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Adam Linder
Portrait of Adam Linder
Born1983 (age 41–42)
Sydney, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupation(s)Dancer, choreographer
Years active2002–present
Notable workChoreographic Services (2013–2017), The Want, Loyalty, Drip Tekhne
AwardsPlace Prize (2008), Mohn Prize (2016)
WebsiteAdamLinder.org

Adam Linder (born 1983 in Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. He received the Mohn Award in 2016.[1][2]

Early life and dance education

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Linder trained at the Royal Ballet School in London. After completing his training in 2002, he danced with The Royal Ballet.[3][4] He later joined the Michael Clark Company and Meg Stuart's Damaged Goods Company, with whom he performed for several years.[5][6]

Career

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Linder began presenting his independent choreographic works in 2013. One of his first stage work was titled Parade and was premiered at Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. That same year, he initiated a series of performances called Choreographic Services (2013–2017). The first in this series, Some Cleaning (2013), reinterpreted cleaning gestures into a sequence of choreographed movements. The series concluded in 2017 with Service No.5: Dare to Keep Kids Off Naturalism, presented at the Kunsthalle Basel.[7][6][8]

In 2018, during his residency at Callie's in Berlin, Linder developed The WANT. This piece explores desire through an interaction between a client and a dealer, inspired by Bernard-Marie Koltès's play In the Solitude of Cotton Fields.[6]

Adam Linder has also created a work called Shelf Life, commissioned by the MoMA in 2020, in which 6 dancers, in conjunction with Shahryar Nashat’s Force Life, perform to reframe the ways in which visitors see and experience performance in a museum.[9][10]

Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Linder created Hustle Harder in 2023, in which a rotating troupe of nine dancers navigates mobile partitions during the museum's opening hours, employs what Linder himself calls his “virtuosic angling” movement vocabulary to interrogate the production and dissemination of dance imagery in a gallery context.[11]

Other works include LOYALTY (2021), Acid Gems (2023) from an institutional partnership with Ballet de Lorraine and Drip Tekhne (2024), a recent production for the Danish Dance Theatre.[12][13][14]

Linder's practice spans different formats, creating staged works for the theatre and durational performances for exhibition spaces.[15]

Exhibitions and awards

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In September 2008, Linder received The Place Prize in his duo with Lorena Randi for the work Foie Gras.[16]

Linder's works have been presented at the Kampnagel theater in Hamburg, the Schinkel Pavillon and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.[5][17] He participated in the 20th Sydney Biennale (2016) and the Liverpool Biennial (2016).[18][19] In 2016, during the Made in LA exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, he received the Mohn Prize for Artistic Excellence for the work Kein Paradiso, accompanied by the publication of a monograph on his stage works titled Who Is Surfing Who.[20][2]

References

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  1. ^ "30 Emerging Artists to Watch This Spring". artsy. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b Greenberger, Alex (16 August 2016). "Hammer Museum Names Adam Linder Winner of $100,000 Mohn Award". ARTnews.
  3. ^ Gompertz, Will (17 October 2014). "Money for nothing? Paying for Performance Art - BBC News". BBC. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  4. ^ McGarry, Kevin (22 September 2016). "Eleven Artists Share Their Most Memorable Art-School Stories - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  5. ^ a b "Adam Linder (DE/AU) – Biography and Solo Presentations". ImPulsTanz. 22 April 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  6. ^ a b c Schöneich, Fabian (18 April 2019). "Labour Party: Choreographer Adam Linder's Performance of Work | Frieze". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  7. ^ "Adam Linder: Choreographic Service No. 3 – Some Riding". Institute of Contemporary Arts Archive. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  8. ^ "ADAM LINDER FULL SERVICE". mudam.lu. 6 February 2019. Archived from the original on 6 February 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
  9. ^ Kourlas, Gia (4 February 2020). "Shelf Life: Adam Linder at MoMA". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  10. ^ ""Shelf Life" by Adam Linder". MoMA Magazine. 5 March 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  11. ^ Walsh, Anador (5 August 2023). "Hustle Harder". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  12. ^ "Stellenweise laut und nackt Choreographische Uraufführung in Hamburg: "Loyalty" von Adam Linder". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 19 October 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
  13. ^ "Danish Dance Theatre". deltadanse. 10 March 2025. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  14. ^ "Rarity (creation 2023)". Ballet de Lorraine. Retrieved 4 July 2025.
  15. ^ "Adam Linder: Hustle Harder - Announcements - e-flux". e-flux. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  16. ^ Wiegand, Chris (29 September 2008). "Foie Gras wins the Place prize for dance | Stage | The Guardian". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
  17. ^ "Adam Linder – LOYALTY". HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
  18. ^ "Liverpool Biennial 2016: Artists announced". theskinny. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  19. ^ "20th Biennale of Sydney: The Future is already here-it's just not evenly distributed Exhibitions MCA Australia". mca.com.au. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  20. ^ "Made in L.A. 2023 Mohn Awards". hammer.ucla.edu. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
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