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17/05/2026

17/05/2026

What the art ? Hilarious interview

14/05/2026

TONITE Thursday, May 14, 2026, 7PM Intro 7:30 PM start

AT Schauspiel Koln we created the theatre set for the play entitled VERGELTUNG (Revenge)

With English subtitles | A live radio play with six images

NEXT PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.

“Perhaps we must finally truly learn to understand that the fabric of our civilization itself is woven from fire and smoke.” (W.G. Sebald) It all begins at an altitude of 4,000 meters: A 600-meter-wide and 30-kilometer-long stream of US bombers is moving toward a city. Below, bombs fall, followed by the parachutes of a bomber crew, low-flying aircraft, and flak towers. Far below, houses and streets where staggering people are “grilled” in boiling tar. Air-raid shelters, cellars, chaos—an unimaginable horror scenario. A mother searches for her son, who has already died as an anti-aircraft gunner; a young woman is buried alive with a stranger and r***d by him beneath the rubble. Gert Ledig’s novel REVENGE takes a cold and unsentimental look at the destructive violence of an Allied air raid in July 1944. The city in question remains nameless—but could be Kyiv, Tehran, or Cologne. There, too, after the night of May 30-31, 1942, only the cathedral remained standing amidst the vast landscape of ruins. The book was published in 1956, long after Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass had begun depicting the post-war reality of West Germany. It was soon forgotten. To this day, the trauma of the air raids remains largely unaddressed, while the haphazard post-war architecture of the city centers continues to silently bear witness to the horrors of that time. Director Sebastian Baumgarten stages Ledig’s challenge to warmongering phrases of “fatherland, heroism, tradition, faith, and honor” as a world premiere for the Schauspiel Köln.”

VERGELTUNG depicts a city at war. Violence, as well as physical and psychological suffering, are sometimes described very explicitly. Loud noises and strobe lights are used.

Links: https://www.schauspiel.koeln/produktion/vergeltung

20/04/2026

Dokwerker (2014) & Butler (2019) will be exhibited at Salone del Mobile, as part of Matera Collective’s Debut Collection

Location: Salone Raritas Hall 9 Stand 24 at Milan Design Week 2026 (April 21-26) .design.week

Matera presents its first collection of collectible stone objects, created in collaboration with international designers and artists. Each piece explores the expressive and sculptural potential of marble and natural stone, where material, craftsmanship, and artistic identity come together. Launched at Raritas during Milan Design Week 2026, the collection features limited, signed, and numbered editions, designed to bring depth, character, and permanence to contemporary interiors.

DesignEdition materacollection

01/04/2026

Views of “Sanitas Futurum” during - in .rotterdam. To experience the installation contact for an appointment!

Sanitas Futurum explores the healthcare and medical science of the future. How will we deal with our bodies, pharmaceuticals, ethics, aesthetics, and economics fifty years from now? And to what extent are life and the body “makeable”? The project moves between hi-tech and low-tech, futuristic and surrealistic, and from utopian to
dystopian.

In collaboration with various branches of science, technology, and philosophy, “Sanitas Futurum” will grow in the coming years into a grand Gesamtkunstwerk that can
be shown in medical, scientific, and art museums alike.

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31/03/2026

‘Venus in a Box Lamp’-2025 - Now on view x

Among the first 3D objects ever made were fertility sculptures. The drive to reproduce is, at its most elemental, the entire goal of a species. In theory, you’ve fulfilled your purpose the moment you do.
‘Venus in a Box Lamp’ is among precious cargo on “The Voyage” — an item of worship, a piece of ideology made physical. Enshrined in its own box — deified, protected, assured of its survival along the way. Van Lieshout’s devotion to the Venus figure runs deep — from ‘Mother Earth‘ and ‘Mother Earth Constructivist to ‘Womb House’— an ongoing obsession with womanhood’s generative power, the body as divine architecture, primitivism and constructivism held in a single form.

Part of ‘The Voyage — A March to Utopia’, an ongoing body of work, of which 183 sculptures traversed the entire Unlimited hall curated by

In his own words, this project is about…
“A voyage to an unknown place — a better place, a garden of eden. Where we want to find happiness, create a new world, a parallel world, or a better world.” — Joep van Lieshout

Why edit what you bring? Carry your capital. Carry your ideology. Carry everything. The boxes hold it all — ammunition, altars, tools for worship, operating rooms, a dentist’s chair, a liquor cabinet, an iron lung, a Dream Machine.
The line between care and collapse.Innovation and
illusion.Everything and anything.Anyone and everyone. All are welcome on the “Voyage” because the journey is the destination.

On view through April 4h at MASA, Mexico City, in collaboration with Modern Art, London/Paris, this group exhibition includes work by Eva Rothschild, Francesca Mollett, Sarah Rapson, Michael E. Smith, Mark Manders, Richard Aldrich, Frida Orupabo, Michael Simpson, Phillip Lai, Ricky Swallow, Charlotte Vander Borgh, José Dávila, and Brian Thoreen.

31/03/2026

Venus in a Box Lamp -2025 is on view x
Among the first 3D objects ever made were fertility sculptures. The drive to reproduce is, at its most elemental, the entire goal of a species. In theory, you’ve fulfilled your purpose the moment you do.
Venus in a Box Lamp is the most important cargo of “The Voyage” — an item of worship, a piece of ideology made physical. Enshrined in its own box — deified, protected, assured of its survival along the way.
Van Lieshout’s devotion to the Venus figure runs deep — from Mother Earth and Mother Earth Constructivist to Womb House — an ongoing obsession with womanhood’s generative power, the body as divine architecture, primitivism and constructivism held in a single form.
Part of The Voyage — A March to Utopia, an ongoing body of work of which 183 sculptures traversed the entire Unlimited hall curated by
In his own words, this project is about…
“A voyage to an unknown place — a better place, a garden of eden. Where we want to find happiness, create a new world, a parallel world, or a better world.” — Joep van Lieshout
Why edit what you bring? Carry your capital. Carry your ideology. Carry everything. The boxes hold it all — ammunition, altars, tools for worship, operating rooms, a dentist’s chair, a liquor cabinet, an iron lung, a Dream Machine.
The line between care and collapse.
Innovation and illusion.Everything and anything. Anyone and everyone. All are welcome on the “Voyage” because the journey is the destination.

On view through April 4h at MASA, Mexico City, in collaboration with Modern Art, London/Paris, this group exhibition includes work by Eva Rothschild, Francesca Mollett, Sarah Rapson, Michael E. Smith, Mark Manders, Richard Aldrich, Frida Orupabo, Michael Simpson, Phillip Lai, Ricky Swallow, Charlotte Vander Borgh, José Dávila, and Brian Thoreen.

29/03/2026

ON VIEW during : “The Armchair Anarchist.”

An installation including work by l, .s.s.i.p and others at , Keileweg 26, down the road from .rotterdam.

Can’t make it today? The living room of the anarchist will be open to view on appointment from next week on!

Non-hierarchical forms of organization related to anarchism are recurring themes in the work of . Self-organization plays a central role in the parallel worlds they construct. This began with AVL-Ville (2001), an autarkic free state in the port of Rotterdam, and continues in the recent project Sanitas Futurum, which explores the healthcare of the future. Armchair Anarchist comments on the vacuum of these anarchist idea. Key works from different periods come together to recreate a living room in Atelier Van Lieshout’s style: counterintuitive, paradoxical, and humorous.

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29/03/2026

The Hydroform Series are on view in “The Armchair Anarchist” - a group exhibition at Kunst & Complex . We are open today 12-6 pm for@rotterdamartweek

29/03/2026

28/03/2026

Bon Weekend from LA Masseuse !