This summer PCAI Collection Artist Linder presents major performances and exhibitions in Scotland, across two iconic locations: the Mount Stuart and the Inverleith House in Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, opening the Edinburgh Arts Festival 2025 to coincide with the Linder: Danger Came Smiling touring. Co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and the Mount Stuart Trust, the exhibition A kind of glamour about me brings together Linder with choreographer Holly Blakey, composer Maxwell Sterling, and fashion designer Ashish Gupta. For Linder, the title epitomises the transcendent power of the creative arts in a person’s identity and social mobility.
Linder’s film Cut To The Chase (2024), commissioned by PCAI, premieres this summer as part of her Mount Stuart exhibition in Scotland. The film was created on the occasion of Linder’s residency and performance in Delphi, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, PCAI Artistic Director. The origin of “cut to the chase” as an idiom is traced to the cinematic meaning of the verb ‘cut’ and film editing back in the 1920s. Linder’s uncompromising work, whether it is photomontage, performance or video, is all about cutting, cutting out, cutting across media or received ideas. Directed by Natalia Papadopoulou the film features Linder and performers Charis Dimos, Nicole Economides, Eliza Krikoni, Anna Papathanasiou, VASKOS (Vassilis Noulas, Kostas Tzimoulis), Spiros Varelis. Music by Maxwell Sterling. You may watch the trailer here.
Linder is widely known for her work in photography, radical feminist photomontage and confrontational performance and as the former frontwoman of the post-punk group Ludus. A retrospective of her work, Femme/Objet, was organised in 2013 by the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, later travelling to the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover. Her first institutional survey in the UK, Linderism, was mounted in 2020 at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, later travelling to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. Linder has presented recent solo exhibitions at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2023); Blum, Los Angeles (2022); Modern Art, London (2019); Glasgow Women’s Library (2018); Nottingham Contemporary (2018); Chatsworth House, Derbyshire (2018); The Hepworth Wakefield (2013); and Tate St Ives (2013). She has participated in recent two-person and group exhibitions at dépendance, Brussels (2022); Tate Liverpool (2021); the Royal Academy, London (2020); Camden Art Centre, London (2020); the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2019); and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2019). In 2017, she was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award. Linder’s works are held in collections including the Arts Council Collection, London; the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate, London.
Dates: 14 June until 31 August 2025
Image: Linder, Cut to the Chase, 2024
Activity aligned with Goals 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 16, 17
