Stephen Willats

♂ *1943 / United Kingdom

Solo exhibitions

Silent Influencer

Charim Galerie, Wien (AT)
20 May 2026 – 26 Jun 2026
Transition Transform

Charim Galerie, Wien (AT)
5 Jun 2024 – 27 Jul 2024
Time Tumbler

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
22 Nov 2023 – 13 Jan 2024
An Introspective

Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
15 Sep 2023 – 17 Nov 2023
Languages of Dissent

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
25 May 2019 – 18 Aug 2019
ENDLESS

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
27 Jan 2018 – 10 Mar 2018
CONVERSATIONS WITH BUILDINGS

Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
21 Jun 2016 – 16 Sep 2016
THISWAY

Index - The Swedish , Stockholm (SE)
19 Mar 2016 – 29 May 2016
Step Change

Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (NL)
3 Jun 2015 – 11 Jul 2015
Berlin Local

MD72, Berlin (DE)
8 Nov 2014 – 20 Dec 2014
Concerning our present way of living

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (GB)
4 Mar 2014 – 14 Sep 2014
Concrete Block, drawings and works on paper 1978-2005

MOT INTERNATIONAL, Brussels (BE)
11 Apr 2014 – 24 May 2014
WORLD WITHOUT OBJECTS

Annie Gentils, Antwerp (BE)
13 Oct 2013 – 30 Nov 2013
WORLD OF OBJECTS

Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
20 Sep 2013 – 31 Oct 2013
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Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (GB)
27 Apr 2013 – 1 Jul 2013
How the Future Looks From Here

Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (NL)
31 Mar 2012 – 28 Apr 2012
counterconsciousness

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
24 Sep 2010 – 21 Nov 2010
In two minds

Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels (BE)
24 Apr 2010 – 19 Jun 2010
THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
7 May 2010 – 12 Jun 2010
IN AND OUT THE UNDERWORLD

European Kunsthalle c/o Ebertplatz , Köln (DE)
11 Jul 2009 – 6 Sep 2009
Assumptions and Identity, Identity and Assumptions

Lumen Travo, Amsterdam (NL)
14 Feb 2009 – 14 Mar 2009
Person to Person - People to People

MK Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (GB)
25 May 2007 – 8 Jul 2007
Just between People

Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
12 May 2007 – 23 Jun 2007
Retrospektive

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
21 Sep 2006 – 14 Jan 2007
Going home

MOT INTERNATIONAL, London (GB)
4 Nov 2006 – 9 Dec 2006
From my mind to your mind

Victoria Miro Gallery, London (GB)
3 Sep 2006 – 30 Sep 2006
Messages from the Polemical City

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
26 Jan 2004 – 28 Feb 2004
Personal Encounters in Your Imagination

Galerie Hauff, Stuttgart (DE)
19 Sep 2003 – 25 Oct 2003
COGNITION CONTROL

Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge (GB)
20 Oct 2002 – 24 Nov 2002

Group

Wohnkomplex: Art and Life in Plattenbau.

MINSK Kunsthaus , Potsdam (DE)
6 Sep 2025 – 8 Feb 2026

with Sibylle Bergemann, Seiichi Furuya, Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani, Manfred Pernice, Wenke Seemann
Seriously

curated by Nana Bahlmann, featuring over a hundred conceptual photographs,

SPRÜTH MAGERS, London (GB)
21 Nov 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

with Bas Jan Ader, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Keith Arnatt, John Baldessari, Massimo Bartolini, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lynda Benglis, Helen Chadwick, Robert Cumming, Thomas Demand, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Braco Dimitrijevic …
Leigh Bowery!

Tate Modern, London (GB)
27 Feb 2025 – 2 Sep 2025

with Charles Atlas, Fergus Greer, Nick Knight, Cerith Wyn Evans
UNSERE GEGENWART

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
14 Feb 2020 – 1 Jun 2020

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Charles Atlas, John Baldessari, Eric Baudelaire, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Forensic Architecture, Simone Forti, Bernhard Fuchs, Dan Graham, Candida Hoefer, Hans Haacke …
Bodies—Cities. Sammlungen und Exkurse

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
19 Oct 2019 – 3 Mar 2020

with Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Valie Export, Dan Graham, Allan Kaprow, Friedl Kubelka, David Lamelas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Inge Morath, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula
AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp

