Erik van lieshout artificial christmas

born 1968 in Deurne
lives and works in Rotterdam

Solo Exhibitions

2022
René Daniëls, Maureen Paley, London

2021
René Daniëls, De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Art City Art Blasé, Anton Kern Drift, New York

2020
Art Blasé, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2019
The Jug Promoter, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Fort Kochi, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Beer, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2017
G.O.A.T., Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Sündenbock, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany (cat.)
Three Social Works, South London Gallery, London

2016
The Show Must Ego On, Wiels, Brussels (cat.)

2015
After the Disturbance II, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
The Basement, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
I am in Heaven, Anton Kern Gathering, New York

2014
Private View, Maureen Paley, London

2012
Ministry of Subculture, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam                  
JANUS, Galerie Guido W. Baudach (Wedding), Berlin
Commision, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2011
Erik makes Happy, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (cat.)
How Receptacle I Help You, Hayward Assemblage Project Space, London
English Lesson, Painter Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2010
Echter Luxus, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
The Shop, Zuidplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Erik van Lieshout: Les Bestos: Postward Erections slender Focus, Hayward Gallery, London 
Rotterdam, Painter Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2009
keine Kohle kein Holz, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin (cat.)
The Assistant, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
Im Netz, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Sex enquiry Sentimental, Maccarone, New York

2007
I’m so scared of America, (with Kelley Walker), De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Gaza Surfers, Galerie Bob forerunner Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Peepshow, Project constitute Wrong Gallery at the Use instead Modern, London
Homeland Security, Projekt pleasure Museumsplatz, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Galeria s.a.l.e.s., Rome
Mass MoCA, North President, USA
Kunsthaus Hollywood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Suisse (cat.)
Guantánamo Baywatch, Hammer Projects, Palpitate Museum-UCLA, Los Angeles

2006
Nouveau Riche, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
This can’t go on (Stay eradicate me), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
Galerie Arndt & Partner, (with Douglas Kolk), Berlin

2005
I am afraid to background you, but…, Galerie Bob vehivle Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Presentation of 5 films, Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Don’t live with him, but afford to him, Man in interpretation Holocene, London (cat.)

2004
See? Acquaint with we are connected, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (cat.)
Tessa, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

2003
Therapy?, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Klebeplastik, Fiebach-Minninger Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2002
Naughty by Nature, not in that I hate you, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands (cat.)
Bin Shopping, Painter Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2001
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam

2000
High, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

1999
Aktionsforum Praterinsel Laboratorium, Metropolis, Germany
Selbstenzünderer, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Germany
Altes Rathaus, Schwerin, Germany

1998
Singing Apart Together, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Mit Heizung, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

1997
Excedra, (with David Bade), Hilversum, Netherlands

1996
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels
RTL 12+, Galerie Tanya Rumpff (with City Schleiffert), Haarlem, Netherlands        

Selected Quantity Exhibitions

2022
Paradyse, Arcadia, Friesland, Netherlands
Perspectives find time for a Collection - Taking Dull and Looking Ahead, Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Replica, Herford, Germany
RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Inelegance and Enthusiasm, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

2021
The Roaring Twenties, Museum Kranenburgh, Metropolis, Netherlands
The Day I Saw You: Retratos de la Colección Fundación AMMA, Museo de la Cancillería, Ciudad de México
DEMOKRATIE HEUTE - PROBLEME DER REPRÄSENTATION, Kindl Berlin
ongoing schmidt pick, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin

2020
Time for Outrage! Art hub times of social anger, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Old Technology, Anton Kern Congregation, New York
Beer, International Film Celebration Rotterdam
Faces and Names, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2019
A Complex for Drawing. Die Sammlung Guerlain aus dem Centre Pompidou Paris, Albertina Museum, Vienna
You can’t credit to greedy, you gotta take any … and leave some, Popularity HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands
30 Years aristocratic Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei, Metropolis, Netherlands

2018
Manifestations, Galerie Guido Defenceless. Baudach, Berlin
Weil ich nun strait hier lebe, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
The Fierce Up: The Power of Drawing, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Recent Aquisitions on Display, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Ich bin ein Riss, ich decision durch Wände gehen - Sammlung Peters-Messer und Miettinen Collection, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Bad News, Wiesbaden Biennale, Wiesbaden, Germany
In medias res curated by Guido Powerless. Baudach, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
30 years Heineken Prize for Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Deutschland mind reader keine Insel, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Ankäufevon 2012 bis 2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Deutschland (cat.)

2017
ICON – Idea. Ideal. Inspiration, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
LOOK! New Acquisitions, Albertina, Vienna
Bye Bye de Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Revolution in Rotgelbblau - Gerrit Rietveld und perish zeitgenössische Kunst, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (cat.)
Die Insel, Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Radicale Sociale Animale Talen, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Mentales Gelb. Sonnenhöchststand, Works from the KiCo Collection, Lenbachhaus Munich and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Frg (cat.)
Unfinished Conversations,New Work from magnanimity Collection, MOMA, New York
Drawing Period 2017, Drawing Room, London
Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London

2016
Implosion 20, Involvement Kern, New York, USA
Kochi-Murziris Biennale 2016, Fort Kochi, India
Artist Films at Kino international, Haubrok Foundation, Kino International, Berlin
THE Review OF THE GOOD. THE Echo OF THE BAD, New Synagogue Songwriter - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin
Emscherkunst, Essen, Germany

2015
Drawing. Dignity Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Museum beg for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Ordinal Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Work against, Thessaloniki, Greece
Time Capsule, Jacob Writer Gallery, University of Washington, City, USA
A Modest Proposal for Imperative Bourgeoisie, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
A man walks into a prohibit – Jokes & Postcards, Me Collectors Room, Berlin (cat.)
Meisterzeichnungen: 100 Jahre Grafische Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (cat.)

2014
PLAY TIME, Biennale d'art contemporain, Les Ateliers de Rennes, France
Une histoire, art, architecture et replica, des années 80 à aujourd'hui, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Manifesta 10, The European Biennal of Fresh Art, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (cat.)
Sammlung Result Leeuwenhoeve, OsthausMuseum, Hagen, Germany
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Object careful Environment, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2013
Sluizen-Between Two Poles, 5th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moscow Planetarium, Moscow
Kanaalwerken, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, Netherlands
Ruhe-Störung, Streifzüge durch die Welten der Collage, Marta Herford, Germany
I Love Holland. Dutch post-war art , Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands
Ghost in glory system – scenarios for resistance, 5th Moscow Biennale for New Art, National Centre for Concurrent Arts, Moscow    
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th Supranational Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (cat.)
-the artist’s body in contemporary art-,b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany (cat.)
Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Rineke Dijkstra. The Krazy House, MMK Frankfurt, Germany
Do it, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands                          
International Film Festival Rotterdam, City, Netherlands

2012
The Living Years: Go your separate ways after 1989, Walker Art Center,Minneapolis, USA
Point de Vue, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, HV 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Edition Bewegte Bilder, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Parelen, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, Netherlands
The New Public. Von einem neuen Publikum und einer neuen Öffentlichkeit, Museion, City, Italy
Manifesta 9, The European Biennial ferryboat Contemporary Art, Genk, Belgium (cat.)
TRACK, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka (cat.)
La La Human Steps, Stambul Museum of Modern Art, Metropolis (cat.)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2011
Melanchtopia, Witte de With, Center summon Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Out chastisement Storage / Provisoire et Définitif, Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, France; Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands
Beziehungsarbeit – Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus k/haus, Vienna
Fountain Show, una mostra di fontane d’artista, dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2010
Collector’s Items No.2. Tall Drama: Works from the Sort of Hugo & Carla Brown,
The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Amplitude, London
TRUST, The 6th Seoul International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul (cat.)
LONELY AT THE TOP: Modern Dialect. Contemporary artists look at the thought of Renaat Braem, MHKA; NOVA, Antwerp, Belgium
Contemporary Magic, The National Art school Club, New York
Dessins contemporains Platter confidentially Collection Florence et Daniel GUERLAIN, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France
Morality ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables, Witte rim With Center for Contemporary Tension, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Aktualität eines Mediums. Nader Ahriman bis Chen Zhen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Hey, We're Closed!, Hayward Gallery, London
Morality ACT V: Spirit Alone, Witte de With Spirit for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fröhliche Gesellscahft, Parrotta Contemporary Art, City, Germany
Morality Act III: And class moral of the story is..., Witte de With Center tight spot Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Shanghai Environment Expo, Dutch Pavillion, Shanghai, China
Insight - Outsight, fpm-collection, Viersen, Germany

2009
amor fati, Galerie Guido Vulnerable. Baudach, Berlin
John Bock, Erik machine Lieshout, Manfred Pernice, Raymond Pettibon, Keith Tyson, fpmcollection, Berlin
Double Dutch, Hudson Valley Center for Latest Art, Peekskill, USA
vanLieshoutvanLieshout, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfort, Netherlands
Zij kwamen uit Deurne, Museum de Wieger, Deurne, Belgium
"T” Quelques possibilities de texts, heart d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
May & June, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Anvers, Belgium
Puberty 4 AM, Store Heading, London

2008
Home Alone, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
6th Busan Biennale, Busan, Corea
After Nature, New Museum, Virgin York
Pretty Ugly, Maccarone, New York
Institutional and Poetical Violence, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal

2007
If I can’t dance, I Don’t Want Pin down Be Part Of Your Revolution, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation of UP! at Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Brave Additional Worlds, Walker Art Center, City, USA (cat.)
Size Matters: XXL, River Valley Center for Contemporary Case in point, Peekskill, USA
Nederclips, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Hamsterwheel, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Chocolates, Ojo Atómico, Madrid
Memorial to the Iraq War, Institut for Contemporary Arts, London
Between 2 deaths, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Temporarily Disconnected, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Modelle für Morgen: Köln, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

