Mathis Lieshout (NL)

Mathis Lieshout  is a visual artist from Utrecht, the Netherlands. He makes large, temporary installations sometimes filling up entire buildings. Wood is a very dominant and almost always used material in these works. His building process alternates between methodical and improvised. He tries to make something that provides shelter, a place to hide away in. Visitors can experience this by by climbing inside the work. The refuge offered is of an unusual quality though, walls are not closed, floors are hardly ever straight and nothing seems to be finished.

During his three month residency Mathijs Lieshout worked in a new exhibition place situated in an upcoming culture center in the north of Kosice. Using more then a hundred years old wood, recycled from a roof construction from an old millitary complex in Kosice, a large thing was built. One that starts on a staircase, goes round a corner and moves further to other rooms in the building. He collaborated with local artist Peter Lipovec in the contruction process.

The residency of Mathijs Lieshout is made possible thanks to generous support of Mondriaan Fonds, Vrede van Utrecht and Netherlands Embassy in Bratislava.

You can find photos of Mathij installation on our Facebook fan page.

You can watch a short video about Mathijs’ residency here/Krátke video o Mathijsovej rezidencii si môžete pozrieť tu:

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