Erik van Lieshout
Erik VAN LIESHOUT (1968, Netherlands) was educated in painting at the art academy in ’s-Hertogenbosch and Atelier ’63 in Haarlem. He also makes installations, sculptures and films. The artist looks at subcultures and the problems of urban life by putting himself into the actual environment in question. This causes humorous situations, but also provokes strong reactions from others. In 2018, he was selected as laureate of the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art. In 2020, he completed the short film Art Blasé, but had to postpone the premiere until 2021 due to the Covid-19 crisis. He lives and works in Rotterdam.
Filmography
(selection) Sauna (1998, instal), Zonnebank (1999, instal), EMMDM (1999, short), Grow and Blossom (2000, short), Lariam (2001, instal), Mary-Achi (2002, short), Respect (2003, instal), Happiness (2003, instal), Fantasy Me (2004, short), Awakening (2005, short), UP! (2005, short), Rotterdam-Rostock (2006, instal), ROCK (2006, short), Homeland Security (2007, short), Guantánamo Baywatch (2007, short), Peepshow (2007, instal), Sex is Sentimental (2009, short doc), Das Museum (2009, short), keine Kohle, kein Holz (2009, instal), Commission (2011, short), Janus (2012, short), Jail (2012, short), Ego (2013, instal), The Workers (2014, short), The Basement (2014, short), Work (2015, doc), Die Insel (2016, short doc), G.O.A.T. (2017, doc), Beer (2019, short), Art Blasé (2021, short)
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Erik van Lieshout at IFFR
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Art Blasé
Erik van Lieshout inimitably outlines the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the art world and Art Basel in particular.
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Rock
In his recent film Rock we see artist Erik van Lieshout in a complex situation. Although the images seem to have a documentary quality, the questio
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Happiness
Installation with amorphous, reflecting shed of Perspex and the breaking voice of Van Lieshout while he passionately tries to make it clear to his
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Janus
About a man from a working-class neighbourhood in Rotterdam-Zuid named Janus, a collector of curiosities who has recently died. And about art.
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Beer
Erik van Lieshout is awarded a prize by a well-known brewery. All the more reason for a party, one might say.
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WERK
It was to be an ‘epic on the artist as worker’. Which WORK undoubtedly is. Above all, however, it is a cheery shambles, featuring a manly search fo
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The Basement
Artist Erik van Lieshout uses a politically charged occasion to allow humans and animals to benefit from his art during the Manifesta in St. Peters
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Commission
Frank and often funny conversations about roots, consumerism and the rise of the Dutch Right Wing in Van Lieshout’s ‘shop’ in a Rotterdam mal
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Sex Is Sentimental
Can you love people just as much as art? The artist Erik van Lieshout subjects himself and his lover to an intense investigation.