'Disco Inferno', BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
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Disco Inferno is an industrial monster of grinding, pulverizing, producing machines, linked together by a spaghetti of tubes, hoses, cables, tanks and pumps. Every detail here has been carefully thought out and sculpted by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL). Each welding seam, nut or bolt is a conscious choice. These machines run on almost anything – cooking oil, lard, or homemade pyrolysis oil.
The only useful purpose of this complex installation is that it keeps itself in motion, while the excess heat of giant diesel engines that power all the machines and generators is recycled to supply heat for the project’s ultimate destination ‘the happy end of everything spa’.
In an investigation that moves between fascination, aversion and an urge for more, Van Lieshout tests the limits of power, material and greed. “ As long as we have oil or waste plastic, we can keep dancing on the edge of the volcano” This installation is an open-ended work. It is not a static snapshot of a moment, it will transform with time.
On view at BRUTUS
Thursday – Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00h
Agenda
Current exhibition(s):
Blast Furnace, ART OMI, Ghent NY (USA)
25 May 2019 – Summer 2024
Roof Installation, ROOF-A, Rotterdam (NL)
04 November 2021 – 01 May 2024
50 jaar Ruigoord, Ruigoord, Amsterdam (NL)
21 July 2023 – Summer 2026
Successor, Beeldengallerij Haarlem, Haarlem (NL)
1 October 2023 – September 2025
Being Water, Porto Design Biennale, Porto (PT)
19 October 2023 – 16 March 2024
Feel the Heartbeat, Museum Sint-Janshospitaal, Brugge (BE)
16 December 2023 – 1 June 2024
Human Nature, Casa Pentra, Los Angeles (USA)
28 February 2024 – 23 March 2024
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De Opvolger, Lely, Maassluis (NL)
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Farming followed hunting and gathering. What started with the cultivation of small parcels of land ended with the rise of large, professional companies that have found a balance between seasons and systems. Once run by parent, child and helper- today’s farm is high-tech and increasingly run as a business rather than a `family affair’. The helper is still there, but the child more often follows a path that is removed from farm life. Instead, robots now play a central role in farming and Lely is the forerunner in helping to bridge this transition.
Atelier van Lieshout’s De Opvolger (The Successor) pays tribute to the farming family of yesterday, today and tomorrow. This bronze sculpture seems to grow out of the earth and has a robust posture. The figures in this ensemble represent today’s farming family, they are ready to solve any opposition or problem and support their livestock by any means or invention imaginable. The concrete plinth refers to a mound, the oldest architectural tool to secure the early Dutch farmland from the sea.
De Opvolger is permanently placed in front of the new Lely Campus, realized by architect Machiel Hopman of Converse Architects – a destination for innovation and farming of the future. This work is about an evolving craft within the profession, while offering cows the right to choose and live “freely”.
“With this new technology cows get a spa treatment and milk on their own body clock, this is the most humane use of technology, maximum animal rights for all the cows we love . “Joep van Lieshout
Photo made by Nico Alsemgeest
‘Power Hammer’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
10 Januari – 7 March 2015
Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
grimmgallery.com
‘ART Basel’, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami (USA)
4 – 7 December 2014
Miami, USA, with Galerie Krinzinger and Galeria OMR
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, USA
www.artbasel.com
‘Panel Discussion’, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Thursday 20 November 2014
Panel Discussion: “Design as Survival, Resistance, and Transformative Action”.
Panel discussion with Lucy & Jorge Orta, Rikke Luther and Joep van Lieshout, moderated by Krzysztof Wodiczko. Free and open to the public, more info on:
www.gsd.harvard.edu
Piper Auditorium, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA, USA
‘Art Bogota’, OMR Gallery, Bogota (CO)
24 – 27 October 2014
Solo exhibition with OMR Gallery at Art Bogota, Corferias, Bogota (CO)
For more info: Art Bogota 2014
‘Future Fictions’, Z33, Hasselt (BE)
5 September 2014 – 4 Januari 2015
Group exhibtion Future Fictions
AVL works on display: Food Reaktor (2013), Mondriaan (2012)
Zuivelmarkt 33, Hasselt, Belgium
www.z33.be
‘Design Art’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL)
12 September 2014 – 7 December 2014
Group exhibition
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Sport Nouveau (2004)
Kunsthal, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Westzeedijk 341, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
‘Happy Industry’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
12 – 14 September 2014
With Peter Rogiers, Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Frederik Molenschot, Paul Geelen, IJzerij Paulus, Atelier Van Lieshout, Margriet Kicks-Ass, Bismuth en Mia Andresen
Partners: Het Nieuwe Instituut, Eye, Worm and Karin Post
Museumpark, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
‘Vrijstaat’, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse (NL)
1 June 2014 – 1 October 2014
Kasteel Keukenhof Art Foundation
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Vice (2014), Power Hammer (2014), WWI (2012), Hagioscoop (2012), Panta Rhei (2011), Buffel (2011), Woman (2009), Bodyparts (2009), Birthing Woman (2009), Wellness Skull (2007), The Cube (2007), Bikinibar (2006), Skull on Stand (2005), Heart (2004), Penis XL (2003) and others
Keukenhof 1, Lisse, the Netherlands
‘Het Orakel’, De Dam, Amsterdam (NL)
On the 5th of May – Liberation Day – Atelier Van Lieshout will be doing a site specific intervention in the middle of Dam square, Amsterdam.
AVL has designed Het Orakel (The Oracle), a totem-like, two-and a half metre high head, which will be pronouncing SMS messages sent by the public. Everybody can have their opinion pronounced by Het Orakel.
