‘Disco Inferno’, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
‘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
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De Opvolger, Lely, Maassluis (NL)
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
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‘Arena’, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE)
‘Arena’, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE)
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24 May 2023 – 22 July 2023
Atelier Van Lieshout presents a new body of work at Nosbaum Reding Gallery under the title ‘Arena’
Art history is filled with dying warriors, from the felled fighter on the battle fields of Ancient Greece to Henry Moore’s Warrior with Shield breathing his last breath. They sacrificed themselves for the people, fatherland or ideology. These heroes know that fighting might end in dying, sometimes even by their own sword to uphold the honor.
The Fallen Warrior series of Atelier Van Lieshout is part of this tradition, with the difference that these sculptures have no fixed top or bottom. They can be placed and read in various ways, representing warriors who won’t stop fighting even when their worldview flips.
Nosbaum Reding
Rue de la Concorde 60
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Opening hours
Wednesday – Satuday | 11:00 – 18:00
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Brutalistische Aap, BunkerToren, Eindhoven (NL)
Brutalistische Aap, BunkerToren, Eindhoven (NL)
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The BunkerTower in Eindhoven has officially opened its doors and on this big day they have also revealed the brutalist sculpture that Atelier Van Lieshout has made especially for them.
Brutalism as an architectural style had long been ignored because it was perceived as bulky, bare and almost indecent. But after years of postmodernist frills and bloodless corporate office building, appreciation for straightforward brutalism is on the rise again. Finally, according to Joep van Lieshout, who had never stopped joyfully working with these rough and ready visual forms.
The Brutalistische Aap [Brutalist Monkey] from Atelier Van Lieshout is the suitable mascot for such stylistic durability. Its rough forms are similar to the unfinished concrete of Brutalism, but gently hint at the curves of Art Deco. Strength and zest for life go hand in hand. The geometric shapes that sit on the monkey’s body like architectural bulges emphasize the utilitarian rationality that ultimately drives him.
The brutalist style of the sculpture took its inspiration from the former student centre, the Bunker, which was designed by Huig Maaskant in the 1960’s. Now Powerhouse Company designed a residential tower on top of this infamous bunker.
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‘Through Bone and Marrow’, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Through Bone and Marrow’, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
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02 April 2023 – 25 June 2023
We live in the Anthropocene, the age of man. Never before has a single species had such a powerful impact on the environment. Meanwhile, we have become entangled in our own waste and enslaved by our own equipment, and, as a result, our senses have been dulled. We threaten to destroy the planet, but may lose ourselves, our humanity, well before then.
In ‘Through Bone And Marrow’ nearly 20 (international) artists present new, alternative connections between man, nature and technology. They go beyond existing contradictions between organic and inorganic, plant and animal, living and dead. This is led by a new aesthetic that offers space for discomfort, imperfection and the beauty of decay. Together they form an exhibition that gets under visitors’ skin and down to their bones. Curator Maarten Spruyt forces visitors to take a good look at themselves as well as imagining a different interrelationship with nature and technology.
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‘Sculptura #1’, Sculptura Festival Brussel, Brussel (BE)
‘Sculptura #1’, Sculptura Festival Brussel, Brussel (BE)
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10 February 2023 – 12 March 2023
Our Steam Hammer House is on the move again, currently on show at the first edition of Sculptura Festival in the beautiful location of Gare Maritime, Tour & Taxis, Brussels.
The steam hammer was invented in Manchester around 1837 and gave a huge boost to the industrial revolution. Once an example of technological achievement, ‘Steam Hammer House’ is now a clear reminder of obsolescence. The interior contains the elements for a home, with a kitchen, an office, a bathroom and toilet in the legs, and a bar, which serves as a hub for social gatherings. It is a workplace where man and machine become one.
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‘The Voyage’, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
‘The Voyage’, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL)
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07 February 2023 – 05 March 2023
At Brutus Atelier Van Lieshout shows ‘The Voyage’, a group of works that speak about a journey to a better world, an utopia, a place beyond the horizon where the grass is greener. These fictional pioneers follow their hearts, guts and the flimsiest of game plans: anything goes and let’s see what happens. They have no clue where they are going, or what they want to achieve, but they cannot be stopped. Their expedition gear asks more questions than it gives answers, and might cause more problems than solutions; why make a selection when you can bring absolutely everything.
Brutus is host to massive, challenging performances and group and solo exhibitions. With its residency, sculpture park and 6000 sq meters exhibition space, it offers artists time, space and freedom to experiment at a massive scale.
Open Thursday – Sunday: 12:00 – 18:00
Entrance: Keileweg 18 (via the sculpture garden)
Free entrance
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‘A Gateway to Possible Worlds’, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz (FR)
‘A Gateway to Possible Worlds’, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz (FR)
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5 November 2022 – 10 April 2023
The American writer Ray Bradbury said: “Science fiction is the art of the possible.” Under the guise of anticipating the future, it speaks to us of the present. It is a laboratory of hypotheses that manipulate and extrapolate the repressive norms and dogmas of today’s world, its ambitions, social afflictions, opportunities and perils. A Gateway To Possible Worlds exhibition brings together over 200 works from the late 1960s to the present day. It puts the spotlight on the bonds between imaginary worlds and our reality with the help of artists, authors, architects and film directors. It builds on current demands for 21st century utopias to spark debate, inspiration and a form of hope.
Atelier Van Lieshout shows a selection of works from ‘Slave City’: Wall Decoration, Urban Plan Slave City, Minimal Steel Red Lights and Board Room Crockery.
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‘It’s About Time’, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
‘It’s About Time’, International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam (NL)
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22 September 2022 –13 November 2022
Fifty years after the publication of the Club of Rome report, the 10th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam is taking stock. The exhibition brings historical research (from 1972 onward), inspiring practical examples (in 2022) and future scenarios (towards 2072) together. This overview paints a picture that is both worrisome and hopeful.
IT’S ABOUT TIME hints at the ever-mounting time pressure under which we are trying to counteract the effects of climate change and connect them to other social challenges. The title also zooms in on time and speed as crucial factors in architecture and spatial design processes and appeals to the profession to work effectively to resolve socioecological urgencies.
Atelier Van Lieshout shows the installation ‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World’, including Pendulum.
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‘Harmonious Contradiction’, MASA x Sotheby’s, East Hampton, New York (USA)
‘Harmonious Contradiction’, MASA x Sotheby’s, East Hampton, New York (USA)
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24 August 2022 – 18 September 2022
Harmonious Contradiction is the third and final summer exhibition at Sotheby’s East Hampton Gallery and the first collaboration between MASA and Sotheby’s.
Harmonious Contradiction is a group exhibition presenting eight contemporary artists producing polished bronze and brass floor works by Mexico City-based MASA Galeria, in conversation with a selection of post-war and contemporary works curated by Sotheby’s.
Atelier Van Lieshout presents a polished bronze work of two abstract figures that are in the process of taking care of a third person. Caretaker Side Table is part of a series of works representing the different human feelings of love, compassion, sorrow, charity, enjoyment and relaxation.
Sotheby’s Gallery
66 Newtown Lane
East Hampton, NY, USA
Open Tuesday – Sunday: 11am – 5pm
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‘Utopia’, Château Saint-Maur, Saint Tropez (FR)
‘Utopia’, Château Saint-Maur, Saint Tropez (FR)
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13 July – 28 August 2022
Borrowing its title from a work of the same name, “Utopia” is a sculpture exhibition consisting of 10 works by Atelier Van Lieshout at Château Saint-Maur in Saint Tropez. Visitors are invited to journey to a place with neither noise nor news, but perhaps a bit of wine.
An ongoing theme in Van Lieshout’s work, “Utopia” has been expressed in seminal and legendary works such as “Autocrat”, “Women on Waves”, “AVL-Ville”, “Domestikator” and most recently at
documenta fifteen with “Mama-Werner”. In “Utopia” the journey is the destination. In this context, the exhibition satiates that which we may all crave: a different time, space or tempo. This constellation of sculptures perfectly punctuates a promenade or ‘balade’, seducing us with an idyllic escape.
Open daily, 11.00 AM – 7.00 PM
Free access
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‘Imagine’, ArtZuid 2021, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Imagine’, ArtZuid 2021, Amsterdam (NL)
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29 May 2021 – 17 October 2021
The Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial presented an exhibition to experience featuring over 80 figurative sculptures and spatial art installations. The heart of the exhibition lies in Berlage’s monumental Plan Zuid area with its leafy avenues Apollolaan and Minervalaan. This green space served as a backdrop for the theatrical grouping of modern and contemporary figurative sculptures which were interspersed with interactive spatial installations. ARTZUID 2021 included an extensive peripheral programme of activities including artist talks, an educational programme and art walks. Every edition the free exhibition is open 24/7.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Utopia (2020) and Darwin (2008)
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Solo Exhibition ‘Le Voyage’, Le Portique, Le Havre (FR)
Solo Exhibition ‘Le Voyage’, Le Portique, Le Havre (FR)
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24 June – 11 September 2022
‘Le Voyage’ is about a journey to a better world, a place beyond the horizon where the grass is always greener. The fictional pioneers follow their hearts and the flimsiest of gameplans: anything goes and let’s see what happens. They have no clue where they are going, but they are going, roaming in search of paradise or the next utopia, ready for anything. Their expedition gear take all-purpose and all-inclusive to the next level. Why make a selection when you can bring absolutely everything, from questionable toolkits, an overly large cooking station to a shrine and prosthetics. Luxury is found in abundance, not in quality: the packs are made with suboptimal materials and assembled in a happily chaotic manner.
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‘MAMA Doc Space’, documenta fifteen, Kassel (DE)
‘MAMA Doc Space’, documenta fifteen, Kassel (DE)
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18 June 2022 – 25 September 2022
At Documenta 15, Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA) reflects on climate change and deforestation, connecting knowledge and experiences gained in Colombian rainforests to the forests of Germany. During Documenta’s 100 day duration, artists, activists and people from MAMA’s ecosystem will reflect on how monoculture and climate change have resulted in mass bark beetle infestations in central Europe. Most of the programme will take place in and around the MAMA Werner, a mobile platform for social interaction created by Atelier Van Lieshout and adapted specifically for this occasion.
AVL’s contribution to Documenta 15 is a caravan headed by the MAMA Werner, a powerful vehicle with a trailer that functions as a documentation centre and library. An attached tent provides space for workshops, screenings and other public activities. A 14-metre diameter table will be used for debates and communal gatherings. Behind the trailer sits a pyrolyser, that transforms waste plastics into diesel using thermal decomposition. The installation is completed with the Excrementus Megalomanus, a composting machine that turns human excrement and other bodily fluids into fertilizer. It is outfitted with a toilet and specially designed receptacles for vomit, urine and semen.
Click here for the full program.
Supported by the Mondriaan Fonds.
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‘De Verleiding’, Bosch Parade, ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)
‘De Verleiding’, Bosch Parade, ‘s Hertogenbosch (NL)
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16 June 2022 – 19 June 2022
Bosch Parade 2022 is the 9th edition of this extraordinary art manifestation on the water with Hieronymus Bosch as its inspiration. This year’s theme is ‘seduction’. From 16 to 19 June, it promises once again to be an inspiring cruise of the absurd through the historic centre of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, with nineteen idiosyncratic works of art in and on the water.
Atelier Van Lieshout has built an enormous Hammer, which smashes through the water with a compelling heartbeat. With thunderous blows, the hammer, like a floating rat catcher, lures Bosch Parade to follow it. From 26 May. Atelier van Lieshout will also be exhibiting a number of impressive artworks and sculptural installations, such as the Wellness Skull, Le Foot, Invisible Hand and House of Transition, in the Garden of Earthly Delights, the breeding ground at the Citadel where the artists are working on their objects for the Bosch Parade.
