Adam Linder

Adam Linder’s work is devoted to the specifics of dance and often holds a mirror up to the discipline itself. He works across multiple formats of dance, whether in the theatre or the exhibition space. The classical, the technological, the animal, the expressive, and the absurd all play a role in a politics of shapeshifting that underpins his artistic practice. Linder’s choreographies stem from a desire to simultaneously embody the unsettling yet beautiful aspects of dance and to reveal something about the cultural value we place this form.

He has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2023); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2020); South London Gallery (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015). Stage works have been co-produced and presented by theatres such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Kampnagel, Hamburg; deSingel, Antwerp; Sadler's Wells, London; Dampfzentrale, Bern; and UCLA CAP / REDCAT, Los Angeles. In 2018, CCA Wattis, San Francisco presented the survey FULL SERVICE, which subsequently travelled to MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019). Linder has had commissions from Sydney Dance Company (2010); Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy (2023); and Danish Dance Theatre, Copenhagen (2024).