Erik van Lieshout


Kunsthalle Hollywood, 2006

Sportlounge Michael Janson, Im Klapperhof 33c, Mon, Thu 12:00 am – 3:00 pm, Fri 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, So 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm 

With his drawings, videos, and installations, Erik van Lieshout (*1968) confronts the public in 
a provocative manner. Starting with himself and his environment, he designs spheres of action that not only determine the experience and setting for the figures in his images, but also for the viewer’s perception. For the exhibtion, the artist has created small drawings that will be shown in the intimate surroundings of 
a private gym. His theme is the Kunsthalle as social space – the “Kunsthalle Hollywood.” Van Lieshout poses questions about how things are staged and popularized within the traditional presentational context of the exhibition space. With its aesthetics of glamour, kitsch, and trash, the “Kunsthalle Hollywood” is a place that satisfies desires and creates dreams. In van Lies-hout’s work, the art space appears as a space for the staging of a society made up of short-lived identities.