Celine Has Free Tickets For Wolfgang Tillmans' Exhibition At Centre Pompidou In Paris

Till Sept 22 this year, artist Wolfgang Tillmans – one of the most thought-provoking and influential documentors of youth culture since the ’90s – stages an epic exhibition at the Bibliotheque Publique d’Information, or BPI, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris before the arts centre shuts for a major five-year renovation. Titled Nothing Could Have Prepared Us Everything Could Have Prepared Us, it covers his entire oeuvre, integrating video, music, sound and personal objects with his prints, and is displayed in response to the architectural surroundings, resulting in a whole new way of exhibiting photography. In presenting archival images alongside recent ones, the show can also be seen as a commentary of the times: Just how much progress have we achieved? This is not to be missed, and with Acces Libre par Celine – an initiative by the French fashion house, the exhibition's main sponsor, offering free admission to the public on selected days – there’s no excuse if you’re in the city. And if you won’t be, here’s a peek.

The latest example of how Celine celebrates creativity and craftsmanship beyond fashion, Acces Libre par Celine marks the maison’s first collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and was conceptualised to allow a wider audience to discover the wide-ranging yet intimate and ultimately existentialist works of Wolfgang Tillmans.

Expect to see Wolfgang Tillman’s powerful images in a different light as the artist has been equally unconventional with the way he’s integrated their display into the Centre Pompidou’s expansive, open-plan Bibliotheque Publique d’Information – one of Paris’ largest public libraries. In the words of Olga Frydryszak-Retat – one of three curators involved – the way he’s done so embodies “experimentation as a form of knowledge and reinforces the idea that images can be tools for thinking, not just for seeing”. And thanks to Celine’s Acces Libre par Celine programme, the public can experience it for free monthly until the exhibition closes in September.