He established the studio in 1995 and has worked exclusively under its name ever since; within his practice, the studio name serves as a method to undermine the myth of the artistic genius.

Over the past three decades, Atelier Van Lieshout has developed a multidisciplinary practice producing works that straddle the boundaries between art, design, and architecture. By exploring the fine line between creating art and the mass production of functional objects, the artist probes the limits between fantasy and function, and between fertility and destruction.