Wolfgang Tillmans’s photographs actively wedge themselves in the cracks of the reality around us; with their silence, vulnerability, intimacy, and closeness, sometimes they fill and other times they further stretch these slits.

The exhibition at Trafó Gallery – which is the artist's first solo show in Hungary – can also be considered such a crevice; a crevice that opens up space for unintimidated human contact and moments of safety and freedom; a space where not only one singular norm and truth are acceptable.

Tillmans’s approach is radically open and hopeful in this sense.

Few artists have shaped the scope of contemporary art and influenced a younger generation more than Wolfgang Tillmans.

Throughout his career to this point, his works have been challenging the limits of image-making and ushered in a new kind of subjectivity in photography, combining intimacy and playfulness with social critique and the persistent questioning of existing values and hierarchies.

The artist seamlessly integrates genres, subjects, techniques, and exhibition strategies without establishing any kind of hierarchy between them.

Place: Trafó Budapest

Address: 1094 Budapest, Liliom u. 41.