(Belgium, 1985)

I’m an artist, writer and publisher, working between Amsterdam, Brussels and Tallinn. Much of my work relates to publishing, i.e. making information public. I produce text, printed matter, performances and objects.

Since 2016 I have written and published Catalog, a serial publication about cataloging, designed by Ott Metusala. I teach writing at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn at the Master programmes of Graphic Design, Contemporary Art and Craft Studies.

My work has been supported by Flanders State of the Art, Estonian Cultural Endowment and Mondriaan Fund.

@lievenlahaye
@catalogxyz

Contact: lieven.lahaye(at)gmail.com

Upcoming

Exhibition
February 2025 • Artishok Biennale, Tallinn
Exhibition
October 2025 • WIELS Affiliate, Brussels
Essay
2025 • Experimental Jetset: Statement and Counter-Statement vol. 2 (Roma Publications)
Residency
October – December 2025 • Cité internationale des arts, Paris

Exhibitions, presentations and residencies

In a maze
2024 • Group exhibition, cur. Marija Repšytė – KKKC, Klaipėda
Everyone is invited except those who were not
2024 • Group exhibition – Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn
How to get –> there
2024 • Exhibition and publication launch – Overgaden, Copenhagen
HIAP
2024 • Residency, Helsinki
Coverage
2024 • Exhibition, cur. Siim Preiman – Tallinn City Gallery
Promises
2023 • Group exhibition – Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Xoxo
2023 • Performance – WIELS Residency, Brussels
WIELS
2023 • Residency, Brussels
Beard.Man.Jug.Rubble.Woman.Vessel
2023 • Book presentation, with Kasia Fudakowski – ETDM Tallinn, San Serriffe Amsterdam, Chert Lüdde Berlin, *rile Brussels
AIR Berlin Alexaderplatz
2022 • Residency
Impressed
2022 • Exhibition – Air Berlin Alexanderplatz
Dear Friend
2022 • Group Exhibition, cur. Sandra Nuut, Ott Kagovere – EKA Galerii, Tallinn
Penny in the fountain
2022 • Group Exhibition – VBKÖ, Vienna
Prospects
2021 • Group Exhibition – Art Rotterdam
A sense of where you are
2021 • Exhibition – Luca School of Arts, Brussels
Standing in _ _ _ _
2021 • Lecture – Pillow Lava, cur. Åbäke, Laura Pappa
Annotations
2020 • Book Presentation – Library Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Hopscotch, Berlin
A glossary of independent publishing
2019 • Reading – NYABF, MoMA PS1, New York
Real-Time Realist #2
2019-2020 • Reading – Offprint Paris, San Serriffe Amsterdam, Lugemik Tallinn, rile* Brussels, A-Z Berlin
The age of oil / Duncan Smith
2019 • Performance – IIIAA, Berlin
Captions, catalytic texts, editorial comments
2019 • Lecture performance — Maca, Tallinn
Gerrit turns 50, Willem only 28
2018 • Group exhibition, cur. Moritz Küng — Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Books on Books
2018 • Lecture — Acud, Berlin
Figure D.
2018 • Reading — as part of “Real-time Realist”, San Serriffe, Amsterdam
Every copy of S,M,L,XL I’ve ever seen
2017 • Performance — San Serriffe, Amsterdam
A toast! To cataloging!
2017 • Performance — Kunstihoone, Tallinn
Fanfare inc.
2017 • Chaumont graphic design biennial
Hey! (let’s hang out in parks, etc.)
2017 • Week-long performance — Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Do It Yourself Design
2016 • Group exhibition — Bröhan Museum, Berlin
Failed to Sync
2016 • Group exhibition — Punt WG, Amsterdam
It could barely be taller while being safe
2016 • Solo exhibition — Plan B, Amsterdam
Home Display
2016 • Group exhibition — 27th Brno Biennial, Brno
Extreme Sharing
2016 • Group exhibition — IKEA, Copenhagen
Acts on a table
2016 • Performer — Kai10, Düsseldorf
Hat night
2016 • Solo presentation — as part of “B.Y.U.” program, Kunstverein, Amsterdam
Good Ways
2016 • Group exhibition — M4, Amsterdam
Crumbles
2015 • Group exhibition, De Hallen — Amsterdam
Hesitant Autonomy
2015 • Graduation exhibition — Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
A collection of books that open everytime – automatically – to the same page
2015 • Solo presentation — Fanfare, Amsterdam
Nothing works and that works just fine
2015 • Group exhibition — Labor, Cologne

