Born 1970 in Leerdam
Lives and works in Berlin

Education

1992-1997 Royal Academy of Art & Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch
1996 Rennie Macintosh School of Art, Glasgow Grants
2004 Charlotte Koehler Prize For Young Art
2004 Residency at ISCP, New York
2001 Residency at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
Indy Structures, The Breeder, Athens
Afterhours, Cosmic Galerie, Paris

2005
Afterhours, Gem Museum, The Hague
Get The Balance Right, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam

2004
In Times Like These, Grafisch Atelier Utrecht, Utrecht
A Passion Play, Museum Valkhof, Nijmegen
Chesed / Dien, The Breeder, Athens
Marc Bijl, Giorgio De Chirico Art Center, Volos

2003
The Nation Had Been Flirting With Forms of Götterdämmerung, With Extremes of Vocabulary And Behavior And an Appetite For Violent Resolutions, Casco, Utrecht
Black Planet, Magazin 4, Bregenz
The World Won’t listen, Bergman, Frankfurt
Defender, Artra Galleria, Milan

2002
PORN, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Make Them Doubt, Projektraum K&S, Berlin ...In The Hour Of Your Death, KAPINOS Galerie, Berlin

1999
Dutchbed, CBK Nijmegen
L’artiste pour l’artiste, Filmstad, The Hague

1998
Keep On Shooting In The Artworld, Overslag, Eindhoven

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Left Pop (bringing it back home) - Moscow Biennale - curated by Diana Baldon, Nicola Lees, Georgina Jackson

2006
I Love My Scene: Scene 2, Curated by Jose Freire, Mary Boone Gallery, NY
Black & White, Hellenic American Union, Curated by Artemis Potamianou, Athens
Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Rotterdam
Youth of Today, Curated by Matthias Ulrich, The Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
The Image is Gone, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna

2005
Superstars, The Celebrity Factor: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien; BA – CA Kunstforum, Wien, curated by Ingried Brugger, Gerald Matt, Thomas Miessgang, Heike Eipeldauer and Florian Steininger
Leaps of Faith, the UN controlled Green Line (buffer zone), Nicosia, curated by Katerina Gregos and Erden Kosova
Emergencies, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
Populism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Museum of Art, Oslo, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, curated by Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen
On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam
Festival of Dreams (part 2), Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, curated by James Fuentes

2004
Premieres, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, Oranized by the Department of Films and Media, NY
The Dutch Show: Contemporary Dutch Artists in Greek Collections, The Netherlands Institute of Athens, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos, Athens
Morgen hier, Heute dort, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, curated by Marcus Lütkemeyer
DETOX Aftershock, Kunsthall, Bergen; traveling exhibition through Scandinavia
Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Channel 0, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo, Amsterdam, curated by Katerina Gregos
Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, two persons show together with Daniela Wolfe
Hit & Run, curated by Una Henry and Thomas Peutz, Platform Garanti, Istanbul (TR)
20/20 Vision, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Laocoon Devoured, Art and Political Violence, Centro José Guerrero, Granada; ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
PanicRoom, Schloß Ringenberg, Hamminkeln, curated by Marcus Lütkemeyer
Better Bet on That ..., Tranzit, Bratislava, curated by Boris Ondreicka
Der Funfte Gewalt, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, curated by Anton Lederer

2003
The Space Between Us, Vane, Newcastle, curated by Una Henry and Thomas Peutz,
Beautiful Banners, Prague Biennale, Prague, curated by Marco Scotini
Into the Breach, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen
M_ARS - Kunst und Krieg, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, curated by Peter Weibel and Günther Holler-Schuster
Inaugurational exhibition Upstream Gallery Amsterdam
Rendez-vous, Lyon
Prague Biennale, Prague

2002
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt am Main, curated by Iara Boubnova, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Stéphanie Moisdon Trembley
Commitment, Las Palmas, Rotterdam, organised by Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst, curated by Edwin Janssen
Future/Present ,Artissima, Turin
Jahresgaben, Kunstverein Arnsberg
Married by Powers, TENT, Rotterdam, curated by Bik & van de Pol
Microjam influenz Unicura 1 & 2, De Appel, Amsterdam, curated by Jeroen Jongeleen
Jeune Creation, Grande-Halle de la Villette, Paris

2001
Neighbours/Buren, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Square 1 - a very fancy fair, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
Intercom, Paraplufabriek Nijmegen

