Atelier Van Lieshout

BIOGRAPHY

Atelier Van Lieshout rose to fame with projects that travel between the world of minimalist design and non-functional art, including sculptures and installations, buildings and furniture, utopias and dystopias.

Atelier Van Lieshout is the studio founded by sculptor, painter and visionary Joep van Lieshout. Van Lieshout graduated from the Rotterdam Art Academy and, in 1995, the artist founded his studio and has been working solely under the studio’s name ever since. The studio moniker exists in Van Lieshout’s practice as a methodology towards undermining the myth of the artistic genius.

Over the past three decades, Van Lieshout has established a multidisciplinary practice that produces works on the borders between art, design and architecture. Van Lieshout dissects systems, be it society as a whole or the human body; he experiments, looks for alternatives, takes exhibitions as experiments for recycling and has even declared an independent state named AVL-Ville (2001), located in the port of Rotterdam. All of which are conducted within Van Lieshout’s signature style of provocation – be it political or material. Indeed, his works share a number of recurring themes, motives and obsessions: systems, power, autarky, life, sex and death. His prolific sculpture, Domestikator (2015), is an apt example, having caused controversy before being placed at the Louvre in Jardin des Tuilleries. It was later adopted by the Centre Pompidou, where it was shown during the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain in 2017.

Van Lieshout combines an imaginative aesthetic and ethic with a spirit of entrepreneurship; his work has sparked movements in the fields of architecture and ecology, and has been internationally celebrated, exhibited and published. Van Lieshout’s works have been included in the Gwangju, Venice, Yokohama, Christchurch, Shanghai and São Paulo Bienniales. Atelier Van Lieshout have won many awards since 1991, including the prix de Rome in 1995.

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Awards

2015
/ ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’, arts project for the Rührtriennale, Bochum, Germany.
/ ‘Monument’, public sculpture at Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Gemany.
/ ‘Y Caban’, pavilion for Pontio Art Centre, Bangor University, Bangor, UK.
/ ‘De Stam’, Frederik Hendrikplantsoen, public sculpture, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
/ ‘Vis-a-Vis’, new premises for an open-air theatre, Almere, the Netherlands.

2014
/ ‘Het Orakel’, Dam square, Amsterdam, commission by Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comite.
/ ‘Vooruit’, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden.

2013
/ ‘La Caravane’, public sculpture, Place Saint-Saveur, Caen, France.
/ ‘De Warande’, information stand, Turnhout, Belgium.

2012
/ ‘Plataforma Choco’, artist-in-residence MasArteMasAcion, Choco, Colombia.
/ ‘Equilibrist’, Emporia Shopping Centre, Malmö, Sweden.
/ ‘Mediville’, doctors practice, Maastricht, the Netherlands.
/ ‘Insect Farm’, insect farm/information stand, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium.

2011
/ ‘Worm’, interior for Cultural Centre, Rotterdam.
/ ‘Stage design for Tannhauser, Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany.

2010
/ ‘Funky Bones’ Artwork in Art and Nature Park, Indianapolis, USA.
/ ‘Lokal Lieshout’, cafe interior at K20, Düsseldorf, Germany.
/ ‘Cascade’, artwork in public space, Rotterdam.
/ ‘Dynamo Hotel Capsule’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.
/ ‘de Ontknopping’, artwork in public space, Middelburg.

2009
/ Stankowski Award.
/ l’Absence, artwork in public space, Nantes, France.

2005
/ ‘Fisherman’s House’, Dalen.
/ ‘Pink Giant’, Nieuwegein.
/ ‘Gieleskull’, Amsterdam.

2004
/ Kurt Schwitters Award.
/ ‘Wombhouse’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.

2000
/ Wilhelmina-Ring Sculpture Award.
/ Bar for the Parade, mobile theatre show.
/ Furniture visitor’s room Prison Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.

1998
/ Mart Stam Award.

1997
/ Anjerfonds – Chabot Award.

1996
/ Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung Award.

1995
/ Bolidt Floor Concepts Prize.
/ Mobile Home for the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo.
/ Bussing Stations, for the cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
/ Prix de Rome.

1991
/ Charlotte Köhler Award.

Literature

2009
/ D. Linley, C. Cator, H. Chislett, Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular
Furniture, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

2007
/ J. Allen, A. Betsky, R. Laermans, Atelier Van Lieshout, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.

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Awards

2014
/ ‘Het Orakel’, Dam square, Amsterdam, commission by Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comite.
/ ‘Vooruit’, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden.

2013
/ ‘La Caravane’, public sculpture, Place Saint-Saveur, Caen, France.
/ ‘De Warande’, information stand, Turnhout, Belgium.

2011
/ ‘Worm’, interior for Cultural Centre, Rotterdam.
/ ‘Stage design for Tannhauser, Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany.

2009
/ Stankowski Award.
/ l’Absence, artwork in public space, Nantes, France.

2005
/ ‘Fisherman’s House’, Dalen.
/ ‘Pink Giant’, Nieuwegein.
/ ‘Gieleskull’, Amsterdam.

2004
/ Kurt Schwitters Award.
/ ‘Wombhouse’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.

2000
/ Wilhelmina-Ring Sculpture Award.
/ Bar for the Parade, mobile theatre show.
/ Furniture visitor’s room Prison Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.

1998
/ Mart Stam Award.

1997
/ Anjerfonds – Chabot Award.

1996
/ Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung Award.

1995
/ Bolidt Floor Concepts Prize.
/ Mobile Home for the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo.
/ Bussing Stations, for the cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
/ Prix de Rome.

1991
/ Charlotte Köhler Award.

Literature

2009
/ D. Linley, C. Cator, H. Chislett, Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular
Furniture, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

2007
/ J. Allen, A. Betsky, R. Laermans, Atelier Van Lieshout, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.

BIOGRAPHY

DOWNLOAD INFO

Awards

2014
/ ‘Het Orakel’, Dam square, Amsterdam, commission by Amsterdams 4 en 5 mei comite.
/ ‘Vooruit’, Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden.

2013
/ ‘La Caravane’, public sculpture, Place Saint-Saveur, Caen, France.
/ ‘De Warande’, information stand, Turnhout, Belgium.

2011
/ ‘Worm’, interior for Cultural Centre, Rotterdam.
/ ‘Stage design for Tannhauser, Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany.

2009
/ Stankowski Award.
/ l’Absence, artwork in public space, Nantes, France.

2005
/ ‘Fisherman’s House’, Dalen.
/ ‘Pink Giant’, Nieuwegein.
/ ‘Gieleskull’, Amsterdam.

2004
/ Kurt Schwitters Award.
/ ‘Wombhouse’, Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France.

2000
/ Wilhelmina-Ring Sculpture Award.
/ Bar for the Parade, mobile theatre show.
/ Furniture visitor’s room Prison Hoogvliet, Rotterdam.

1998
/ Mart Stam Award.

1997
/ Anjerfonds – Chabot Award.

1996
/ Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Stiftung Award.

1995
/ Bolidt Floor Concepts Prize.
/ Mobile Home for the Kröller Müller Museum, Otterlo.
/ Bussing Stations, for the cafeteria of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
/ Prix de Rome.

1991
/ Charlotte Köhler Award.

Literature

2009
/ D. Linley, C. Cator, H. Chislett, Star Pieces, The Enduring Beauty of Spectacular
Furniture, Thames and Hudson, 2009.

2007
/ J. Allen, A. Betsky, R. Laermans, Atelier Van Lieshout, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007.

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