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Linder

Linder is renowned for her photography, photomontage, and confrontational performance art which boldly deconstruct gender stereotypes, libidinous desires, and transgressive acts. An active figure in the punk and post-punk scenes of 1970s and 80s Manchester, where she formed the band Ludus in 1978, she gained early recognition with her photomontage for the Buzzcocks single Orgasm Addict which combined material sourced from an Argos catalogue and a French erotic magazine. Her work has continued to sharpen its focus on striking, playful, and political juxtapositions through imagery taken from a wide range of printed matter including pornographic magazines, dance journals, as well as cookery and horticulture books. In these composite images, faces are hidden behind blooming roses and household appliances, penetrative acts are concealed by montaged objects, and nude figures emerge from behind kitchenware. In this sense, her works play with unconscious associations between normative beauty and aspirational living; products and bodies are brought together, resulting in a tension between revulsion and seduction. At other times, Linder uses her own body like a piece of paper: a site that can be incised to radical ends. She takes cues from the Berlin Dada artists of Weimar Germany, notably collagists Hannah Höch and John Heartfield, as well as Surrealists such as Ithell Colquhoun. A major figure in feminist art both in the UK and internally, for several decades Linder’s work has interrogated the commodification of consumer and sexual appetites and the perverse undercurrents of inherited norms and societal roles.

Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and lives and works in London. In 2025 she will have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery, London. The touring show ‘Linderism’ was mounted in 2020 at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, later travelling to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. The solo exhibition ‘Femme/Objet’, was organised in 2013 by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, later travelling to the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover. Linder has presented recent solo exhibitions at Modern Art, London (2019); Glasgow Women’s Library (2018); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield (2013); and Tate St Ives (2013). She has participated in recent two- person and group exhibitions at dépendance, Brussels (2022); Tate Liverpool (2021); the Royal Academy, London (2020); Camden Art Centre, London (2020); the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2019); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2019). In 2017, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. Linder’s works are held in collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; MoMA, New York; and Tate, London.

Press
Biography
Untitled, 1977
Untitled, 1977
photomontage, 18 x 23.5 cm, 7 x 9 1/4 in
Pretty Girls, 1977
photomontage
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Untitled, 1976
photomontage, 17.2 x 18.5 cm, 6 3/4 x 7 1/4 in
Untitled, 1977
collage on card, 28 x 30 cm, 11 x 11 3/4 in
What I Do To Please You I Do, 1981
print from original negative on photographic paper, 132 x 94 cm, 52 x 37 in
Linderism, Kettle's Yard 2020
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The Paradise Experiments: field I, 2006
photomontage, 36 x 29 x 3 cm, 14 1/8 x 11 3/8 x 1 1/8 in
Pink Parfait, 2006
photomontage, 23.5 x 18.5 cm, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in
Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation, 2011
photomontage, 27.4 x 41.9 cm, 10 3/4 x 16 1/2 in
Magnitudes of Performance I, 2012
photomontage, 27.8 x 43.5 cm, 11 x 17 1/8 in
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Untitled, 2012
photomontage, 28 x 21 cm, 11 1/8 x 8 1/4 in
Magnificent Canopy, 2013
photomontage, 27.6 x 20.5 cm, 10 7/8 x 8 1/8 in
Superautomatism I, 2015
enamel on magazine page, 26 x 18.8 cm, 10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in
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The Goddess Who Removes the Shortcomings Caused by Planets, 2017
photomontage, 28 x 20.5 cm, 11 1/8 x 8 1/8 in
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The Goddess Who Becomes Pleased with Devotees, 2019
photomontage, 30.3 x 21.2 cm, 11 7/8 x 8 3/8 in
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The Goddess Who is Permanent as Well as Temporary, 2020
lightbox, 80 x 63 x 6 cm, 31 1/2 x 24 3/4 x 2 3/8 in
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It's The Buzz, Cock!, 2015
lightbox, 251 x 153 x 10 cm, 98 7/8 x 60 1/4 x 4 in
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The Sphinx, 2021
photomontage, 35.5 x 34.5 cm, 14 x 13 5/8 in
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Tamara (hybrid), 2017
Untitled, 1977

Press

Guardian1 November 2023
The Art Newspaper1 November 2023
Rolling Stone1 December 2023
Dazed1 February 2023
Lampoon1 October 2022
Financial Times30 March 2021
Telegraph8 February 2020
Financial Times16 February 2020
Elephant16 January 2020
The Art Newspaper18 February 2020
Apollo18 February 2020
Guardian18 January 2020
Artforum1 May 2019
Financial Times25 January 2019

