Crystal Koan, 2018

Koan is a Japanese word for a paradoxical riddle given to young Buddhist monks as aids for meditation. They are a continuous theme in Lijn’s work.
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Tulip Mine, 2017

A limited edition print produced for the touring exhibition and portfolio Turkish Tulips by the House of Fairytales.
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Power Game edition

November 2016

Power Game is a boxed limited edition of two games and an oracle. It comes in a numbered, signed and dated edition of 100. It is made up of the full set of 108 word cards that Liliane Lijn invented in 1970.
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Spinning Dolls, 2016

Il Museo della Canapa, Sant’Anatolia di Narco in Italy has commissioned the permanent installation titled Spinning Dolls.
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Winning Words, 2014

Winning Words editions are based on Lijn’s Oracular Keys, a set of cards created in 1964 for the first staging of her Power Game performance, at the Royal College of Art
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Memory, 2014

In 1993, Lijn designed a series of carpets she called Words to Walk On, all using collaged and cut-up words. Meaning and pattern interweave and are altered by the direction from which the rug is approached or seen.
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Magma Clasp Belt, 2013

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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Peace Koans, 2013

Liliane Lijn has created sculptures based around the form of the koan since the sixties. This body of work, within her whole practice, is subject to great variety and subtlety.
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Lunar Cuff, 2009 – 2012

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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