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
Arianne
Composite
90 x 95 x 215 cm
Since the beginning of modern society, rats have played a role in culture and science. The animals often invoke a sense of fear and horror. Atelier Van Lieshout however would like to stress the positive sides of the rat. They are considered highly intelligent, are adaptive if the environment changes, agile and sensitive, and very able to take care of themselves. Considering these positive notions, one could easily see the human side of the animal. The rat could be envisioned as the animal of the future; an animal that will always be here; an animal that we should look upon as a friend instead of a foe. This is a rat offering his tail , a friendly rat – generous and , makes himself vulnerable by offering his own tail.
Arianne (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Dysfunctional‘, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT), 2019
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Caretaker Side Table
Bronze
160 x 60 x 160 cm
Caretaker Side Table (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Harmonious Contradiction, MASA x Sothebys, New York (US), 2022
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The Beginning of Everything Lamp
Mixed media
54 x 87 x 201 cm
The Beginning of Everything Lamp (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Light in the Darkness, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
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Human
Bronze
68 x 68 x 180 cm
Human (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Light in the Darkness, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
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Mani-Festo Lamp
Wood
32 x 32 x 151 cm
Mani-Festo Lamp (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Light in the Darkness, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
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Twins
Mixed media
28 x 78 x 184 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.
Twins (2019) 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
Atomic Floor Lamp Small
Rolled steel
80 x 80 x 76 cm
A sculpture of a diagram of the nutritional diet in JVL’s project Slave City. ”It’s about finding balance between volumes and masses between sculpture space.”
SlaveCity can be described as a sinister utopian project which is very rational, efficient and profitable (7,8 billion euro net profit per year. Values, ethics, esthetics, moral, food, energy, economics, organization, management and market are turned upside-down, mixed and reformulated and designed into a town of 200.000 inhabitants, an up-to-date concentration camp set up according to the latest technology and management insights. The inhabitants (which are called participants) work 7 hours a day in call-centre office jobs, such as customers service, ITC, telemarketing and computer programming. After that, they work 7 hours in the fields or in workshops, in order to keep SlaveCity running, before being allowed three hours of relaxation and seven hours of sleep. The efficiency of the participants is monitored accurately and appropriate measures are taken if it drops under a set level.
Atomic Floor Lamp Small (2013) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Light in the Darkness, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
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Courting Birds Lamp
COR-ten steel
81 x 48 x 109 cm
Courting Birds (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Roof Installation, ROOF-A, Rotterdam (NL), 2021
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Rat Lamp
Mixed Media
150 cm x 75 cm x 312 cm
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Head Light
Mixed Media
30 cm x 30 cm x 170cm
Head Light (2020) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Light in the Darkness, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna (AT), 2022
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Butler
Composite
130 cm x 67 cm x 140 cm
Early prehistoric sculpture was all about fertility – think, for instance, of the Venus of Willendorf with her broad thighs and ample bosom. Butler is her male counterpart who has fallen victim to his own potency. His penis rests on a crutch and serves as a side table for drinks, while he himself has been reduced to a lampshade. Some of his original vigour is still detectable in his rudimentary body shape that was sawn from polystyrene blocks with a chainsaw before being cast in composite.
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Reclining Figure
Bronze, sheep felt
Reclining Figure is an elegant and intimate sculpture of a woman, a portrayal of beauty and female strength. She is a primal mother; warm and sensitive, but strong, being able to easily hold the weight of eight.
For enquiries: please contact Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Caveman Chair
Bronze, sheep felt
Evolving from AVL’s fossil series, wherein the artist cast the human body creating “fossils” sculpted into functional objects. The work looks as if it’s been pulled from a prehistoric cave dwelling hewn out of volcanic stone, functioning as a sitting place to nestle in sheep fur while eating a spicy bowl of wild boar ravioli.
For enquiries: please contact Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Kut Lamp
Steel, light fittings
20 cm x 44 cm x 49 cm
Kut Lamp (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Dysfunctional‘, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT), 2019
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Girl Lamp
Bronze
The lithe and graceful figure of a young woman, posing like a flamingo virgin — the work is a celebration of youth. The subject’s bifurcated rendering invites us to question the male gaze’s conquest, reminding us that in today’s world the defence of fragile innocence is required.
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Old Man Lamp
Bronze
Limited edition of 8 + 4 AP
150cm x 70 cm x 120 cm
The work is a self-portrait of Joep van Lieshout, an artist who refuses to surrender. In a show of stamina he drags himself from one creation to the next, morphing into his gnarled walking stick, reflecting the cycle of life from love to reproduction, growth and death.
