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Stephen Willats Biographie
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1962 - 1963
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The Ground Course, Ealing School of Art
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1965
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Editor and publisher of "Control Magazine"
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1972 - 1973
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Director of the Centre of Behavioural Art, Gallery House, London
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1979 - 1980
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D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin
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1990
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Convenor of the Symposium, "Art Creating Society," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
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1991
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"Stephen Willats Printed Archive" established at Victoria and Albert Museum
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Lives and works in London, UK
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Expositions sélectionnées |
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2010 |
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Moving Images: Artists & Video/Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
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2010 |
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Ground Level: Hayward Touring Curatorial Open II, QUAD, Derby, UK |
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2010 |
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Counterconsciousness, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo) |
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2010 |
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Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland |
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2010 |
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The World As It Is And The World As It Could Be, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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2010 |
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In Two Minds, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
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2009 - 2010 |
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Unresolved Matters: Social Utopias Revisited, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands |
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2009 |
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7 x 14: Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany |
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2009 |
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Die Moderne als Ruine: Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria |
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2009 |
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Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism, MACBA Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain |
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2009 |
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Die Moderne als Ruine: Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein |
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2009 |
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Cybernetic Still Life, BaliceHertling, Paris, France |
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2009 |
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The Ideological Diagram, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany |
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2009 |
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In And Out The Underworld, European Kusthalle, Cologne, Germany |
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2009 |
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Assumptions And Identity Identity And Assumptions, Lumen Travo Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo) |
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2009 |
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My Yard, British Council Collection exhibition (curated by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK |
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2009 |
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At The Edge: British Art 1950-2000, Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, UK |
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2009 |
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Oppositions & Dialogues, Kunstverein Hanover, Germany |
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2009 |
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An Eye For An Eye, Glucksman Gallery, Cork, UK |
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2008 |
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Building Dwelling Thinking, Laura Bartlett Gallery (curated by John Slyce), London, UK |
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2008 |
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No One is Innocent. Kunst-Stil-Revolte, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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2008 |
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A Town (Not A City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzwerland |
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2008 |
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Mondo e Terra: La collezione del FRAC Corsica, MAN - Nuoro, Museo d’arte Provincia |
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2008 |
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Punk. No One is Innocent. Kunst-Stil-Revolte, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria |
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2008 |
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The Speculative Diagram, Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, London, UK (solo) |
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2008 |
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The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (solo) |
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2008 |
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Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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2008 |
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Person to Person/ People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Buckinghamshire, UK (solo) |
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2008 |
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Sammlung/Collection, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
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2008 |
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Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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2008 |
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The Art of Participation, San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
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2008 |
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Soziale Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (group) |
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2008 |
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Manifesta 7 - Trentino / Tyrol, Rovereto, Italy (group) |
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2007 |
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Person to Person. People to People. Stephen Willats, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, Great Britain |
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2007 |
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Stephen Willats. Just between People, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (solo) |
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2007 |
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The Secret Public. The last days of the British Underground 1978- 1988, ICA-Institute of Contemportary Arts, London |
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2007 |
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What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany |
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2007 |
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Beyond the Wall, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany |
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2007 |
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Oh Girl, It´s A Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany |
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2007 |
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Centre of the Creative Universe. Liverpool and the Avantgarde, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK |
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2007 |
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The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK |
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2007 |
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The Speculative Diagram, CASCA, Utrecht, Netherlands (solo) |
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2006 |
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Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald Street Gallery, London (solo) |
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2006 |
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The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany |
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2006 |
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Stephen Willats Multiple Clothing: Message - Interaction - Exchange (1965-1998), Tate Modern, London |
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2006 |
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Wie die Welt ist und wie sie sein könnte: Stephen Willats, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany |
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2006 |
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From My Mind to Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
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2006 |
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Going Home, MOT International, London |
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2006 |
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Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden |
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2006 |
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Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland |
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2005 |
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Stephen Willats-Street Talk Amsterdam, LUMEN TRAVO, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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2005 |
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Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany |
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2005 |
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Faltering Flame, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK |
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2005 |
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Wie Gesellschaft und Kunst ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria |
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2005 |
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Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
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2005 |
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Barents Art Triennial, Kirkenes, Norway |
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2005 |
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MULTICHANNEL LIFE, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany (solo) |
