LINDER STERLING, Oedipus, 2021 - Courtesy of the artist and KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival).
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LINDER: GODDESS OF THE MIND
18/04/2026 - 17/05/2026
KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival)
The Museum of Kyoto Annex
Kyoto
https://www.kyotographie.jp/
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 provocative punk 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.
18/04/2026 - 17/05/2026
KYOTOGRAPHIE (Kyoto International Photography Festival)
The Museum of Kyoto Annex
Kyoto
https://www.kyotographie.jp/
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 provocative punk 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.