Selected Bibliography

2005 "Superstars", Kunsthalle Wien, Wien; BA – CA Kunstorum, Wien, cat. "Emergencies", MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, cat.
GREGOS Katerina , "United Statements", in Flash Art 38, January -February 2005

2004 "The Dutch Show", The Netherlands Institute of Athens, Athens, cat. "Hit & Run", SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, text by Thomas Peutz "Laocoon Devoured - Art and Political Violence", Vitoria-Gasteiz, ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
BIESENBACH Klaus (ed.), "Die Zehn Gebote", Deutsche Hygiene- Museum, Dresden / Ostfildern (Cantz Verlag)
Van DRIEL Anne, "Gothic, getrouwd, gemusealiseerd", de Volkskrant, 10 June, 2004
BIJL Marc, contribution Art-ist 1, June 2004
Van ERP Barbara, "Kunst was mijn laatste strohalm", Vrij Nederland
SPONSELEE Marjolein, "20/20 Vision", Stedelijk Museum Bulletin
REINDERS Arjan, "Artistieke Hooligan", HP/De Tijd 20
BIJL Marc, "Multiplicity", Casco Issues 8
BIRBILIS Petros, "Guns and Roses", The -S- Magazine2
LÜTTICKEN Sven, “Marc Bijl”, De Witte Raaf, No. 107, pp.33, 35. "Marc Bijl", Giorgio De Chirico Art Center, Volos, text by Faye Tzanetoulakou
SMALLENBURG Sandra, "Ik maak dingen om het leven te vatten", NRC Handelsblad, January 24, 04

2003
RUTTEN Bart, "De wereld wil niet luisteren. Interview met Marc Bijl", Metropolis M 24, 6
BIJL Marc, "Créatif autonome", Worldsigns 2, pp.42-43, Winter 2003
Power Ekroth, "Marc Bijl", Site Magazine 5
BIJL Marc, "docufesta", Art-ist 6, pp.94-99
GARULLI Lavinia, "Marc Bijl at Artra", Flash Art 36,232, p.49
PERRA Daniele, "Marc Bijl, Artra Milano", Tema Celeste 99, p.88
BIJL Marc, "Prague Biennale 1. Marc Bijl", Flash Art 36, 231, p.60
BIJL Marc, "Black Planet", Magazin 4, text by Boris Kremer and interview by Katharina Schlüter.
SCOTINI Marco, “Beautiful Banners’” in cat. Prague Biennale 1
BÄTZNER Nike, "Orange Porn", BE Magazine 9, pp.3,122-128.
ELLIS Patricia, "Marc Bijl at Kapinos", Contemporary Art Magazine
HOLLER-SCHUSTER Günther, WEIBEL Peter (eds.), "M_ARS - Kunst und Krieg", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz / Ostfildern (Cantz Verlag) 2003, cat. "Into the Breach", Smart Space Projects, Amsterdam
Lukas & Sternberg publishers , Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein , Frankfurt "Marc Bij - review", CONTEMPORARY visual arts
Contribution in SITE, Sweden
Contribution in ART-ist, Turkey

2002
HENDRIKS Arne, "Het Ongezellige Atelier van Marc Bijl", Tubelight
ALLEN Jennifer, “Marc Bijl. K & S”, Artforum 40, p.186, Summer 2002 "Short guide Manifesta 4 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art", Ostfildern (Cantz Verlag) "Manifesta 4 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art", Ostfildern (Cantz Verlag) "Commitment: een keuze uit drie jaar", Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam (Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst) "Forever" (Flash Art Faksimile) catalogue edited by Marc BIJL, published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Vice Versa Verlag Berlin "Jeune Creation", Paris, cat.

2001 "Hardpop", Rotterdam (Mama – Showroom for Media and Moving Art), cat.
MONSHOUWER Saskia, "Ateliersignalen: Marc Bijl", Kunstbeeld 25
Van de VOORT Mark, "Ik wil de wereld niet leuker maken", in cat. Neighbours/Buren, Eindhoven (Van Abbemuseum), pp.18-19 "Apples and Oranges" (best dutch design with Steffen Maas) "HARDPOP", Mama, cat. "Ich kenne keine Weekend”, groupshow ’Occupying Space’ Rotterdam, cat.

2000 "Dutch Artist Makes Corporate Graffiti", Philip Remark, Volkskrant "Schoonheid van het alledaags", Sandra Smallenburg, NRC Handelsblad

1999 "Now to Star", self created artbook for the exhibition ’copyculture’ "Kill your Darlings", cat. "Kunstmarct”, self produced art-magazine 4 editions