Guillaume Bijl (1946 - 2025. Antwerp, Belgium) 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.
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.
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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