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2004 |
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Streets, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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2004 |
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Re:Location. 1-7 Shake, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany |
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2004 |
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Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Tate Gallery, London, UK |
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2004 |
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Art & The 60’s. This Was Tomorrow, Birmingham City Art Museum, UK |
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2004 |
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La Collection Continue, FRAC Corse, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia, Korsika |
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2004 |
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Vanishing Points: Landscape Art Beyond the Horizon, Southhampton city Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK |
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2004 |
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Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany |
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2004 |
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Berlin Biennale, Berlin |
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2004 |
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Messages From The Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin |
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2004 |
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L´Air du Temps - collection printemps/été 2004, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich |
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2003 |
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Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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2003 |
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Personal Encounters in your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart |
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2003 |
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Random Networks, ARTLAB 27 at Imperial College, London |
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2003 |
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Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art, Liverpool |
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2003 |
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Collection 001, Frac Rhone-Alpes. Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France |
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2003 |
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In Portraiture Irrelevance Is Ugliness, Museum Schloss Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges |
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2003 |
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Art For Networks, Turnpike Gallery, Leith. Nr. Manchester, UK |
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2003 |
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Urban Codes, coder/decoder, Espace de l’Art Concret, chateau de Mouans, Mouans-Sartoux, France |
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2003 |
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Air Guitar. Reconsidering Rock Music, Tulie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK |
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2002 - 2003 |
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In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany |
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2002 |
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Through your symbolic world, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
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2002 |
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Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany |
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2002 |
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Cognition Control. From The Archives of Stephen Willats, Institute of Visuel Culture Fritzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Uk (solo) |
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2002 |
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Private Views, London Print Studio, London, UK |
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2002 |
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The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwald, Dortmund, Germany |
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2002 |
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Air Guitar, Milton Keynes Gallery and then touring |
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2002 |
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Art For Networks, Chapter Art Centre, Cardiff and then touring |
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2001 |
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Arbeit Essen Angst, Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany |
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2001 |
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City Racing. A Partial Account, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK |
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2001 |
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Conception. Conceptual Documents 1968-72, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK |
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2001 |
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Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany |
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2001 |
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Antagonisms, Musee d’Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain |
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2001 |
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The Map is not the Territory, England & Co., London, UK |
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2001 |
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Traces and Signs, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo) |
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2001 |
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Rencontres et Co-operations 1979-2000, Galerie Gabriell Maubrie, Paris, France (solo) |
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2001 |
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Man From The Twenty First Century, Nottingham 1970 – 1971 Clinique, London, Uk (solo) |
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2001 |
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Works on Paper, Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK |
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2001 |
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Video Evidence, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, USA |
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2001 |
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Video Project Space, Anthony Wilkins Gallery, London, UK |
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2001 |
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Selbst Portrait, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg. Germany |
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2001 |
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Stadsgezichten. Amsterdam vereeuwigd 1901-2001, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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2000 |
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Democracy, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
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2000 |
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Protest And Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
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2000 |
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Raw, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK |
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2000 |
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Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London |
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2000 |
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Live in your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
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1999 |
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Multichanel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1999 |
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Nur Wasser Lasst Sich Leichter Schneiden, Hamburg, germany |
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1999 |
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Bildung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Switzerland |
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1999 |
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Borderline PILOT, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands |
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1998 |
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Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery, UK (solo) |
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1998 |
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Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK (solo) |
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1998 |
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Multicult Berlin, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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1998 |
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Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London, UK (solo) |
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1998 |
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Addressing the Century, 100 Years of Art & Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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1998 |
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Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton |
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1998 |
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Blind Date With Reality, Galerie Bandstetter & Wyss, Zurich |
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1997 |
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Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough |
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1997 |
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Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France |
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1997 |
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The Grand Design, The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore |
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1997 |
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In Every Moment Everywhere, Porin Taidemuseo, Finland |
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1997 |
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C’est ici que nous vivons (2), FRAC Rhones-Alpes, Lyon, France |
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1997 |
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Photographie d’une Collection 3/97, de la Caise des Depots et Consignations, Paris, France |
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1997 |
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Street Talk, Gallery Victoria Miro, London, UK (solo) |
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1997 |
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MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo) |
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1996 |
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In Response To Each Other, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) |