Le Foot at the Garden of Earthly Delights. Photo and credits: Kleurstof
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‘Living the Habitat’, Open House, Geneva (CH)
‘Living the Habitat’, Open House, Geneva (CH)
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11 June 2022 – 28 August 2022
OPEN HOUSE is an exhibition that showcases innovative and original forms of habitat through projects from the fields of art, architecture, design and humanitarian aid in the beautiful Parc Lullin in Genthod on the lakefront, 15 minutes from Geneva.
Drop Hammer House represents destruction, recycling and production in a circular economy. It celebrates senseless destruction by violently smashing things. The resulting debris is used to make new sculptures. On top of the ruthless wrecking machine sits the Venus Room, named after the goddess of love, who stands at the beginning of all creation.
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‘VOORLOPERS’, Paleis Soestdijk, Baarn (NL)
‘VOORLOPERS’, Paleis Soestdijk, Baarn (NL)
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13 May 2022 – 14 August 2022
From 13 May to 14 August the Park of Paleis Soestdijk will be open for the public to visit the contemporary art exhibition VOORLOPERS (PIONEERS). Contemporary artists, renowned and new pioneering talents, will address within the exhibition topcial issues such as bio-technology & bio-design, sustainability & recycling, but also the changing view on heritage.
Atelier Van Lieshout’s Darwin will be shown at Paleis Soestdijk. This extremely enlarged purple sperm cell represents the drive for survival, both biologically and socially. Inside is a bed and a small desk, suggesting a think tank to hatch a strategy to remain the fittest and stay on top. The architectural sculpture is part of an exhibition presenting a select group of Dutch pioneer artists.
Tuesday – Friday: 11.00–17.00
Saturday and Sunday: 12.00–17.00
Get your tickets here.
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‘Light in the Darkness’, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT)
‘Light in the Darkness’, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT)
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09 June 2022 – 27 August 2022
We live in dark times, with war raging on the EU’s border, more refugees than aid organizations can handle, the smouldering threat of Covid returning in a different guise and the climate crisis looming over us. Joep van Lieshout of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) provides some light as the torchbearer of radical change. As a participant in the current documenta exhibition in Kassel, AVL presents a mobile platform for communal action and critical interaction. The exhibition ‘Light in the Darkness’ fulfils Van Lieshout’s mission to enlighten more literally by presenting a wide selection of lamps.
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‘The Head’, University of Twente, Enschede (NL)
‘The Head’, University of Twente, Enschede (NL)
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To celebrate its sixtieth anniversary, the University of Twente unveiled a special work of art on Thursday, 19 May: The Head. This 10-metre tall creation by artist Joep van Lieshout has been given a prominent place at the entrance to the university grounds.
Visitors can not only see the work of art from the outside, but can also climb into it. A narrow staircase takes you to a platform on top of the head, where you have a view over the campus on the one hand and the Kennispark on the other.
The Head marks the possibilities and dilemmas on the eve of the fourth industrial revolution, when the boundaries between the physical, digital and biological worlds are blurred. The sculpture is a monument to the waning of human dominance. A totem that marks the crossroads where we are now and a lookout to the future.
Visit The Head at:
Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede
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‘The Whale’, Arts Le Havre, Le Havre (FR)
‘The Whale’, Arts Le Havre, Le Havre (FR)
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3 June 2022 – 2 September 2022
Le Havre Beach, Le Havre (FR)
As a prefiguration of A SUMMER IN LE HAVRE, AVL has chosen to create a great sperm whale, at the request of the Grand Casino du Havre inspired by Herman Melville’s philosophical novel, Moby-Dick.
AVL strives to present the sea as the true theatre of the human comedy: suffering, evil, pride, madness, tyranny—feelings that Melville personified in the character of Captain Ahab, who saught revenge on the giant white whale that had robbed him of his leg in the past.
This monumental installation is also a manifesto on the power of nature that Jonah had also experienced. The Biblical character had angered God by his disobedience and, as punishment, was swallowed by a whale (literally a great fish) in which he remained for 3 days and 3 nights.
The Whale illustrates both Ahab’s nemesis and Jonah’s imprisonment. Made of steel, a metal created and welded by man, this whale is not slaughtered for its whale oil, as of old, but rests on beach pebbles like a careened ship. A seated man can be seen through the portholes. Is it the artist, Jonah praying for his salvation or captain Ahab questioning his behaviour. Thus presented, the work embodies both human ingenuity and unconquered nature. This is where all its ambiguity lies.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: The Whale (2022)
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Atelier Van Lieshout Webshop
Atelier Van Lieshout Webshop
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Get your ass on your own Atelier Van Lieshout!
Rules and regulations are wasted on Joep van Lieshout. Ever since becoming a professional artist in the 1980s, he has attacked the art world’s conventions. Alongside unique, non-functional, authentic works, he has produced architecture, furniture and machines.
Some of the furniture is not only beautiful and meaningful, but also very functional. It’s a democratic form of art, accessible to all, yet fulfilling domestic functions. You can have a mind-blowing vision right in your living room and sit on it. And now the furniture is internationally available through this webshop.
Go to www.ateliervanlieshoutshop.com and look for yourself!
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SOLO EXHIBITION ‘EHBO’, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
SOLO EXHIBITION ‘EHBO’, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam (NL)
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Atelier Van Lieshout has transformed Galerie Ron Mandos into a surrealist parallel universe. Makeability – as an ideal – reaches its apex here, overachievement resulting in perverse hyperbole. It’s a confrontation with life itself: the failure, the triumph and the inevitable collateral damage.
EHBO feels like a cross between a field hospital, labyrinth and sculpture garden in which religious iconography gets mixed up with all too human and post-human images. This installation is not for the impassive viewer, here the audience must wander amongst every level of human experience
Galerie Ron Mandos
Prinsengracht 282
1016 HJ
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Open Wednesday – Saturday | 12:00 – 18:00
Sunday | 12:00 – 17:00
Book your timeslot here.
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‘Het Labyrinth’, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
‘Het Labyrinth’, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
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16 October 2021 – 24 October 2021
At Dutch Design Week 2021, architect and former chief government architect Floris Alkemade will present an exhibition in the form of a labyrinth on behalf of the Board of Government Advisors and together with World Design Embassies.
The labyrinth represents ‘the art of changing direction’. It is about exploring new ways of observing, thinking, and acting. The labyrinth consists of three parts. The first part is about social changes and the search for solidarity. The second part is about our desire for control in uncertain times – for better or for worse. And the third part is about our ability to dream and imagine brighter futures, and a call for joint action based on solidarity.
Floris Alkemade is one of the three DDW Ambassadors of 2021. The labyrinth is part of World Design Embassies and can be visited from 16-14 October at Dutch Design Week (DDW) in Eindhoven. The exhibition is located at the heart of the design festival, in Klokgebouw at Strijp-S.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Rider of the Apocalypse (2020)
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‘OIL, Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
‘OIL, Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
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4 September 2021 – 9 January 2022
No other substance has shaped societies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as petroleum. Airplanes, tanks, and spacecraft, motorways, shopping malls and suburban settlements, nylon stockings, mountains of plastic, and vinyl – key materials and technologies, lifestyles and visions of our time owe their existence to the energy density and transformability of oil. Now, however, the dusk of the “petrol age” is looming, whereby neither can its end be precisely dated, nor its consequences adequately assessed. The exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age therefore takes a speculative, poetic look back at the presence of the modern age of petroleum, which has lasted for roughly one hundred years. From the distance of a hypothetical future, we ask what was typical of our time, what was great and beautiful, what was ugly and terrible, and how all this is reflected in art and culture.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Naphta Cracker (2012)
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‘Fake Me Hard’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Fake Me Hard’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
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30 June 2021 – 15 August 2021
On the cutting-edge of art and technology, FAKE ME HARD explores the complex reality of the 21st century with futuristic installations by over 40 artists, performances, and debates. Visitors await an uncanny landscape that they can enter safely, each with their own fake profile. Music-making robots set the tone playfully and with humor. A low hanging light haze leads the way. Do algorithms determine what is fact or fiction? Are human narratives slowly becoming irrelevant? How to survive the post-truth society?In the year 2021, we can no longer afford to feign that technology is neutral. In these times of deepfake videos and populism, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference between ‘real’ and ‘not real’. See the promo video here.
Thursday – Sunday 12.00 – 22.00 Keileweg 18, RotterdaTickets
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Sacrifice (2020 – ongoing)
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‘Love in a Mist’, Timmerfabriek, Maastricht (NL)
‘Love in a Mist’, Timmerfabriek, Maastricht (NL)
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14 February 2021 – 15 August 2021
This exhibition interweaves narratives about the architecture of fertility, the space shaped by social attitudes, and the women who ensure a better future for upcoming generations. At this exhibition’s core are the heroines, the ladies on the barricades, the spatial consequences of the struggle for self-determination of the body and fertility regulation.
Bureau Europa invited curator Malkit Shoshan (Harvard Graduate School of Architecture and Design) to present her research and exhibition project Love in a Mist. Bureau Europa’s curator Remco Beckers elaborates on the exhibition through the prism of our region’s context
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: The Womb (2003)
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’50th Edition’, IFFR, Rotterdam (NL)
’50th Edition’, IFFR, Rotterdam (NL)
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2 June 2021 – 6 June 2021
Bringing your favourite film to the market square, Atelier Van Lieshout’s Werner – Guerilla Cinema is a cinema on wheels visiting neighbourhoods in Rotterdam. The vehicle, a colossus that balances between tractor and armoured vehicle, has been converted into a mobile cinema specially for the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The name is a tribute to cinema daredevil Werner Herzog.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Werner (2021)
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‘RAUM der Lusten’, Berlijnplein, Utrecht (NL)
‘RAUM der Lusten’, Berlijnplein, Utrecht (NL)
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30 April 2021 – 29 August 2021
CityLab RAUM in Utrecht has joined with architecture bureau ZUS to host the open-air exhibition ‘RAUM der Lusten‘. The exhibition at the Berlijnplein in Utrecht presents an exciting alternative to the often-monotonous design of our public spaces.
The concept for RAUM der Lusten was inspired by the iconic painting The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch. Like the painting, the exhibition is a triptych of three landscapes: ‘Paradise’, ‘The World’ and ‘Hell’. The visitor is an integral element of the exhibition, in which each landscape offers a unique experience through its individual programme and works on display.
In the ‘Paradise’ dune landscape by Studio Ossidiana, visitors can lounge, play and enjoy a bite to eat. ‘The World’, designed by architecture bureau ZUS, emphasises collectivity, with an expansive community kitchen garden as its focal point. In the dark, infernal ‘Hell’ landscape, you can find work by artists Maarten Baas, Atelier Van Lieshout and Andrea Hasler.
The exhibition offers plenty to explore and experience; from playful strolls to podcasts, film screenings and foraging tours. For the full programme of events, see the RAUM website.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: BarRectum (2005)
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‘World Expo 2020’, Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai (UAE)
‘World Expo 2020’, Netherlands Pavilion, Dubai (UAE)
News
1 October 2021 – 31 March 2022
At the Netherlands Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, designers and artists are shining the spotlight on technological innovation. Not only do they add aesthetic value through the power of their imagination; they also help promote a wider acceptance of new technology, resulting in a more beautiful and better world.
The artistic programme, which was put together by Monique Ruhe, seeks to stimulate the senses. As soon as they enter the semi-sunken pavilion, visitors are surrounded by the fragrance of Mastenbroek polder, an olfactory installation by Birthe Leemeijer. In his photographs Kadir van Lohuizen captures the effects of climate change and contemporary food production in a probing way. Joep van Lieshout’s clocks sound as if they are heralding the end of time. Or is it the dawn of a new age?
