Exploring Wolfgang Tillmans’ creative vision in his latest exhibition in Munich

The Espace Louis Vuitton München unveils Passages Silencieux (Silent Passages), a captivating photography exhibition by celebrated artist Wolfgang Tillmans, running from October 17th, 2025, to March 14th, 2026. Curated by the artist himself, the show gathers works from the Fondation Louis Vuitton Collection, reaffirming the institution’s enduring relationship with one of the most influential photographers of our time.

Transformations of vision through Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs

Passages Silencieux presents an introspective journey through nearly thirty-five years of Wolfgang Tillmans photographs, tracing the evolution of his visual language from analogue experimentation to digital precision. Eschewing chronology, Tillmans has arranged the exhibition across both floors of the Espace in his signature “constellation” style — a method that invites viewers to draw their own connections between images rather than follow a linear narrative.

Portraits, abstractions, and still lifes coexist freely, dissolving traditional hierarchies of subject and scale. The result is an organic and fluid composition that mirrors the silent transitions between moments, places, and emotions — a visual passage through time and perception.

Highlights from the photography exhibition

Among the featured works are Berlin (2006), where Tillmans re-photographs and enlarges existing prints to emphasize the texture of paper and the imperfections of ink, turning process into subject. The Einzelgänger series (2003) showcases his distinctive camera-less technique, in which light itself becomes a sculptural tool, producing ethereal abstractions that exist purely through chemical reactions on photosensitive paper.

Elsewhere, his early 1990s portraits of youth culture and nightlife are juxtaposed with quiet images of nature and domestic life, revealing the artist’s ongoing fascination with fragility, community, and transformation. Each photograph acts as both an individual statement and part of a larger visual symphony.

A quiet dialogue between images

At its core, Passages Silencieux is less a retrospective than a living conversation between images — an exploration of how we see, remember, and connect. As Tillmans once suggested, “the image is a good starting point for thinking about the world.” Through this latest exhibition, his photographs continue to invite that reflection — quietly, yet profoundly.