Atelier Van Lieshout chez beaumontpublic

Atelier Van Lieshout chez beaumontpublic was published on the occasion of Atelier Van Lieshout’s exhibition at beaumontpublic in Luxembourg in 2004.

Edited by Martine Schneider-Speller, with contributions by Alexandra Midal and Paul Rauchs, the catalogue documents a practice situated between sculpture, architecture, design, furniture, and social experiment.

Founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout in Rotterdam, Atelier Van Lieshout deliberately operates under the name of a studio rather than that of an individual artist. This collective identity is part of the work’s method: it questions authorship, production, functionality, and the boundaries between art and use.

The publication reflects a body of work in which objects are never merely objects. Furniture, modular structures, bodily forms, machines, and architectural units become models for social organization, control, autonomy, desire, and survival. Atelier Van Lieshout’s work often moves between pragmatic construction and provocative fiction, between design and dystopia.

As a catalogue, Atelier Van Lieshout chez beaumontpublic offers insight into an important phase of AVL’s practice in the early 2000s, when the studio’s investigations into systems, bodies, power, and self-sufficient environments had become central to its international reception.