by bye avondale
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by bye avondale opens up the vanished, industrial spaces of the historic ILG factory on Pulaski Rd during their transition from artist spaces to Life Storage units.
Originally designed by Chicago architect Alfred Alschuler in 1906, the former ventilation factory faces extensive remodeling after housing artists for the past decade.
"Wary of tales that naturalize displacement, this moment invites the question: How do intervals of artistic reprieve and labor prelude, not only intervene in, storage unit monoculture?" (Kelly Xi, Opportunism as emergent property, 2025)
Elena Ailes
Janine Antoni
Gin Bahc
Elizabeth Cote
Pia Dobrowitz
Lindsey Dorr-Niro
Shir Ende
Max Guy
Anas Kahal
Michael Madrigali
Neiva Mulhern
Jeff Prokash
David Sprecher
Fondation Tschuess
Kezia Waters
olivier
by bye pilsen
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by bye pilsen marks the farewell of Chicago’s Cermak Center, a former Ford plant pre-dating the modern assembly-line of Detroit and Chicago area factories. Having served as an artist space for the last 20 years, the warehouse in the Pilsen neighborhood is now slated for demolition, allowing for a careful repurposing of it’s broached industrial floors.
Noelle Africh
Tauba Auerbach
Kaya & Blank
Camille Casemier
Matthew Girson
Philipp Groth
Gordon Hall
Gary Lapointe
Makayla Lindsay
Matthew Metzger
Jonas Müller-Ahlheim
Steph Patsula
Josue Pillot
Richard Rezac
Cameron Spratley
Aleksandra Walaszek
Ruby Que
Xu Yue
Through prototypical interventions in Chicago, by bye aims to critically engage with the spatial and social conditions of these environments as well as the entanglement of art and architecture.
Unlike other major capital cities in the U.S., Chicago presents unique spatial opportunities to foster a dialogue between art and its historical architecture within interventions that operate independently of the commercial art market. Comparable to initiatives such as The Kitchen in New York or the HKW in Berlin, which emerged during periods of spatial availability, Chicago finds itself in a transitional moment—between the forces of gentrification, the remnants of a vanished industrial era, and a vibrant, local art scene.
by bye acknowledges this critical juncture, and – since it's founding by artists Philipp Groth and Jonas Müller-Ahlheim – provides a platform for fellow artists to produce and exhibit works within this context, and eschewing the conventional gallery model.
Messages
Giving Form
Fix the office, iMessage
Drilling hard boards, iMessage
Message as Work, iMessage
Ears only SPAM, iMessage
Insider *1, iMessage
Insider *2, iMessage
Insider *3, iMessage
Demonstrations
Cosmicomics, December, Ghosts
The Drilling of hard boards
Corner/ Origin
Fix the Office
Insider
By bye Pilsen
Ears only SPAM
Recent Exhibitions
Closed Systems
Situation als Akt
Situation als Akt 2
Curving Figure
Texts
"The Future Is Built", 2024,
"Control Spaces, Collection", 2024
"Noise", 2024, w/ Makayla Lindsay
"Bybye", 2024, w/ Jonas M.Ahlheim
"Re-finding Things", 2023
"txt", 2023 w/ Makayla Lindsay
"Inter-Dependencies", 2023
"Inter-Disciplines", 2021
Press Releases
https://artsy.net/situation-als-akt-2
https://contokyo.com/solo-shows
https://artsy.net/calmgallery
https://kubaparis.com/situation-als-akt
http://a4artmuseum.com
https://sites.saic//philipp-groth
Index
2024 2023 2022
2021 2020 2019
Resources
Chicago Demolitions Tracker
Chicago Construction Codes 2019
Classification of A Spit Stain
Disassembling Utopias
The Wretched of the Screen
Contact, Vita
CV (PDF)
Short Biography (PDF)
Vita (PDF)
studio@philippgroth.com
philippgroth@icloud.com