Cabaret Futura

The Paradise, Kensal Green, London

21st June 2010

Invited to perform at Richard Strange's resurrection of his 1980's Cabaret Futura, Lijn performed Poem Game. Inviting two audacious members of the audience to join her on stage, she used her especially designed word-cards to write a poem.
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Power Game, BALTIC, Newcastle

5th March 2010

Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Narec Residency

Liliane Lijn has been appointed as artist in residence at Narec, in a partnership project under the aegis of Inspire Northumberland and Narec (New and Renewable Energy Centre) in Blyth.
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Earth Art, 2008-2010

Lijn intends her jewellery to be worn, as if one were moulding a clod of ‘glebe’ to a part of one’s body. She wants people to wear the earth.
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Pinch Pots and Pyramids

November 2009

Kate Werble Gallery
New York City

The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider basic geometric shapes as well as the human ability to create them.
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Serpentine Poetry Marathon

October 18 - 19th 2009

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and held in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2009 designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA over the weekend of 17th and 18th of October 2009.
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Power Game, ICA London

28th July 2009

Originally staged by Liliane Lijn in 1974 and renacted at the ICA in 2009, Power Game is concerned with the power of words and how people interpret meaning depending on their interests and preconceptions.
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Poor.Old.Tired.Horse

17th June – 23rd August 2009

ICA, London

Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. takes an expansive look at text-based art practices, inspired by the concrete poetry movement of the 60s which explored both the literary and graphic potential of language.
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Space – Time

April - August 2009

National Glass Centre

'Space-Time' draws together works that reflect upon applications of astronomical observations and the role of time in our everyday lives, memory and future.
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Stardust

Riflemaker, London

April - September 2008

The exhibition follows on from the artist's 2005 residency at the Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
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Centrifugal

21st March - 11th May 2008

Liliane Lijn & Annabelle Moreau

Royal Academy Summer Schools Gallery, Hornsey


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Nyehous Becomes Indica

November 2007

Nyehous Gallery, New York City

A group exhibition curated by Riflemaker Gallery, an homage to John Dunbar's Indica Gallery and the artists who exhibited in it from 1965 to 1967.
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Liliane Lijn Selected Works 1959 – 1980

England & Co, London

May - June 2006

A retrospective exhibition curated by David Alan Mellor and accompanied by a publication inspired by Signals, the Signals Gallery catalogues and journal published in the 1960's.
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