Atelier van Lieshout

Atelier van Lieshout: BarRectum (2005)

Atelier van Lieshout (also AVL) is an interdisciplinary Dutch artist collective. It was founded in 1995 by the artist and main actor of the group Joep van Lieshout (* 1963) and also bears his name. The group is based in Rotterdam .

The often provocative works range from installation, happening , sculpture , design and architecture to utopian scenarios such as Slave City , the components of which are exhibited in the form of drawings, models and 1: 1 excerpts. Recurring motifs and themes in the work of the AVL are autarky , anarchy , politics and sex .

history

The Atelier van Lieshout on Keileweg in Rotterdam.

The Monument, Bodestrasse 1-3, in Berlin-Mitte

In 1995 van Lieshout founded the Atelier van Lieshout in order to question “the role of the artist as a genius and an isolated individual”, as he himself put it. Another reason was that he wanted to please one of his customers who preferred to do business with a company rather than a private individual.

Joep van Lieshout has acquired a large plot of land on Keileweg in the Rotterdam port area and is the director of Atelier van Lieshout (AVL). The main building is a 15 meter high hall in which van Lieshout's works are produced. Many workpieces are made of colored polyester, the trademark of Atelier van Lieshout. He has employed a managing director, a sales manager, someone for public relations , and more than ten employees who realize his designs on a full-time basis. Joep van Lieshout, on the other hand, prefers to work at home, draw and come up with new ideas. Atelier van Lieshout's artistic activities also include distilling schnapps and making weapons. A 'piece of jewelery' was confiscated by the police in 1995 because it had the function of a brass knuckle and a gun at the same time . Another because it could be used as a stabbing weapon.

The AVL gained international attention in the art scene in the 1990s with the production of mobile, container-like miniature buildings, which are often reminiscent of mutated camping vehicles or temporary structures and which vary the subject of self-sufficiency, independence and freedom of movement.

Works

Atelier van Lieshout's works include:

Mobile Homes (from 1995)

Mobile homes are mobile residential units. Atelier van Lieshout converts trucks and caravans with wood, polyester and various other materials into idiosyncratic survival units . Mobile Home for Kröller-Müller (1995), Modular House Mobile (1995/96), Cast Mobiel (1996) and Autocrat (1997) are four of these units . Hausfreund II , a wagon castle consisting of these four works, was shown in 1997 at the exhibition Sculpture.Projects on the promenade in Münster .

Clip-on (1997)

The director of the Centraal Museum Utrecht wanted an extension of the museum's office space to work, sleep and relax. AVL designed a unit of 30 m² that could be mounted on the museum's outer wall. The outer shape does not have its own design, but is a result of the use of the interior. The clip-on was created in collaboration with Klaar van der Lippe .

AVL-Ville (2001)

Originally, AVL-Ville in 1989 as an autonomous Free State Almere planned. The project was not accepted in the planning phase. In 2001, the Free State of AVL-Ville was opened on its own atelier site on Keileweg in the port of Rotterdam. AVL-Ville should be available to the employees and former employees of Atelier van Lieshout as a place where, after a year of work, they can build a residential unit according to their own wishes, for which the material is provided. Joep van Lieshout as artistic director and Jeroen Thomas as director for business and finance took over the organization. The other members of Atelier van Lieshout had a say in decisions.

AVL-Ville is one of the largest overall concepts by Atelier van Lieshout, which can not only be visited, but also serves as a place to live and live together. It should be a place where everything is possible and thus the realization of the dream of an autonomous place that can take care of itself. The mobile housing units and containers served as accommodation, there was a farm (Das Pionierset ), an infirmary, a canteen, a brewery, a sausage factory and an arms factory. The lawyer Gerard Spong was legal advisor for the constitution , there was a currency, a flag and a cannon on the border. AVL-Ville attracted many visitors, but had to close the doors after nine months. The project, which saw itself as a “provocative alternative to state rule and monopoly”, was not tolerated by the authorities. Based on experience with municipalities and sects , the Rotterdam municipality soon used the laws to ban AVL-Ville . The original planning sketches for AVL-Ville are now in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum .

Pioneer set (1999-2000)

The prototype of the pioneer set is on the AVL site, the farm is used to produce food for the restaurant. The prefabricated pioneer set, including all individual parts, can be transported in a sea container and purchased for € 250,000. A building permit is not necessary, the construction takes about three days. The set contains an apartment, a hutch for rabbits, one for pigs, tools and fences. The container itself can be used as a barn.

The treatment room, A-Portable (2001)

Atelier Van Lieshout got from Women on Waves (WoW), a Dutch non-profit organization , which the self-determination of women to abortion advocates, the contract for the design of a mobile abortion clinic. The treatment room is a fully equipped, functional clinic in a shipping container that has been checked by the Dutch health authorities. With the container on board a ship, various countries are headed for, where women are to be protected from unprofessional abortions. Information about family planning and abortion is provided in the port . Women who are unwantedly pregnant can go on board and the abortion will then be carried out outside the territorial sea by doctors under professional conditions under Dutch law. In 2001 The treatment room / A-Portable was exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia .

Bonnefantopia (2003)

2003 bought Bonnefantenmuseum the Designed for Kuppelsaal work Bonnefantopia on. It is an open, one-story structure made of wood, polished polyester and materials from scaffolding. A toilet, shower, kitchen, a bed with lighting, music and schnapps, a fitness room and an SM room can be seen. Human, abstract figures lie, squat and sit there. The work refers to Sportopia , which was exhibited at the 25th São Paulo Biennale in 2002 .

Slave City (2005-2009)

Models , floor plans and a full-size collective shower convey an initial vision of a city that exists for only one purpose, namely to generate as much profit as possible. Being a professor is the only way to make money in Slave City . There are two universities, one for male and one for female slaves.

