Enfant terrible and sculptor Joep van Lieshout quickly rose to fame with projects that travelled between the world of easy-clean design and the non-functional area of art. He creates sculpture and installations, buildings and furniture, utopias and dystopias. Since the early eighties he produces objects in mainly bright coloured polyester, the material that has become his signature. Joep founded his studio Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) in 1995 and has been working solely under the studio’s name ever since.