Marc Bijl

Marc Bijl

Born in The Netherlands in 1970, lives and works in Berlin

1984 (Love Is a Battle Field) (2021) - Installed during group exhibition Alone Together (2024) 1984 (Love Is a Battle Field) (2021) + Dancing in 2020: Love is a Battlefield (2020) - Installed during group exhibition Alone Together (2024) OFF WORLD (2022) installed at group exhibition Mixed Feelings Together in Electric Dreams, Marc Bijl (2022) 'Dancing in 2020 / 1984: When Doves Cry', 2020
Spraypaint on wood
60 x 50 cm Dancing in 2020 (2020), spraypaint on wood. "2084", Delorean made from cardboard, carstereo, neon lights and smokemachine at Kindle Kunstmuseum, Berlin. Februari 2020 Groupshow; 'How Beautiful you are!' 'Zeitgeist', 2016. Powder coating on aluminium, 100 x 70 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Dystopian Love II, 2016. Powder coating on aluminium, 100 x 70 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Installation view of exhibition Zeitgeist, Upstream Gallery 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Democracy, 2017. Powder coating on aluminium. 150 x 100 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Diffusion, 2016. Powder coating on aluminium, 98 x 60 x 78 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Installation view of exhibition Zeitgeist, Upstream Gallery 2017. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Installation view of Art Rotterdam, 2017, Upstream Gallery booth

