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The BMW M Hybrid V8 Art Car takes centre stage at the Zoute Grand Prix in Knokke-Heist, where BMW’s rolling gallery meets one of Europe’s great concours weeks. Framed by the Belgian coast and a programme steeped in heritage from 8–12 October 2025, the hybrid racer’s sculptural livery draws eyes trackside while underlining how BMW’s art programme meshes pace, form and cultural reach.
This stop on the BMW Art Car World Tour connects earlier showings in New York, Istanbul and Hong Kong with a fresh European audience. Alongside the Julie Mehretu–designed M Hybrid V8, visitors can study landmark works across decades, from Alexander Calder and Frank Stella to Robert Rauschenberg, Esther Mahlangu, David Hockney and Jeff Koons. Each car demonstrates a different approach to surface and motion, yet all share the same underpinning idea: competition machinery and production models repurposed as moving canvases, their lines and volumes emphasised by paint, print and light.
The Zoute setting sharpens the contrast between classic metal and contemporary expression. Pre-war elegance, post-war icons and modern performance cars parade the same boulevards where the Art Cars idle and glide, inviting viewers to read bodywork like brushstrokes. You sense how a long bonnet, a finned sill or an air intake can act as a frame for colour and geometry; how a racing number intersects with pattern; how negative space and panel gaps become part of the composition at speed.
This Belgian chapter also nods to a wider anniversary: the centenary of Robert Rauschenberg, whose collaged BMW bridged studio practice and road course decades ago. That legacy lives on through an independent jury that selects new artists and grants them full freedom, ensuring each commission adds a distinct voice. As the tour moves, it links communities that might never share a grandstand—galleries, paddocks, city streets—proving that motion, design, and identity can travel together without losing momentum.
For BMW, the Art Car story remains more than a display; it is a dialogue between engineering and imagination. The M Hybrid V8’s presence at Zoute makes that point with clarity: a purpose-built endurance racer turned into a piece of contemporary art, its aero and stance unchanged, its surfaces reinterpreted. In Belgium, that union feels right at home—where concours polish meets open-road romance, and a fast shape becomes a living artwork the moment the light hits it.
