Thomas Bayrle. City, countryside, everything in flux
28.02.2026 - 31.05.2026 ,
Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg (Museum in the Culture Granary Würzburg)
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Thomas Bayrle is one of Germany’s most significant Pop Art artists. The Museum im Kulturspeicher (MiK) in Würzburg is delighted to be dedicating its first solo exhibition to him.
As the title Stadt, Land, alles im Fluss (City, Countryside, Everything in Flux) suggests, the exhibition in Würzburg centres on artworks that engage either with urban and rural environments or with the theme of transport. This focus aims to create a thematic connection with the specific topography and post-1945 history of Würzburg. For it is here that – as if under a magnifying glass – the highly topical social discourses on the urban-rural divide and the utopias of a car-friendly city converge in a unique way.
Würzburg was almost completely destroyed in 1945 and subsequently rebuilt in a modern style, whilst the medieval, fragmented and labyrinthine structure of its streets remained largely intact. At the same time, Würzburg is visibly shaped by agriculture – for instance through viticulture – and, as a university town, is equipped with metropolitan infrastructure.
Many of Bayrle’s works are characterised by their serial genesis and extremely dense pictorial spaces with hardly any empty areas. This stylistic feature reflects the Würzburg way of life in a congenial manner, which is shaped by cramped and restricted living and movement spaces.
In Würzburg, highly topical social discourses thus converge as if under a magnifying glass: the urban-rural divide, questions of mobility, and the utopias and limitations of the car-friendly city. These themes form the conceptual framework of the exhibition.
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