His work focuses on the phenomenology of media and their transformation. He is particularly interested in the matter of impermanence and disappearance that are closely connected to the technological progress. Using the example of technology, Joep van Liefland addresses the process of alteration and transformation as well as the universal concepts that underlie the transition from old to new.
For his art pieces, Joep van Liefland uses various outdated distribution and storage devices. He arranges them into space-filling installations, as in the work series „VIDEO PALACE“, or uses them to create sculptures, wall objects, screen prints, and collages.
Since 2001, Joep van Liefland runs, together with Maik Schierloh, the art space AUTOCENTER in Berlin where international art positions are presented regularly.
Selected solo exhibitions
2015 True RGB, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
2015 Men in Pain, Ramiken Crucible, New York
2014 abc - art berlin contemporary 2014
2014 Video Palace #37 – MANIAC, Museum Goch, Goch
2013 Traces, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin
2013 Expired, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main
2011 Metaphysics 2 E 56, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden
2011 White Noise and Reverberation (mit Bernhard Schreiner), Kunstverein Augsburg
2011 Video Palace #33 – Living Dead 1264, Galerie Kai Erdmann, Hamburg
2010 Black Systems (Extended Version), Stedelijk Museum Büro Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2009 Video Palace 28 – Afterlife, AMP Gallery, Athen
2008 Video Palace #26 – Black Hole of Entertainment, Galerie Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna
2007 Video Palace #23 – Hollywood was yesterday, L’Atelier-Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris
Selected group exhibitions
2014 Daily Memories, Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
