BMW Art Cars

If you watch Formula One, you’d know that most of the cars are painted in drab black and grey liveries. The reason for this is that most racing teams want to exude a premium feel…

Back in 1975, French racing driver, Hervé Poulain, wanted to have an artist paint a canvas on a race car for him to drive.  Poulain ended up getting American painter, Alexander Calder, to paint a 1975…

Jochen Neerpasch is the man responsible for BMW’s racing prestige during the 70s and the man behind BMW’s only supercar – the M1. Neerpasch started with BMW in 1972 and created the BMW Motorsports GmbH. With…

Following commissions by Jenny Holzer (1999), Olafur Elíasson (2007) and Jeff Koons (2010), the BMW Art Car series will now be continued. On the occasion of the series’ 40th anniversary, a jury of distinguished museum…

Here’s some of the history tied to the best-dressed cars in BMW racing, including the BMW M3 GT art car and the 1970 ALPINA 2002ti

At the 2014 Art Basel in Miami Beach, BMW will present two of its legendary BMW Art Cars – the BMW 320 by Roy Lichtenstein (1977) and the BMW M3 by Michael Jagamara Nelson (1989)….

For Paris Photo’s second edition at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, BMW is proud to present the 850CSi Art Car by David Hockney. Almost 20 years after its creation in 1995 the Art…

The very first BMW Art Car, a BMW 3.0 CSL, designed by American artist Alexander Calder, will be a key highlight of a class of BMW 3.0 CSLs at the 2014 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance….

Artist Jeff Koons and supermodel Karolína Kurková presented the North American premiere of Koons’ BMW Art Car, the M3 GT2 race car on December 4th, the night of the opening day of Art Basel in…

At the inaugural fair of Paris Photo at LA’s Paramount Pictures Studios, BMW is proud to present the M1 BMW Art Car by Andy Warhol, created by the pop artist in 1979, as well as…