Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive

November 15, 2024, to May 4, 2025

Liliane Lijn
Arise Alive

This survey exhibition of the work of Liliane Lijn is the most comprehensive institutional solo presentation of the artist thus far. Born in New York in 1939 and based in London since 1966, Lijn has been working at the interface of visual art, literature, and science for more than six decades and has created an extensive oeuvre that includes sculptures, installations, collages, paintings, videos, and performances. Lijn's multimedia practice has its origins in the kinetic art of the late 1950s as well as in her exploration of Surrealist ideas, ancient mythology, and eastern philosophy. Even her earliest works reveal an interest in unconventional artistic materials—an interest that continues to this day. In 1961, Lijn made first works from Perspex, in which she experiments with reflection, movement, and light. "Electric lights flash on and off plexiglass constructions, creating a tangle of transparent shadows called Echo Lights by the artist," writes the American poet John Ashbery in 1963 about her exhibition in Paris. "Her Vibrographs are wheels revolving too fast for you to read the words printed on them, but perhaps they affect you unconsciously like subliminal advertising."

Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive is jointly organized with Haus der Kunst München, in collaboration with Tate St Ives.

Curated by Manuela Ammer

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Liliane Lijn
Conjunction of Opposites: Woman of War and Lady of the Wild Things, 1983–86
Installation of two mixed media performing sculptures
400 x 800 x 400 cm
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Thierry Bal
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

Acrylic drum containing water, turntable and projector lamp, acrylic balls

02 Lijn

02 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Liquid Reflections/ Series 2 (32"), 1968
Acrylic drum containing water, turntable and projector lamp, acrylic balls
81.3 cm in diameter
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Stephen Weiss
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

Letraset on painted steel drum, black wood and hardboard box/frame, motor

03 Lijn

03 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Get Rid of Government Time, 1962
Letraset on painted metal drum, plastic, painted metal, motor, words from a poem by Nazil Nour
35 x 38,2 x 35 cm
Courtesy Stephen Weiss, London
Photo: Richard Wilding
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

Letrafilm and Letraset electronic symbols on paper, mounted on card

04 Lijn

04 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Neurographs: Electronic Goddess, 1971
Letrafilm and Letraset, electronic symbols on card, mounted on coloured card
25.3 x 27,6 cm
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Lewis Ronald
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

05 Lijn

05 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Denslens, 1974–75
Rotating column of Perspex wound with nickel wire, pronounced pattern, set on motorized turntable
51 x 5 cm diameter, 10 cm diameter at base
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Stephen Weiss
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

06 Lijn

06 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Arise Alive, 1965
Letraset on painted truncated cork cone, motorized turntable (restored in 2010), poem by Leonard D. Marshall
46 x 20 cm in diameter
Catherin Petitgas Collection
Photo: Maximilian Geuter, München, Haus der Kunst München
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

07 Lijn

07 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Sweet Solar Dreams III, 2002–22
Patinated bronze, polyester resin, muslin, printing inks, MDF base containing voice electronics, passive sensor, feathers
90 x 90 x 70 cm
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Lewis Ronald
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

08 Lijn

08 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Bridal Wound, 1986–90
Sand-blasted blown glass, ostrich feathers, white marble base
33,3 x 31 x 33,5 cm
Tate, purchased with funds provided by the Denise Coates Foundation on the occasion of the 2018 centenary of women gaining the right to vote in Britain, 2019
Photo: Lewis Ronald
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

09 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Inner Space Outer Space 1, 1969
Collage
56 x 55 cm
Courtesy Stephen Weiss, London
Photo: Stephen Weiss
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

10 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
She, 1985
Pastel on paper
48,5 x 39 cm
Courtesy Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection
Photo: Lewis Ronald
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

Portrait of Liliane Lijn looking at 2 spheres in front of her.

11 Lijn

Liliane Lijn with „Liquid Reflections“, 1969
Photo: Jorge Lewinski
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

12 Lijn

Liliane Lijn in her Camden Mews Studio, 1990
Photo: Mayotte Magnus
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

3 Lijn

14 Lijn

14 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Electric Bride, 1989
Installation, aluminium, steel, cock feathers, Elmflex micanite, brass, blown glass
280 x 300 x 240 cm
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

15 Lijn

15 Lijn

Liliane Lijn
Four Figures of Light, 1978
Installation, optical glass periscope prism, chromed spring steel with prisms, chromed perforated steel triangular upright, circular steel base, 188 x 243 cm; optical glass periscope prism, chromed spring steel with prisms, aluminium angle, steel blocks, 167 x 213 cm; optical glass periscope prism, aluminium angles, chromed steel blocks, 160 cm high; optical glass periscope prism, aluminium angles, chromed steel blocks, 147 cm high
Courtesy Liliane Lijn and Sylvia Kouvali, London / Piraeus
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

16 Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, November 15, 2024, to May 4, 2025
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

17 Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, November 15, 2024, to May 4, 2025
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

18 Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, November 15, 2024, to May 4, 2025
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

19 Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Liliane Lijn. Arise Alive, November 15, 2024, to May 4, 2025
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok
© Bildrecht, Wien 2024

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Published on November 4, 2024

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