“Let’s Get Physical” with Atelier Van Lieshout Sculpture Route through M4H-Rotterdam-West (NL)
Tree of Life (2016) is one of the 33 artworks that are part of “Let’s Get Physical”. Photographer: GJ van Rooij
“Let’s Get Physical” is a dynamic exploration of the burgeoning industrial Merwe-Vierhaven area (M4H) in Rotterdam-West. This sculpture route is a public art project in celebration of our regained freedom to be outside, to engage with others, and to be physically active. Let’s Get Physical starts at AVL Mundo’s Sculpture Park which serves as home base with an evolving installation, featuring The Technocrat (2003), a complex closed circuit of food, alcohol, excrement and energy, in which mankind’s waste – and man himself – is used as the raw material for the production of biogas. More than thirty AVL works are in site-relevant dialogue throughout the harbour district at twelve additional participating locations. More info to be found here.
Let’s Get Physical, M4H Rotterdam (NL) 17 July 2020 – 4 October 2020 Get your free road map at AVL Mundo, Keileweg 18, Rotterdam Book a bike tour via Urban Guides here
“Let’s Get Physical” on Instagram, shot by our visitors. #ateliervanlieshout #avlmundo
“Let’s Get Physical” is generously sponsored by: Stichting Droom en Daad, M4H Rotterdam, Rotterdam Partners, UrbanGuides and AVL Mundo. Participating locations: Keilecafé, Floating Farm, De Voedseltuin, Weelde, AVL Mundo, CrossfitNultien, The Lee Towers, Stichting Dakpark, Citrusveiling, Keilepand and several publicly accessible venues.
“Inner Spaces” Biennial at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
Hagioscoop (2012) is on view at MDD in Belgium until October 18th, 2020.
Atelier Van Lieshout’s Hagioscoop (2012) is part of the 7th edition of the Biennial of Painting entitled “Inner Spaces” atMuseum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD) in Belgium. “Binnenskamers” (Inner Spaces) – a title chosen long before the corona crisis – is an exciting opportunity to discover a wide selection of modern and contemporary paintings from Belgium and around the world. Hagioscoop (2012) is installed at the entry of the exhibition and functions as a welcome center and information stand for the visitors of “Inner Spaces”. It is the first artwork selected for a new annual commission by MDD.
Biennial Inner Spaces From 26 July to 18 October 2020 Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
“Boijmans’ Drive-Thru” at Ahoy, Rotterdam (NL)
The team of Atelier Van Lieshout on Mercedes with 57mm Canon (1998).
Rotterdam Ahoy and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen developed an unique drive through-exhibition format. Ahoy offers an alternative art venue to experience works from the permanent collection of Boijmans. More than forty works are displayed in the 10,000 m2 event hall; 750 visitors per day drive in electric cars through the Drive-thru Museum.
Atelier Van Lieshout has two works included in the exhibition. Operation (2007), a sculpture part of AVL’s Slave City-project, and Mercedes with 57mm Canon (1998) are on view at the Drive-Thru Museum. The latter is AVL’s old company car, an ordinary Mercedes, equipped with a 57-mm canon. In 2002, the work was almost confiscated by the Rotterdam police, who started to impound artworks shortly after Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was murdered. They took AVL M80 Mortar but decided to come back the next day for the Mercedes. That night, the car was transported to the Boijmans Museum, which decided to acquire the work for its permanent collection and save it from being destroyed.
Boijmans’ Drive-Thru Museum, Ahoy Rotterdam, The Netherlands 1 August 2020 – 23 August 2020 Get your tickets via this link
Upcoming solo exhibition “The Clock which will Solve Every Problem in the World” atKunstraum Dornbirn(AT)
Detail shot of Pendulum (2019) that’s on display at “The Clock which will Solve Every Problem in the World”.
3 September 2020 – 8 November 2020
Van Lieshout’s works offer a new perspective on the transition of time, on our perception of time and on the way in which time may not be as merciless and linear as we think.
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Watch the new video “Erasing Boundaries – In the Studio with Joep van Lieshout” Published by Cultured Magazine
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