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THOMAS BAYRLE

(1937, Berlin / GERMANY)


1958 -1962 Studied at the Werkkunstschule (College of Applied Arts) in Offenbach


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 La Camera Degli Sposi (After Mantegna), Dirimart, Istanbul

2009 Elastic. Thomas Bayrle, Ann Lislegaard, Raven Row, London
2009 I’ve A Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona

2008 Looping, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2008 Thomas Bayrle / Andreas Slominski, Dependance, Brussels
2008 Cats & Cars (with Gerald Domenig), Etablissement d’en face, Brussels
2008 Wiener, Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna
2008 Stéphane Dafflon/Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris
2008 A Mustache is a Man’s Best Friend, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich
2008 An installation For Wallpapers, Motorways Etc., Dirimart, Istanbul

2007 Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin (with Monika Baer )
2007 Superimages, FRAC Limousin, Limoges
2007 Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo
2007 Jacke wie Hose, Galerie Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria

2006 40 Jahre Chinese Rock ´N´Roll, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2006 Happy Days Are Here Again, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York

2005 Cubitt Artists, London
2005 Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
2005 4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin

2004 Carlos, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany

2003 Autostrada, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
2003 Frühe Grafik, Galerie Ute Parduhn, Dusseldorf
2003 Eiserner Vorhag/Safety Curtain, Museum Project in progress in cooperation with the Vienna
2003 State Opera, Vienna

2002 Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
2002 Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

2001 Kartoffelzähler, Johann Widauer, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 Zeichnungen, Druckgrafik aus den Jahren 1967 bis 2001, Bilder, Galerie
2001 Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt am Main
2001 Layout, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
2001 Museum Ludwi (with Bodys Isek Kingelez ), Cologne

2000 Flying home..., Museum in Progress, Vienna


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 53. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. Biennale di Venezia, Venice

2008 Konstellationen IV. Material / Form / Mensch / Stadt, Städel Museum,
Frankfurt am Main
2008 What Ever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia,
Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo
2008 Biennale of Sydney
2008 Brussels Biennial
2008 Experiment Marathon Reykjavík (Reykjavik Arts Festival 2008),
2008 Listasafn Reykjavíkur Hafnarhús, Reykjavik
2008 Stéphane Dafflon/Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris
2008 God and Goods, Villa Manin Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo
2008 Tempo, Tempo! Das Phänomen der G
2008 Europop, Kunsthaus, Zurich Zürih
2008 Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2007,
White Columns, New York

2007 The Kitakyushu Biennial ´07, Moji-Ko Kitakyushu, Japan
2007 Brussels Biennial, Brussels
2007 Stéphane Dafflon/Thomas Bayrle, Air de Paris, Paris
2007 Tbilisi 4: Everyday is Saturday, Tbilisi, Georgia
2007 Body Politicx, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Small Is Beautiful,
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterröwisheim, Germany
2007 Imagery Play, PKM Gallery, Beijing / Seoul
2007 Das Kapital-Blue Chips und Masterpieces, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
2007 What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2007 Lyon Biennial 2007, Lyon
2007 It Takes Something to Make Something, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Whenever It Starts It Is the Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
2007 Screening of Sunbeam, Superstars, Autobahn-Kopf, Office for Contemporary
2007 Art Norway, Oslo
2007 Screening of Sunbeam, Autobahnkopf, Select: A Night with Rosalind Nashashibi,
Tate Modern, London
2007 E-Flux Video Rental, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
2007 Imagery Play, PKM Gallery, Beijing

2006 Piktogramme - die Einsamkeit der Zeichen, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2006 Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2006 Summer in Love, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main
2006 Informal City, Beijing Case, Zero-Field, Beijing
2006 ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 4th Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst: OF Mice and Men, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin
2006 The 6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2006 Totalstadt, Beijing Case, ZKM, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006 Choosing My Religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2006 The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich

2005 Beijing Case, Zero Field Experimental Art Center, Beijing
2005 Archive in Motion, 50 years Documenta, Fridericianum, Kassel
2005 Automobilisé, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux
2005 Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF, Ausstellung, Kunst-Werke, Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin
2005 Summer in Love, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main

2004 Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Staatliche Tretjakow-Galerie, Moskow
2004 Pop Cars. Amerika-Europa, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2004 9. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Alte Kelter, Fellbach, Germany
2004 Deutschland Sucht, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany Almanya
2004 Grey Goo, Flaca, London
2004 Cupcup and the happy Medium, Dowse-Museum, Wellington, New Zealand
2004 Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich

2003 Bayrle, Greenfort, Zybach, Galerie Francesca Pia, Ber
2003 Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
2003 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2003 Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
2003 Klosterfelde Invite #8, Klosterfelde, Berlin
2003 Europaweit - Kunst der 60er Jahre, Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2001 Frankfurter Kreuz, Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, 2001 SchirnKunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main DC: Thomas Bayrle / Bodys Isek Kingelez,
Museum Ludwig,Cologne

2000 Herausforderung Tier, Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 Floating Cities, Die europäische Stadt in Bewegung, Conference (06.22 – 06.25.2000)
Guardini
2000 Stiftung e.V. in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2000 Out of Space, Schnitt Ausstellungsraum zu Gast im Kölnischen Kunstverein, Cologne


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Old and New Art, Moonah, Australia
FRAC Limosin, Limoges, France
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst des Bundes, Bonn, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Seattle Art Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago