LINDER STERLING リンダー・スターリング
LINDER: GODDESS OF THE MIND
Presented by CHANEL Nexus Hall
Scenography: Kentaro Ishida (KIAS)
Linder's work continues to provoke, inspire, and redefine representations of women in art and culture
Linder: Goddess of the Mind is a retrospective of the work of artist and punk provocateur Linder, brought to Japan for the very first time.
For more than 50 years, Linder Sterling has assembled images that remain as urgent and iconoclastic today as when she first conceived them. Born in Liverpool in 1954, she emerged from the late 1970s punk scene to become one of Britain's most influential contemporary artists. Linder is celebrated for her radical use of photomontage to challenge and reimagine ideas of desire and the human body.
Treating images as malleable objects, the artist confronts conformist constraints with beauty and humour. She draws on the spirit of Hannah Höch and the Berlin Dadaists as well as the dreamlike provocations of the Surrealists. Her method—cutting, collaging, and reconfiguring found imagery—reclaims the body from the machinery of desire and exposes the systems that drive power.
Developed in close collaboration with Linder, the exhibition at KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026 assembles formative works from her oeuvre. It builds on the momentum of her celebrated touring retrospective Linder: Danger Came Smiling at London’s Hayward Gallery last year and affirms her position as one of the great feminist mavericks of the British art scene.
©︎ Takeshi Asano-KYOTOGRAPHIE 2026
What I Do To Please You I Do, 1981 - 2008 ©Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London
The Cry of a Thousand Sentinels, 2024 ©Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London
Oedipus, 2021 © Linder, Courtesy of the artist and Modern Art, London
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Linder Sterling リンダー・スターリング
Linder Sterling was born in Liverpool in 1954 and lives and works in London. In February 2025, she opened a major retrospective, Linder: Danger Came Smiling, at the Hayward Gallery, London, which then toured to Inverleith House, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; and will be on view at Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool from July until October 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 Linder: 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; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate Modern, London.
