Thomas Bayrle

Bayrle reexamines popular works from art history and delves into the subject of work. In 2025, the SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting a major solo exhibition by this Frankfurt-based artist.

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Intro

The wide-ranging work of Thomas Bayrle (b. 1937) studies the contrasting aspects of technology, pop and mass culture, and (ersatz) religion—describing the path from analogue technology to the digitality so omnipresent today.

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The central focus of the show lies on works from the past fifteen years of his career, together with complementary works from the 1960s and 1970s which laid the innovative foundations for his characteristic Superforms. The repetition, interconnection, and interweaving of individual elements to form a comprehensive picture is found in almost all of Bayrle’s works and is closely linked to the artist’s biography.

Bayrle initially completed an apprenticeship as a machine weaver before turning his attention to commercial art and printing. The exhibition establishes a dialogue with the industrial building of the Dondorf printing works and provides an insight into sixty years of the art of Thomas Bayrle.

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Curator

Matthias Ulrich