The slaves are employed free of charge in a call center . At reasonable productivity they get perks such as higher education or a visit to a Unisex - brothel . Slaves who are not profitable become organ donors involuntarily or end up on other slaves' plates. If the slave is unsuitable for both purposes, it will end up as biomass , which is fermented into biogas . In 2008, the exhibition was the city of slaves in the Museum Folkwang in Essen.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (2015-2018)

As part of the Ruhrtriennale , Atelier van Lieshout created a temporary, walk-in large installation on the forecourt of the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum, a kind of 'art village' that serves as the festival venue. The title, inspired by a film title, is based on the mobile youth center designed in 1998 for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, whose trailer trailer can now be found in Bochum. Instead of the 'evil', a small black house, the trailer now leads over the domesticator to a red barn, the refectory , which in its own way is also reminiscent of the American Midwest .

The installation in Bochum consists of more than 20 works by Atelier van Lieshout, some of which are already known, and thus represents the collective's largest installation to date. In addition to the central refectory and the domesticator , which according to AVL questions about the domestication of nature by humans and takes up the taboo of sodomy , there are works such as the Workshop for Weapons and Bombs (1998), the Pioneer Set Farmer's House (1999–2000), the BarRectum (2005), The Heads, Claudia & Hermann (2005), and the workshop for Medicine and Alcohol (2008). Other buildings, etc. a. das Hagioscoop (2012), as well as a selection of sculptures, etc. a. Caretaker (2003), Excrementorium (2011), Panta Rhei (part of Ritual Objects , 2011–2012) and Canon WW1 (2012) complete the ensemble.

Awards

• 2009 Prize of the Stankowski Foundation
• 2004 Kurt Schwitters Prize
• 2000 Wilhelmina-ring, Sculpture Award
• 1998 Mart Stam Prize
• 1997 Anjerfonds - Chabot Prize
• 1996 87th Catalog Prize 1996
• 1995 Bolidt Floor Concepts 1995, 1st prize
• 1992 Prix ​​de Rome Prize
• 1991 Charlotte Köhler Prize

Literature (selection)

• Bart Lootsma (ed.): Atelier van Lieshout - A manual . Ostfildern-Ruit 1997.
• Aaron Betsky: Joep van Lieshout u. a., Atelier van Lieshout , Rotterdam 2007, ISBN 978-9056624828 .
• Ludwig Forum for International Art (Ed.): Atelier van Lieshout: Das Haus . Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-8321-9117-7 .
• Folkwang Museum (ed.): Atelier van Lieshout: Slave City . Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-8321-9134-4 .
• Peter Noever: Atelier Van Lieshout. The Disciplinator: The Disciplinator . Cologne 2006, ISBN 978-3-85160-068-1 .
• Bart Lootsma: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, or: Sympathy for the Devil . In: Daidalos . No. 75, May 2000.

Web links

Commons : Atelier Van Lieshout  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Atelier van Lieshout's website
• Atelier van Lieshout. In: arch INFORM .
• Portrait of Joep van Lieshout on designboom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hans den Hartog Jager: Interview with Joep van Lieshout. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 29, 2015 ; Retrieved September 2, 2015 (Dutch, from: Oog Magazine, November 2008). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Fatema Ahmed: Atelier Van Lieshout. In: www.iconeye.com. Icon Magazine, May 13, 2013, accessed September 2, 2015 . 
3. ↑ art bus: Joep van Lieshout (1963) / Atelier Van Lieshout , accessed on 14 February 2015 (Dutch).
4. ^ Atelier van Lieshout. In: www.lwl.org. Retrieved September 2, 2015 . 
5. ^ Atelier van Lieshout: Clip-on (1997). (No longer available online.) In: www.ateliervanlieshout.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Artforum: Jennifer Allen talks with AVL's Joep van Lieshout ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 13, 2015. 
7. ^ ^{A b} Graham Coulter-Smith: Interaction. (No longer available online.) In: www.installationart.net. 2006, p. 6 , archived from the original on November 20, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Joep van Lieshout - AVL-Ville, 2001 - uitverkocht. In: www.welikeart.nl. September 27, 2011, accessed September 2, 2015 (Dutch). 
9. ^ Atelier van Lieshout | Pioneer set. (No longer available online.) In: www.redres.nl. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved September 2, 2015 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Mobile treatment room designed by Joep van Lieshout. In: Women on Waves. Retrieved September 2, 2015 . 
11. ^ Bonnefantopia: Installation by Atelier van Lieshout. In: www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved September 2, 2015 . 
12. ^ Atelier van Lieshout: Slave City. In: www.anti-utopias.com. Retrieved September 2, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Ethel Baraona Pohl: Slave City / Atelier Van Lieshout. ArchDaily, July 26, 2009, accessed September 2, 2015 . 
14. ^ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. (No longer available online.) In: www.ruhrtriennale.de. Archived from the original on October 25, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ^ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1998). (No longer available online.) In: www.ateliervanlieshout.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ^ Atelier Van Lieshout takes over Ruhrtriennale arts festival. In: Dezeen Magazine. August 21, 2015, accessed on September 2, 2015 (English): "The act of domestication, however, often leads to boundaries being sought or even crossed. Only a few taboos remain, and it is these taboos that the Domestikator seeks to address. " 
17. ^ The Domesticator. In: domusweb.it. August 28, 2015, accessed September 2, 2015 . 
18. ↑ Anja Likusa: Art Village of the Ruhrtriennale. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly . (No longer available online.) In: www1.wdr.de. August 14, 2015, archived from the original on August 16, 2015 ; accessed on September 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.