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Stephen Willats    (British, 1943)

 Stephen Willats - Conceptual Tower Series No. 36 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 74 x w: 108 cm / h: 29.1 x w: 42.5 in
Stephen Willats
Conceptual Tower Series No. 36 1995
 
 Stephen Willats - Conceptual Tower Series No. 39 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 74 x w: 102 cm / h: 29.1 x w: 40.2 in
Stephen Willats
Conceptual Tower Series No. 39 2003
 
 Stephen Willats - Conceptual Tower Series No. 40 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 76 x w: 103 cm / h: 29.9 x w: 40.6 in
Stephen Willats
Conceptual Tower Series No. 40 2006
 
 Stephen Willats - Democratic Grid Series No. 12 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 84 x w: 114 cm / h: 33.1 x w: 44.9 in
Stephen Willats
Democratic Grid Series No. 12
 
 Stephen Willats - I want to live in a democratic house (Mixed Media)
Stephen Willats
I want to live in a democratic house 2003
 
 Stephen Willats - Wie ich meine Fluchtwege organisiere (Detail) (Mixed Media)
Stephen Willats
Wie ich meine Fluchtwege organisiere (Detail) 1979-1980
 

Biography
1943 Born in London
1962 - 1963 The Ground Course, Ealing School of Art
1965 Editor and publisher of "Control Magazine"
1972 - 1973 Director of the Centre of Behavioural Art, Gallery House, London
1979 - 1980 D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin
1990 Convenor of the Symposium, "Art Creating Society," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1991 "Stephen Willats Printed Archive" established at Victoria and Albert Museum
Lives and works in London

Exhibitions
2009 7 x 14: Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
2009 Die Moderne als Ruine: Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2008 Soziale Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (group)
2008 Manifesta 7 - Trentino / Tyrol, Rovereto, Italy (group)
2008 The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany (solo)
2008 Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2008 Person to Person/ People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Buckinghamshire, UK (solo)
2008 Sammlung/Collection, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 Be(com)ing Dutch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2008 The Art of Participation, San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2007 The Speculative Diagram, CASCA, Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
2007 Person to Person. People to People. Stephen Willats, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, Great Britain
2007 Stephen Willats. Just between People, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
2007 The Secret Public. The last days of the British Underground 1978- 1988, ICA-Institute of Contemportary Arts, London
2007 What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
2007 Beyond the Wall, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany
2006 Stephen Willats Multiple Clothing: Message - Interaction - Exchange (1965-1998), Tate Modern, London
2006 Wie die Welt ist und wie sie sein könnte: Stephen Willats, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
2006 From My Mind to Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2006 Going Home, MOT International, London
2006 Art Link, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden
2006 Medium Fotografie, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
2005 Stephen Willats-Street Talk Amsterdam, LUMEN TRAVO, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany
2004 Berlin Biennale, Berlin
2004 Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2004 L´Air du Temps - collection printemps/été 2004, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zürich
2003 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered, migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich
2003 Personal Encounters in your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart
2003 Random Networks, ARTLAB 27 at Imperial College, London
2003 Liverpool Biennal of Contemporary Art, Liverpool
2002 In Portraiture Irrelevance is Ugliness, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Through your symbolic world, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2002 Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2000 Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London
2000 Live in your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2000 Macro to Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London
1999 Multichanel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1998 Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
1998 Blind Date With Reality, Galerie Bandstetter & Wyss, Zurich
1997 Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough
1996 Du Hasard A l'Accord, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris
1995 A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin
1995 Living together, Tramway Visual Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
1995 Writing on the wall, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Writing on the Wall, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
1994 Multiple Clothing, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
1994 Fateful combinations, British School at Rome, Rome, Italy
1994 Museum Mosaic, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
1994 Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
1994 Private Journeys, Heston Farm Estate, The Comunity Hall, Fenton House, Biscoe Close, Heston, Middlesex, West London
1994 Into the infrastructure, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 Taking The Short Cut, St. Church Hall, Roydon/Essex, England
1993 Buildings and People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1993 Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1993 Meta Filter - A State of Agreement, The Tate Gallery, London
1993 Buildings and people - Berlin, 1979 - 1993, Goethe Institut, London
1992 Signs of Living, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France

Literature
2000 "Art and Social Function" (Reprint of 1976 original) Elipsis, London
2000 "Multiple Clothing", Walther Konig, Köln
2000 Spring Art and Social Foundation. "Stephen Willats." Reprint of book first published in 1976 by Ellipsis. London. September.
1998 "Random Encounter", Southampton Art Gallery
1997 "The Art Museum in Society. Collected Writings", Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1996 "Between Buildings and People", Academy Editions, London
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