From June to September 2025, for its final exhibition before closing for renovation, the Centre Pompidou has invited Wolfgang Tillmans to create an exhibition displayed across more than 6,000 square meters of the museum’s beloved Public Information Library (BPI).

Tillmans’s intervention, which marks the first time that the then-vacated library will be used in this way, is conceived as an echo of the museum as an emblematic monument. In this presentation, Tillmans will transform the library into a site-specific exhibition dedicated to his multi-faceted approach to making.

The retrospective exhibition explores over thirty-five years of artistic practice across various photographic genres, including portraiture, still life, architecture, documentary images and abstraction. His work is displayed in a wide variety of ways, playing on the verticality of the walls and the horizontality of the tables in a manner which defies any attempt at categorisation. In addition to his photographic work, Tillmans has incorporated moving images, music, sound and words into this extensive installation, together with contributions from performance artists.