RARITY RIDES / THE COLLECTION
Explore Individual BMW Art Car through the published vehicle profiles in the archive. Follow the engineering, design and documented identity behind each machine.
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IN THE ARCHIVEBMW 3.0 CSL Art Car — Alexander Calder, 1975↗A MORE CONSIDERED COLLECTION
These are existing vehicle profiles grouped by their recorded classification. Read each profile for its own source notes, image context and production scope. A shared collection does not establish that different editions or chassis are the same identity.
THE COLLECTION
15 profiles
BMW 1992
Sandro Chia created BMW Art Car number 13 in 1992 on a 3 Series touring-car racing prototype. Faces and vivid color spread across the vehicle, making the racing body a support for…
BMW 1975
Alexander Calder’s 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL began the BMW Art Car story with an object that could be read in two ways at once: a competition machine and a work of art.…
BMW 1976
The 1976 BMW 3.0 CSL Art Car by Frank Stella takes a very different approach from Calder’s first example. Instead of large contrasting color fields, Stella’s design uses a black-and-white grid and…
BMW 1977
The 1977 BMW 320i Art Car by Roy Lichtenstein is the third vehicle in the Art Car sequence. It moved the programme from the earlier CSL racing coupés to a Group 5…
BMW 1991
Esther Mahlangu created the twelfth BMW Art Car in 1991 on an E34 BMW 525i. Her bold geometric treatment brought a Ndebele mural-painting tradition onto the curved surfaces of an automobile. BMW…
BMW 1990
Matazo Kayama created the ninth BMW Art Car in 1990 using a BMW 535i. The work brings together a silver saloon body, fine tonal changes and delicate foil-based techniques. Its visual character…
BMW 1982
Ernst Fuchs’s BMW 635 CSi is the fifth BMW Art Car, created in 1982. BMW identifies it as the collection’s first work based on a production model rather than a competition car.…
BMW 1986
Robert Rauschenberg’s BMW 635 CSi is the sixth BMW Art Car, created in 1986. The design uses photographic imagery and reproductions of other artworks instead of treating the surface solely as a…
BMW 1990
César Manrique’s BMW 730i is the tenth BMW Art Car, created in 1990. Bright colors and sweeping forms work across the E32 saloon’s surfaces to suggest effortless movement. The artwork is associated…
BMW 1995
David Hockney created BMW Art Car number 14 in 1995 using an E31 BMW 850 CSi. His treatment makes the coupé appear to reveal what lies within: mechanical components, a seated figure…
BMW 1979
The BMW M1 Art Car by Andy Warhol is the fourth BMW Art Car, created in 1979 on a Group 4 racing version of the mid-engined M1. Its painted body and competition…
BMW 1989
Ken Done’s BMW M3 is the eighth Art Car in the BMW collection, created in 1989. Its vivid surface draws on the artist’s interest in parrots, parrotfish and an energetic image of…
THE RARITY RIDES STANDARD
A limited offer is not automatically a completed-production total. A surviving vehicle is not a complete factory census. We keep those distinctions visible and link each collection back to the individual profile’s evidence.
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