
1967 K 4, Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK
1966 Kust Licht Kunst, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland
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