The Netherlands Pavilion will be located in the Sustainability District, sharing expertise in the area of water, energy and food – www.dutchdubai.com
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‘De Afbreekeconomie’, Boijmans van Beuningen, Online
‘De Afbreekeconomie’, Boijmans van Beuningen, Online
News
‘The Breakdown Economy’ is an online exhibition about making and destroying things. It’s not about economic growth and efficient production, but about the limitations of this model. How do we destroy everything that we, as humans, have made? In this discussion you can assume a radical position and lump everything together or adopt a more pragmatic attitude whereby a ‘breakdown economy’ is in balance with nature. What connects all these ideas is not just that things can be done differently, but that they must be done differently.
The research by Studio Klarenbeek & Dros into a world without plastic is placed centrally in this exhibition. They have developed a material called ‘weed-ware’ which is a natural degradable alternative to plastic. Atelier Van Lieshout shows a recent version of ‘Disco Inferno – Happy End of Everything’ (2020) which is an ultimate recycle installation that transforms all the waste we collectively produce into crude oil. Koehorst in ’t Veld presents a graphic representation that shows how the bio-based and the fossil economy have, over time, related to each other.
More information about the project via the Boijmans van Beuningen website.
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Announcement – BRUTUS
Announcement – BRUTUS
News
Artist Joep van Lieshout (Atelier Van Lieshout) and project developer RED Company have joined forces to build a large-scale cultural cluster with residential units, offices and services in Rotterdam’s up and coming M4H port area. Their cooperation heralds a new model for urban renewal that does not automatically push out creatives once neighbourhoods upgrade.
BRUTUS combines culture, living and working in an area with 120 years of industrial history. At its heart lies a cultural cluster measuring at least 7,000 square metres (75,000 ft2). This will house a museum, exhibition spaces, a publicly accessible art depot, an art education unit, workshops, studios and working/living spaces for artists. The outdoor area will feature an open air cinema, a theatre and a sculpture garden.
Click here for the press release
Click here for the press folder
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‘KUNST KERSTSTAL’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘KUNST KERSTSTAL’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
News
19 December 2020 – 6 January 2021
AVL Mundo and Atelier Van Lieshout bring light to these dark days with an Art Nativity Scene in and around the M4H area. A pilgrimage for people between the ages of 8 and 88 who, regardless of their beliefs or disbeliefs, who want to come together in solidarity or because they feel lonely and displaced. Of course, everything with due regard the latest corona measures.
The Art Nativity Scene at the Keileweg is a life-size spectacle, or a diorama, with revolving temple dancers, challenging Hanukkah candlesticks, spoiled godsons, rotating fertility priests, and of course babies as radiant centers.
Ongoing daily is the Christmas Tour Radio Play for the whole family. On December 23, a take-away Christmas dinner will be served for (ex) homeless people and others in vulnerable situations. On the weekends, with a hot chocolate in hand, come listen to the unlicensed Street Musicians that have problems earning money in these difficult times.
Under the adagio “burn a candle for yourself”, together we torch the misery of the past year in the fire pits in the Sculpture Park.
The activities around the KunstKerststal also ring the final bells for the last days of the outdoor exhibition Let’s Get Physical in the M4H area. In a solidarity setting, walk this beautiful route with over 30 statues. In the happy expectation that 2021 may be a better year and that we may leave 2020 behind us.
Entrance is free, registration is not necessary.
Sculpture park AVL Mundo
Keileweg 18, Rotterdam
Mon-Fri 09:00 – 17:00
Weekend 12:00 – 17:00
Except for 25th of December and the 1st of January
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‘Welkom in Leiden?!’, Singelpark Leiden (NL)
‘Welkom in Leiden?!’, Singelpark Leiden (NL)
Exhibition
2 September 2020 – 1 September 2023
The artworks of “Welcome to Leiden ?!” explore the theme “borders” in the broadest sense of the word, with the human experience as the point of departure. What does a border do to people? And what does a border mean them? During ones walk through the Singelpark, the works present the viewer with a variety of boundaries: psychological and inner boundaries that limit us unnoticed, biological boundaries such as the natural size of a group, borders that lie outside our daily vision, such as those of Europe, the recognizable and threatening visual language of border surveillance, and the boundaries within systems and ideologies and how one can break out of them.
The theme “borders” also immediately remind one of the refugee crisis. Who do we admit, who do we exclude, and why? However, boundaries are also needed to be able to live in freedom: to think and do whatever we want. Freedom for one therefore simultaneously means a restriction for the other. It is within the field of tension between usefulness and necessity, that concept of the “Welcome to Leiden?!” exhibition finds its origin.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Cage (2017).
https://www.singelpark.nl/kunst/
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‘The Disciplinator’, MAK Museum, Vienna (AT)
‘The Disciplinator’, MAK Museum, Vienna (AT)
Exhibition
22.06.2005 – 02.10.2005
Two large AVL projects – “The Disciplinator” and “The Technocrat” – are presented in the MAK. “The Disciplinator”, a gigantic cage-like construction for 72 inmates, transforms the MAK Exhibition Hall into a modernlabor camp, designed to achieve maximum profits through rationalism. The 24 sleeping units are intended for use in three shifts, an example of bizarre perfection calculated to eliminate any type of friction. Especially because the AVL refrains from making any kind of moral statement, the “Disciplinator” communicates an unadulterated vision of the horrors of the principle of exploitation. The installation “The Technocrat” – a closed cycle consisting of food, alcohol, excrement and energy – is also meant to engender provocation through extreme rationalism. In this system, the human (“burgher”) functions as a biological cogwheel that drives an entire machine park, generating raw material for the production of biogas that in turn is used to cook food and produce alcohol (since the 1,000 burghers needed for the smooth running of the Technocrat must be kept happy and subdued). “The Technocrat” offers an ironic commentary on the situation of modern humans in a highly technological society that only gives the appearance of guaranteeing endless possibilities and total freedom.
With the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.
MAK Museum, Vienna, Austria
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Alcoholator (2004), Disciplinator (2003) and others.
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‘Happy Office’, VIVID Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Happy Office’, VIVID Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
29 January 2006 – 19 March 2006
From January till March 2006 gallery VIVID in Rotterdam presented the exhibition Happy Office, showing the entire office line by Joep Van Lieshout.
“The special thing about my collaboration with Hans is that it goes so incredibly quickly. Just a really direct, decisive approach.”– Joep van Lieshout
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‘What is Our Home?’, IVAM, Valencia (ES)
‘What is Our Home?’, IVAM, Valencia (ES)
Exhibition
16 July 2020 – 21 January 2021
The What is Our Home? exhibition grew out of an interest in striking up a dialogue, in forging a connection and affinity between the collections of IVAM and of MAXXI, Rome. With this goal in mind, we have brought together a group of works from the collection of the Italian museum (Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Francis Alys, Jana Sterbak, Mario Merz, Alfredo Jaar, Kara Walker, William Kentridge, Atelier Van Lieshout and Teddy Cruz) with some major works from the IVAM collection (Bruce Nauman, Gabriele Basilico and Richard Hamilton). Their common ground is a concern with the inhabited and social space, a questioning of the city, the home, the community, or the personal sanctuary.
The exhibition seeks to understand how spaces mark time and are linked to a place’s memory. We present a group of works and large installations that seem to be an accumulation of places with varying degrees of closeness and disconnectedness, and which draw attention to the fragmentation of the human experience, to the inability to comprehend the social whole and to the imperfection of knowledge.
In addition, What is Our Home? wishes to talk about those people who feel like strangers no matter where they are, as they come to feel that their existence unfolds, somewhat anxiously, in cities that they no longer recognize and in urban spaces in which they have no place or space. And so, in the exhibition we find a group of ideas and projects that understand architecture as a structure that condenses a physical world; as the desire to build a place (a haven, a sanctuary, a house, a home…) defined by the people that use it, as if it were a (more or less free) version of ourselves.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: The Globe (2007) and Slave City Urban Plan (2005).
IVAM
Guillem de Castro, 118
46003 Valencia, Spain
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‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World’, Kunstraum Dornbirn (AT)
‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World’, Kunstraum Dornbirn (AT)
Exhibition
3 September 2020 – 8 November 2020
We are all going to die. The end is near. Second by second The Pendulum reminds us of our mortality. The giant time piece is like a hibernating bear: beautiful and perhaps even endearing, but deadly nonetheless. Its sound is more a hypnotic pulse than a nervous ticking; every 15 minutes a hammer striking a gas cylinder sounds an industrial death knell.
The Pendulum consists of an elaborate system of cogs which is powered by two suspended pallets carrying cement bags that weigh some 1,000 kilos. The counterweights are attached to the roof of the exhibition space, making it part of the work and physically encapsulating visitors in time, the building becomes a part of the clock.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Pendulum (2019), Le Balzac (2017), Calgon (2017), Daalderop (2017), Mensch (2017) and others.
Kunstraum Dornbirn,
Jahngasse 9, A – 6850 Dornbirn, Austria
Sneak preview: press here for a video of Pendulum (2019)
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‘Market Forces’, HERO Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Market Forces’, HERO Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
15 September 2018 – 27 October 2018
HE.RO presents Market Forces, a group show of work that variously critiques and co-opts the techniques of mass-markets, often succeeding in both at once.
The exhibition comprises both historical and recent work, mapping out creative responses to the steady intensification of consumer culture engendered by the dominance of neoliberalism from the 1980’s onwards.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Artist, Artist Producing and Curator (2018) and Invisible Hand (2012)
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‘Two Years’ Vacation, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
‘Two Years’ Vacation, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Exhibition
23 July 2020 – 24 January 2021
Under a title that evokes a kind of permanent summer, the exhibition at FARC Lorraine presents a reflection between the work of the artist Céline Condorelli (lives and works in London) and a selection of works from the collections of Frac Alsace, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, and Frac Lorraine.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Autocraat (1998), Masterplan (1998), Commune Bed (1998, on image) and Untitled (1998).
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‘Boijmans Drive-Thru Museum’, Ahoy, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Boijmans Drive-Thru Museum’, Ahoy, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
1 August 2020 – 23 August 2020
Rotterdam Ahoy and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen developed an unique, corona-proof project. Ahoy makes its location available, Boijmans the artworks; together they make a special experience. More than forty works from the collection are displayed in the 10,000 m2 event hall; 750 visitors per day drive in electric cars through the Drive-thru Museum.
The Boijmans Ahoy Drive-Thru Museum has been created in response to the 1.5-metre social-distancing rule and highlights the current tension between man and nature. The world we have created it is under pressure, and nature is demanding more space. Despite its microscopic size, the virus has unleashed great chaos, bringing everything to a standstill and revealing our vulnerability and the limits of existence. We have fallen back upon our most basic needs and retreated into the groups in which we feel safest. Art can offer us comfort and help us to put things into perspective, and it can also show us the unpredictable and fickle nature of human existence. This exhibition explores the boundary between humanity and the forces of nature. You drive through the space, experiencing everything from the safe cocoon of your own car. Once inside the show there is only one direction and it is straight ahead.
The exhibition is based on an idea by Ted Noten. It features world-famous works from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and installations by contemporary artists that reflect on how people relate to their natural environment. Boijmans Ahoy Drive-Thru Museum brings together works by Ted Noten, Oskar Kokoschka, Bas Jan Ader, Melanie Smith, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Ugo Rondinone, Cyprien Gaillard, Joep van Lieshout, Wieki Somers and Jim Shaw, and installations by Bas Princen, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Anselm Kiefer, Olaf Nicolai and Marijke van Warmerdam.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Mercedes with 57mm Canon (1998) and Operation (2007).
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‘Hagioscoop’, MDD Museum, Deinze (BE)
‘Hagioscoop’, MDD Museum, Deinze (BE)
Exhibition
26 July 2020 – May 2021
From 26 July to 18 October 2020, MDD, Museum of Deinze and the Leie Region (Mudel) and Roger Raveel Museum, join forces to present the 7th edition of the Biennial of Painting. Under the title Binnenskamers (Inner Spaces) – a title chosen long before the corona crisis – the Biennial is an exciting opportunity to discover a wide selection of modern and recent paintings from Belgium and internationally. The works included in the Biennial depict an equally wide range of inner spaces, among them the studio, the domestic interior and the inner realm of the imagination. Yet the theme also speaks to the stunning natural landscape of the Leie region. As there can be no inside without outside, Biennial visitors can enjoy the works on display as well as the inspiring surroundings of Deinze, Deurle, Machelen-Zulte and Latem. AVL’s Hagioscoop is on view until May, 2021.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Hagioscoop (2012)
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‘Happy Forest’, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)
‘Happy Forest’, Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo (NL)
Exhibition
4 June 2005
In the summer of 2005 the sculpture garden of Kröller Müller Museum is transformed into the Happy Forest, an exhibition by Atelier Van Lieshout.
A large section of the sculpture garden, including the events’ terrain and the adjacent sculpture forest, is adorned with ‘organ sculptures’ and mobile homes of brightly coloured polyester – a trademark of AVL – that bear titles such as Workshop for Weapons and Bombs, Wombhouse, Skull and Septic tanks. All the works are allowed to be touched and often even entered. Wombhouse, for example, is equipped with a bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and a minibar.
‘The autarkic nature of AVL’s work’ is particularly emphasized in the exhibition. Although works of art, the mobile units all have a functional use that is aimed at an independent and self-sufficient existence. For example, the sculptures represent alternative possibilities for generating energy, processing waste and there is a farm with chickens, rabbits and sheep.
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‘The Technocrat’, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
‘The Technocrat’, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (DE)
Exhibition
7 November 2004 – 23 January 2005
The Sprengel Museum Hannover has made it possible for Atelier van Lieshout (AVL) to realise ‘The Technocrat’, a new installation which encompasses several rooms. This is to honour the artists work as winners of the 2004 Kurt Schwitters Prize for Visual Arts. The project consists of 10 sculptural elements that they have shown in the past, together with 14 sculptural elements realised expressly for the occasion. Works on paper and sketches will complete the Sprengel Museum Hannover’s exhibition.
‘The Technocrat’ deals with elementary biological processes from everyday activities, such as providing oneself with nutrition, digestion, disposal and recycling. Van Lieshout gives these physiological needs a radical twist by reducing human existence to becoming a digestion machine. Human life is then limited to creating methane and a role in the nutritional chain of creation and death. Van Lieshout thus examine, in an ironic and humorous manner, Modern Man in a high-tech environment that apparently guarantees limitless possibilities and freedom.
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‘Das Haus’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (DE)
‘Das Haus’, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (DE)
Exhibition
12 September 2008 – 11 January 2009
From 12 September 2008 until 11 January 2009 The Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen will host a large retrospective of the work of Atelier van Lieshout (AVL). ‘Das Haus’ will show works ranging from the early 80’s until today in several thematic spaces, and artworks from different periods will be brought together in new relationships.
The organisation of a large-scale showcase of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) is not unlike the creation of a parallel universe. This is partly because of the huge effort involved, which goes far beyond what an exhibition usually requires: an Armada of low-loaders, cranes and fork-lift trucks was deployed to move the work in containers, crates and boxes from production point in Rotterdam harbour to presentation point in the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen. It was like an invasion, the way the emptied former umbrella factory filled up from day to day with the voluminous new arrivals and underwent a gradual and compelling spatial redefinition through their sculptural presence. But above all – and this is the other reason for installing this parallel universe – a retrospective of 25 years of artistic development opens up the possibility of viewing themes and leitmotifs within the context of their intended interconnection, and of acquiring a sense of the “saga” of Joep van Lieshout.
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‘Let’s Get Physical’, Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Let’s Get Physical’, Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
18 July 2020 – 3 January 2021
‘Let’s Get Physical’ is a dynamic exploration of the burgeoning industrial Merwe-Vierhaven area in the west of Rotterdam, highlighted through a selection of 30+ Atelier Van Lieshout sculptures at 13 locations. Get your free road map at AVL Mundo Sculpture Park which serves as the sculpture route’s home base. Other participating locations are: Weelde, Keilecafé, Keilepand, Keilewerf, Stichting Dakpark, The Lee Towers, CrossFit Nultien and several publicly accessible venues.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Alcoholator (2004), Arschmänner (2004), Autocomposter (2003), AVL Man Waving (1999), BarRectum (2005), Big Boiler (2018), Buffel (2011), Darwin (2008), De Dokwerker (2019), Der Kuss (2008), Excrementus Megalomanus (2019), Family (2020), Fermenting Vessel with Man (2004), Food Reaktor (2013), Helpers (2014), Horn of Plenty (2008), Invisible Hand (2012), Kiss (2015), Laocoon (2003), Le Foot (2015), Lebensborn (2013), Milkman (2015), Panta Rhei (2011), Pantokrator (2015), Philosopher (2017), Power Hammer (2014), Statistocrat (2015), Steam Hammer House (2014), The Cube (2007), The Sower (2018), Tree of Life (2016), Utopia (2020), Vice (2014), Waterwagon (2007), Wellness Skull (2007) and Weltmeister (2010)
Link to press kit with additional texts and images
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‘Online Viewing Room’, Art Basel 2020
‘Online Viewing Room’, Art Basel 2020
Exhibition
18 June 2020 – 26 June 2020
Galería OMR virtually exhibits Atelier Van Lieshout’s The Burghers, 2013 during this year’s online edition of Art Basel. The sculpture symbolizes the ever-present human dilemma: the choice between the known and the unknown, between security and insecurity, between tradition and progress. The figures represent the different emotions that people go through in a time of conflict: heroism, fear, rebellion, survival, escape, loneliness – a mass of humans, insecure, doubtful and chaotic.
Press here for Galería OMR’s online viewing room
Galerie Krinzinger virtually exhibits Atelier Van Lieshout’s Venus, 2010. The sculpture is inspired by the prehistorical Venus sculpture. This ancient goddess and mother figure refers to idolatry, fertility and primitive society in which women played a considerably more important if not dominant role.
Press here for Galerie Krinzinger’s viewing room
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‘Life During Wartime’, USF Art Museum, Online
‘Life During Wartime’, USF Art Museum, Online
Exhibition
6 June 2020 – 12 December 2020
The online exhibition Life During Wartime: art in the Age of Coronavirus humbly engages a select company of international artists to respond to the overwhelming realities of the crisis that has gripped the planet since March 5, the date the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. The exhibition takes full advantage of one of the few outlets artists still have—the Internet—during a public health emergency recently exacerbated by the wanton murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis. It aims to mobilize sentiment, thought and activity around art and its enduring possibilities: its role as a conceptual catalyst, its ability to trigger ideas, stories, conversations, emotions, feelings and mental states. Separately and together, each artist contribution provides a picture of a planet in crisis, now further enraged and victimized by violence, but also images of hope and optimism in the face of a global emergency.
“Very Bad.
Tabula Rasa.
Much More Time.
Back to Basics.
Necessary Reset.”
– Joep van Lieshout
Link to the online exhibition
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‘(UN)REAL’, Science Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
‘(UN)REAL’, Science Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
3 April – 29 November 2020
What is real, and how are you sure it is so? Can you be confident in your perceptions when so many experiences are digital or influenced by the changing chemistry and architecture of your brain? Science Gallery Rotterdam at Erasmus MC invites you to engage with art projects that respond to this fertile terrain between the actual and the perceived.
Atelier Van Lieshout’s Food Processor (2015) is part of the group exhibition (UN)REAL. This work is a hybrid human-machine species, one united entity, that can take leftovers and process them with microbes and enzymes to produce new, recycled superfood. It is a technocratic, capitalist dream come true, and a triumph, in collaboration with science: the food of the future.
View the online exhibition via this link
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‘Uomo Analyticus’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Uomo Analyticus’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
4 October 2019 – 1 July 2020
During COVID-19 it’s still possible to visit ‘Uomo Analyticus’ under strict conditions. More information about the exhibition and the current guidelines via this link.
‘Uomo Analyticus’ can both mean ‘the analyzing human’ and ‘a human analyzed’. How do we live? How are we made? How do we process and get processed? This exhibition focusses on the core theme of Atelier Van Lieshout’s practice: dissecting systems, be it society as a whole or the human body. Atelier Van Lieshout looks at the human body as the ultimate system and an everlasting source of inspiration.
Uomo Analyticus is organised by Foundation AVL Mundo in collaboration with Science Gallery Rotterdam.
AVL Mundo Sculpture Park
Keileweg 18, Rotterdam (NL)
Mon – Fri, 09:00 – 17:00
Free entrance
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‘The Time is Now’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Online exhibition
‘The Time is Now’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Online exhibition
Exhibition
17 April 2020 – 8 May 2020
Time is money. Time is fleeting. Time is precious. Time heals. Time is of the essence. Time is an illusion. We make time. We take time. We spend time. We race against time. We fight time. We try to control it – speeding it up, slowing it down. It’s just a matter of time.
The Time is Now is an online group exhibition curated by Carpenters Workshop Gallery. Atelier Van Lieshout’s works speak to the necessity or “time” for change, symbolizing a hope for a revolution of consciousness and the awakening of more mindful beings. AVL continually investigates the cycles of life that are born through the passage of time and the end or destruction of systems; while his clock sculpture Pendulum is designed to destroy and change so as to make way for the potential of new beginnings, his scepter-like Walking Stick 5 Hourglass reflects on the path to the future. Another AVL artwork on display: Pipe Bomb Clock (2019).
Press here for a link to the online exhibition
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‘Utopian Dreams’, TENT, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Utopian Dreams’, TENT, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
22.04.2016 – 10.07.2016
From Friday 22 April, TENT shows the plans and dreams of artists and architects for a new Rotterdam in the extensive group exhibition Utopian Dreams. These acclaimed and imaginative projects inspire a wider debate on the future of Rotterdam. A city evolves through becoming more diverse, innovative, and ecological. Now that Rotterdam, with its distinctive skyline, is (almost) complete, the question arises: what is the artist’s current perspective on this city? What does the city now need?
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork(s) on display: Documentation of AVL-Ville (2001)
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‘Reality is Not What it Seems’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris (FR)
‘Reality is Not What it Seems’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
29 February 2020 – 6 June 2020
Reality Is Not What It Seems at Galerie Jousse Entreprise is an exhibition dealing with drawing, in its broadest sense, somewhere between frottage, collage, sewing on paper, printing, and graphic design. Fresh from the studio, sketches illustrate artistic lines of thinking and transport viewers into the intimacy of creation. A form of de- compartmentalization that is also at work in these video artists who, unusually, appropriate the paper medium to transcribe inner visions, and study the boundaries of our perception of the world. All so many approaches like sidesteps opening up to new perspectives, towards a reality which is not what it seems.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Untitled (2002), Sportopia (2002), The Womb (2003) and Masterplan (1998).
More info here
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‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, CWG, New York (USA)
‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’, CWG, New York (USA)
Exhibition
Temporarily closed until further notice to help contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
4 March 2020 – 25 April 2020
The tropes and aesthetics of Sergio Leone’s film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) have inspired much of the identity Joep Van Lieshout invented for his art practice. From frontier independence and a Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest, to heightened gender roles and violent tonal shifts — the film has become an apt lens through which to view the perspectives he sculpts. Atelier Van Lieshout’s solo exhibition is titled The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and opens Wednesday March 4th at Carpenters Workshop Gallery New York.
Artworks on display: Minimal Kiss Lamp, Bambino Lamp, Humanoid, Domestikator Lamp, Jewel, Venus Lamp, Technocrat Bronze Coffee Table, Embrace, Deer Lamp and others. Full works list here.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
693 Fifth Avenue, New York (USA)
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‘Falckenberg Collection’, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)
‘Falckenberg Collection’, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)
Exhibition
30 November 2019 – 24 May 2020
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Falckenberg Collection, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg is presenting a comprehensive exhibition from 30 November 2019 to 24 May 2020 which will focus on installations and sculptures from the collection. The exhibition features some100 works by over 60 internationally renowned artists.
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Hanging Michelangelo (2004).
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‘Recover/Uncover’, Masa Galeria, Mexico City (MX)
‘Recover/Uncover’, Masa Galeria, Mexico City (MX)
Exhibition
Temporarily closed until further notice to help contain the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
6 February 2020 – 8 April 2020
Recover/Uncover examines the convention of taxonomy as an organizational exercise that reveals its own ambiguities. With newly commissioned, unique and limited-edition pieces by designers and artists whose inquiries defy strict categorization, MASA Galeria introduces for consideration a set of binaries other than purpose and expression, celebrating contradiction as a reflection of the ongoing process of becoming and self-definition. The pieces exist along a spectrum of indeterminates rather than at a stasis, defying strict archetypes and presenting objects as tools for living, contemplation and, most of all, reconciliation.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Black Funnelman (2006) and Party Island (Les Brutalist Series, 2005).
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‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, AVL Mundo, Art Rotterdam (NL)
‘Atelier Van Lieshout’, AVL Mundo, Art Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
7 February 2020 – 9 February 2020
During Art Rotterdam, AVL opens its doors with an exhibition of recent and older works of Atelier Van Lieshout at Joep van Lieshout’s private exhibition space.
Keileweg 26, Rotterdam
Fri – Sun, 11:00 – 19:00 hrs
Free entrance
Artworks on display: Wise Guy (2019), Mother Earth Constructivist (2015, on image), Leemwerker (2016), Wall Decoration (2008), Bad Man series (2002), Boat (1983), The Philosopher (2017), Le Corbafrique (2011) and others.
This Art Rotterdam Atelier Van Lieshout’s Pendulum (2019) is on display as well. It is part of The Performance Show. More details and tickets via this link.
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‘State of Extremes’, Design Museum, Holon (IL)
‘State of Extremes’, Design Museum, Holon (IL)
Exhibition
11 December 2019 – 31 December 2020
We live in a state of extremes. Extreme weather, as a result of climate change, is both scorching and inundating the planet with record temperatures, unprecedented wildfires and ever more frequent and severe droughts, storms and floods. Meanwhile, extreme ideologies and political positions are being amplified by the media’s news cycles and the echo chamber of the Internet, further polarizing societies already inflamed by extreme, and growing, inequality and resentments. Extremes breed more extremes, creating self-reinforcing cycles of pushback and backlash, and fueling spiraling feedback loops of increasing intensity.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Birds (on image, 2017), Process 50 ton 50 mm (2016), Hydroform gastank 275 BAR (2017), The End of Everything (2017, video)
More info via this link
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‘Home is a home is a home is a home’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris (FR)
‘Home is a home is a home is a home’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
30 November 2019 – 11 January 2020
Home… So many other words spring from this one. At once abode, refuge, shelter, a home exists in our own home, and elsewhere: in a café, a town or city, or a bookshop. But what is this place, really? By dint of making a home from what is not one, what actually hallmarks it vanishes. This is what is proposed by the show’s title, inspired by the famous line of Gertrude Stein taken from her poem Sacred Emily*, written in 1913.
* Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Table wih Mexican Crockery + 8 Shaker Chairs (Sweet), 2006 (on image), Fauteuil Le Corbafrique, 2009, Table (polyester), 1996.
More info via this link
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‘A Decade of Wearable Art’, Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery, London (UK)
‘A Decade of Wearable Art’, Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery, London (UK)
Exhibition
21 November 2019 until 13 December 2019
Various jewellery designs of Atelier Van Lieshout are part of ‘A Decade of Wearable Art’. This exhibition is featuring an eclectic and broad range of wearable art collaborations from the past ten years at the Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery.
The jewellery pieces in collaboration with Cipriani are typical for Atelier Van Lieshout’s deliberate contradictions between form and function. Five Pointed Golden Knuckle, (2010) is on display and can be worn as a ring, but also can be used, if the situation demands, as a weapon. Other AVL jewellery, Ear Hangers (2009), Oval Family (2010) and Happy Cufflinks (2009), are part of the exhibition as well.
Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery, London (UK)
Monday to Friday (10am-6pm)⠀⠀
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‘Love in a Mist’, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge (USA)
‘Love in a Mist’, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge (USA)
Exhibition
28 October 2019 until 20 December 2019
Womb (2005), is now settled in the USA as it will be shown in a group exhibition at Harvard Graduate School of Design. This group exhibition, “Love in a Mist: The Politics of Fertility”, is exploring several narratives on the spaces and politics of fertility. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge (USA)⠀⠀⠀⠀
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‘In the Age of Post-Drought’, Transnatural, DDW (NL)
‘In the Age of Post-Drought’, Transnatural, DDW (NL)
Exhibition
19 October 2019 – 27 October 2019
Atelier Van Lieshout exhibits Excrementus Megalomanus (2019) at the Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven. The In The Age of Post-Drought exhibition is dedicated to the global water-related challenges. Due to climate change and the rapid world population growth, water scarcity is grown to be on of the biggest threats facing life on earth in the 21st century. Therefore, the composttoilet is a very low-tech yet very efficient way of recycling human waste.
Hallen (north entrance)
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
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A Confrontation of Ideals’, Anren Biennale, Anren (CN)
A Confrontation of Ideals’, Anren Biennale, Anren (CN)
Exhibition
12 October 2019 – 12 February 2020
Atelier Van Lieshout exhibits The Mechanical Turks (2015) at the Anren Biennale, China. The Biennial entitled, A Confrontation of Ideals is the second to take place in the historic city of Chengdu in Sichuan province, examining questions concerning humane, civilized community while sharing artists’ thoughts and efforts to deal with the complex realities of the world. The two automaton heads in The Mechanical Turks argue with one another in an accompanying audio work about whether to become Modernists or Primitivists.
Anren Biennale
Anren Szechuan, Chengdu, China
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‘Killing Time’, Willem Twee, Den Bosch (NL)
‘Killing Time’, Willem Twee, Den Bosch (NL)
Exhibition
22 December 2018 – 17 February 2019
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Pipebomb (2002), Fog Horn (2017), Pipe Bomb Clock Small, Medium, Large (2018), Walking Stick #5 (2018), Back To The Future Clock (2018), Hourglass Large (2018), Willem de Zwijger (2018), Naar de Kloten Klok (2018), Gallow Clock (2018), Pendulum (2018).
Willem Twee, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
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‘Dark Fantasy’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
‘Dark Fantasy’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
Exhibition
11 October 2019 – 16 November 2019
Dark Fantasy guides the viewer through a whimsical world of the fantastic and the obscure, questioning the constraints of reality and what it means to dream. The group exhibition explores over a decade of functional art from 24 artists from Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s program, creating a dialogue between space, time and contemporary archeology.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Reclining Figure (2019), Deer Lamp (2017), Model The Burghers (2016), Bambino Lamp (2014), Embrace (2015)
UTA Artist Space, 403 Foothill Rd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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‘Dysfunctional’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT)
‘Dysfunctional’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT)
Exhibition
7 May 2019 – 24 November 2019
Group exhibition at Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca’d’Oro on the Grand Canal during Biennale Arte 2019
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Old Map Lamp (2019), The Clever Lamp (2019), Mammal Lamp (2019), Arianne (2019), Girl Lamp (2019), Ballerina Lamp (2019), Sausage with Funnel Lamp (2019), Small Sausage with Funnel Lamp (2019).
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‘RENEGADE’, Gió Marconi, Milan (IT)
‘RENEGADE’, Gió Marconi, Milan (IT)
Exhibition
22 March 2019 – 18 April 2019
With RENEGADE Van Lieshout defines art on his own terms. He challenges the market while giving it what it wants: Van Lieshout, the artist sometimes referred to as designer, will make or take an artwork and turn it into design by just adding a lampshade. Like one of the lamps in the exhibition reads: fuck you very much. With incredible speed Atelier Van Lieshout sculpts a multitude of lamps at a time, thereby quickly accumulating an amount that can spread through the art world like a virus. By adding a lampshade, Van Lieshout presents this new group of works to the public as if it were quickly assembled DIY furniture: large quantities, functional and very accessible.
RENEGADE consists of an arrangement of differently sized lamps which are created, assembled, put together and produced from found objects and simple materials. Some of the lamps even refer back to Van Lieshout’s own historic work exhibited in museums: balaclava masks dangle from metal lampshades; a bust with a gas mask strapped to its head embellishes the lamp pole of a floor lamp; a single, red forlorn lightbulb dimly illuminates the roughly cut out wooden words “GIRLS-GIRLS-GIRLS”; tall, sausage-like organic-looking objects taper into a single burning lightbulb, whereas two beer crates -one of Van Lieshout’s defining iconic sculptures in combination with concrete slabs- build the solid base for a sturdy lamp with a steel shade.
Gió Marconi Gallery
via Tadino 20
I-20124 Milano Italy
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‘Mutant Nature’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
‘Mutant Nature’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
19 June 2019 – 24 August 2019
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris, France
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‘ArtZuid 2019’, Amsterdam (NL)
‘ArtZuid 2019’, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
17 May 2019 – 15 September 2019
The sixth edition of ARTZUID took place from May 17th till September 15th 2019. The Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial presented an exhibition to experience featuring over 80 figurative sculptures and spatial art installations. The heart of the exhibition lies in Berlage’s monumental Plan Zuid area with its leafy avenues Apollolaan and Minervalaan. This green space served as a backdrop for the theatrical grouping of modern and contemporary figurative sculptures which were interspersed with interactive spatial installations. ARTZUID 2019 included an extensive peripheral programme of activities including artist talks, an educational programme and art walks. Every edition the free exhibition is open 24/7.
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‘Blast Furnace’, Art OMI, Ghent (USA)
‘Blast Furnace’, Art OMI, Ghent (USA)
Exhibition
25 May 2019 – May 2021
Blast Furnace is a 40-foot-tall maze-like structure comprised of pipes, conveyor elevators, staircases, and mezzanines. Although industrial in form and purpose, the sculpture also contains domestic elements as a kitchen, sleeping quarters, and toilets, all fabricated by Atelier Van Lieshout. In the fictional world of the piece, a “New Tribe” of metal workers, driven by their desire to return to industry, simple products, social cohesion, and the origins of our wealth, design and culture, have created a settlement inside Blast Furnace. Setting the stage for the synthesis of man and machine, this tribe feeds off the heat, waste, and noise of their industrial utopia.
Blast Furnace stems from AVL’s project New Tribal Labyrinth, which reflects on society’s dependence on a complex, globalized economy. The project focuses on the pillars of an alternative society inhabited by imaginary tribes: farming, industry and ritual objects.
Art OMI
1405 County Route 22
Ghent, NY 12075
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‘House of Transition’, Fokus Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
‘House of Transition’, Fokus Favoriten, Vienna (AT)
Exhibition
20 September 2019 – September 2020
Atelier Van Lieshout will mount the massive installation House of Transition for the public art exhibiting FOKUS FAVORITEN in Vienna. The installation consists of the two works Drop Hammer House and Phoenix – together harnessing the power of industrial processes in homage to the former working class neighborhood. Drop Hammer House quite literally smashes metal objects (including cars) into fodder for new products while Phoenix is a series of kilns used to cast iron, smoke fish, bake bread and incinerate waste, transforming detritus into new energy.
Sonnwendplatz, Favoritenstrasse 76, 1100 Vienna
Commissioned by KÖR – Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien
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‘Secret Society’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Secret Society’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
7 September 2019 – 22 September 2019
Be welcome to visit the group exhibition Secret Society, on display from the 8th until the 22nd of September. The opening is on Saturday September 7th from 16:00hrs until 21:00 hrs in a yet undisclosed location within the AVL Mundo premises.
Participating artists: Joost Benthem – Vincent Ceraudo – Gaëlle Choisne – Paul Geelen – Carlijn Kingma – Chaim van Luit – David Maroto – Anthony Nestel – Jennifer Rubell – Joop Schafthuizen – Rustan Söderling and others
Curated by: Ellis Kat and Joep van Lieshout
Exhibition:
September 8th – September 22nd, 2019.
On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12:30 – 17:30
AVL Mundo, Keileweg 18, Rotterdam
Entrance = free
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‘Vrijplaats bij MIJ’, Museum IJsselstein, IJsselstein (NL)
‘Vrijplaats bij MIJ’, Museum IJsselstein, IJsselstein (NL)
Exhibition
From the 8th of June until mid-October, Atelier Van Lieshout is part of the exhibition Vrijplaats bij MIJ at Museum IJsselstein (NL). The museum hosts a group show with a different societal focus every year. This year’s exhibition is about the concept of freedom, the longing for freedom and places where rules are practically non-existent.
The works by Atelier Van Lieshout come from multiple series and eras: from the utopian and dystopian communities ‘AVL- Ville’ and ‘Slave City’, to the most recent project ‘CryptoFuturism’. The selection of works represent the different ways how Atelier Van Lieshout views free states and how we can reach better futures.
The artwork Cage (2017) is part of the exhibition and represents a deconstructed, distorted cage; a disfigured prison that symbolizes the human longing for freedom. Other artworks on display are: Arschmänner (2004), Walking Stick Hourglass (2018), AVL M80 Mortar (1999)
Participating artists at Vrijplaats bij MIJ: Atelier Van Lieshout, Frank Koolen & Kasper Jacobs, Johan Grimonprez, Hito Steyerl, Rob Voerman, Leonard van Munster, David Bernstein, Manon van Hoeckel, Ursula Jernberg, Merapi Obermayer, Su Tomesen, Rogeria Burgers, Henk Wijnen, sven signe den hartogh, Jonas Wijtenburg en Fedor van Rossem.
For more information: www.museumijsselstein.nl (website in Dutch)
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‘The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Pioneer Works, New York (USA)
‘The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Pioneer Works, New York (USA)
Exhibition
For Atelier Van Lieshout’s largest-scale exhibition of work in the United States, The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth, AVL brings together two ongoing bodies of work, among others, that give the exhibition its name. They transform Pioneer Works into an immersive installation of sculptures and industrial machines. Central to the artist’s New Tribal Labyrinth series is Blast Furnace (2013), an imposing, labyrinthine structure referencing the furnaces traditionally used to produce steel. The sculpture also contains domestic elements such as a kitchen, sleeping quarters, and toilets, an environment inhabited by an imaginary tribe of metalworkers, a “New Tribe” with a visceral desire to return to the beginning of industry, the origins of our culture, wealth, materials, and products. Setting the stage for the synthesis of man and machine, this tribe feeds off the heat, waste, and noise of their industrial utopia. Other works in this series literalize the union of the human and industrial through sculptural representations of sperm and reproductive organs doubling as lamps and furniture. They posit the human body as itself a kind of machine, endlessly procreating. The CryptoFuturist and The New Tribal Labyrinth is curated by Gabriel Florenz and Natalie Kovacs and is to be visited from March 1st until April 14th 2019 at Pioneer Works, New York (USA).
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‘BIG AND PLENTY’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘BIG AND PLENTY’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
AVL Mundo opens its doors during ART Rotterdam 2019 for BIG AND PLENTY, a group exhibition with plenty of big artworks from various artists. The Atelier Van Lieshout workshop will be open for visitors where artists Neo Matloga and Wouter Paijmans will show the works that they made during their residency at AVL Mundo. Sculptures of Atelier Van Lieshout will be on display at the studio and at Joep van Lieshout’s private exhibition space. Other participating artists are Fraser Stewart, Susan Collis, Ade Darmawan, Vincent Ceraudo, Herman Nitsch, Ricardo Van Eyk and Faysal Mroueh.
Last but not least, the work The right to right/wrong from Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson will be permanently installed on the silo of the AVL Mundo premises, to be seen from the sculpture garden.
Thursday 7 Feb – Sunday 10 Feb: 12hrs – 18hrs
Keileweg 18 & 26, free of charge
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‘Naked’, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (NL)
‘Naked’, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen (NL)
Exhibition
What is naked in contemporary times? With the exhibition NAKED – The Vulnerable Body, Museum Kranenburgh considers the changing meaning of the naked in the visual culture of the
past decades: from shock to familiarity, from taboo to openness – and sometimes back again. Despite revealing our soul and bliss on Facebook and Instagram, naked nipples remain strictly taboo. Perfectly photographed bodies on television, in magazines, and online make us insecure, uncomfortable even, about our own bodies. Atelier Van Lieshout presents the sculptures Penis XL and Womb M.
The artworks are on display untill the 3rd of February 2019.
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‘What’s wrong with this picture?’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘What’s wrong with this picture?’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
Atelier Van Lieshout, Mike Bouchet, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson and Riley Harmon contribute to the exhibition What’s wrong with this picture?. This exhibition and its complementary programme, organised by AVL Mundo, will be open from Friday to Sunday from the 7th until the 23rd of September.
What’s wrong with this picture? confronts the public with works that contain dark humour, ask urgent questions and present a bleak view on reality. Atelier Van Lieshout shows works from the SlaveCity project about perceived and mouldable social normalcy, as they reconsider the concept of time, the prospects for society and the role of mankind therein. Visitors are forced to think about what we take for granted and to ask themselves, “What’s wrong with this picture?”
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‘Ferrotopia’, NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Ferrotopia’, NDSM, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
25 April 2018 – 2 December 2018
Ferrotopia, the latest art installation by Atelier Van Lieshout, opening at the NDSM-werf on Wednesday 25th April at 19:00h, is an ode to steel and bygone industries that explores new forms of manufacturing in a “circular economy”.
Ferrotopia is a Gesamkunstwerk – a large-scale public project made up of four buildings: Domestikator, Drop Hammer House, Happy Industry and Refectory. Its totem is the iconic Domestikator, a monumental structure that depicts humankind’s domination of nature. Domestikator drew international attention as a hub for the Ruhr Triennial, but its fame exploded with the controversy it caused when the work was invited to be exhibited outside the Louvre, was censored and then adopted by the Centre Pompidou. The work was retrofitted as a pavilion for freedom of expression, hosting a series of screenings, discussions and international debate. In Amsterdam, Domestikator will be joined by the atmospheric Refectory, the Happy Industry Foundry – a functioning metal workshop, and the purpose-built Drop Hammer House, created specifically for the NDSM to represent destruction, recycling and production in a circular economy.
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‘Lust for Life’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London (UK)
‘Lust for Life’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London (UK)
News
On the 1st February, the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London will launch a solo-exhibition with functional sculptures by Atelier Van Lieshout. These works, a series of various lamps, are part of the CryptoFuturism series.
“Lust for Life Lamps is about enjoying life and embracing every part of it. Whether it is life, death, dancing, getting old, contemplating or reproducing, all of those things are essential parts of human life. And of course, it is about having lust all your life.”
– Joep van Lieshout
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‘PUNK+DANS+KUNST’, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)
‘PUNK+DANS+KUNST’, SCHUNCK*, Heerlen (NL)
Exhibition
Atelier Van Lieshout’s first video work Cage is currently on display as part of the exhibition PUNK+DANS+KUNST (Punk, dance and art) at SCHUNCK*. The exhibition presents the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic language used in Hail reflected in the work of contemporaries of Michael Clark and Charles Atlas’s day, as well as among modern-day artists active in visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions. Some of the angry movements are timeless. Guest curator and choreographer Karin Post has put together a modern-day collage of movement, image and sound, which traces the influence of punk sub-culture and its ‘angry movements’ in dance and visual art.
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‘Back to the future?!’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Back to the future?!’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
As part of the exhibition Back to the future?! Atelier Van Lieshout presented Cage and the End of Everything which focus on the constant battle between construction and deconstruction as the artist questions today’s transition within ethics and technology. These new video installations were accompanied by utopian and dystopian future visions from artists-in-residence Kasey Short and Carlijn Kingma. Besides this in-house exhibition, Atelier Van Lieshout participated in De Grote Kunstshow (Theater Rotterdam), OBJECT with Lensvelt (HAKA building) and Kunst & Complex (open studios).
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‘Domestikator’, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
‘Domestikator’, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
Atelier Van Lieshout, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and FIAC are proud to present Domestikator at the Centre Pompidou!
Please join us for the opening event on Thursday the 19th October:
6PM – 9PM: reception and cocktail
7 PM: artist talk by Joep van Lieshout
9PM – 11PM: Cocktail reception at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 54 rue de la Verrerie 75004
The artwork will host an ongoing series of impromptu discussions, performances and screenings. This Salon will be inaugurated with a discussion between friends and artists Xavier Veilhan and Joep van Lieshout, on Thursday 19th October at 11 AM
After the Musée du Louvre decided the sculpture was too provocative for the Jardin de Tuilleries, the artwork will now be installed at the square next to the Fontaine Stravinsky.
Joep van Lieshout: “I’m very pleased that the Centre Pompidou was able to see beyond the sensationalized interpretations of this work, and offered to present it during FIAC. By exhibiting this work, the institution is not only allowing the public to properly experience its artistic and intrinsic values, but it also opens up a broader discussion about the current challenges and complexities in the relationships between artists, institutions, public, and press – and their subsequent impact on artistic freedom.
Domestikator was always intended to be a catalyst for thought, as it addresses the very serious issue of how humans employ technology – with ingenuity, creativity, sophistication and persistence – to change the world into a “better” place, often domesticating it in the process. In order to push the boundaries of human experience and longevity, we have developed new technologies, like artificial intelligence, genetic manipulation, robotics and industrial farming, which push our ethical borders, without any real understanding of the long term consequences.
I am pleased that visitors to the Pompidou will have the opportunity to experience this work and hope that it generates questions and dialogue around the complexity of the issue of domestication – particularly its inherent hypocrisy, and the disconcerting fact that we are still without any real policy or regulation to govern this increasingly intrepid behavior.
Now, in addition to these meanings, the installation has inadvertently become a catalyst for a conversation about the freedom of expression, which is an urgent topic today. I’d like to express my sincerest gratitude to FIAC, Centre Pompidou, Carpenter’s Workshop Gallery, the city of Paris and my studio team for making this installation possible, and to the public who took to various platforms to voice their opposition to its censorship. I’m truly grateful for everyone’s support.”
A public program will take place around the Domestikator, please check this site or facebook for regular updates!
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‘Imprevedibile’, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna (IT)
‘Imprevedibile’, Fondazione Golinelli, Bologna (IT)
News
Atelier Van Lieshout is proud to be part of the opening exhibition of the new Centro Arte e Scienze Golinelli in Bologna, Italy. The exhibition, with the title Imprevedibili, essere pronti per il futuro senza sapere come sara (Unforeseable, being ready for the future without knowing what it will be like), shows a selection of works which all reflect on a possible future, including Atelier van Lieshout’s Cow of the Future and Food Reaktor.
For aditional information, please see the website of the Fondazione Golinelli
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‘Furnication’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
‘Furnication’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
A solo exhibition by Joep van Lieshout, Furnification features the results of the artist’s recent sculptural experiments that that form part of the series, CryptoFururism. By revisiting the Italian Futurists, the series explores resonances with emerging fascist tendencies today, revealing the interplay between utopia and destruction. In Furnification, van Lieshout not only pushes the limits of materials, but also questions civilization itself.
More information can be found on the gallery website
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‘Bikinibar’, ART Break 2017, Hoek van Holland (NL)
‘Bikinibar’, ART Break 2017, Hoek van Holland (NL)
Exhibition
On August 27, 2017 the first edition of ART Break will take place. This festival will transform the beach of Hoek van Holland into a celebration of art and coast. With ART Break Hoek van Holland finally has its own festival. From an art installation, classical music to a live painting performance and a treasure hunt through the Atlantik Wall, ART Break is for everyone!
The initiators of the festival, the entrepreneurs of the Rechtestraat, want to show how special Hoek van Holland is and how much culture this beach town has to offer. ‘’Hoek van Holland has six museums and is a place where a lot of Rotterdam-based artist take their summer break, but a lot of people aren’t aware of this’’, says Freek Ruigrok of DeSurfschool.nl, one of the entrepreneurs.
The eye catcher of ART Break will be Atelier Van Lieshout’s Bikinibar laying on the beach! The Bikinibar was created in 2006 as a place where people can withdraw from the busy beach life or bad weather. But it is only now that she can finally lay on the destination where she was intended for: the white sands of Hoek van Holland.
The festival takes place on Sunday the 27th of August 2017 and starts at 10 in the morning until 6 in the evening. The programme offers a wide range of activities for visitors of all ages such as surfing lessons for children, a hip-hop workshop, but also various concerts and a live painting performance by Solko Schalm, the unofficial port painter of Rotterdam. The festival can be visited free of charge. Hope to see you there!
Sunday August 27
10 am – 6 pm
Hoek van Holland – Rechtestraat
Free entry
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‘Façade 2017’, Middelburg (NL)
‘Façade 2017’, Middelburg (NL)
News
July 14 will see the opening of Façade 2017, where you can see Cage (2017) by Atelier Van Lieshout. Huis presents the audience with a deconstructed, distorted cage; a disfigured prison that symbolizes the human longing for freedom.
In addition, Atelier van Lieshout captured the deconstructive process of Huis in collaboration with filmmaker Sonia Herman Dolz. The straight-edged cage was pushed apart with the use of heavy, self-made machines – i.e. a large drop hammer and hydraulic press with pressure. This film will be on display at CBK Zeeland, Middelburg.
Façade 2017 will run from July 14th until November 5th 2017
For more information about the locations and other artworks on display please see the CBK Zeeland website:
http://www.facade2017.nl/
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‘ArtZuid 2017’, Amsterdam (NL)
‘ArtZuid 2017’, Amsterdam (NL)
News
19 May 2017 – 17 September 2017
Visitors and residents of Amsterdam are once again welcome to visit ARTZUID, this time for it’s 5th edition. Presented as a 5km art route you are guided past 60 monumental art works from Dutch and International abstract artists. The outdoor exhibition is being brought to you by Rudi Fuchs, art historian and former director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
With a duration of 4 months and free entry, visitors can also partake in one of the daily guided tours or guest lectures in the surrounding hotels and museums.
For more information and locations please visit the ARTZUID website.
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‘Pulse’, Licht 2017, Graz (AT)
‘Pulse’, Licht 2017, Graz (AT)
News
We’re happy to announce that the artwork Pulse has been slected for the manifestation Licht 2017 in Graz, Austria. The work will be on display on the Kapistran-Pieller-Platz, opposite to the Kunsthaus Graz, from the 21st of April until the 4th of June.
Pulse is an interactive installation which aims to engage the inhabitants of Graz and to be at the heart of the community, expressing the pulse, the life of the city. The artwork is as a beacon, sending out lightsignals. These lightsignals will ‘beat’ to the same ‘rhytym’ as the pulse of a human heart. Every time a child is born in the Graz – which is approximately 11 times a day – the pulse and the intensity of the light will become stronger.
With this artwork, Atelier Van Lieshout wants to create a poetic collective moment for the citizens of Graz. Every time Pulse’s light intensifies, the artwork will celebrate the beginning of a human life, a new member of the community added. The artwork will enhance the existing sense of community, both by creating a collective experience and by serving as a physical landmark.
For more information about the work and the manifestation Licht 2017, please check the website of the KIÖR – Kunst in Offentlichen Raum Steiermark
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‘Poly Pluto Pluri’, Galería OMR, Mexico City (MX)
‘Poly Pluto Pluri’, Galería OMR, Mexico City (MX)
Exhibition
The 22nd of April 2017 will see the opening of Poly Pluto Pluri at Galería OMR, the first solo exhibition of Atelier Van Lieshout in Mexico.
– Poly derives from πολύς, ancient Greek for many, much
– Pluto derives from πλουτος, ancient Greek for wealth
– Pluri means several, many in Latin
Roughly translated as ´more more more´, Poly Pluto Pluri presents a selection of the work of Atelier Van Lieshout, offering an overview of artist Joep van Lieshout´s practice from the early 1990’s until the present day. Fuelled by Van Lieshout´s fascination with ´man and machine´, Poly Pluto Pluri charts the development of new technologies congruent to the advancement of humanity, with all of its successes and more notably, its failures.
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‘Three Positions. Six Directions.’, König Galerie, Berlin (DE)
‘Three Positions. Six Directions.’, König Galerie, Berlin (DE)
Exhibition
We’re happy to announce our participation in the group show ‘Three Positions. Six Directions. Chapter 1: The Brutalist Ideal’, at Berlin’s König Galerie!
This show presents both impressions from and reactions to the architecture, the history, and the repurposing of the St Agnes church, which is currently in use as König Galerie’s main exhibition space – for an impression please check the gallery website
St. Agnes is a prime example of Brutalist architecture. More than style or fashion, Brutalism was a mentality and even a philosophy that inspired the simplicity, physical and ethical gravity, and economy that the church building embodies. It is with these same reductive ideas that the artworks presented in the show were born. Brutalism’s efficiency is reflected, for instance, in the artworks from Atelier Van Lieshout’s Slave City series, which extends these principles to a societal perspective. Added to this are recent works from the series Cryptofuturism, in which Atelier Van Lieshout researches the origin of matter, material and form.
The exhibition opens on Friday 20 January and runs until 12 February, at König Galerie, Alexandrinenstrasse 118 – 121, Berlin, Germany.
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‘Henry, de Statistocraat’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
‘Henry, de Statistocraat’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
News
From the 2nd of December, the foyer of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag features the new artwork Henry, de Statistocraat by Atelier Van Lieshout. The eight-metre-high sculpture is designed to serve as a visitor information desk and is a humorous nod to the ‘rivalry’ between H.P. Berlage, architect of the Gemeentemuseum, and his Belgian contemporary and confrere Henry Van de Velde.
Distinctive Desk
The commission was prompted by the Gemeentemuseum’s desire for a visitor information desk worthy of a great public art gallery. It had to be different from the usual nondescript counters found in railway stations, airports, municipal offices, cinemas and shops. Museum director Benno Tempel: “In many museums, the entrance hall is essentially no different from the equivalent in any railway station or airport. That’s why we’ve brought in the enfant terrible of the Dutch art world to design something completely out of the ordinary. The result is a distinctive information desk that will leave visitors in no possible doubt that this is a space for the arts.”
Berlage and Van der Velde
Van Lieshout’s creation, Henry, the Statistocrat, makes playful reference to the work of Belgian artist, designer and architect Henry van de Velde – a founder of art nouveau, trailblazer for the later Bauhaus, and famous in the Netherlands primarily as the architect of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
In terms of artistic ideas, Berlage and Van de Velde had much in common: both sought to eliminate the distinction between art and design and to approach architecture as a Gesamtkunstwerk. At the same time, they were rivals who competed for major contracts – especially for museum buildings. Berlage also produced a design for the Kröller-Müller Museum (which was rejected), and with Henry, the Statistocrat Van de Velde has now placed his stamp on the Gemeentemuseum.
Photography: Gerrit Schreurs
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‘Der Hausfreund’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (AT)
‘Der Hausfreund’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (AT)
Exhibition
Der Hausfreund is your most ambiguous friend. Like the postman, he comes around all too often, especially when you yourself are not around. A friend of different faces and functions – just like the multifaceted artworks of Dutch sculptor Joep van Lieshout. The eponymous exhibition at Galerie Krinzinger shows a selection of his recent artworks, which ask questions about destruction and renewal, coincidence and concept, minimalism and functionality.
Opening: November 24 , 2016
Duration: November 25 – January 14, 2017
Galerie Krinzinger, Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Vienna
www.galerie-krinzinger.at
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‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, Ruhrtriennale 2016, Bochum (DE)
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, Ruhrtriennale 2016, Bochum (DE)
Exhibition
“Can we still separate man and machine?”
At the 2016 edition of the Ruhrtriennale, Atelier Van Lieshout will be presenting the installation The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The installation at Bochums’ Jahrhunderthalle will include last years’ public favorites like Domestikator and the Refektorium, in addition to a selection of new and site specific works focussing on the theme “Man and Machine”.
12 August – 24 September 2016
Ruhrtriennale, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum, Germany
www.ruhrtriennale.de
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‘SlaveCity’, Zuecca Project Space, Venice (IT)
‘SlaveCity’, Zuecca Project Space, Venice (IT)
Exhibition
SlaveCity by Joep van Lieshout
Zuecca Project Space, Venice, Italy
26 May – 30 July 2016
Parallel with the Biennale di Venezia, Zuecca Project Space will be showcasing a selection of architectural models from SlaveCity
www.zueccaprojectspace.com
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‘SlaveCity’, De Pont, Tilburg (NL)
‘SlaveCity’, De Pont, Tilburg (NL)
Exhibition
11 June 2016 – 2 October 2016
As part of the Jheronimusch Bosch 500 manifestation, Atelier Van Lieshout will present the Gesamtkunstwerk SlaveCity (2005 – 2009), as well as recent works, as part of a large solo exhibition at Museum De Pont in Tilburg.
De Pont, Tilburg, the Netherlands
www.depont.nl
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‘Radical Seafaring’, Parrish Art Museum, New York (USA)
‘Radical Seafaring’, Parrish Art Museum, New York (USA)
News
8 May – 24 July 2016
A survey of artists’ site-specific projects on the water, including Atelier Van Lieshouts Women on Waves container.
Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York
parrishart.org
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‘The Invisible Hand’, Espace Europeen pour la Sculpture, Brussels (BE)
‘The Invisible Hand’, Espace Europeen pour la Sculpture, Brussels (BE)
News
Parc Tournay-Solvay, Brussles, Belgium
12 April – 11 Sept 2016
outdoor exhibition at the Espace Europeen pour la Sculpture, with new and recent work, curated by Natalie Kovacs
www.eesculpture.be
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‘Joep van Lieshout’, Jousse Enterprise, Paris (FR)
‘Joep van Lieshout’, Jousse Enterprise, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
19 March 2016 – 7 May 2016
recent work by Atelier Van Lieshout at Jousse Entreprise, 6 rue Saint-Claude, Paris
Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France
www.jousse-entreprise.com
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‘Primitive Modern’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE)
‘Primitive Modern’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Exhibition
19 November 2015 – 19 December 2015
Almine Rech Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by dutch artist Joep van Lieshout at the gallery. In this exhibition titled Primitive Modern, Joep van Lieshout presents the transition between two key projects: the new project Neo-futurism and recent works from the Gesamtkunstwerk New Tribal Labyrinth, which the artist has beenworking on for the last four years. Both projects depict the same paradoxical utopian desires, while bringing to the fore a clear shift through a future vision on the development of the world.
