BIOGRAPHY
| 1922 | Birth of Pol Bury at Haine-Saint-Paul, near La Louvière, Belgium. |
| 1939-1940 | Meets the poet Achille Chavée and joins the Surrealist group, Rupture, and later the Groupe Surréaliste en Hainaut. His paintings are mainly influenced by Magritte. |
| 1946 | Exhibits for the first time, at Galerie des Editions La Boétie, Brussels, in the company of Arp, Dominguez, Ernst, and Chirico. |
1949 |
Becomes a member of the CoBrA group. Abstract painting. At first rather informal, his painting is increasingly characterized by tight forms. |
| 1950 | Discovers the mobiles of Alexander Calder. Interest in abstract painting is replaced by an interest in three-dimensional work. |
| 1953 | Abandons painting and exhibits his Plans Mobiles for the first time in Brussels. These mobiles are not altogether works of movement, but rather works of transformation. |
| 1955 | Girouettes: painted volumes subject to random movement by the wind or by the curious hands of passersby (Toucher S.V.P.!). |
| 1957 | Multiplans: first genuinely mobile works, driven by electric motors. Co-founds the magazine, Daily Bul, with André Balthazar; Daily Bul later becomes a publishing house. |
| 1958 | Experiments with different ways of manipulating light. |
| 1961 | Ponctuations, Vibrations and Erectiles: fine nylon threads with painted tips, whose movement is barely perceptible. Moves to Paris. |
| 1962 | Meubles: monumental three-dimensional sculptures in wood. |
| 1963 | First Cinétisations: images manipulated by rearranging circular cut-outs. Influence of Op Art. |
| 1965 | Works in metal, largely stainless steel and polished copper. First works using electromagnetism. |
| 1969 | Fontaine Cinétique for the University of Iowa, Iowa City. |
| 1970 | First Ramolissements. Teaches sculpture and aesthetics at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 1971 | Creates the film, 8500 tonnes de fer: a ramolissement of the Eiffel Tower. Retrospective exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. |
| 1973 | 25 tonnes de colonnes, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. |
| 1976 | First hydraulic fountain. Ceiling for the Brussels subway station, Bourse. |
| 1980 | Fountain for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. |
| 1983 | Appointed professor of monumental sculpture at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. |
| 1987 | Three large Skycatcher mirrors for Newark Liberty International Airport, New Jersey. |
| 1994 | Fountain for the Tohoku University of Art & Design in Yamagata, Japan. |
| 1997 | Volumes figés and Papiers collés. |
| 2001 | Ramollissements virtuels: digital alterations of paintings by the old masters. |
| 2005 | Bury dies in Paris. |