Biography

Linder

Born in Liverpool, 1954 Lives and works in London

Solo Exhibitions

2023
The Groom
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France
2022
Sex-Pol
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Someone Like You
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2020
Linderism
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
LinderismKettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
2019
I Tripped the Shutter
Monteverdi Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy
Origin of the World
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France
Ever Standing Apart From Everything
Modern Art, London
Bower of BlissGlasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
The House of FameNottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Her Grace Land
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire
2017
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Stockholm, Sweden
2015
An Absence, A Presence, A Mood, A Mantle
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Blum & Poe
Los Angeles, LA, USA
Tate St Ives
Cornwall
Femme/ObjetMusée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, travelling to Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
2012
Daughters of the Promised Land
The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA
2011
Modern Art
London
dépendance
Brussels, Belgium
2010
King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea)
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland
The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME
The Arches, Glasgow
The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME
Chisenhale Gallery, London
2008
Linn Lühn
Cologne, Germany
2007
Pretty Girl. No.1
Baltic, Gateshead
MoMA P.S.1Long Island City, NY, USA
Modern Art
London
2006
We Who Are Her Hero
Galerie LH, Paris, France
Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2004
The Lives of Women Dreaming
Futura Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic
2000
The Return of Linderland
Cornerhouse, Manchester
1997
What Did You Do in the Punk War, Mummy?
Cleveland Gallery, London
England is Mine
Windows Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
Women in Revolt!Tate Britain, London
A Spirit InsideThe Lightbox, Woking
On Living – With TasteDèpendance, Brussels, Belgium
Linder | Hannah Wilke
Alison Jacques, London
2022
A Gateway to possible worlds. Art & science fictionCentre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
Linder, Megan Marrin
Dèpendance, Brussels, Belgium
2021
The Stomach and The Port
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
2020
The Enchanted Interior
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Summer Show 2020
Royal Academy, London
American Gardens
Planet Earth LLC, Florida, USA
2019
The Enchanted Interior
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
The Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean
touring exhibition: The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth; The Edge, University of Bath, Bath; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton.
Cut and Paste | 400 Years of CollageScottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The AerodromeIkon Gallery, Birmingham
Art & PornARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, travelling to: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019-20)
A Flower in My MouthSalzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
The Lie of the LandMK Gallery, Milton Keynes
2018
Home FuturesDesign Museum, London
Exploding Collage
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Impulse Control
Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings
Tate St Ives, Cornwall, travelling to: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
2017
Queer Art(ists) Now
Archive Gallery, London
The Critic as Artist
Reading International, Reading Museum, Reading
Dreamers Awake
White Cube, London
Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender, and Identity
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Nude: Art from the Tate Collection
SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea
Daughters of Penelope
Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?
Koppe Astner, Glasgow
As Above, So Below, Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics
IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
La Modiva, part of ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2017
Home, Manchester
Surreal House
The Pill, Istanbul, Turkey
2016
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become an Event?
Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Le retour des ténèbres’ /Return of Darkness
Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Artistic Differences
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Nude: Art from the Tate collection
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Theories of Modern Art
Modern Art, London
British Art Show 8
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Performing for the Camera
Tate Modern, London
Pure Romance
The Redfern Gallery, London
2015
British Art Show 8
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
LINO|CUT
Paul Stolper, London
Soft Core
Invisible Exports, New York, NY, USA
2014
Primal Architecture
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Post Pop: East Meets West
Saatchi Gallery, London
Play What’s Not There
Raven Row, London
The Hawker
Gallery Carlos Ishikawa, London
2013
The Age of Collage
Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany
Designing Modern Women 1890-1990The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Flowers&Mushrooms
Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Germany
The System of Objects
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Tom Burr & Linder
Modern Art, London
Coconut Water
White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO, USA
IN THE CUT: COLLAGE AS IDEA
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank, Australia
2012
Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Mash-up: Collage from the 1930’s to the present
L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2011
Transmitter/Receiver. The persistence of collage from the Arts Council Collection
MIMA, Middlesbrough
LIVE! Art&Rock that Changed the History
Centro Per L'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Les Paris Sont OuvertsFreud Museum, London
Madame Realism
Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
2010
Art For Whom?
Tate Britain, London
Another Music
Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Room Divider
Wilkinson Gallery, London
Rencontres d'Arles Photographie
Arles, France
The Dark Monarch
Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne
Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Linder Sterling and Jon Savage: The Secret Public / Punk Montages, Photography and Collages 1976 – 1981
Boo – Hooray, New York, NY, USA
Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves, curated by Daniella Saul with Linder, George Barber, Stewart Home, Linder, Clunie Reid, James Richards, Eva Weinmayr
FormContent, London
SUPERNATURE: an exercise in loads
AMP, Athens, Greece
2009
The Dark MonarchTate St Ives, Cornwall
After Twilight
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2008
Crossroads. DA2
Salamanca Institute of Culture, Salamanca, Spain
Cohabitation
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Punk. No One is Innocent
Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
doArt
Beijing, China
2007
Re-Make/Re-Model
Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Neolithic Porns
Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Love Me Tender: Works from the Tate collection
Tate Britain, London
Linn Lühn
Cologne, Germany
Harry Smith Anthology Remixed
Alt.Gallery, Newcastle
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA
What We Do Is Secret
Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk YearsBarbican, London, touring to the Maison des Arts in Créteil, France
2006
Deconstruction
Barbara Gladstone, New York, NY, USA
Audio
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Le Sphere Punk
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004
Collage
Bloomberg space, London
2003
Glamour
Windows Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic
Plunder
Dundee Contemporary Arts
2001
DEAD
The Roundhouse, London
1998
Destroy: Punk Graphic Design in Britain
Royal Festival Hall, London

Selected Performances

2020
Herland: Readings from the Bower of Bliss
Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow
Performance: Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2019
Another Music in a Different Arcadia
Design Museum, London
2018
The Bower of Bliss
Art on the Underground, London
2016
Children of the Mantic Stain
Southbank Center, London
2015
Children of the Mantic Stain
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
2012
The Ultimate Form
The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield
2007
Le Magasin
Grenoble, France
2006
The Working Class Goes To Paradise
Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
2004
Meltdown
Royal Festival Hall, London
2000
The Working Class Goes To Paradise
Manchester

Selected Collections

Arts Council Collection
Arts Council
Deste Foundation
Athens, Greece
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House
Derbyshire
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
Kadist Art Foundation
Paris, France
Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris
Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, USA
The SYZ Collection
Geneva, Switzerland
Tate
London
Zabludowicz Collection
London