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GUILLAUME BIJL

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Guillaume Bijl

Guillaume Bijl - De Tovenaar

GUILLAUME BIJL (° 1946, Antwerp) is a self-taught artist. He attended a theatre course and worked successively as a stage builder and painter. From the second half of the seventies he abandoned painting and started making tragi-comedic installations, sculptures and compositions inspired by the banality of our consumption-driven society.

By presenting entire stores, gym schools, dog groomers, tourist sites… as art installations, the audience is confronted with the structures and institutions that form our world, our identity as a people. Bijl aims to expose consumers’, citizens’, tourists’, even art enthusiasts’ blind acceptation of suggested realities by inflating the artificiality of everyday situations. The expected border between art and life becomes highly distorted.

In his compositions he brings together found kitsch and cheap objects and showcases them as if they were relics of our times, preserved for the future as priceless treasures, emphasizing the absurd bond people tend to have with material objects.
Combining unapologetic criticism with loads of humor, the spectator is offered a loud dose of Guillaume Bijl that’s hard to ignore.

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Bijl was invited to participate in Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992 with his Documenta Wax Museum, and from 2001 to 2011 he was professor of sculpture at the Münster Art Academy in Münster, succeeding Joachim Bandau. He participated in the Skulptur event in 2007.Projekte 2007 in Münster. He received retrospective exhibitions in Belgium at the MUHKA in Antwerp and the SMAK in Ghent. He has exhibited abroad at TATE Liverpool, Arken Museum Copenhagen, Witte de With Rotterdam and many other museums.
In 2016, Guillaume Bijl participated in Manifesta 11 in Zurich with the installation Hundesalon Bobby.

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SELECTED WORKS

 Ein neuer erfolgreicher Tag, 2008

Ein neuer erfolgreicher Tag, 2008

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 De Steltenloper, 2014-2016

De Steltenloper, 2014-2016

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 De Tovenaar

De Tovenaar

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NEWS

 Guillaume Bijl collection presentation @ M HKA

Guillaume Bijl collection presentation @ M HKA

12/09/2019

'40 years of installations (celebration) 1979-2019' is a presentation of Guillaume Bijl's series of 'Transformation Installations'.

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 Guillaume Bijl @ Art Center Hugo Voeten

Guillaume Bijl @ Art Center Hugo Voeten

07/09/2019

'Guillaume Bijl presents Fraikin'  @ Art Center Hugo Voeten, Herentals, by selecting and exposing a significant part of sculptor Charles Auguste Fraikin's (1817-1893) multidimensional oeuvre

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 GUILLAUME BIJL’s Bruegelparty in the Ponderosa @ Dilbeek, Belgium

GUILLAUME BIJL’s Bruegelparty in the Ponderosa @ Dilbeek, Belgium

03/07/2019

Guillaume Bijl creates a setting for a peasant's feast where entertainment and abundant food and drink take centre stage.

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 Guillaume Bijl @ Zwin Nature Reserve

Guillaume Bijl @ Zwin Nature Reserve

16/06/2019

Guillaume Bijl creates a new, space filling installation in the panorama room at Zwin Nature Reserve.

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 Peter Land & Leo Copers in group show NICC

Peter Land & Leo Copers in group show NICC

29/03/2019

Peter Land & Leo Copers will be part of the NICC group show "Si Tout Est Sculpture, Pourquoi Faire de la Sculpture?", curated by Guillaume Bijl at 'De Tempel' of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp.

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 The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future @ S.M.A.K.

The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future @ S.M.A.K.

13/03/2019

Guillaume Bijl, Leo Copers and Panamarenko will be part of a new group exhibition at S.M.A.K., Ghent. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, S.M.A.K. is presenting ‘The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future’.

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 KETELEER @ Art Brussels 2019

KETELEER @ Art Brussels 2019

31/01/2019

KETELEER Gallery is proud to announce its first participation at Art Brussels37th, the international art fair in Brussels, Belgium.

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 Guillaume Bijl & Leo Copers @ PLAY Kortrijk 2018

Guillaume Bijl & Leo Copers @ PLAY Kortrijk 2018

19/06/2018

Guillaume Bijl & Leo Copers are participating in the city festival PLAY at Kortrijk, Belgium. As the name states, the festival focuses on the idea of playing, and tranfsorms the city into a (mental) playground for artists and visitors.

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 Beaufort 2018

Beaufort 2018

23/03/2018

On the occasion of Beaufort 2018, a triennial art festival at the Belgian sea side, Guillaume Bijl will present his 'Sorry' 2015 installation.

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 Power To The People – Schirn Kunsthalle

Power To The People – Schirn Kunsthalle

15/03/2018

Group show about the crisis of current democracies, featuring works by Guillaume Bijl and many others. March 21st till May 27th, Frankfurt.

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 20 YEARS NICC

20 YEARS NICC

02/02/2018

Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the famous Belgian artist society.

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 BOOKSHOP at NEXT DOOR

BOOKSHOP at NEXT DOOR

08/01/2018

Pass by our beautiful bookshop, we're open from Tuesday 'till Sunday!

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EXHIBITIONS

 Looking Forward

Looking Forward

07.12.2019 — 05.01.2020

KETELEER GALLERY

Pourbusstraat 3-5 - 2000 Antwerp



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 Group Exhibition

Group Exhibition

Forever & Beyond, a tale about drawings
20.05 - 02.07.2017

KETELEER

Leopoldstraat 57 - 2000 Antwerp



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 Guillaume Bijl

Guillaume Bijl

Sculptures, compositions & sorries
15.01 - 28.02.2016

KETELEER

Leopoldstraat 57 - 2000 Antwerp



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