Liliane Lijn

 Born in New York, studied in Paris and lives in London. Internationally exhibited since the 1960s, her works are held in numerous collections including Tate London, British Museum, V&A and FNAC in Paris. Lijn works across media – kinetic sculpture, film, text, performance and collage – to explore language, mythology and the relationship between light and matter. In 2005, Lijn was ACE NASA, Leonardo Network Artist in Residence at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC, Berkeley. Converse Column, a nine-meter high kinetic text work commissioned by Leeds University was launched July 2019. Lijn’s forthcoming and recent (since 2012) exhibitions include: Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus, Nottingham Contemporary; Unlimited, Basel; Collection Display: Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London; SHE, Rodeo, London; Liquid Crystal Display, MIMA, Middlesbrough; Late at Tate Britain, Liliane Lijn: Liquid Reflections, Tate Britain, London; Action <-> Reaction, 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam; Spotlight, Tate Britain; Cosmic Dramas, Rodeo, Piraeus; Lady of the Wild Things Rodeo, London; Sunstar, Mount Wilson Institute, as part of AxS Festival, Pasadena; Look A Doll!, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Liliane Lijn, espaivisor, Valencia; Liquid Reflections, Loeb Foundation, Museum of Fine Art Bern; As Above So Below, IMMA, Dublin; Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Paris; City Sculpture Projects 1972, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Images Moving Out Onto Space, Tate St Ives; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MOMA, New York.

E’ nata nel 1939 a New York, ha studiato a Parigi e attualmente vive a Londra. Le sue opere, accolte all’interno di mostre internazionali fin dagli anni ‘60, sono conservate in numerose collezioni tra cui la Tate, il British Museum e il V&A di Londra e la FNAC di Parigi. I suoi lavori spaziano nelle forme di comunicazione più diverse: dalla scultura cinetica al film passando per il testo, la performance e il collage, per esplorare la lingua, la mitologia e il rapporto tra luce e materia. Nel 2005, grazie ad una borsa erogata da ACE in collaborazione con la NASA e il network Leonardo, Liliane Lijn ha trascorso un soggiorno come artista presso la residenza dello Space Sciences Laboratory dell’Università della California, Berkeley. Nel luglio 2019 ha visto la luce l’opera commissionatale dall’Università di Leeds Converse Column, una colonna di testo cinetico alta nove metri. Tra le esposizioni più recenti (dal 2012) di Liliane Lijn e le mostre in programma ricordiamo: Still Undead: Pop Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus, Nottingham Contemporary; Unlimited, Basilea; Collection Display: Sixty Years, Tate Britain, Londra; SHE, Rodeo, Londra; Liquid Crystal Display, MIMA, Middlesbrough; Late at Tate Britain, Liliane Lijn: Liquid Reflections, Tate Britain, Londra; Action <-> Reaction, 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal Rotterdam; Spotlight, Tate Britain; Cosmic Dramas, Rodeo, Piraeus; Lady of the Wild Things Rodeo, Londra; Sunstar, Mount Wilson Institute, nell’ambito dell’A- xS Festival, Pasadena; Look A Doll!, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublino; Liliane Lijn, espaivisor, Valencia; Liquid Reflections, Loeb Foundation, Museum of Fine Art Bern; As Above So Below, IMMA, Dublino; Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Parigi; City Sculpture Projects 1972, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds; Images Moving Out Onto Space, Tate St Ives; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MOMA, New York.