Thomas Bayrle
1937
born in Berlin
lives and works in Frankfurt
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2011
Thomas Bayrle, dependence, Brussels
Thomas Bayrle, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
Thomas Bayrle/Daniel Kohl, La Chaufferie, Strasbourg
2010
Gummibaum and materials, Base Progetti per l'arte, Florence
Alle Jamele sind ein Kamel (Schopenhauer), Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
2009
I’ve a Feeling We’re Not In Kansas Anymore, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Bayrle, Raven Row, London
2008
A Mustache Is a Man’s Best Friend, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
2007
Superimages, FRAC Limousin, France
2006
Happy Days Are Here Again, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
40 Years of Chinese Rock ‚n’ Roll, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
2005
Thomas Bayrle, Cubitt Gallery. London
2004
Thomas Bayrle: Carlos, Oldenburger Kunstverein
2003
Autostrada, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
Eiserner Vorhang/Safety Curtain. A project of museum in progress in co-operation with the Vienna State Opera
2002
Thomas Bayrle, Grazer Kunstverein
Thomas Bayrle, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
2001
Kartoffelzähler, Johann Widauer, Innsbruck
Thomas Bayrle. Bilder, Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik aus den Jahren 1967 bis 2001, Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Layout, CCA, Kitakyushu
2000
flying home..., Museum in Progress, Vienna
Philip Johnson, 1999 und Werke von 1967 - 2000, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
1998
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
Dolly Animation, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
1997
Koriyama City Art Museum, Koriyama
Academy of Art & Design, Beijing
TassenTassen, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt
1996
Kunsthalle St. Gallen
1995
Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt
1994
Film Video Materialien, Portikus, Frankfurt
1990
Autobahnkopf, Portikus, Frankfurt
1989
Pinsel durchgespielt, Kunstverein Freiburg
Thomas Bayrle 1983 - 88, Seed Hall, Tokyo
1988
Madonna Jaguar, Kunsthalle Innsbruck
1987
Thomas Bayrle 1967 und 1987, Frankfurter Kunstverein
1986
GOLF, Auto Museum, Wolfsburg
1984
Capsel, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1983
Druckgrafik 1960-83, Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
1980
Rasterfahndung, Goethe-Institut, San Francisco
Graphic Gathering, Stanford University, Palo Alto
1977
Cities and Accumulations, WAKO, Tokyo
1972
Formation Serielle, La Pochade, Paris
Kiko Galleries, Houston
1971
Studio S, Rome
1968
Mäntel - Tragbare Grafik, Art Intermedia, Cologne
produzione Bayrle, Galleria Apollinaire, Milan
1965
Galerie Buchholz, Munich
1964
Städtisches Museum, Göttingen
1963
DRUCK, Galerie Bergsträsser, Darmstadt
Group exhibitions
2012
documenta 13, Kassel
2011
Kistefos Museet, Oslo
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2010
10,000 Lives: The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2009
Athens Biennial, Athens
ganz kleines Kino, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Dusseldorf
53. Venice Biennial, Venice
La Recherche, Liam Gillick, Trisha Donnelly, Leonor Antunes, Thomas Bayrle, Philippe Parreno, Air de Paris, Paris
The House the Cat Built, curated by Rirkrit Tiravanija
Heidi au pays de Martin Kippenberger, FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
Grandfather Clock, Thomas Bayrle/ Will Benedict / Andrei Kochschmieder
Neue Alte Brücke, Fankfurt am Main
Notation. Kalkül und Form in den Künsten. ZKM Karlsruhe
1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Tracer. Thomas Bayrle, Martin Feldbauer, Daniel Kohl, Harald Pridgar, After the Butcher, Berlin
2008
Konstellationen IV. Material / Form / Mensch / Stadt, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandanavia? Office for Contemporary Art Norway, curated by Marta Kuzma
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami
Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008, White Columns, New York, from the collection of Bob Nickas
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Brussels Biennial, Brussels
Experiment Marathon Reykjavík (Reykjavik Arts Festival 2008), Listasafn Reykjavíkur Hafnarhús, Reykjavik, Iceland
Stéphane Dafflon/Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris
God and Goods, Villa Manin Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo
Tempo, Tempo! Das Phänomen der Geschwindigkeit im Film, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim
Europop, Kunsthaus Zurich
2007
The Kitakyushu Biennial ´07, Moji-Ko Kitakyushu, Japan
Brussels Biennial, Brusels
Stéphane Dafflon/Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris
Tbilisi 4: Everyday is Saturday, Tbilisi, Georgia
Body Politicx, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Small Is Beautiful, Ursula Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterröwisheim
Imagery Play, PKM Gallery, Beijing
Das Kapital-Blue Chips und Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M Das Kapital-Blue Chips und Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
What does the jellyfish want?, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Whenever it starts it is the right time – Strategies for a discontinuous future, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Studio Jahresgaben, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Screening of Sunbeam, Autobahnkopf, Select: A Night with Rosalind Nashashibi, Tate Modern, London
Imagery Play, PKM Gallery, Beijing
2006
Saigon Open City: First Chapter: Liberation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Looking Back: The inaugural White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus, Zurich
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Beijing Case, Zero Field Experimental Art Center, Beijing
Summer of Love, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Archive in motion, 50 years Documenta, Fridericianum, Kassel
