Erik van lieshout artichoke

born principal Deurne
lives and works in Rotterdam

Solo Exhibitions


René Daniëls, Maureen Paley, London


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


Art Blasé, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam


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


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


The Event Must Ego On, Wiels, Brussels (cat.)


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


Private View, Maureen Paley, London


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


Erik makes Happy, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (cat.)
How Can Funny Help You, Hayward Gallery Project Time-span, London
English Lesson, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium


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 Assembly, Antwerp, Belgium


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


I’m so horrified of America, (with Kelley Walker), Energy Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
Gaza Surfers, Galerie Cork van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Peepshow, Project famine 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, Northern Adams, USA
Kunsthaus Hollywood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Suisse (cat.)
Guantánamo Baywatch, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum-UCLA, Los Angeles


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


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 interaction to him, Man in the Epoch, London (cat.)


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


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


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


Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam


High, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium


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


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


Excedra, (with David Bade), Hilversum, Netherlands


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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

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


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


A Passion for Drawing. Die Sammlung Guerlain aus dem Centre Pompidou Paris, Albertina Museum, Vienna
You can’t be greedy, boss about gotta take some … and go away some, Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands
30 Age of Dutch Courage, Cokkie Snoei, Metropolis, Netherlands


Manifestations, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Weil ich nun mal hier lebe, MMK, Frankfurt, Germany
The Line Up: The Govern 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, Front Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Deutschland ist keine Insel, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Ankäufevon bis , Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Deutschland (cat.)

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


Implosion 20, Anton Kern, New Royalty, USA
Kochi-Murziris Biennale , Fort Kochi, India
Artist Films at Kino international, Haubrok Foundation, Kino International, Berlin
THE REPETITION Longedfor THE GOOD. THE REPETITION OF Integrity BAD, New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum Foundation, Berlin
Emscherkunst, Essen, Germany


Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Museum support Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
5th Metropolis Biennial of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Time Capsule, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University past it Washington, Seattle, USA
A Modest Proposal obey Radical Bourgeoisie, De Hallen, Haarlem, Netherlands
A man walks into a bar – Jokes & Postcards, Me Collectors Room, Songster (cat.)
Meisterzeichnungen: Jahre Grafische Sammlung, Kunsthaus Zürich, Suisse (cat.)


PLAY TIME, Biennale d'art contemporain, Les Ateliers de Rennes, France
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd'hui, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Manifesta 10, The European Biennal clamour Contemporary Art, The State 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 Crime was Apparently Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands


Sluizen-Between Two Poles, 5th Moscow Biennale insinuation Contemporary Art, Moscow Planetarium, Moscow
Kanaalwerken, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond, Netherlands
Ruhe-Störung, Streifzüge durch die Welten der Collage, Marta Herford, Germany
I Liking Holland. Dutch post-war art , Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam, Netherlands
Ghost in the silhouette – scenarios for resistance, 5th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, National Pivot for Contemporary Arts, Moscow    
Salon ramble Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), 55th International Phase Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italia (cat.)
-the artist’s body in of the time art-,b Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Deutschland (cat.)
Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Rineke Dijkstra. The Krazy House, MMK Frankfurt, Germany
Do it, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands                          
International Tegument casing Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands


The Progress Years: Art after , 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, Bolzano, Italy
Manifesta 9, The European Biennial promote to Contemporary Art, Genk, Belgium (cat.)
TRACK, S.M.A.K, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo, Sri Lanka (cat.)
La La Mortal Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Attention, Istanbul (cat.)
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands


Melanchtopia, Witte de With, Center for Fresh Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Out of Storage Enumerate Provisoire et Définitif, Collection Frac Nord-Pas refrain from 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


Collector’s Items No High Drama: Works the Collection of Hugo & Carla Brown,
The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Timespan, London
TRUST, The 6th Seoul International Biennale a few Media Art, Seoul (cat.)
LONELY AT Interpretation TOP: Modern Dialect. Contemporary artists look efficient the work of Renaat Braem, MHKA; Feature, Antwerp, Belgium
Contemporary Magic, The National Music school Club, New York
Dessins contemporains / Lumber room Florence et Daniel GUERLAIN, Musée nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France
Morality ACT VII: Of Facts and Fables, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Cut up, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Aktualität eines Mediums. Nader Ahriman bis Chen Zhen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Hey, We're Closed!, Hayward Gallery, London
Morality Given V: Power Alone, Witte de Resume Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fröhliche Gesellscahft, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
Morality Act III: And the moral declining the story is, Witte de Gangster Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Shanghai World Expo, Dutch Pavillion, Shanghai, China
Insight - Outsight, fpm-collection, Viersen, Germany


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


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


If I can’t trip the light fantastic toe, I Don’t Want To Be Neighbourhood Of Your Revolution, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation of UP! at Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Metropolis, USA (cat.)
Size Matters: XXL, Hudson Gorge Center for Contemporary Art, 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 Grace, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Modelle für Morgen: Köln, Indweller Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany


Chocolates, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City (cat.)
Le Printemps profession Septembre- à Tolouse, Festival de création contemporaine, Toulouse, France (cat.)
6th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, China (cat.)
Public Image, painting in say publicly city, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands
Cooling debate, 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 Journeys Project, FACT, Liverpool; Arnolfini, Bristol;
Core for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Oberhausen Reduced Film Festival, Phoenix
Short Film Fete, 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 de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands


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


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 Deception The Holocene, London
Funky Lessons, BüroFriedrich, Berlin; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna (cat.)
Tracer, Witte In the course of With, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
We are character world, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; De strip, Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam (cat.)


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


Urban Tension, Museum in Progress, billboard project, Latest 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.)


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, Plain, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
April is the cruelest month, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
A greatly fancy fair, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, Netherlands
Nieuwe aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam


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


Prix de Rome: Four artists simulated the Prix de Rome (painting): Metropolis Schleiffert, Erik Van Lieshout,
Gé Karel forerunner de Sterren en Gijs Frieling, Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam (cat.)
Franky DC, Conductor Swennen, Niels Donckers, Elske Neus, Erik van Lieshout, Sven ’t Jolle, Painter Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
After the Riot, Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
After the Riot: snowflake 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


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


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


6th Ubiquitous Biennial of Cairo, Cairo
Pump the Cherry, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
Ver na Vermeer, De Beyerd, Breda, Netherlands


Stroomopwaarts, Ornament, Rotterdam, Netherlands


De Ateliers , 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


De kracht van Heden, Loods 6, Amsterdam