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January 24 2023
Stephen Willats features in the forthcoming LACMA exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
The exhibition (12 February–2 July 2023) explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of art in the age of the mainframe. Los Angeles County Museum of Art -
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October 3 2022
Stephen Willats: Social Resource Project for Tennis Clubs, now open at Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
A solo exhibition (10 October–10 December 2022) featuring artwork and archive materials from the early 1970s, accompanied by a new film and photographic series. A special opening event takes place on Saturday 8 October 2022. Bonington Gallery, Nottingham -
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February 5 2022
Work by Stephen Willats features in The Art of Teaching and Learning. A School for Creators
The group exhibition at Centre Pompidou Metz (5 February–29 August 2022) explores the non-schools, anti-universities, talking circles, educational walks and video universities that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. Centre Pompidou Metz -
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October 2 2021
Stephen Willats features in Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 at Sainsbury Centre
Drawn from the Sainsbury Centre collection, the exhibition (2 October 2021–30 January 2022) celebrates the abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain since 1951 and comprises around 120 objects across sculpture, reliefs, mobiles, painting, drawing and printmaking. University of East Anglia, Norwich -
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April 16 2020
Stephen Willats: Going Round a Corner, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough 2016
Created in 2016, this is a preview of a film by Stephen Willats, released ahead of his major exhibition Human Right at Mima, Middlesbrough (4 March – 4 June 2017). -
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September 17 2019
Do Ho Suh and Stephen Willats feature in the Chicago Architecture Biennial
Titled …and other such stories, the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial (19 September 2019–5 January 2020) traces dialogues between various practices and the questions they raise across global communities, cities, territories, and ecologies. Chicago, Illinois -
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September 1 2019
Stephen Willats features in Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus at Nottingham Contemporary
Still Undead (21 September 2019–12 January 2020) explores how Bauhaus ideas and teaching lived on in Britain, via pop culture and art schools. This exhibition coincides with the centenary of the pioneering art and design school’s founding in Weimar. Nottingham Contemporary -
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August 19 2019
Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now featuring Grayson Perry and Stephen Willats at the British Museum
Celebrating the power of contemporary drawing, this display at the British Museum (12 September 2019–12 January 2020) explores how artists have used the medium to examine themes including identity, place and memory. British Museum, London -
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Review
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July 31 2019
Kunstbulletin reviews Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent at Migros Museum
'At the Migros Museum, the English artist’s output is presented in a remarkable retrospective that cogently illustrates his creative evolution.' Kunstbulletin -
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Event
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July 22 2019
Stephen Willats: CONTROL Magazine launch
The launch of CONTROL Twenty One takes place on Monday 29 July, 6:30–8:30pm at Chalton Gallery, London NW1. Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton St, London NW1 1HJ -
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June 14 2019
Billboards by Stephen Willats feature as part of Going out of Circles, Berlin
Willats' series In Isolation leben (on display 14 June–17 August 2019) was created in 1979/80 on Berlin's Gropiusstadt housing estate in collaboration with the resident Klaus Müller, whose large apartment in a high-rise tower is a symbol of isolation in Willats' four images. Hellersdorf, Berlin -
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May 25 2019
Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent at Migros Museum, Zürich
This exhibition (25 May–18 August 2019) is themed around two aspects of Willats' practice: cybernetics, the regulation and control of dynamic systems, which enables him to frame structures of communication and relationships in society, and also enables him to influence the fabric of actual social realities, serving him as both method, aesthetic vocabulary, and formal model; and his specific interest in subcultures, where nonconformism and self-determination manifest themselves. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich -
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March 11 2019
MK Gallery reopens with The Lie of the Land, featuring Stephen Willats
Following a major expansion, the gallery reopens on 16 March 2019 with an exhibtion that aims to capture a visionary spirit of grand designs tempered by the realities of political expediency (on view until 26 May 2019). MK Gallery, Milton Keynes -
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February 1 2019
Stephen Willats features in Objects of Wonder, British Sculpture 1950s – Present at the PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
Featuring some 75 works from the Tate collection, the exhibition (1 February–27 May 2019) demonstrates how British artists revolutionised contemporary sculpture after World War II. PalaisPopulaire, Berlin -
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July 14 2018
Stephen Willats in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, the inaugural edition of the Cleveland Triennial (14 July–30 September 2018) comprises artist commissions, performances, films, and public programmes to examine the ever-changing and politically urgent conditions of an American city. Cleveland, Ohio -
