artist statement:
working in a transdisciplinary practice between image-generating, tracing and performative processes, mostly based on the use of defective material from the field of analog photography, bodies and time.
In my work, I often deal with analogue photochemical processes, whose performativity and reactive potential I relate to my own body. Usually my works arise from the absence of fully controllable states combined with the desire to capture these very moments; they are visualisations of ephemeral processes, they show states of change, fragments of reality and make intangible dynamics visible.
Recurring themes that preoccupy me are the body, intimacy and proximity; instability, the quality of touch, the meaning and transgression of images, layers and relationships. I am interested in the unfinished, the ambiguous and the ephemeral.
I am concerned with sensation, the potentiality of what is not and the delicate traces of what was.
My artistic output ranges from (photo)graphic, installative, videographic to performative approaches.
works of Johnny Linder are part of the collection of the Bibliothek der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, Kunst-und Museumsbibliothek Köln, the collection of Princeton University, Galerie Klatovy / Klenová and were purchased by the gallery Druck&Buch Vienna, gallery supplement, Göttingen, among others.
exhibitions (selection):
2024 ›treading softly‹, parallel vienna (group show)
2024 ›Larven‹, Oskar Kokoschka Platz, Vienna (group show)
2024 ›licking flowers‹, gallery Hartmann Kohler, Vienna (solo show)
2024 ›hoffentlich wenigstens‹, dito art space, Vienna (group show)
2024 ›chrysalides‹, gallery Klenová, Klatovy, CZ (solo show)
2024 ›I’ll keep it if you don’t‹, Vienna (duo show with Anna Carina Roth)
2023 ›platypus‹, Vienna (site specific project in public space)
2023 ›more than one surface‹, Vienna (group show)
2023 ›kopfverlängerung‹, Vienna (group show)
2023 ›chamber of secrets‹, Vienna (group show)
2023 ›tbh‹, Vienna, art project in public space
2023 ›delicate entities‹, Karlsruhe (group show)
2022 ›wherever‹, Off Bratislava (group show)
2022 ›dealing with uncertainty‹, Einbeck/Germany (solo show)
2022 ›zustandsgesteuert‹, Vienna (group show)
2022 ›stones in a glass house‹, Foto Wien, Vienna (group show)
2022 ›focus europa II‹ Schafhof Künstlerhaus, Munich (group show)
2021 ›diffuse zustände‹, BBK Kunstverein Karlsruhe
2021 ›reset‹ online group show
2020 ›the artist is absent‹ – exhibition of the residence program Travneve, Kyiv/Munich
2020 ›Kunst|Mitte‹, Magdeburg
2019: ›still not gone‹, trafo.e.V., Gießen (solo show)
2018: Galerie art supplement, Göttingen (group show)
2017: ›transitions‹ , Fröhliche Gesellschaft, Gießen (solo show)
scholarships:
2024 artist residency at villa paula, Klenová, CZ
2022 artist in residence at art space Bears in the park, Vienna
2020 residency Travneve / Kyiv, Europäisches Künstlerhaus Oberbayern
2020 Young Artist Space, Kunst/Mitte Magdeburg
2019 project grant, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
2016/2017 scholarship ›Deutschlandstipendium‹
2015-2019 studio scholarship, Gießen
publications (selection):
2023 ›surrogates? ‹ | artist book
2023 ›ist jetzt später? ‹ | artist book
2023 ›delicate entities ‹ | exhibition catalogue
2022 ›dealing with uncertainty‹ | exhibition catalogue
2020 ›tender indifference‹ | photobook
2020 ›interim‹ | artist monograph
2019 ›still not gone‹ | exhibition catalogue
2018 ›obchód‹ | photobook
2018 ›variations on a theme‹ | photobook
2017 ›index‹ | photobook
2017 ›evidence‹ | photobook
2017 ›transitions‹ | artist monograph
2017 ›blackbox‹ | exhibition publication (contribution)