Tay (2017), wallpaper, 300x250cm

Post Internet, powdercoating on aluminum, 150 x 100 cm

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Mirage', 2016. Powder coating on aluminum, 94 x 94 cm.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Broken Rainbow, 2015. Cable trays, dimensions variable. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Ferguson, 2015. Powder coating on aluminium, 200 x 124 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Nepal, 2015. Powder coating on aluminium, 100 x 70 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Hypocrisy, 2015. Powder coating on aluminium. 94 x 58 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Untitled', 2014. Silkscreen, 120 x 90 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Sacred Geometry', 2014. Silkscreen, 120 x 90 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij The Grunge Control, 2014. Concrete, paint, and spray paint on canvas, 140 x 140 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Nite Flights (After Mondrian), 2014. Cement, epoxy, spray paints and varnish spray on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. The Future (After Rothko), 2014. Cement, epoxy, spray paints and varnish spray on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Broken Frame, 2014. Epoxy, wood, household paint, cardboard, mirror, 150 x 140 cm. 'You Can Suck My Balls (I)', 2013, tube-light, paint, 3 x 122 x 5 cm. Edition of 2. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Broken Spiral, 2014. Wooden frame, mirror, household paint, epoxy, 144 x 233 cm. Twilight, 2014. Epoxy, and spray paint on wooden panel, 60 x 60 cm. Overview of the soloshow 'Urban Gothic', 2012-2013 in the Groninger Museum (NL) Overview of the soloshow 'Urban Gothic', 2012-2013 in the Groninger Museum (NL) Overview of the soloshow 'Urban Gothic', 2012-2013 in the Groninger Museum (NL) 'Queen', 2013, screen printing, 2 printings on black, rolled, high gloss paper, finished with airbrush and glitters. 50 x 50 cm. edition of 40 'The Beauty of Decay', 2013, epoxy, mirror and wood, 155 x 30 x 30cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Abstract Activism', 2013, epoxy and paint on canvas, 170 x 170 cm
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Sex (Black Angel)', 2013, painted text on wall, variable dimensions.
'Sweat Dreams'. 2013, lamp, epoxy. 49 x 25 x 25 cm. 
Mark Bijl in the Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Upstream Gallery. 'Porn Player Special', 2013, paint and spray paint on canvas, 100 x 100 cm. 'Golden Boy II', 2013, paint and spray paint on canvas. 100 x 100 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'PORN', 2013, mixed media, 123 x 30 x 30 cm. 'Afterburner (After Rothko) White Gold Top', 2013, cement and spray paint on canvas. 150 x 100 cm. 'Horror & Dirty Broken Mirror', 2012, silver paint, spray paint, mirror and epoxy. 60 x 120 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. 'Burning Cactus', 2012, metal cactus, glass bottle. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Broken 2012-19 October', 2012, epoxy, mirror and wood, 220 x 75 x 75cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Afterburner (after Rothko) silver, black, gold', 2012, cement, spray paint and paint on canvas, 100 x 150 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Golden Dawn', 2012, spray paint and cement on shaped canvas. Still of the movie 'Urban Gothic', 2012. 
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'ZZ Top (after Rietveld)', 2011, wood, pallet, pain, spray paint, epoxy and resin, 80 x 105 x 90 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'White Power (Lozenge composition II with structure)', 2011, canvas and paint, 141 x 141 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Solo-exhibition DA2 Domus Artium Salamanca (Spain) 2009
'Broken Love (after Barnett Newman)', 2009. Installation at Fridericianum Kassel. 'Abstract Activism No.3', 2009, spraypaint on canvas, 300 x 200 cm. 'Black Dawn', 2010, stone, pallets, epoxy, resin, 120 x 80 x 170 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Abstractivism', 2009, poster and paint, 210 x 150 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Column', 2010, stainless steel and speaker-box, 195 x 84 x 38 cm.
Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'The Loss (after Mark Rothko)', 2010, concrete paint and spray paint, 400 x 300 cm. 'Constructed Composition nr. 2', 2008, wood, plastic and spray paints, 215 x 285 x 70 cm. 'Fundamentality VI', 2008. Installation at Fridericianum Kassel. 'Constructed Composition nr. 1', 2008, wood, plastic and spray paints, 300 x 200 cm. 'War Style', 2008, wood, silver paint and resin, 121 x 79,5 x 120 cm. 
'Construction Sign (walter Benjamin)', 2008, wood, mirror-formica and paint + spray paint graffiti, 275 x 180 x 200 cm. Installation at Fridercianum Kassel. 'Influential Dutch Thinkers, part II (Queen Beatrix)', 2007, silver paint and spray paint on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. 'Construction Sign (walter Benjamin)', 2008, wood, mirror-formica and paint + spray paint graffiti, 275 x 180 x 200 cm. 'Urban Modernism' (Lozenge with 4 lines and gray) 2007, stenciled and borrowed, just to survive. Stencil and spray paint, 195 x 195 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'The Fundament of Painting "Off the Grid", 2007, silver paint and spray paint on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. 'Symbolic (Iron Cross)', 2006, concrete, variable dimensions. Edition of 2. 'Symbolic (Iron Cross)', 'Symbolic (Nike Swoosh)' and 'Symbolic (Iron Heart)', 2006, concrete, variable dimensions. All edition of 2. 'Gimme Shelter', 2006, tombstone, 117 x 77 x 21,5 cm. 'Universal Warrior', 2005 and 'Never mind the politics', 2005. Presentation Upstream Gallery at Liste05, Basel 'Influential Dutch Thinkers, part 1 (Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Multatuli)', 2006, spray paint on cardboard, 195 x 155 cm. Unique piece. 'A search into the nature of society', 2006, mixed media. 
Installation view at Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam 'Burning Peace', 2005 'Security', 2003, mixed media. 'Afterhours', 2005. Overview exhibition at the GEM Museum, The Hague 'The Party Is Over', 2003, inflatable plastic letters, serpentine. 'Teenage Kicks', 2003. (Installation at 'Youth of today' Schirn Kunsthalle, 2006) 'One living, one dead', 2003 'La rivoluzione siamo noi', 2002, polyester Lara Croft, tar, cigarette, spraypaint on wall. 'Kapital ist Krieg', 2002, edition of 2 'Too Sad to Kill You', 2002, spray paint. 'Equivalent' 'Tattoo' 'Symbolic II', 2002, still from video, edition of 3 + 1 AP. 'Forever Sport Ad.', 2004, poster and spray paint. 'Afterhours', 2005, video. edition of 3 + 1 AP 'Ready to Crash and Burn' Stedelijk Museum. Collection Stedelijk Museum. 'Adore', 2002, black cotton with patches, studs and stickers, 250 x 200 cm. 'Symbolic' 'The World Won't Listen', 2003, c-print. Edition of 2.
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Marc Bijl
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Biography

Marc Bijls practice is about the contradictory, the old and new, the good and bad. He researches, questions and criticizes global themes such as political power, globalization of the economy and nationalism. This results in interventions that underscored or undermined world views. Views that are depicted in a various arsenal of media, namely the media of image, text and music and often influenced by figureheads of the contemporary art such as Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman. Bijl mirrors contemporary society and its visual culture in an anarchistic and punk-inspired way, while alternating between street culture and political activity.
His most recent work is more abstract and minimalistic, exemplifying a shift in approach, by which he pares down different perspectives and methodologies to a new essence. The crux is no longer the 'symbolism', but what that symbolism represents and signifies.

