CHANEL NEXUS HALL

What I Do To Please You I Do, 1981 - 2008 ©Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London

The Sphinx, 2021 © Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London

Oedipus, 2021 © Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London

Untitled, 1979 © Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London

2026.4.18 SAT - 5.17 SUN

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Venue: The Museum of Kyoto Annex

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INTRODUCTION

Linder Sterling is one of Britain’s most influential and iconoclastic contemporary artists. Emerging from the late 1970s punk scene, she is celebrated for her radical use of photography and photomontage to challenge and reimagine ideas of desire and the female body.

This selective retrospective, developed in close collaboration with the artist, brings together key works and series that trace the evolution of her groundbreaking practice.

Linder’s distinctive visual language draws on the spirit of Dada artists such as Hannah Höch and Man Ray, as well as the dreamlike provocations of the great Surrealists, while being wholly contemporary in its attitude and outlook.

This will be Linder’s first major exhibition in Japan. Building on the momentum of her recent retrospective at London’s Hayward Gallery, the presentation affirms Linder’s position as one of the great feminist mavericks of the British art scene, whose work continues to provoke, inspire, and redefine representations of women in art and culture.

ARTIST

LINDER STERLING

photo courtesy: Gabby Laurent

Linder was born in Liverpool in 1954 and lives and works in London.

In February 2025, she opened a major retrospective called Danger Came Smiling at the Hayward Gallery, London which will then tour to Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, until September 2026. 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 Paris, later travelling to the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover.

Linder’s works are held in collections including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; V&A Museum, London; Arts Council Collection, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; MoMA, New York; and Tate, London.