Atelier van Lieshout
I don’t want to work on what’s in demand. I only want to make things nobody asked for.
Joep van Lieshout via Chabot Magazine, 2018
In 1995, Joep van Lieshout (1965, the Netherlands) founded his studio, Atelier van Lieshout (AVL). AVL dissects systems, be it society as a whole or the human body. He experiments and looks for alternatives, combining an imaginative aesthetic and ethic with a spirit of entrepreneurship. His recalcitrant, practical artworks share a number of recurring themes, motives, and obsessions: systems, power, autarky, life, sex, and death—each of these trace the human individual in the face of a greater whole.