Old Man Lamp (2019) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Dysfunctional‘, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT), 2019
‘Dysfunctional‘, Armory Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice (IT), 2020
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Small Sausage with Funnel Lamp
Bronze
65 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm
Edition of 8
In many languages, sausage is a pars pro toto for male, or even straight up slang for penis. In Dutch, the translation of sausage, “worst”, also means “whatever”, which is Joep van Lieshout’s comment on art versus design and art in general, even his own. It is his laconic yet defiant response towards the attempt of the press and market to label or box him as artist, designer or architect or sculptor.
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60 x 40 x 40
60 x 40 x 136 cm
60 x 40 x 40 is part of the RENEGADE series. 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. 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.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Boem Boem
Mixed media
30 x 65 x 156 cm
Boem Boem is part of the RENEGADE series. 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. 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.
Boem Boem (2019) 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
Domestikator Lamp
The Domestikator Lamp is a forged-steel lamp, shaped to present the outline of two figures and their relation. Its head serves as the lampshade. This elegant forged-steel work explores a recent theme in Van Lieshout’s work: the power of mankind over the natural world.
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Old Man Lamp
Bronze
65 cm x 33 cm x 26 cm
Limited edition of 8 + 4 AP
The work is a self-portrait of Joep van Lieshout, an artist who refuses to surrender. In a show of stamina he drags himself from one creation to the next, morphing into his gnarled walking stick, reflecting the cycle of life from love to reproduction, growth and death.
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Minimal Kiss Lamp
COR-ten steel
31 x 23 x 62 cm
“This kiss is our primitive needs in a cubist style. It is made from Corten steel which will rust on the surface in contrast with normal steel which will disappear over the years. You can leave this kiss outside for hundreds of years.” Joep Van Lieshout
Minimal Kiss Lamp (2017) was part of the following exhibition(s):
Design and Dynasty, Stadtschloss Fulda, Fulda (DE), 2022
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Venus Lamp
Bronze
17 x 17 x 38 cm
“Fertility. The first sculptures ever were of fertility sculptures. This one has three legs so I guess that it has a penis. From a biological point, if you bring back what is the goal of the human as a species is to keep on living, eating, and reproduce. Theoretically you can die after you reproduce.” Joep van Lieshout
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Scarlett Lamp
Bronze
22 x 19 x 32 cm
A portrait of an early morning with family, this is a sculpture about love.
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Deer Lamp
Bronze
75 x 48 x 107 cm
Deer Lamp refers to the origin of human beings, humankind’s earliest art works found in cave paintings which celebrated hunting, surviving, eating, and atavistic worship of nature. Inspired by pictures of animals that survived the millennia, this belongs to The New Tribal Labyrinth, a body of work about returning back to the future and finding new rituals and solutions for the future while honouring our humble beginnings.
Enquiries via Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Together Lamp
Bronze
75 x 48 x 107 cm
“This is the most essential way of drawing a figure related to the first human expressions.” Joep Van Lieshout
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Stoplicht
Mixed media
80 x 50 x 150 cm
In his new body of work CryptoFuturism Joep van Lieshout revisits the Italian Futurists a century later to look at resonances between emerging Fascist tendencies today, using his art to reveal the interplay between Utopia and destruction. Van Lieshout embraces emerging technologies from genetic manipulation to robotics and big data to draw parallels between the societal threats faced in the early 20th century and the perhaps graver circumstances we face today. Starting his research by building huge machines in order to destroy or recycle all possible materials, Joep van Lieshout deconstructs notions of sustainability with techno modernist speed, playing a dangerous game with nostalgia for bygone political theorems.
Stoplicht (2016) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Der Hausfreund’, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (AT), 2016 – 2017
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Crypto Helmet Lamp 2
Mixed media
40 x 35 x 180 cm
In his new body of work CryptoFuturism Joep van Lieshout revisits the Italian Futurists a century later to look at resonances between emerging Fascist tendencies today, using his art to reveal the interplay between Utopia and destruction. Van Lieshout embraces emerging technologies from genetic manipulation to robotics and big data to draw parallels between the societal threats faced in the early 20th century and the perhaps graver circumstances we face today. Starting his research by building huge machines in order to destroy or recycle all possible materials, Joep van Lieshout deconstructs notions of sustainability with techno modernist speed, playing a dangerous game with nostalgia for bygone political theorems.
