Erik van Lieshout

‘I hate ordinary people.’ So says Erik van Lieshout in Janus (2012), one of a trio of films that makes up his exhibition ‘Three Social Works’ at South London Gallery, each of which prods, with uncommon wit and soul, at the tender spot where art meets daily life.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The selection of Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) as the Manifesta 12 team for urban studies in Palermo, Sicily, has been followed up by the appointment of an international, interdisciplinary team of four creative mediators.

“The Show Must Ego On” — An exhibition at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels from September 30, 2016 through January 8, 2017.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which has quickly become one of the most closely watched regularly scheduled international exhibitions after its first two editions, announced plans today for its third, which will run from December 12, 2016, through March 29, 2017, in Kochi, India.

“duh? Art & Stupidity” looks at stupidity as a subject and a tactic of art making, with a particular focus on its relationship to the politics and performance of identity.

Sherman, Kelley, Moffatt, Rhodes, van Lieshout, Gilbert & George and more.

Nothing beats the winter blues better than a bit of extreme make believe. Though Cindy Sherman's dress-up games might not transport you to the happiest of worlds

Erik van Lieshout is a wanderer and an absurdist with an eye and a sympathetic ear for the marginalised.

Manifesta is known as the nomadic contemporary art biennial, popping up in a different European location outside of the art-dominant centers since 1996. For Manifesta 10, the biennial has been handed a new challenge, which comes with exhibiting at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg during a time of political and social unrest, both within Russia and the increasing conflict with Ukraine. Curated by Kasper König, the biennial brings together work by over 50 artists, ...

“We Need to Change the System” appears on the screen as a pair of fangs fill the screen. A fluffy tail swishes by, and the phrase

The international group exhibition Superficial Hygiene brings together a set of practices of a generation of artists who adapt, mould, and corrupt the grammar of our contemporary accelerated environment

Maureen Paley is pleased to present Private View, Erik van Lieshout’s first solo exhibition at the gallery following on from his screening of Janus

Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present “Object and Environment”, an exhibition with contributions by Björn Dahlem, Lonny Fechner, Petra Ferian

Sherman, Kelley, Moffatt, Rhodes, van Lieshout, Gilbert & George and more.

Erik van Lieshout is a wanderer and an absurdist with an eye and a sympathetic ear for the marginalised.

To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the City Collection, this summer internationally renowned artists and designers from Rotterdam

Would you buy a dried-out sprout from this man? Adrian Searle is tickled by what happened when Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout opened a store . . .

Tom Morton is curator at the Hayward Gallery, London, and Contributing Editor to frieze magazine. Alongside the Henry Moore Institute's

High-quality exhibits attracted over 60,000 visitors to last month’s 45th Art Cologne as the fair boasted an increasing number of major international galleries.