Converse Column, 2019

Nexus, Leeds University has commissioned the permanent installation Converse Column.

A nine-meter high revolving column of transforming words, Converse Column is sited adjacent to Nexus, the University’s new centre, designed to inspire collaboration and innovation with real world impact.
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Fossil Twist, 2018/2019

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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Cosmic Sea I, 2019

I am interested in the behaviour of different materials and how they interact with each other. Cosmic Fragments are traces of a collision between an ancient material, glass, and a new composite material, Vapourshield, designed to prevent metal vapour from passing through the walls of the crucible in induction furnaces.
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Sunstar, 2018

Sunstar is a large-scale interactive solar installation in the landscape that makes the solar spectrum visible as a brilliantly clear light on the horizon, just at the meeting point of earth and sky.
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Antidote Box, 2018

A sculpture produced for the 3rd International Mykonos Bienniale, titled 'Trans Allegoria' curated by Lydia Venieri.
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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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