Guillaume Bijl

Who is Guillaume Bijl?

Guillaume Bijl, is a Belgian installation artist. Bijl's first installation was a driving school, set in a gallery-space in Antwerp in 1979, accompanied by a manifesto calling for the abolition of art centres, and replacing them with 'socially useful institutions'. This installation was followed in the eighties by a billiards room, a casino, a laundromat, a centre for professional training, a psychiatric hospital, a fallout shelter, a show of fictitious American artists, a conference for a new political party and a rural Belgian model house. A more recent show was at the Berlin’s Centre for Opinions in Music and Art. Bijl is also an artist at the Mulier Gallery has displayed at the Witte de With and has been reviewed by the New York Times.

He divides his work into four categories: 'transformation installations', 'situation installations', 'compositions trouvées' and 'sorry's'.

Bijl created a display window for a wax-doll museum for Documenta IX in 1992.