Guillaume Bijl

Guillaume Bijl (19 March 1946 – 14 June 2025) was a Belgian conceptual and an installation artist. He lived and worked in Antwerp.

Bijl died on 14 June 2025, at the age of 79.

Work Bijl's early work, a series of projects on paper, combined his myriad background experiences and aimed to engage a wider audience citing a need to be nearer to the public. The series, Project-notities [Project Notes] (1969–1975), includes drawings and written proposals for museum installations, theatrical pieces, performance projects, and experiments in 16mm film. Bijl has been reviewed by The New York Times. He divided his work into four categories: 'Transformation Installations', 'Situation Installations', 'Compositions Trouvées' and 'Sorrys'. Below is a selection of Solo exhibitions:

2021: Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium 2018: Musée Félicien Rops, Namur, Belgium 2014: Art Cologne, Germany 2013: Centre d’art Contemporain, Montélimar 2012: Cultuurcentrum Mechelen 2012: Etablisssement d’en face, Brussels 2011: Arnolfini 2008: SMAK 2001: 1998: Kunsthalle Reklinghausen 1998: Neue Galerie Graz 1997: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal 1996: Kunstverein Hannover 1996: Muhka 1994: Middelheim Open Air Sculpture Museum 1993: Wiener Secession 1990: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art 1989: New Museum 1989: Le Magasin 1988: Venice Biennale, Belgium Pavilion 1988: Kunstverein Kassel 1986: Kunstverein Keulen 1985: Stedelijk Museum 1984: SMAK 1984: Art Basel 1979: Galerij Z, Antwerp

Group exhibitions Guillaume Bijl's work has been featured in significant groupshows and biennials, including the Documenta IX (1992), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007), Busan Biennale (2006), Scape Biennale (2008), Lyon Biennale (2011), Istanbul Biennale (2013) and MANIFESTA 11 (2016).

Public collections Bijl's piece titled Behandlingen (1975–1979) resides in the collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp. The artist has work collected at Centre Pompidou and Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.) in Ghent, MUMOK in Vienna, the Goldberg Collection in New York, and more.