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1996 |
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Les Contes de Fees se terminent bien, Frac Haute-Normandie, Chateau du Val, France |
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1996 |
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Freneuse, Sotteville-sous-le-Val, France |
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1996 |
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Radikale Images, 2nd Austrian Triennale for Photography, Neue Galerie, Graz, Switzerland |
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1996 |
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Everybody’s Talking, Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands |
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1996 |
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Du Hasard A l'Accord, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris |
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1995 |
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A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin |
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1995 |
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Living together, Tramway Visual Arts, Glasgow, Scotland |
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1995 |
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Writing on the wall, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
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1995 |
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Writing on the Wall, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1995 |
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Mapping Knowledge, The Minories Gallery, Colchester, UK |
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1995 |
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Ars 95 Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
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1995 |
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I don’t actually have to go, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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1995 |
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Imprint 93, City Racing, London, UK |
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1995 |
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Temples, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK |
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1995 |
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Ideal Standard Summertime, Lisson Gallery, London, UK |
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1995 |
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La Transparence Dans L’Art Du XXe Siecle, Museum des Beaux-Arts Malraux, Le Havre, France |
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1995 |
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The Edge of Town, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Conn., USA |
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1995 |
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Paste-Up, Past & Present, Kent Gallery, New York, USA |
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1994 |
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Outsiders, Camerawork, London, UK |
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1994 |
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Visione Britannica, Valentina Moncada, Rome, Italy |
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1994 |
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Sarah Staton Super Store Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK |
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1994 |
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Conceptual Living, Rhizome, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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1994 |
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Looking at Words: Reading Pictures, Elms Lester Painting Rooms, London, UK |
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1994 |
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Lesezimmer II, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1994 |
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Multiple Clothing, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany |
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1994 |
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Fateful combinations, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy |
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1994 |
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Museum Mosaic, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England |
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1994 |
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Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
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1994 |
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Private Journeys, Heston Farm Estate, The Comunity Hall, Fenton House, Biscoe Close, Heston, Middlesex, West London |
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1994 |
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Into the infrastructure, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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1994 |
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Taking The Short Cut, St. Church Hall, Roydon/Essex, England |
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1993 |
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Buildings and People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
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1993 |
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Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London |
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1993 |
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Meta Filter - A State of Agreement, The Tate Gallery, London |
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1993 |
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Buildings and people - Berlin, 1979 - 1993, Goethe Institut, London, UK |
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1993 |
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The Ideal Place, HCAK, Den Haag, Netherlands |
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1993 |
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Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
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1993 |
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK |
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1993 |
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Public and Private, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK |
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1993 |
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The Ideal Place, HCAK, Den Haag, Netherlands |
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1993 |
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Walking Between Objects, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo) |
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1992 |
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Wasteland, Photographic Biennale, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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1992 |
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Real Stories, Museet fur Photokunst, Odense, Denmark |
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1992 |
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Instructions and Diagrams, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK |
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1992 |
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Signs of Living, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France |
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1991 |
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Oikos, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France |
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1991 |
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Excavating the Present, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, UK |
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1991 |
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Past Continuous, Artsite Trust, Bath Festival |
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1991 |
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Shocks to the System, ACGB Touring Exhibition, South Bank Centre, London, UK |
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1991 |
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Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Uk (solo) |
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1990 |
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Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland (solo) |
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1990 |
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Stephen Willats, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo) |
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Public Colllections
Documentation on the West London Social Resource Project commissioned by the Arts Council of Great Britain housed at Osterley Library
Southampton City Art Gallery & Museum
Kunstmuseum Zürich, Switzerland
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Netherlands
The Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, UK
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
De Beyerd Centrum voor Actuelle Kunst, Breda, Netherlands
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Contemporary Art Society, London
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Gimpel Fils Galery, London, Uk
Victoria & Albert Museum, Drawing Dept., London, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, Clothing and Dress Dept., London, UK
The British Museum, Prints & Drawings Dept., London
National Gallery, Gdansk
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Conneticut, USA
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Utrecht, Netherlands
The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Helsingen Kaupungin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
Stichting Volkshuisversting in de Kunst, Den Haag, Netherlands
Victoria & Albert Museum (Artist’s Book Collection, archive of writings and publications)
Hounslow Borough Counicl, London, Uk
Museum de Beaux Arts, Le Havre, France
Frac Course Centre of Contemporary Art, Corsica
Cleveland Gallery, Cleveland, USA
Frac Limousin
Rhone Alpes Frac
Caisse de depots et Consignations, Paris, France
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori
Frac Haute-Normandie
Middlesborough Art Gallery, UK
South London Art Gallery
Frac Poitou Charentes
Sammlung Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Frac Languedoc-Roussillon
Art Gallery of Bew South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
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2000 |
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"Art and Social Function" (Reprint of 1976 original) Elipsis, London |
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2000 |
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"Multiple Clothing", Walther Konig, Köln |
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2000 |
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Spring Art and Social Foundation. "Stephen Willats." Reprint of book first published in 1976 by Ellipsis. London. September. |
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1998 |
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"Random Encounter", Southampton Art Gallery |
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1997 |
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"The Art Museum in Society. Collected Writings", Middlesbrough Art Gallery |
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1996 |
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"Between Buildings and People", Academy Editions, London |
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