Marc Bijl (NL, 1970) has had solo exhibitions at institutions worldwide, including the Groninger Museum (2012); Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2009); DA2, Salamanca (2009); Gem Museum, Den Haag (2005); and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2002), among others. Bijl has participated in significant group exhibitions including those held at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven; Rijksmuseum Twenthe; Groninger Museum; Cobra Museum Amstelveen; Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin; Kunstmuseum St Gallen; Fridericianum Kassel; Kunstmuseum Bonn; and MUSAC Castilla y Leon. The artist’s work is held in numerous public collections internationally, including Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Collection MUSAC, Castilla y Leon; Frac, Nord, Pas de Calais; Collection HVCCA, New York; Collection Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Collection Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag; Groninger Museum; KRC Collection, The Netherlands; and Daskapopoulos Collection, Greece, among others.

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Publications:

Bijl, Marc. Afterhours. Brugge: Die Keure, 2005. ISBN: 90-6730-202-3

Bijl, Marc. In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2009. ISBN: 978-90-5662-682-2

Bijl, Marc. Hard Edge. Berlijn: The Green Box, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-941644-49-6

© Portrait by Ruud van der Peijl

Exhibitions

Alone Together

6 Jul - 3 Aug '24

Mixed Feelings

1 Jul - 5 Aug '23

Art Rotterdam

18 May - 22 May '22

ON THE ROAD at Lage Egal

19 Mar - 16 Apr '22

Digital Nights

30 Jan - 11 Feb '21

This is not a love song

1 Sep '20 - 1 Apr '21

How Beautiful You Are! in KINDL

23 Feb - 8 Mar '20

How To Fix a Broken Line

13 Dec - 15 Dec '19

Hybrid Sculpture

23 Mar '19 - 20 Jan '20

After Dark

9 Nov '18 - 25 Jan '19

PLAY

23 Jun - 11 Nov '18

Neue Heimat

6 May - 8 Jun '18

From ZERO to 2018

14 Apr - 19 May '18

PUNK + DANS + KUNST

28 Jan - 13 May '18

Bye Bye De Stijl

16 Dec '17 - 4 Mar '18

Apocalyps

10 Nov - 17 Dec '17

Zeitgeist

28 Oct - 23 Dec '17

Konglomerat

2 Jun - 8 Jul '17

Verspijkerd en Verzaagd

18 Feb - 5 Jun '17

Modern Sculpture

19 Jan - 4 Mar '17

Marc Bijl at Spinello Projects

8 Sep - 8 Nov '16

The Dark Side of the Moon

9 Jul - 23 Oct '16

Parelgoud

25 Jun - 2 Oct '16

Blurry Conflicts

19 Feb - 21 May '16

TRANSFORMER

3 Oct - 14 Nov '15

Politics & Celebrity

5 Aug - 27 Sep '15

Dear Darkness

2 Jul - 29 Aug '15

I Don't Care

26 Jun - 27 Sep '15

Family Man

4 Jul - 30 Jul '15

Black Bandits

24 Apr - 21 Jun '15

Spring Performance Festival 2015

20 Mar - 21 Mar '15

4th Mediations Biennale

21 Sep - 26 Oct '14

TRACES

31 May - 18 Jul '14

A Decade Upstream

30 Nov - 19 Dec '13

Love Illumination

19 Oct - 23 Nov '13

Urban Gothic

6 Oct '12 - 1 Apr '13

Light and Shadow

19 Oct - 24 Nov '12

Mapping the Horizon

19 Nov '11 - 7 Jan '12

9/11 666 777

11 Sep - 23 Oct '10

The simple complixity of it all

17 Jan - 15 Mar '09

Arrested Development

19 May - 27 Sep '09

Get the Balance Right

4 Mar - 9 Apr '05

Daniela Wolfer & Marc Bijl

10 Jan - 10 Feb '04

Opening Exhibition

8 Nov - 20 Dec '03

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