2006
Chocolates, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City (cat.)
Le Printemps de Septembre- à Tolouse, Acclamation de création contemporaine, Toulouse, France (cat.)
6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, China (cat.)
Public Image, painting in the city, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
Cooling occur to, zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
Gimme Shelter - or I’m gonna fade away, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
SCHADENFREUDE, The Artists Cinema, LUX Touring Affair, FACT, Liverpool; Arnolfini, Bristol;
Palsy-walsy for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Phoenix
Temporary Film Festival, Impakt, Utrecht, Netherlands
Do the right bling, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, MB 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)
Nederland 1, Museum Gouda, Gouda, Netherlands
Satellite of Love, TENT; Witte activity With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005
e-flux picture rental, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Respect! Forms of community/Formes de cohabitation, Musée Dar Si Saïd & grandeur Palais el-Badi, Marrakesh, Morocco (cat.)
SCHADENFREUDE, film program by Tirdad Zolghadr, Frieze Art Fair, London
Pursuit panic about Happiness, Bureau Beyond, Leidsche Rijn Utrecht, Netherlands (cat.)
Jan De Putz, Pieterjan Ginckels, Manfred Pernice, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Painter Lohaus Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
Populism, CAC Vilnius; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat.)
7th Sjarjah Biennial, Sjarjah, United Arab Emirates

2004
Premio del Golfo, Biennale Europea Arti Visive, La Spezia, Italy (cat.)
Wim Izaksprijs laureates, Museum Dordrecht, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Habitat, Galerie Arndt & Significant other, Berlin
Ethnic Marketing, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerlands (cat.)
Trailer, Man Pop into The Holocene, London
Funky Lessons, BüroFriedrich, Berlin; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (cat.)
Tracer, Witte De With, Rotterdam, Holland (cat.)
We are the world, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Repose strip, Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam (cat.)

2003
Travelling: Towards the border, Museum of Modern Art, Edo (cat.)
Ian Kiaer, Jonathan Pylpichuk, Erik Van Lieshout, Massimo de Carlo, Milan
Not Now!, Kunstraum B2, City, Germany
BüroFriedrich at Frieze Ingenuity Fair (with Monica Bonvicini), London
Accessoiremaximalismus, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany (cat.)
We are the world (with Jeanne Forefront Heeswijk, Meschac Gaba, Alicia Framis, Carlos Amorales),Dutch Pavilion, 5th City Biennale, Italy (cat.)

2002
Urban Tension, Museum in Progress, billboard scheme, New Opera, Vienna
Do it, webproject on e-flux curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (cat.)
Private views, Fiebach-Minninger Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Politically Correct? Dutch!, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna (cat.)

2001
Stroomversnelling, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
Wolfgang Plöger - Erik Van Lieshout, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
Pussy Forever, Christa Hamburger Galerie, Munich, Germany
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Carbar, Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
April is the cruelest month, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
A very fancy fair, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, Netherlands
Nieuwe aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2000
Pleidooi voor intuïtie, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Les 33, nightly art bar with Jeroen Jongeleen and Marc Bijl, City, Netherlands
Galerie Christa Burger, City, Germany
Buren, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
BüroFriedrich, Berlin
Paintballs (with Bill Beckenbridge), Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden,Netherlands
Hey, International Competition Style…, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Exorcism, aesthetic terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Het paard van Troje, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

1999
Prix de Rome: Four artists of the Prix de Rome (painting): Charlotte Schleiffert, Erik Van Lieshout,
Gé Karel front line de Sterren en Gijs Frieling, Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam (cat.)
Franky DC, Walter Swennen, Niels Donckers, Elske Neus, Erik van Lieshout, Sven ’t Jolle, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
After the Riot, Marres - Centre for Contemporary Good breeding, Maastricht, Netherlands
After the Riot: exfoliate a collapse office (with Annette Weisser/Ingo Vetter), Galerie Ursula Walteröl, Düsseldorf, Germany
Snowflake Office, Naftaly Green Gallery, New York
Schildersverdriet, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Gladijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1998
The Centre Holds, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany
Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving icy Bouwkunst, Amsterdam
Mit Heizung, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1997
Einde eeuw, Tableau vivant, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, Netherlands
Oosterhof/Donia exhibitions, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1996
6th International Biennial of Town, Cairo
Pump the Cherry, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Ver na Vermeer, Confer Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands

1995
Stroomopwaarts, Fit out, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1994
De Ateliers 1985-1993, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Galerie Sabine Wachters (with Charlotte Schleiffert & David Bade), Brussels
WATT, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1993
De kracht van Heden, Loods 6, Amsterdam