Guillaume Bijl
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Guillaume Bijl, born in Antwerp in 1946, is a Belgian installation artist.
Bijl's first installation was a driving school, set in a gallery-space in Antwerp in 1979, accompanied by a manifesto calling for the abolition of art centers, and replacing them with 'socially useful institutions'. This installation was followed in the eighties by a billiards room, a casino, a laundromat, a center for professional training, a psychiatric hospital, a fallout shelter, a show of fictitious American artists, a conference for a new political party and a rural Belgian model house.
He divides his work into four categories: 'transformation installations', 'situation installations', 'compositions trouvées' and 'sorry's'.
Bijl created a display window for a wax-doll museum for Documenta IX in 1992.
