Biography
 STEPHEN WILLATS
 
 
Born
1943
 

Lives and works in London, England

 
Studies
1962-63

‘The Ground Course’, Ealing School of Art

1965 to date

Editor and publisher of Control Magazine

1972-73

Director of ‘The Centre for Behavioural Art’, London, England

1979-80

D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin, Germany

1990

Convenor of the Symposium, ‘Art Creating Society’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1991

‘Stephen Willats - Printed Archive’ established at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

2003

Convenor of the Seminars ‘Art Intervention’, Control Magazine at Vilma Gold, London, England

2006

‘Multiple Clothing’ seminar and performance at Tate Modern, London, England

 
 

Selected Solo Shows:

 
2010 The World as it is and the World as it Could be, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
2009 In and Out of the Underworld, European Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany
  The Ideological Diagram / Stephen Willats, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany

Stephen Willats, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008

Social Interactions : Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (two person exhibition)

 

Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

 

The Speculative Diagram, Casco Projects - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany

2007

Assumptions and Presumptions, Art on the Underground

 

Person to Person People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, England

2006

Going Home, (An Exhibition in 3 Chapters), MOT Gallery, London, England

 

How the World is and How it could be, Museum fur Gegenswartkunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany

 

From My Mind To Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

 

Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald St Gallery, London, England

2005

Stephen Willats – Street Talk Amsterdam, Lumen Ttravo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karslruhe, Germany

 

Multichannel Life, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

 

Street Talk Amsterdam, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004

Messages from the Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

 

Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum, Nurnberg, Germany

2003

Personal Encounters in Your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

2002

Cognitive Control, Institute of Visual Culture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England

 

Through Your Symbolic World, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

2000

Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, England

1999

Multichannel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany

1998

Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

 

Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery, London, England

 

Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

 

Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London, England

 

Blind Date With Reality, Stephen Willats, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland

1997

Street Talk, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

 

Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England

 

MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1996

In Response To Each Other, Stephen Willats, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland

1995

Living Together, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland

 

A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany

1994

Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

 

Museum Mosaic, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

 

Fateful Combinations, The British School at Rome

 

Into the Infra-Structure, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1993

Buildings & People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

1991

Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

1990

Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

1989

Secret Language, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England

1988

Transformers, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England

1987

Contemporary Living, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, The Netherlands

 

Between Objects And People, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England

1986

City of Concrete, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England

 

Grusse vom Medernen Lebe, Stadtische Galerie, Regensburg, West Germany

 

Groeten uit het moderne leven, Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

Concepts and Models, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

 

Vier Hiizen in Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands

 

Striking Back, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

1984

Another City, Riverside Studios, London, England

1983

Inside The Night, Lisson Gallery, London, England

1982

Meta Filter and Related Works, Tate Gallery, London, England

1980

The Lurky Place, Galerie Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, Germany

 

Four Professionals, Lisson Gallery, London, England

 

Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

4 Inseln in Berlin, National Galerie, West Berlin, Germany

1979

Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

1978

Questions About Ourselves, Lisson Gallery, London, England

 

Living Within Contained Conditions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

1977

Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

1976

Life Codes And Behaviour Parameters, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England

 

Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Lisson Gallery, London, England

1975

Meta Filter, A State Of Agreement, The Gallery, London, England

1973

The Artist As An Instigator Of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour, Gallery House, London, England

1968

Visual Automatics & Visual Transmitters, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

 

Selected Group Shows:

 
2009

Getting Even, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

2008/9

Getting Even, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

2008

Art Forum Berlin 2008 Art Forum Berlin, Germany

 

A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland

 

Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy

2007

Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Gallery, London, England

 

The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Undergound, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

2006

The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Undergound, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

2005

Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

Wie Gesellschaft und Politik ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria