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==Early life and education==
Bijl was born in Antwerp in 1946 in a working class family. The artist's father worked at the local docks and his mother worked for the Bell Telephone Company. A self-taught artist, Bijl came to art as an outsider initially making paintings during the 1960s. During this time, he mimicked numerous artistic movements such as [[Impressionism]], [[Expressionism]], [[Surrealism]], abstract movements and more. During a period of self-guided studies in economics, Bijl worked at a bank in Brussels. Shortly thereafter his parents sent him to a local vocational trade school in the hopes of gaining professional skills. For nearly a decade, Bijl worked part-time in the art section of a bookstore in Antwerp. In the late 1960's, he studied theater and film at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema, and Sound in Brussels before dropping out after only a year. Bijl only then devoted himself to art making full-time in his mid-30s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965382483|title=Jumps of the cat : Guillaume Bijl's simulation therapy|last=C.,|first=Welchman, John|others=Dirié, Clément,, Leemans, Koen,, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen,|isbn=9783037644683|location=Zurich|oclc=965382483}}</ref>
==Work==
From the second half of the 1970s he started to create spatial objects and was researching in finding alternatives for [[conceptual art]].
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 centres, and replacing them with 'socially useful institutions'. This installation was followed in the eighties by a billiards room, a casino, a laundromat, a centre 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. A more recent show was at the Berlin’s Center for Opinions in Music and Art.<ref>Guillaume Bijl. Frieze Magazine,
Daniel Miller, 03/03/09. {{cite web |url=http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/guillaume_bijl/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-01-30 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103035810/http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/guillaume_bijl/ |archivedate=2013-01-03 |df= }} </ref> Bijl has been reviewed by the [[New York Times]].<ref>Review/Art; A Conceptual Installation With Luxury for All. By Michael Brenson. December 21, 1990. https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/21/arts/review-art-a-conceptual-installation-with-luxury-for-all.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm </ref> He divides his work into four categories: '
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