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June 16 2018
Stephen Willats and Grayson Perry feature in Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? at Heong Gallery, Cambridge
The exhibition (16 June–7 October 2018) engages with themes of communication, breakdown of communication, and isolation. Heong Gallery, Downing College, University of Cambridge -
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April 25 2018
Stephen Willats: Control at Tate Liverpool
A project and events programme (25 April – 16 May 2018) devoted to Control Magazine. Founded in 1965 by Stephen Willats, Control remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to this day. Tate Liverpool -
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April 6 2018
Stephen Willats is featured in Fashioned from Nature at the V&A
Willats’ Variable Sheets/Optical Shift, 1965, is included in the exhibition (21 April 2018 – 27 January 2019), which invites visitors to think about the materials of fashion and the sources of their clothes. V&A, London -
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November 25 2017
Stephen Willats in Space & Photography at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
The exhibition (25 November 2017 – 4 March 2018) probes the manifold interrelations between space and photography. Museum der Moderne, Salzburg -
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October 19 2017
Stephen Willats in Idea Home Show at Mima
The exhibition (21 October 2017 – 18 February 2018) takes a political look at how residents and practitioners working between art architecture and activism are proposing solutions for alternative models for living. Mima, Middlesbrough -
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October 9 2017
Stephen Willats in Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds at ZKM Karlsruhe
Artworks and scientific works based on digital as well as on analog codes are presented in this exhibition (20 October 2017 – 5 August 2018). ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, German -
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September 19 2017
Stephen Willats included in Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb) at The Showroom
The exhibition (20 September - 11 November 2017) is a contextualisation and rethinking of the Vienna-based Kontakt Art Collection. The exhibition forms the epilogue of a long-term project which originally took place in Zagreb from November 2016 to May 2017. The Showroom, London -
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Event
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February 13 2017
Control Issue Twenty Launch
The launch (6 - 9 pm 17 February 2017) of the latest issue of Control, published and edited by Stephen Willats. Laure Genillard Gallery, London -
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February 8 2017
Stephen Willats: Human Right, a major survey exhibition at Mima
A survey (4 March - 4 June 2017) of Willats’ practice from the late 1970s to the present. The exhibition is on display at mima and at off-site spaces across Middlesbrough. Mima, Middlesbrough -
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Review
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October 5 2016
Stephen Willats: Vision and Reality publication reviewed in the TLS
The artist Stephen Willats first came to English council housing not as a tenant but as someone who believed that artworks should be anchored to the society in which they are made. Lynsey Hanley, The Times Literary Supplement -
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Exhibition
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April 12 2016
Stephen Willats: Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979
Willats features in this major exhibition (until 29 August 2016) of 21 artists, exploring a pivotal period in British history. Tate Britain, London -
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Gallery Exhibition
13 March - 17 April 2014
Stephen Willats : REPRESENTING THE POSSIBLE
An exhibition which brings together previously unseen works on paper from the 1960s and the present day in a specially conceived installation. Willats' career is also currently celebrated in two... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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December 28 2011
Stephen Willats reviewed in Art in America
Data collection and organization is an art form at which the British conceptualist Stephen Willats excels. His solo exhibition "The Strange Attractor," the first in New York for this sexagenarian artist, included a series of charts and diagrams relating to observations made on New York City streets. In addition to a number of works on paper, Willats produced a group of videos, some of which were screened in neighborhood shops, and a large installation that served as the show's centerpiece. Charles Marshall Schultz, Art in America -
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Gallery Exhibition
7 May - 12 June 2010
Stephen Willats: THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE
THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE From the 1960's until today, London-based conceptual artist Stephen Willats has concentrated on ideas that today are ever-present... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
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Gallery Exhibition
2 - 30 September 2006
Stephen Willats: From My Mind To Your Mind
During the sixties and early seventies, Stephen Willats was one of the very few serious representatives of international Concept Art in England. Drawing upon wide-ranging artistic means, Willats attempts to... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Gallery Exhibition
11 September - 8 October 2002
Stephen Willats: Through Your Symbolic World
'Every cultural landscape requires its signposts, not just to get around in the present, to find out where and what things are, but to point to a vision of the... Victoria Miro Gallery I -
Gallery Exhibition
8 July - 1 August 1997
Stephen Willats: Street Talk
Stephen Willats presents three major new works which celebrate the richness of urban life in London where each individual builds his own space and reality in the face of a... Victoria Miro Gallery II
