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5/6/2013

Linder / Rachel Harrison

Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

Linder
Woman/object

curator Heinrich Dietz

The kestnergesellschaft is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition by Linder Sterling in Germany. The artist, known as "Linder", is one of the protagonists of British late-1970s punk. With around 200 works, the exhibition in Hannover conveys an extensive overview of her varied output.

Linder’s artistic practice has always covered art, music, dance and fashion, and unites various media, such as collage, photography, video and performance. With her uncompromising feminist approach, she questions socially coded and culturally rooted ideas about gender and the sexual marketing of the female body. Since the beginning of her career Linder has drawn from the inexhaustible source of home-making and porn magazines, which she puts together in Dada-like collages. The construction of social identities is reflected in Linder’s own self-staging, whether as the subject of her self-portraits or in the musical and choreographed performances that she develops for museums and theatres.

Linder Sterling was born in Liverpool as Linda Mulvey in 1954. At the end of the 1970s she was a key figure in the culturally explosive period of punk and post-punk, along with bands such as Buzzcocks, Magazine, Joy Division or The Smiths and its singer Morrisssey, with whom she is still linked in friendship and artistic collaboration. One of her most well-known works was the legendary cover of the Buzzcocks’ single "Orgasm Addict", which showed a naked woman with grinning mouths on her breasts and an iron in place of a head. In 1978 she was a co-founder of the post-punk group Ludus, whose singer she remained until the band split up in 1983. She caused a furore in 1982 by appearing – a quarter of a century before Lady Gaga – in a dress made of scraps of poultry. Linder’s work has become internationally known in recent years through presentations at important institutions such as the ICA in London, the Tate or with a solo exhibition at the PS1/Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The retrospective at the kestnergesellschaft is a cooperation with the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, where the exhibition was shown from 1 February until 21 April 2013.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fanzine in German and English with 85 black and white illustrations as well as 23 colored illustrations and with texts by Heinrich Dietz, Fabienne Dumont, Emmanuelle de l'Écotais, Veit Gorner, Fabrice Hergott, Morrissey published by Buchhandlung Walther König for 24 Euro.

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Rachel Harrison
Fake titel

curator Susanne Figner

The kestnergesellschaft is delighted to present a solo exhibition of the New York artist Rachel Harrison (*1966 in New York). Considered one of the most influential sculptors of her generation, Harrison simultaneously undermines and reaffirms multiple layers of sculptural histories, employing slapstick humor and a sense of tragicomedy.

The exhibition at the kestnergesellschaft presents a selection from three distinct bodies of work. This includes sculptures and drawings from Harrison’s solo exhibition "The Help" at Greene Naftali Gallery, 2012, the architecturally-scaled installation "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan" (Le Consortium, 2011) and the suite of photographs titled "Sunset Series", started in 2000 and completed in 2012.

The title "The Help" comes from the photograph taken by the artist of the maintenance door to Duchamp’s laborious final work "Étant Donnés". The sculptures and drawings from "The Help" examine the entagled roles of the Artist, the Muse, and The Help. Harrison combines found objects, often of a banal or domestic nature, with abstract forms. Shifting the focus between Duchamp’s influential readymades and his handcrafted objects, Harrison challenges the balance of these paradigms. Harrison’s "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan", a mixed-media installation including a wall of pedestals, autonomous sculptures, and video, raises a number of anthropological and political questions. Aside from references to the work of Marcel Broodthaers, as well as Mesoamerican ballcourts, the expansive installation also reflects on larger issues of cultural identity and ownership. The "Sunset Series", presented in its entirety for the first time, comprises thirty-one photographs of a single source image, a photograph of a sunset.

In each photograph in the series, shot on 35mm film, the artist physically manipulates the found snapshot to create a new image.

Rachel Harrison has had solo exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery in London (2010), the Portikus in Frankfurt (2009), Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum, Bard College (2009), the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich (2007) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004). She also participated in the Venice Biennale in 2009 and 2003, the Whitney Biennial in 2008 and 2002, and the Berlin Biennial in 2006. She was awarded the Calder Prize in 2011. Her works are in the collections of MoMA, Museum Ludwig Köln, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Stedelijk Museum, among others.

The exhibition at the kestnergesellschaft is a cooperation with the S.M.A.K. in Gent (Belgium), where the exhibition will be shown subsequently.

The exhibition is a accompanied by a catalogue designed by Surface with 184 pages, 240 colored illustrations and texts (in German and English) by Diedrich Diederichsen, Susanne Figner, Martin Germann, Alex Kitnick, Veit Görner and Philippe Van Cauteren published by Buchhandlung Walther König for 38 Euro.

Image: Linder Untitled 1977 Collage 32.9 x 21.5 cm Courtesy Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles and dépendance, Brussels

Press contact:
Konstantin Wenzel tel +49 511 70120 16 fax + 49 511 70120 20 presse@kestnergesellschaft.de

Press preview wednesday 5 june 2013, 11 a.m.
Opening Thursday 6 June 2013, 7 p.m. (with the artists)

kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11 30159 Hanover Germany
Opening hours daily 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Thursdays 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. | Mondays closed
admission €7, concession €5
Free entry for members and children under 15

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