MUHKA Museum, Antwerp (BE)
7 Jun 2019 – 15 Sep 2019

with Jimmie Durham, Cevdet Erek, Andrea Fraser, David Lamelas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Laure Prouvost, Allan Sekula, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
The Aerodrome

An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (GB)
12 Jun 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

with David Austen, Boyd & Evans, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcus Coates, Nathan Coley, Phil Collins, Shezad Dawood, Jeremy Deller, Alec Finlay, Anya Gallacio, John Gerrard, Siobhan Hapaska …
KREISE ZIEHEN 3 - Großsiedlungen und die Produktion von Bildern ihrer selbst.

Tinatin Gurgenidze / Christian Hanussek

nGbK Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
14 Jun 2019 – 17 Aug 2019

with Tinatin Gurgenidze & Christian Hanussek
Der Wert der Freiheit

Belvedere 21, Wien (AT)
19 Sep 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Dara Birnbaum, Jordi Colomer, Carola Dertnig, Harun Farocki, John Gerrard, Johan Grimonprez, Igor Grubic, Eva Grubinger, Marlene Haring, Hiwa K, Leon Kahane, Alexander Kluge …
Sammlungspräsentation Gegenwartskunst

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
11 Mar 2018 – 21 May 2018

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Candida Hoefer, Jochen Lempert, Armin Linke, Peter Piller, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans
Space & Photography

Raum und Fotografie

Museum der Moderne , Salzburg (AT)
25 Nov 2017 – 22 Apr 2018

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Herbert Bayer, Franz Bergmüller, Giacomo Brogi, Jindrich Eckert, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Seiichi Furuya, Isa Genzken, Georges Lévy & Moyse Léon, Johannes Gramm, Birgit Graschopf, Florence Henri …
Extra Bodies

The Use of the "Other Body" in Contemporary Art

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
18 Nov 2017 – 4 Feb 2018

with Vanessa Beecroft, Guy Ben-Ner, Oscar Bony, Christoph Büchel, Clegg & Guttmann , Maria Eichhorn, Jens Haaning, Teresa Margolles, L.A. Raeven, Edwin Sanchez, Christoph Schlingensief, Santiago Sierra …
You Don't Need a Weatherman

Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin (DE)
10 Dec 2016 – 28 Jan 2017

with David Hartt, Julian Irlinger, Mark Lombardi, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Tris Vonna-Michell
Nouvelle generation

Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque (FR)
17 May 2014 – 31 Dec 2014

with Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Emmanuelle Antille, Nina Beier, Elina Brotherus, Angela Bulloch, Tom Burr, Anne Collier, Robert Doisneau, Jenny Gage, Ryan Gander, Georg Gatsas …
13th International Istanbul Biennial

Mom, am I barbarian?

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
14 Sep 2013 – 20 Oct 2013

with Sener Oezmen, Murat Akaguenduez, Jananne Al-Ani, Alice Creischer & Andreas Siekmann, Halil Altindere, Bertille Bak, Yto Barrada, Guillaume Bijl, Hanna Farah Kufr Birim, Annika Eriksson, Didem Erk, Ayse Erkmen …
Inseldasein

daadgalerie, Berlin (DE)
8 Jun 2013 – 27 Jul 2013

with Chang Chaotang, Trisha Donnelly, Annika Eriksson, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Allan Kaprow, Fiona Tan
Keywords

Autograph ABP, London (GB)
27 Mar 2013 – 18 May 2013

with Sonia Boyce, Willie Doherty, Rita Donagh, Sunil Gupta, Derek Jarman, Gustav Metzger, Guy Tillim, David Wojnarowicz, Carey Young
Frieze Art Fair - Video and photo based art

Frieze art fair, London (GB)
13 Oct 2011 – 16 Oct 2011

with Annelies Strba, Marina Abramovic, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Haluk Akakçe, Francis Alys, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Pawel Althamer, Kutluğ Ataman, Fikret Atay, Michel Auder, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari …
Goodbye London - Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies

nGbK Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
26 Jun 2010 – 15 Aug 2010

with Derek Jarman, John Savage, Jo Spence
Modernologies. Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism

Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona (ES)
23 Sep 2009 – 17 Jan 2010

with Katja Eydel, Ângela Ferreira, Marine Hugonnier, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Runa Islam, Louise Lawler, Dorit Margreiter, Gordon Matta-Clark, Henrik Olesen, Mathias Poledna, Martha Rosler, Armando Andrade Tudela …
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years

Barbican Art Gallery , London (GB)
5 Jun 2007 – 9 Sep 2007

with Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe
What does the jellyfish want?

Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman

Museum Ludwig, Köln (DE)
31 Mar 2007 – 24 Jun 2007

with Robert Adams, Eugene Atget, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Mel Bochner, Joachim Brohm, James Coleman, Jan Dibbets, William Eggleston, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Lee Friedlander …
The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
23 Mar 2007 – 6 May 2007

with Charles Atlas, Victor Burgin, Gilbert & George, Isaac Julien, Wolfgang Tillmans
Art Link

Göteborgs Konsthall, Göteborg (SE)
6 Oct 2006 – 7 Jan 2007

with Adrian Piper, Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
The Secret Public

The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988

Kunstverein München, München (DE)
7 Oct 2006 – 26 Nov 2006

with Charles Atlas, Victor Burgin, Gilbert & George, Isaac Julien, Wolfgang Tillmans
Medium Fotografie

Stampa Galerie, Basel (CH)
11 Apr 2006 – 27 May 2006

with Vito Acconci, David Askevold, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Karl Blossfeldt, Anna & Bernhard Blume, Rene Burri, Miriam Cahn, Thomas Demand, Robert Doisneau, Valie Export, Hans-Peter Feldmann …
Ressources - Politics of Belief

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
9 Sep 2005 – 22 Nov 2005

with Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Annika Larsson, Aydan Murtezaoglu, Oliver Ressler, Bülent Sangar, Allan Sekula, Ross Sinclair, (e.) Twin Gabriel, Simon Wachsmuth, Carey Young
Ökonomien: Resistenzen

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
9 Jul 2005 – 8 Sep 2005

with Carol Bove, Stephen Craig, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Haacke, Jens Haaning, Matthieu Laurette, L.A. Raeven, Oliver Ressler, Carey Young
Grenzenlose Soziabilität

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
21 May 2005 – 7 Jul 2005

with Fikret Atay, John Baldessari, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Lutz Fezer, Anthony Howard, Indra, Runa Islam, Eva Keil, Skafte Kuhn, Chan-Kyong Park, L.A. Raeven, Kai Schiemenz …
Quellen der Empörung

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
25 Mar 2005 – 19 May 2005

with Eylem Aladogan, Heather+Patrick Burnett-Rose, Lukas Einsele, Florian Hecker, Runa Islam, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Annika Larsson, Marlene McCarty, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula
Shake - ID Troubles

Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (DE)
14 May 2004 – 11 Jul 2004

with Harun Farocki, Ghazel, Erzen Shokolli, Milica Tomic, Milica Tomic, Jun Yang
3. berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst

Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE)
14 Feb 2004 – 18 Apr 2004

with Willie Doherty, Isaac Julien, David Lamelas, Mark Lewis, Ryuji Miyamoto, Piotr Nathan, Fanni Niemi-Junkola, Melik Ohanian, Ulrike Ottinger, Mathias Poledna, Aura Rosenberg, Constanze Ruhm …
50th International Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
15 Jun 2003 – 2 Nov 2003

with Adel Abdessemed, Carlos Amorales, Emmanuelle Antille, Kader Attia, Maja Bajevic, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, Zarina Bhimji, Dara Birnbaum, Sergey Bratkov, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Boris Cvjetanovic …

Events

ZURICH ART WEEKEND 2019

ZURICH ART WEEKEND, Zürich (CH)
8 Jun 2019 – 9 Jun 2019

with Joel Andrianomearisoa, Nobuyoshi Araki, Olaf Breuning, Angela Bulloch, Julian Charriere, Keren Cytter, Masahisa Fukase, Eikoh Hosoe, Roger Humbert, Daido Moriyama, Senga Nengudi , Maya Rochat …
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

114 Artists. 28 Exhibitions

Front International, Cleveland (US)
14 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018

with Erkan Oezgen, Eric Baudelaire, Walead Beshty, Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bloom, Candice Breitz, Gerard Byrne, Willie Doherty, Paul Druecke, Paul Druecke, Harrell Fletcher, Harrell Fletcher …