Publications

Stylishly fold your latest into your back pocket
2022 • Essay, Dear Friend – Estonian Academy of Arts
Footnotes
2021 • Experimental Jetset: Superstructure – Roma Publications
The people will survive in their environment
2020 • Essay, published in Meeting Grounds – Onomatopee
Real-Time Realist #2
2019 • Guest editor – Jung-Lee Type Foundry Press
Glossary of independent artist publishing
2019 • Glossary for “Published by Lugemik” – Lugemik
Notes on book production
2018 • Artist’s publication – Colorama
Figure D: How the Emerald Ash Borer is causing the ash tree to become extinct during our lifetime: notes for a play
2017 • Essay “Real-Time Realist #1” – Jung-Lee Type Foundry Press
“Dark and Stormy #6”
2017 • Guest editor, with Bart De Baets and Rustan Söderling
Widgets
2016 • Essay, published in Widgets, an artist’s book by Bastien Gachet
The heaviness of things and stuff
2015 • Book, self-published
Nothing works and that works just fine
2015 • Contribution to exhibition catalogue – Labor

Catalog series

“Catalog” : ongoing (since 2016) serial publication about cataloging; accompanies performances, exhibitions, events — Designed in collaboration with graphic designer Ott Metusala.

nr 25 “How to get –> there”
2024 • Published in collaboration with Adagio for Things on the occasion of an exhibition at Overgaden, Copenhagen
nr 24 “Coverage”
2024 • Published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Tallinn City Gallery
nr 23 “Articulated Models”
2023 • Published in support of an exhibition by Ott Metusala at ETDM, Tallinn
nr 22 “Beard. Man. Jug. Rubble. Woman. Vessel”
2022 • With Kasia Fudakowski
nr 21 “Impressed”
2022 • Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Dear Friend’ at EKA Gallery, Tallinn
nr 20 “Hard Sun”
2020 • Published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Penny in the Fountain’ at VBKÖ, Vienna
nr 19 “Shimmer, Slice, Accretion”
2021 • With Anu Vahtra
nr 18 “A Sense of Where You Are”
2020 • Published in an edition of 250 annotated copies
nr 17 “Introduction”
2020 • With Joke Robaard
nr 16 “Annotations”
2020 • To accompany a lecture at Library Gerrit Rietveld-Sandberg, Amsterdam
nr 15 “The age of oil / Duncan Smith”
2019 • To accompany a performance at IIIAA, Berlin
nr 14 “Catalog #14”
2019 • Published by Colorama Berlin as part of ‘Books on Books’ symposium
nr 13 “Catalog #13”
2018 • To accompany a performance during Signals from the Periphery, Tallin Art Hall
nr 12 “Phil’s stone”
2017 • To accompany an event during 28th Brno Biennial
nr 11 “The concept of environmental sculpture”
2017 • To accompany an event during 28th Brno Biennia
nr 10 “Rock Rock Rock Rock Rock”
2016 • Editor; with contributions by Phil Baber, Annie Goodner, Will Pollard…
nr 9 “Stool Bastien Cat Lamp”
2015 • Published by Bröhan Museum, Berlin
nr 8 “Every copy of S,M,L,XL I’ve ever seen”
2015 • Published by Atoll K
nr 7 “It could barely be taller while being safe”
2015 • To accompany an exhibition at Plan B, Amsterdam
nr 6 “Lamps”
2015 • To accompany a talk on provisional design strategies
nr 5 “Hat Night”
2015 • To accompany an event at Kunstverein Amsterdam
nr 4 “Desperate Measures”
2016 • To accompany an event during 27th Brno Biennial
nr 3 “Pepe”
2015 • To accompany a performance at Bookstore Project, Amsterdam
nr 2 “Stacks”
2015 • As part of an exhibition at Le Dynastie, Brussels
nr 1 “Altoids”
2015 • As part of an exhibition at M4, Amsterdam