BMW Art Car

BMW have brought in a specially commissioned Art Car which was designed by Alexander Calder.

The BMW Art Car Project was introduced by the French racecar driver and auctioneer Hervé Poulain, who wanted to invite an artist to create an a canvas on an autombile.

It was in 1975, when Poulain commissioned American artist and friend Alexander Calder to paint the first BMW Art Car. This first example would be a BMW 3.0 CSL which Poulain himself would race in the 1975 Le Mans endurance race.

Since Calder's work of art, many other renowned artists throughout the world have created BMW Art Cars, including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein.

You can view the BMW Art Car at the Museum of Modern at in the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham from the 1st April to the 21st June


Museum of Modern Art, RHK, Dublin, Ireland