Atelier van Lieshout

Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), established in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout, is a multidisciplinary collective that engages in conceiving and producing contemporary art, design and architecture.
This richly illustrated publication provides an overview of AVL’s often provocative work: from art objects, items of furniture and mobile architecture to wholly selfsufficient survival campers, autonomous communes and surrealistic architectural projects.
Atelier Van Lieshout includes highlights such as AVLVille, the Free State that AVL created in Rotterdam’s port, the large scaffolding installation that mixes sport and sex Sportopia; The Technocrat, the large installation in which 1000 burghers are reduced to mere cogwheels in a system to produce biogas; and the sinister utopian project SlaveCity, a 21st-century concentration camp with just one purpose: to make profit.
With essays by art critic Jennifer Allen, architecture and design critic Aaron Betsky, sociologist Rudi Laermans and architecture historian Wouter Vanstiphout.