artist statement:
Johnny Linder’s artistic work is a transdisciplinary practice based on the use of sensitive materials, body and time.
Usually his artworks arise from the absence of fully controllable states combined with a desire to capture these very moments. They are visualisations of ephemeral processes, showing states of change, fragments of reality and intangible dynamics.
Johnny Linder often works with analogue photochemical processes or the gradual transformation of delicate materials, relating the performativity and reactive potential of these materials to his own body.
Recurring themes in his work are the body, uncertainty and proximity, instability, the quality of touch, the meaning and transgression of images, layers and relations. His work turns towards the unfinished, the ambiguous and the ephemeral. It is concerned with sensation, the potentiality of what is not and the delicate traces of what was.
Linder’s 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 (CZ) among others.
exhibitions (selection):
2025 ›spectrum metallic‹, Angewandte Festival, Vienna
2025 ›interventionen‹, OKP vienna
2025 ›subliminal‹, Gartenatelier, Munich (solo)
2025 ›24½‹, Augartenatelier, Vienna
2025 ›acts in transit‹, Athens
2025 ›über nacht‹, fotogalerie vienna
2025 ›gartenatelier@kolosssaal‹, Munich
2024 ›treading softly‹, parallel vienna
2024 ›Larven‹, Oskar Kokoschka Platz, Vienna
2024 ›licking flowers‹, gallery Hartmann Kohler, Vienna (solo show)
2024 ›hoffentlich wenigstens‹, dito art space, Vienna
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:
2025 project grant, university of applied arts, vienna
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)