Joep van Lieshout

The work of Joep van Lieshout, born in 1963, is tightly woven with the interdisciplinary collection of the "Studio van Lieshout". Conceptually overlapping, Joep van Lieshout's personal artistic practice is more characterized by sculptures and drawings, while AVL combines the interfaces of art, design and architecture in alternative, realistic or utopian lifestyles. This amalgamation of visual and applied art often leads to space-spanning, site-specific installations, new product designs or happenings with the aim of "removing the boundaries between art and life". Since 1995 AVL has been developing utopian models of society and community concepts, new designs for alternative living spaces, capsule-like bunk beds, mobile houses and nomadic furniture designs. Joep van Lieshout lives and works in Rotterdam