As part of the CryptoFuturism project, these helmets refer to new technologies and the way humans will interact with these currently unpredictable developments.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Crypto Helmet Lamp 1
Mixed media
105 x 40 x 180 cm
In his new body of work CryptoFuturism Joep van Lieshout revisits the Italian Futurists a century later to look at resonances between emerging Fascist tendencies today, using his art to reveal the interplay between Utopia and destruction. Van Lieshout embraces emerging technologies from genetic manipulation to robotics and big data to draw parallels between the societal threats faced in the early 20th century and the perhaps graver circumstances we face today. Starting his research by building huge machines in order to destroy or recycle all possible materials, Joep van Lieshout deconstructs notions of sustainability with techno modernist speed, playing a dangerous game with nostalgia for bygone political theorems.
As part of the CryptoFuturism project, these helmets refer to new technologies and the way humans will interact with these currently unpredictable developments.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Kissing Table
Fiberglass
65 x 65 x 133 cm
For the near future, Atelier Van Lieshout foresees the emergence of a new tribal world, a primitive society where production takes centre stage. This world will see a return to farming and industry – which currently both have been banished from our society – and a re-establishment of our relationship with materials – which now has been lost. In this new world, ethics will be of little importance. Instead, rituals will be re-valued, and will offer the tribes of the future guidance.
Atelier Van Lieshout is taking an advance on this future, and is creating all necessary equipment for the imaginary tribes, ranging from items of worship and sacrifice to objects for daily use, dwellings and machines. All these artworks together make the huge Gesamtkunstwerk that is New Tribal Labyrinth.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Zig Zag
Wood
40 x 46 x 87 cm
Zig Zag (2015) is Van Lieshout’s take on one of the most iconic designs of the 20th century. However, it is executed in a primitive, almost crude way, in plywood, with a rough finish. Zig Zag is linked to a series of chairs by Atelier Van Lieshout, the Prototypes, in which Joep van Lieshout wanted to address the value of crude assembly. For this series, Van Lieshout produced a number of chairs, by hand, directly from the heart, from the head – without making use of a design, a try square or a measurement tape. This approach stands in stark contrast with that of the Rietveld chair. Any similarity is therefore a coincidence.x
Zig Zag (2015) was part of the following exhibition(s):
‘Primitive Modern’, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE), 2015
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Les Brutalist Series
Composite
Divere measurements
The Les Brutalist series (2015) is a body of cubist, functional sculptures in a style that Joep van Lieshout refers to as “nouveau brutalism”. With its abstract, geometrical shapes, Les Brutalist hold a clear reference to the utopian modernist movements of the early 20th century. At the same time, however, the installation addresses mans’ most primeval needs. The installation is part of a series by Atelier Van Lieshout, entitled New Tribal Labyrinth, which presents a vision of a future, yet primitive, world inhabited by imaginary tribes where there will be different ethics. This world will see a return to farming and industry, to rituals and rites.
Part of Les Brutalist series (2015): Henri, Kissing Chair, Lounge Area, Chaise Longue, Party Island and Carl.
Les Brutalist series (2015) was part of the following exhibition(s):
– Party Island: ‘Recover/Uncover’, Masa Galeria, Mexico City (MX), 2020
– Various: ‘Primitive Modern‘, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels (BE), 2015
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Bambino Lamp
Mixed media
111 x 86 x 180 cm
Bambino lamp. Man-woman, (wo)man child, child-child: tender family relations captured in a functional object.
The New Tribal Labyrinth is an ongoing series of work in which recurring themes like the organization of labour, the structures of power and revolution are linked to the end of the worlds´ resources and subsequent self sufficiency. It suggests a new world order, a society inhabited by imaginary tribes. This world will see a return to farming and industry – which currently both have been banished from our society – and a re-establishment of our relationship with materials – which now has been lost. Rituals will be re-valued, and will play in important role in society once more. Thus, objects for farming, industry and rituals are the three main bodies of work of this huge ”Gesamtkunstwerk”.
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com
Fossil Bench
Mixed media
255 x 80 x 50 cm
The fossil series consists of several chairs, chaise longues and sofas. The fossils are reminiscent or recall a primitive shape, half natural, half manmade. They have an outline that vaguely looks like a remnant of a human shape or a body. Like a fossil, these nomadic pieces reveal the identity of the pre-historic host but also resemble and may be seen as rocks or volcanic stone. The fossils are provocative and thoughtful sculptures, which function as sitting places or pieces of furniture, inspiring visitors to nestle and offer an interesting place to gather, read, have a pick-nick, and dream away with the movement of the clouds or the sounds of the city.
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Kiss Lamp
Bronze
36 x 36 x 69 cm
For enquiries: please contact Atelier Van Lieshout via info@ateliervanlieshout.com