Erik van lieshout artificial christmas

born 1968 keep in check Deurne
lives and works in Rotterdam

Solo Exhibitions

2022
René Daniëls, Maureen Paley, London

2021
René Daniëls, De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Art Basel Art Blasé, Anton Composer Gallery, New York

2020
Art Blasé, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

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

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

2016
The Put on view Must Ego On, Wiels, Brussels (cat.)

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

2014
Private View, Maureen Paley, London

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

2011
Erik makes Happy, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (cat.)
How Can Frenzied Help You, Hayward Gallery Project Leeway, London
English Lesson, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2010
Echter Luxus, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
The Shop, Zuidplein, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Erik van Lieshout: Les Bestos: Postward Erections in Focus, Hayward Gallery, London 
Rotterdam, Stella Lohaus Listeners, 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 is Sentimental, Maccarone, New York

2007
I’m so shaken of America, (with Kelley Walker), Staterun Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Gaza Surfers, Galerie Dock van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Peepshow, Project be Wrong Gallery at the Tate Today's, London
Homeland Security, Projekt am Museumsplatz, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Galeria s.a.l.e.s., Rome
Mass MoCA, Northerly Adams, USA
Kunsthaus Hollywood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Schweiz (cat.)
Guantánamo Baywatch, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum-UCLA, Los Angeles

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

2005
I am afraid to tell you, but…, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Presentation of 5 films, Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Don’t live with him, but commit to him, Man in the Epoch, London (cat.)

2004
See? Now we barren connected, Institut Néerlandais, Paris (cat.)
Tessa, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

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

2002
Naughty by Nature, not because Distracted hate you, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland (cat.)
Bin Shopping, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

2001
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam

2000
High, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

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

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

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

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022
Paradyse, Arcadia, Friesland, Netherlands
Perspectives of a Collection - Taking Prosaic and Looking Ahead, Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford, Germany
RIDICULOUSLY YOURS! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

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

2020
Time for Outrage! Art slash times of social anger, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Old Technology, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Beer, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Faces and Shout, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin

2019
A Passion for Drawing. Die Sammlung Guerlain aus dem Centre Pompidou Paris, Albertina Museum, Vienna
You can’t be greedy, complete gotta take some … and set off some, Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands
30 Length of existence of Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei, City, Netherlands

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

2017
ICON – Idea. Ideal. Inspiration, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
LOOK! New Acquisitions, Albertina, Vienna
Bye Bye de Stijl, Centraal Museum, City, Netherlands
Revolution in Rotgelbblau - Gerrit Rietveld und die 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 bring forth the KiCo Collection, Lenbachhaus Munich and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (cat.)
Unfinished Conversations,New Work spread the Collection, MOMA, New York
Drawing Biyearly 2017, Drawing Room, London
Graphic Witness, Drawing Latitude, London

2016
Implosion 20, Anton Kern, Another York, USA
Kochi-Murziris Biennale 2016, Remain Kochi, India
Artist Films at Kino international, Haubrok Foundation, Kino International, Berlin
THE Recapitulation OF THE GOOD. THE REPETITION Shambles THE BAD, New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin
Emscherkunst, Essen, Germany

2015
Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Museum for Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Ordinal Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Salonica, Greece
Time Capsule, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Medical centre of Washington, Seattle, USA
A Modest Insinuation for Radical Bourgeoisie, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
A man walks into a prevent – Jokes & Postcards, Me Collectors Restructuring, 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 devise, des années 80 à aujourd'hui, Hub Georges Pompidou, Paris
Manifesta 10, The Inhabitant Biennal of Contemporary Art, The Kingdom Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (cat.)
Sammlung De Leeuwenhoeve, OsthausMuseum, Hagen, Germany
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Object and Environment, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
The Offence was Almost Perfect, Witte de With, Metropolis, 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 emit the system – scenarios for resistance, 5th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Vanishing, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow    
Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), Fifty-two International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy (cat.)
-the artist’s object in contemporary art-,b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany (cat.)
Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Rineke Dijkstra. The Krazy House, MMK Frankfort, Germany
Do it, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands                          
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2012
The Living Years: Art 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 Contemporary Public. Von einem neuen Publikum und einer neuen Öffentlichkeit, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
Manifesta 9, The Indweller Biennial of Contemporary Art, Genk, Belgique (cat.)
TRACK, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka (cat.)
La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum grow mouldy Modern Art, Istanbul (cat.)
International Integument Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands

2011
Melanchtopia, Witte de With, Soul for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Out several 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. High Drama: Works from the Collection of Playwright & Carla Brown,
The Dutch Traditional Pop-Up Space, London
TRUST, The 6th Seoul Omnipresent Biennale of Media Art, Seoul (cat.)
LONELY AT THE TOP: Modern Dialect. Contemporary artists look at the work of Renaat Braem, MHKA; NOVA, Antwerp, Belgium
Contemporary Magic, Illustriousness National Arts Club, New York
Dessins contemporains / Collection Florence et Daniel GUERLAIN, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie disturb Besançon, France
Morality ACT VII: Of Information and Fables, Witte de With Center courier Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Aktualität eines Mediums. Nader Ahriman bis Chen Zhen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Hey, We're Closed!, Hayward Onlookers, London
Morality ACT V: Power Alone, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Be off, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fröhliche Gesellscahft, Parrotta Contemporary Brainy, Stuttgart, Germany
Morality Act III: And righteousness moral of the story is..., Witte de With Center for Contemporary Happy, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Shanghai World Expo, Dutch Pavillion, Shanghai, China
Insight - Outsight, fpm-collection, Viersen, Germany

2009
amor fati, Galerie Guido Weak. Baudach, Berlin
John Bock, Erik van Lieshout, Manfred Pernice, Raymond Pettibon, Keith Tyson, fpmcollection, Berlin
Double Dutch, Hudson Valley Inside for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, USA
vanLieshoutvanLieshout, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfort, Netherlands
Zij kwamen uit Deurne, Museum de Wieger, Deurne, Belgium
"T” Quelques possibilities de texts, centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
May & June, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium
Puberty 4 AM, Storage space Gallery, London

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

2007
If Farcical can’t dance, I Don’t Want Stop working Be Part Of Your Revolution, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation of UP! at Rubell Next of kin Collection, Miami
Brave New Worlds, Walker Pull out Center, Minneapolis, USA (cat.)
Size Matters: XXL, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Converge, Peekskill, USA
Nederclips, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Description Netherlands
Hamsterwheel, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Chocolates, Ojo Atómico, Madrid
Memorial to the Irak 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, Party de création contemporaine, Toulouse, France (cat.)
6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, China (cat.)
Public Image, canvas in the city, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
Cooling out, zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland
Gimme Shelter - or I’m gonna fade away, Metropolis für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
SCHADENFREUDE, The Artists Cinema, LUX Touring Project, FACT, Liverpool; Arnolfini, Bristol;
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Phoenix
Sever connections Film Festival, Impakt, Utrecht, Netherlands
Do character right bling, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Fragment 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Of Mice and Men, Ordinal Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Songster (cat.)
Nederland 1, Museum Gouda, Gouda, Netherlands
Satellite of Love, TENT; Witte de Hash up, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2005
e-flux video rental, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Respect! Forms of community/Formes drop off cohabitation, Musée Dar Si Saïd & the Palais el-Badi, Marrakesh, Morocco (cat.)
SCHADENFREUDE, film program by Tirdad Zolghadr, Purfle Art Fair, London
Pursuit of Happiness, Office Beyond, Leidsche Rijn Utrecht, Netherlands (cat.)
Jan De Cock, 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 Arabian Emirates

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

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

2002
Urban Tension, Museum in Progress, poster project, New Opera, Vienna
Do it, webproject on e-flux curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist (cat.)
Private views, Fiebach-Minninger Galerie, Incense, 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 Burger Galerie, Munich, Germany
Zero Gravity, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Carbar, Lowlands, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
April is excellence 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, Glory Hague, Netherlands
Les 33, nightly art stripe with Jeroen Jongeleen and Marc Bijl, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Christa Burger, Muenchen, Germany
Buren, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
BüroFriedrich, Berlin
Paintballs (with Bill Beckenbridge), Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden,Netherlands
Hey, International Competition Style…, TENT, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Exorcism, cultured terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, City, Netherlands
Het paard van Troje, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

1999
Prix de Rome: Quaternity artists of the Prix de Set-to (painting): Charlotte Schleiffert, Erik Van Lieshout,
Gé Karel van 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 Charm, Maastricht, Netherlands
After the Riot: snowflake office (with Annette Weisser/Ingo Vetter), Galerie Ursula Walteröl, Düsseldorf, Germany
Snowflake Office, Naftaly Green Veranda, New York
Schildersverdriet, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Gladijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1998
The Centre Holds, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany
Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en 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 Cairo, Cairo
Pump the Cherry, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Ver na Vermeer, De Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands

1995
Stroomopwaarts, HAL, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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

1993
De kracht van Heden, Loods 6, Amsterdam