Send an SMS to 2255, start your message with: Orakel , followed by the SMS, and Het Orakel will have the liberty to proclaim your text!
‘Domestication’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
5th December 2013 – 25th January 2014
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Domestication (2013), Kiss (2013), Reclining Figure (2013)
Tim Van Laere Gallery_Yard, Antwerp, Belgium
Verlatstraat 23-25, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home’, Amsterdam (NL)
1 November 2013 – 17th November 2013
The works submitted by the artists at Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home will take inspiration from two related themes: the renowned tolerant nature of Amsterdam and also the initial development of the Canal Ring. This period brought about the rapid economic and cultural development of the city, ushering in the Golden Age – a historical period that still sparks imaginations and which laid the foundations for the modern nation we know today.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: The Monument (2010), Pieta (2010)
Amsterdam, various locations within the historic centre
‘Urban Campsite’, Vliegenbos, Amsterdam (NL)
16 August 2013 – 30 September 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Darwin (2008)
Vliegenbos, Amsterdam
Meeuwenlaan 138, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
‘The Butcher’, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
6 July 2013 – 31st December 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Blast Furnace (2013), Couple (2011), Exploded View (2009), Friends (2011), Pappamamma Lamp (2013), Horn of Plenty (2008).
La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
41 rue Jobin, Marseille, France
‘Territory’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
8 June 2013 – 29th September 2013
Group exhibition AVL-Mundo, Rotterdam
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Cow (2011), Waterwagon (2007), The Monument (2010), Wellness Skull (2007), Der Kuss (2008), Wall Decoration (2008)
‘Ja Natuurlijk’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
15 March 2013 – June 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Sawmill Cheese Maker (2013)
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 43, Den Haag
‘Couture Graphique’, MOTI, Breda (NL)
16 February 2013 – 8 August 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: The Three Graces (2011)
MOTI
Boschstraat 22, Breda, The Netherlands
‘Furniture III’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
19 January – 27 April 2013
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 54 Rue de la Verrerie, Paris, France
carpentersworkshopgallery.com/
‘Manufactuur & SlaveCity’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
30 November 2012 – 1 March 2013
Grimm is proud to present two major new exhibitions by Atelier Van Lieshout, the new installation Manufactuur together with SlaveCity, covering both gallery spaces, as well as the special off-site project Hagioscoop that will be on view from Friday, November 30th to Sunday, December 2nd on the Museumsquare in Amsterdam for the occasion of the inaugural Amsterdam Art Weekend 2012.
Atelier Van Lieshout is a multidisciplinary collective that was founded by the artist Joep van Lieshout in 1995. Over the years Atelier Van Lieshout has attained international recognition for work that balances on the boundaries of art, architecture, and design. The often- provocative oeuvre consists of over a thousand projects ranging from sculptures to furniture, mobile homes, and autonomous communes. All projects combined form an extensive research into recurring themes such as autarky, power, politics, life, and death.
FRANS HALSSTRAAT
For the exhibition Manufactuur at Grimm, Atelier Van Lieshout transforms the gallery space into the interior of a farmhouse. The usually white cube interior of the exhibition space is transformed with wooden boards and it houses solely handmade works from the on-going series New Tribal Labyrinth, including a seventeen meter long Saw Mill that is powered by human muscle strength inside the attached treadmill.
The series New Tribal Labyrinth reflects on our extremely advanced and complex society in which over-consumption and limited raw materials play a crucial role. Atelier Van Lieshout suggests an alternative world order in which the new tribal society will see a return to a simple and self-sustaining way of life.
OFF-SITE: MUSEUMPLEIN
During the Amsterdam Art Weekend, from Friday November 30 until Sunday December 2, an additional project from the New Tribal Labyrinth is on show on the Museumsquare. The so-called Hagioscoop, a large cross-shaped diorama of about 15 by 10 meters set in the imaginary date of “year zero” houses people as well as livestock. It is the first farm in a series that will eventually be combined with a larger group of farmhouses. They will function as a labyrinth through time, cover- ing ages, history, hope, family, utopia, self-sufficiency, design and deviancy.
KEIZERSGRACHT
The gallery space on the Keizersgracht will be entirely devoted to Atelier Van Lieshout’s utopian urban project SlaveCity (2005-2009). In SlaveCity views on ethics, nutrition, environmental protection, organization, management and markets are being questioned and re-interpreted. The works in the exhibition show a city equipped with a highly modern infrastructure of universities, health centers, shopping malls, brothels, abattoirs, museums and other services. The sinister downside is that all the inhabitants of this imaginary city are slaves of a system that only serves to maximize its profits.
Grimm Gallery, Frans Halsstraat 26/Keizersgracht 82, Amsterdam
‘Agricola Novus’, Dertien Hectare, Heeswijk-Dinter (NL)
12th May – 8th July 2012
dertien hectare, Meerstraat 22, Heeswijk-Dinter
‘Industrie’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
15th March – 5th May 2012
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Verlatstraat 23 – 25, Antwerp, Belgium
‘Tribe’, Distrito 4, Madrid (ES)
9th February – 22th March 2012
Distrito 4, Conde de Aranda, 4, Madrid, Spain
‘De Kannibaal’, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam (NL)
16th December 2011– 17 June 2012
Villa Zebra, Stieltjesstraat 21, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
‘The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan (IT)
29th November 2011 – 14th Januari 2012
Gio Marconi, via Tadino 15, Milan, Italy
‘The Space Between Now and Then’, OMR Gallery, Mexico-City (MX)
24th November 2011 – 18th February 2012
Plaza Río de Janeiro 54, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico