Psychiatrists Office
Fiberglass
400 x 350 x 130 cm
If the ground floor with its machines and pipes represent the organs and circulatory system of the body, then this floor represents the mind and the soul: the control room of ‘Disco Inferno’.
On show is the latest work from Atelier Van Lieshout: a psychiatric examination room with a specially designed sofa and other surreal-looking furniture. Here Joep van Lieshout, creator of the ‘Disco Inferno’ and instigator of all this machine violence, is endlessly and exhaustively interrogated by psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists and shamans to ultimately find out what the work is about.
Cranium (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Disco Inferno, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2023 – 2024
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Pyrolyzer
Mixed media
810 x 190 x 285 cm
The Pyrolyzer converts waste plastic and old car tires into heavy oil, diesel oil, petrol and gas. The waste is melted in a large, rotating heated boiler. The resulting gases are condensed, separated and purified into usable fuel for all ‘Disco Inferno’ machines and generators. The Pyrolyzer keeps the entire engine room running until all the available waste plastic and rubber has been used.
Pyrolyzer (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Disco Inferno, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2023 – 2024
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Shredder Launderette
Mixed media
390 x 170 x 250 cm
The launderette is a white upper world where everything that has become grimy in the ‘Disco Inferno’ is cleaned. Underneath the launderette is the shredder that grinds cut-up car tires and plastic waste into raw material for the Pyrolyzer.
Shredder Launderette (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Disco Inferno, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2023 – 2024
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Ball Mill
Steel
200 x 100 x 150 cm
Ball Mill (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Disco Inferno, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2023 – 2024
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Carolus Magnus
Mixed media
750 x 600 x 800 cm
Carolus Magnus has three floors:
1. The Gold Digger, a machine for mining gold yourself, thereby gaining wealth, power, independence and influence.
2. Reliquarium, hiding a great, unsolved mystery.
3. Charlemagne’s Throne, where power, magic, faith and superstition come together.
Carolus Magnus (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Disco Inferno, BRUTUS, Rotterdam (NL), 2023 – 2024
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Laocoon
Bronze
225 x 180 x 150 cm
Atelier Van Lieshout’s sculpture brings together a group of human forms, gathered in a huddle, intertwined, limbs merging and morphing, in a celebration of friendship and togetherness. The work takes its title from the myth of Laocoon, the Trojan priest who warned of the Horse delivered by the Greeks and attempted to destroy it, and was punished by Gods, who blinded him and sent snakes to attack Laocoon and his two sons.
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Successor
80 x 50 x 215 cm
Bronze, concrete
Regret, disappointment, shame. All this can be deduced from the way the head hangs, those sloped shoulders and the rag doll as a last vestige. Although Successor is a minimalist sculpture – there is no face with sad eyes or a pouty lip, and it even lacks fingers – it’s enormously expressive. It’s an archetype that is universally recognisable and that everyone can identify with.
Everyone except its creator Joep van Lieshout that is. He knows no shame and considers regret a waste of time. He has to save the world with an overwhelming gesture, crush enemies, leave indelible marks and write history. Yet this sad little man with his shapeless cuddly toy appears again and again in his sketchbooks. As if it worms its way out of the artist’s subconscious through the pencil onto the paper. As Successor – descendant or heir – he takes on the emotions foreign to his creator.
Successor (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Beeldengallerij Haarlem, Haarlem (NL), 2023 – 2025
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Volvo
Mixed Media
125 x 160 x 560 cm
Volvo is an abstract, Dadaesque work of art. Its random shape is decided by mechanical forces instead of deliberate artistic intervention. Its authorship is beyond human, its form timeless.
The work was ‘made’ by Drop Hammer House, a large functional sculpture that represents destruction, recycling and production in a circular economy. The work is a machine of destruction, a place for creation and also a home, providing room for the fictional Venus/destructor to become one with the process of destruction.
Volvo (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘The Clock Which Will Solve Every Problem in the World‘, Kunstraum, Dornbirn (AT), 2020
The Rebellion, Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg (Lux), 2023
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Girl with Bucket
Bronze
48 x 29 x 105 cm
Lamp. Tender, sweetness, innocence, standard AVL bucket on an expressive pedestal, including vintage socket.
Girl with Bucket (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Art Island, Forteiland, IJmuiden (NL), 2023
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Dying Gaul
Plaster
72 x 48 x 48 cm
After the Roman sculpture Dying Gaul, with non-descript egg-ball-head. Die in battle, not as a slave.
Boxing Hares (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Morituri Te Salutant
Plaster
45 x 45 x 120 cm
Morituri te salutant, those who are about to die, salute you. Motto of the gladiator.
Morituri Te Salutant (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Fallen Warrior
Steel
9 x 8 x 22 cm
Fallen Warrior (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Coward
Steel
25 x 14 x 26 cm
Running Warrior, escaping.
Coward (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Those Who Are About To Die, Salute You
Steel
10 x 7 x 28 cm
Morituri te salutant, those who are about to die salute you. Motto of the gladiator.
Those Who Are About To Die, Salute You (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Crawling
Steel
19 x 9 x 9 cm
Crawling (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Soldier and Priest
Steel
22 x 11 x 28 cm
Based on a photo of a Chilean priest giving the last rites to a dying soldier.
Soldier and Priest (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Vengance
Steel
24 x 12 x 35 cm
Vengance (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Comrades
Steel
12 x 12 x 31 cm
Comrades (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Dying Warrior
Plaster
258 x 100 x 188 cm
Inspired by the quintessential Fallen Warrior – the Greek sculpture depicting a fallen Trojan soldier.
War was, is and will always be part of human nature. Here is where culture meets nature.
Dying Warrior (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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The Mondrian
Plaster
84 x 84 x 173 cm
Primitive, pure body in Mondrian.
The Mondrian (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Diving Warrior
Plaster
80 x 80 x 172 cm
Blindly diving in, for ideals, pride and ignorance.
Diving Warrior (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Fallen on Own Sword
Plaster
103 x 93 x 203 cm
On one hand the sculpture depicts the hero that prefers to die by his own hand over surrendering to the enemy. On the other hand, he is the victim of a trap he set up for someone else.
Fallen on Own Sword (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Crushed Warrior
Plaster
68 x 66 x 108 cm
Fallen Warrior, crushed in a box.
Crushed Hero (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Backpack
Plaster
75 x 75 x 145 cm
Falling Warrior with backpack, who is hovering above his bag. Backpack and warrior are not connected.
Backpack (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Battledress
Plaster
82 x 58 x 94 cm
Petrified battledress on brutalistic plinth.
The many pockets make efficient movement on the battlefield impossible.
Utopian, optimistic view of the imminent future, threatened / computed by the surplus of pouches and baggage.
Battledress (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Who, Where, Why
Plaster
76 x 48 x 64cm
Hammer as a tool of transition, seemingly randomly hammering nails in a cross, while there is no front, back, up or down-side of the cross.
This sculpture can be positioned on all different sides.
Who, Where, Why (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Head and Chain
Plaster
65 x 44 x 92 cm
You’re a prisoner of your own thoughts, emotions, (ir)rationality.
Head and Chain (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Boxing Hares
Plaster
92 x 48 x 121 cm
Two opposing hares are by the shape of the frame forced to fight, while they are atied together by their umbilical cords.
This work questions, am I now a traitor, or have I always been one?
Boxing Hares (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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The Omnipotent
Plaster
25 x 25 x 39 cm
Depending on the way the sculpture is positioned, it can be a hand that begs, or a hand that stops. A hand that protects or a hand without power. Or a hand that. Or a hand that hits the left and the right cheek.
Ghost (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Astonished Freedom Fighters
Plaster
75 x 46 x 48 cm
Astonished freedom fighters, a sculpture referencing their ultimate comradeship. Based on the terracotta sculpture ‘The Compianto of Santa Maria della Vita’.
Astonished Freedom Fighters (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Burgher of Calais II
Plaster
52 x 54 x 103 cm
Joep’s interpretation on the story of the Burghers of Calais.
Burgher of Calais II (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Burgher of Calais I
Plaster
53 x 51 x 103 cm
Joep’s interpretation on the story of the Burghers of Calais.
Burgher of Calais I (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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The Burghers XS
Bronze
7 x 4,4 x 4,5 cm
The Burghers symbolizes the ever-present human dilemma: the choice between the known and the unknown, between security and insecurity, between- tradition and progress. The monumental sculpture draws from a universal and timeless theme: what does one do in an emergency situation? The figures, huddled together like a Laocoon, represent the different emotions that people go through in a time of conflict: heroism, fear, rebellion, survival, escape, compassion, cowardice, joy, loneliness – a mass of humans, insecure, doubtful and chaotic.
The Burghers XS (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Ghost
Bronze
75 x 90 x 280 cm
Ghost (2017) is one of the works from the Molecule series. The work shows the mysterious genie of the human body in a sculptural way. This imaginative molecule is everything that 99% – a molecule which combines the atoms that make up 99% of the human body – is not; it is this part that must hold the creativity, the imagination and the spirit of mankind.
From the Molecule series depicting the soul in sculptural relief. AVL rendered in bronze the 1% of atoms are not found in the human body, “quantifying the unquantifiable” – creativity, imagination and spirit.
Ghost (2023) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Arena, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (BE), 2023
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Model the Burghers
Wood
42 cm x 28 cm x 28 cm
The Burghers symbolizes the ever-present human dilemma: the choice between the known and the unknown, between security and insecurity, between- tradition and progress. The monumental sculpture draws from a universal and timeless theme: what does one do in an emergency situation? The figures, huddled together like a Laocoon, represent the different emotions that people go through in a time of conflict: heroism, fear, rebellion, survival, escape, compassion, cowardice, joy, loneliness – a mass of humans, insecure, doubtful and chaotic.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Finger Lamp
Mixed media
75 x 85 x 187 cm
Since his beginnings, Joep van Lieshout has chased, changed and shaped the borders of art, design and architecture. In his latest series, RENEGADE, instead of performing the act of either artist or designer, Van Lieshout turns any object that he gets his hands on – even his own existing sculptures – into a designer lamp. Making every work as (in)valuable as the other. With RENEGADE, being both functional and accessible, Van Lieshout defines art on his own terms, and challenges the market while giving it what it wants.
Finger Lamp (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Light in the Darkness’, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com