Automobilisé, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF. Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2004
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Staatliche Tretjakow-Galerie, Moskow
9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Alte Kelter, Fellbach
Pop Cars. Amerika-Europa, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Deutschland sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein
Grey Goo, Flaca, London
Cupcup and the happy Medium, Dowse-Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2003
Bayrle, Greenfort, Zybach, Galerie Francesca Pai, Bern
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein
50. Biennale di Venezia
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Klosterfelde Invite #8, Klosterfelde, Berlin
2002
Europaweit - Kunst der 60er Jahre, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe
2001
Frankfurter Kreuz. Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
DC: Thomas Bayrle/ Bodys Isek Kingelez, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2000
Floating Cities. Die europäische Stadt in Bewegung, conference (06-22 - 06-25-2000) Guardini Stiftung e.V. in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
out of space, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum zu Gast im Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne
1999
Serien/ Konzepte in Foto/ Video, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1998
Technoculture FRI ART, Centre Contemporaine, Friburg
Life Style, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Anticipation, Centre pour l'image Contemporaine, Genf
Massornament, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
... mit Studenten, Shift, Berlin
Die Macht des Alters, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
1997
Urban Space, de Singel, Antwerp
KünstlerInnen, Museum in Progress, Kunsthaus Bregenz
1996
Grafik, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
L'Art de Plastique, Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris
1995
Elastic Lights, Sidney Gallery
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
1993
Neue Kunst in Hamburg, Kunstverein Hamburg
Ars Electronica, Linz
Compkuenstlerg, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Straße, Munich
1989
On Kawara - Wieder und Wieder, Portikus, Frankfurt
Ars Electronica, Linz
1985
IBA, Berlin, Milan
Deutsche Graphiker, Gummersons, Stockholm
1984
Orwell, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
1983
Utopian Visions in Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum , Washington
1977
documenta 6, Kassel
1975
Der Einzelne und die Masse, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
1971
Graphik der Welt, Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Contemporary Graphic, Oxford Gallery, London
Kunst und Politik, Frankfurter Kunstverein
1970
Konzepte einer neuen Kunst, Göttinger Kunstverein
Sammlung Feelisch, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
Kunst und Politik, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
1969
Industrie und Technik in der deutschen Malerei, Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg
1968
British International Print Biennale, Bradford
Kunst-Stoffe, Art Intermedia, Cologne
1967
Serielle Formationen, Studio Galerie, Universität Frankfurt
1966
EXTRA, Museum Wiesbaden
1965
Between poetry and painting, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1964
documenta 3, Kassel
1963
Schrift und Bild, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden und Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Bibliography
2011
Exporama, Thomas Bayrle/Daniel Kohl, ArtPress no.375, February
2010
Cosulich Canarutto, Sarah, cat. Cardi Black Box, Tarsiz Publishing Inc., New York
2009
La Biennale di Venezia and its collaborators for the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Making Worlds, 2 books, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Jochen Volz, exhibition catalogue, p.12-13
Wiley, Chris, The Mass Ornament, Kaleidoscope, issue 02, Summer 2009
Eichler, Dominic, „Social Fabric,“ frieze, June 2009
Peran, Marti, Review, Artforum, May 2009
Stolz, George, Review, Art Review, April 2009
Hohmann, Silke, „Die serielle Revolution,“ Monopol, April 2009, p. 62-73
2008
Volzke, Daniel, „Like Yeast in a Cake,“ Deutsche Bank Art Magazine, November 2008, p. 18-19
Ulrike Lehmann, Thomas Bayrle, in the series Künstler. Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Konstanz
Biennale of Sydney. Revolutions – Forms That Turn, exhibition catalogue, Fishermans Bend, Victoria (Australia), p. 232, and 2008 Biennale of Sydney. Revolutions – Forms That Turn. Free Guide, Sydney 2008, p. 63
God & Goods. Spiritualitá e Confusione di Massa / Spirituality and Mass Confusion, exhibition catalogue Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy
Q & A with Thomas Bayrle, in: RES Art World / World Art, No. 2, May, p. 68-73
Thomas Bayrle. Bir enstalasyon duvarkagıtları, otoyollar vs. üzerine / An Installation of Wallpapers, Motorways etc., exhibition catalogue, Dirimart, Istanbul
2007
„La vache qui rit: Thomas Bayrle“ published by Frac Limousin, Limousin
Mehring, Christine, „Mass Appeals: The Art of Thomas Bayrle“, Artforum, April, pp. 228-237
Volz, Jochen „Looking Back: Biennials/Survey Shows“ Frieze, January-February, p. 126
2006
Gilmore, Jonathan, Review, Art in America, November, pp.208-9
Kittelmann, Udo, and Klaus Görner, “What’s New Pussycat?” published by
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, a.M., pp. 134-35
Koolhaas, Charlie, Three Asian Biennales: Shanghai, Gwangju, and Singapore, ArtReview, September, pp. 44-45
Jones, Ronald, Review, Artforum, September, pp. 390-91
Holland Cotter, Experience Matters: Creators in Midcareer and Beyond, New York Times, Friday April 21, pp. E31, E 39
Max Henry, Review, Time Out New York, April 20-26, p. 77
Gianni Jetzer, Verein Kunsthalle St. Gallen (Hg.), 20 Jahre Kunsthalle St. Gallen 1985-2005, catalog,
JRP/Ringier, Zürich
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, p. 12