New Tribal Labyrinth is a series of sculptures that embrace the industrial revolution and depict the romantic longing to become one with both machine and matter. The series suggests the emergence of a new world order, inspired by old world orders. In this world, populated by fictional tribes, we see a return to agriculture and industry and the revaluation of ancient rituals. New Tribal Labyrinth is made up of agricultural, industrial and ritual objects, yet the exhibition mainly focuses on the world of rites and rituals. Sculptures that serve as objects of worship, victory columns and fertility figures refer to primitive sculptures. Venus figures and Madonnas, carved out of an intuitive and instinctive desire, stand on pedestals that refer to the modernism of the early 20th century.
Van Lieshout’s recent work Neo-futurism translates Futurism, the art movement of the early20th century, into 21st century contemporaneity in a disruptive manner. Technology, bigdata, acceleration, conflict, aggression, robotics and recycling are mixed with poetry and romanticism. Not only do they show a new direction in the oeuvre of Van Lieshout, but they also offer us a glimpse of a possible future under construction, based, on the one hand,on destruction and deconstruction. Yet on the other hand, the work depicts the optimism of (re) construction and new energy. A shining example is the endless column that gives new meaning to the remnants of primitivism.
The largest work in the exhibition is a tribal dwelling. This Essential Dwelling is like a rockcave carved out by man. Here, the inside space and functions are determined by the original desires and urges of the human being. An essential living unit whose interior is shaped by irrational wishes. Here again, a tribal object is mixed with the ideas of modernism. The sculpture is both contemporary and utopian, primitive and archaic.
The coming together of Neo-futurism and the New Tribal Labyrinth challenges the viewer to set in search of a new image of the future as a new mental point of reference. Past and future, modernism and primitivism, the rational and the irrational, utopia and dystopia, art, energy and science are brought together and investigated. In this way, Van Lieshout creates new systems and worldviews on the ruins of the past.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on view: Early Bird (2015), Black Madonna (2014), The Essential Dwelling (2015), Les Brutalist series (2015), Zig Zag (2015) and many others.
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
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‘The Monument’, Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
‘The Monument’, Nationalgalerie, Berlin (DE)
Exhibition
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Inauguration Monday 14 Sept 2015
Atelier Van Lieshout, in collaboration with the Nationalgalerie, will be showing this public artwork on the Museuminsel for the next two years.
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‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, Ruhrtriennale, Bochum (DE)
‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, Ruhrtriennale, Bochum (DE)
Exhibition
14 August 2015 – 26 Sept 2015
In the summer of 2015 a village will be created in front of the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum. On a site where thousands of workers smelted, rolled, formed and hammered steel for 130 years, an unusual installation will be constructed: “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. Atelier Van Lieshout will create a lively and excitingly chaotic place for visitors, artists, festival makers, students and anyone who is curious.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is the biggest installation by Atelier Van Lieshout to date. At the center of the installation is the “Refectorium”, one of the venues of the Ruhrtriennale, where the Workshop talks will take place amongst others. The “Refectorium” is surrounded by new Atelier Van Lieshout works such as the “Domesticator” as well as by iconic works such as the “BarRectum”, the “Workshop for Weapons and Bombs”, the “Workshop for Medicine and Alcohol” and “The Heads, Claudia & Hermann”. Dacha-like buildings like the “Caretaker”, “Domesticator” and “Farmhouse” will complete this large-scale installation on the site of the Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
Atelier Van Lieshout is an interdisciplinary studio based in Rotterdam and working internationally. Its often provocative works operate on the boundaries of art, architecture and design. Recurring tropes and themes are self-determination and power, self-sufficiency and anarchy, politics and sex.
“The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is an art village, a meeting point and the new heart of the Ruhrtriennale 2015.
Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, Germany
www.ruhrtriennale.de
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‘Dans un Interieur’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE)
‘Dans un Interieur’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE)
Exhibition
12 March 2015 – 11 April 2015
‘Dans un intérieur’
Following on the 2014 exhibition in Paris, Almine Rech Gallery displayed the second edition “Dans un intérieur – Meubles, oeuvres murals & textiles d’artistes’ in Brussels.
The exhibition offers a contemporary outlook on creation in the broadest sense of the term. It also plays freely with the idea of a domestic installation that has more to do with the apartment of an amateur than the white cube that is the gallery.
Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
www.alminerech.com
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‘Vienna For Arts Sake!’, Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
‘Vienna For Arts Sake!’, Belvedere, Vienna (AT)
Exhibition
27 February 2015 – 31 May 2015
Showing Atelier Van Lieshouts latest work: The Mechanical Turks (2015).
Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
www.belvedere.at
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‘Blast Furnace’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Blast Furnace’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
Atelier Van Lieshout/AVL-Mundo, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
From Thursday the 5th until Sunday the 8th of February, our workshop and exhibition space will be open to the public, daily between 1 pm and 9 pm
On display for the first time in the Netherlands will be the Blast Furnace, a more than 11 metre high steel installation that pays homage to our industrial past yet at the same time offers us a glimpse of production methods of the future.
Additionally, the AVL team will be casting, melting and forging in the smoldering ovens and rudimental machinery from the Happy Industry installation. Both the Blast Furnace and Happy Industry will be installed especially for Art Rotterdam.
Location: Keileweg 18, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Entrance: free
How to reach us: Atelier Van Lieshout/AVL-Mundo is an official stop on the Art Rotterdam shuttle bus service
www.artrotterdam.com
This event is part of the Art Rotterdam Week.
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‘Power Hammer’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Power Hammer’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
10 Januari – 7 March 2015
Frans Halsstraat 26, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
grimmgallery.com
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‘ART Basel’, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami (USA)
‘ART Basel’, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami (USA)
Exhibition
4 – 7 December 2014
Miami, USA, with Galerie Krinzinger and Galeria OMR
Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, USA
www.artbasel.com
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‘Panel Discussion’, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA (USA)
‘Panel Discussion’, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Exhibition
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
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‘Art Bogota’, OMR Gallery, Bogota (CO)
‘Art Bogota’, OMR Gallery, Bogota (CO)
Exhibition
24 – 27 October 2014
Solo exhibition with OMR Gallery at Art Bogota, Corferias, Bogota (CO)
For more info: Art Bogota 2014
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‘Future Fictions’, Z33, Hasselt (BE)
‘Future Fictions’, Z33, Hasselt (BE)
Exhibition
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
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‘Design Art’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Design Art’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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
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‘Happy Industry’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Happy Industry’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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
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‘Vrijstaat’, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse (NL)
‘Vrijstaat’, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse (NL)
Exhibition
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
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‘Het Orakel’, De Dam, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Het Orakel’, De Dam, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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!
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‘Domestication’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
‘Domestication’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Exhibition
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
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‘Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home’, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Chambres des Canaux: The Tolerant Home’, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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
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‘Urban Campsite’, Vliegenbos, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Urban Campsite’, Vliegenbos, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
16 August 2013 – 30 September 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Darwin (2008)
Vliegenbos, Amsterdam
Meeuwenlaan 138, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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‘The Butcher’, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
‘The Butcher’, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
Exhibition
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
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‘Territory’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Territory’, AVL Mundo, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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)
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‘Ja Natuurlijk’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
‘Ja Natuurlijk’, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag (NL)
Exhibition
15 March 2013 – June 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: Sawmill Cheese Maker (2013)
Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
Stadhouderslaan 43, Den Haag
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‘Couture Graphique’, MOTI, Breda (NL)
‘Couture Graphique’, MOTI, Breda (NL)
Exhibition
16 February 2013 – 8 August 2013
Atelier Van Lieshout artwork on display: The Three Graces (2011)
MOTI
Boschstraat 22, Breda, The Netherlands
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‘Furniture III’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
‘Furniture III’, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Paris (FR)
Exhibition
19 January – 27 April 2013
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, 54 Rue de la Verrerie, Paris, France
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‘Manufactuur & SlaveCity’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
‘Manufactuur & SlaveCity’, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Exhibition
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
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‘Agricola Novus’, Dertien Hectare, Heeswijk-Dinter (NL)
‘Agricola Novus’, Dertien Hectare, Heeswijk-Dinter (NL)
Exhibition
12th May – 8th July 2012
dertien hectare, Meerstraat 22, Heeswijk-Dinter
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‘Industrie’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
‘Industrie’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Exhibition
15th March – 5th May 2012
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Verlatstraat 23 – 25, Antwerp, Belgium
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‘Tribe’, Distrito 4, Madrid (ES)
‘Tribe’, Distrito 4, Madrid (ES)
Exhibition
9th February – 22th March 2012
Distrito 4, Conde de Aranda, 4, Madrid, Spain
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‘De Kannibaal’, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam (NL)
‘De Kannibaal’, Villa Zebra, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
16th December 2011– 17 June 2012
Villa Zebra, Stieltjesstraat 21, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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‘The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan (IT)
‘The New Tribal Labyrinth’, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan (IT)
Exhibition
29th November 2011 – 14th Januari 2012
Gio Marconi, via Tadino 15, Milan, Italy
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‘The Space Between Now and Then’, OMR Gallery, Mexico-City (MX)
‘The Space Between Now and Then’, OMR Gallery, Mexico-City (MX)
Exhibition
24th November 2011 – 18th February 2012
Plaza Río de Janeiro 54, Colonia Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
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‘Infernopolis’, Submarinewharf, Rotterdam (NL)
‘Infernopolis’, Submarinewharf, Rotterdam (NL)
Exhibition
29 May 2010 – 26th September 2010
The exhibition Infernopolis by Atelier Van Lieshout in the port of Rotterdam was a big hit. No fewer than 20.315 visitors found their way to the port of Rotterdam. Atelier Van Lieshout inaugurated the Submarine Wharf with the spectacular exhibition Infernopolis. In the 5000m2 space Atelier Van Lieshout created a terrifying setting in which medical instruments, vacuum pumps, silos, skulls, skeletons, and giant sperm cells and bodily organs are the main protagonists. Two enormous installations, ‘The Technocrat’ and ‘Cradle to Cradle’, were installed amid a forest of existing and new sculptures.
At ‘Infernopolis’ you could move among sinister installations and tableaux in which the distinctions between good and evil, life and death, and reality and fiction are erased. Atelier Van Lieshout’s fascination with systems is clearly manifest in the art work The Technocrat (2003-2004), which comprises all manner of apparatus, containers, beds and distillation vats. Together they formed a closed circuit of food, alcohol, excrement and energy. Cradle to Cradle (2009) takes the principle that human waste can be food to the extreme. Looking at this art work, it quickly becomes clear that this machine recycles everything, even people.
Endless circulation
At ‘Infernopolis’ you could move among sinister installations and tableaux in which the distinctions between good and evil, life and death, and reality and fiction are erased. Atelier Van Lieshout’s fascination with systems is clearly manifest in the art work The Technocrat (2003-2004), which comprises all manner of apparatus, containers, beds and distillation vats. Together they form a closed circuit of food, alcohol, excrement and energy. Cradle to Cradle (2009) takes the principle that human waste can be food to the extreme. Looking at this art work, it quickly becomes clear that this machine recycles everything, even people.
Vision of the future
The exhibition in the Submarine Wharf contained Atelier Van Lieshout’s most recent sculptures, which have never previously been exhibited. These works illustrated the evolution of a new culture resulting from a society of over-consumption and scarce resources. In this culture we saw a harshening of relations between people and an increased will to survive. Through battle scenes and a large, abstracted cannon (WW III, 2010) Atelier Van Lieshout provided a glimpse of a possible future. The sculpture Cascade by Atelier Van Lieshout, placed at Churchillplein in Rotterdam illustrated this theme as well.
Atelier Van Lieshout artworks on display: Bikinibar (2006), Darwin (2008), BarRectum (2005), Penis Small, Medium, XL (2003), Exploded View (2009), Tree (2008), WW III (2010), Cow’s Head (2010), Woman on Bed (2006), Fertility (2008) and many others
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