NEWS
Linda Swim II, Summer 2024
Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Linda recently completed her first public performance drawing in water.
Full details are available HERE.
11 August 2024
Group Exhibition
‘Josef and Anni Albers, Iconic couple of modernism’
At the Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
A suite of five performance drawings by Linda Karshan are currently displayed
alongside eight artists in the lineage of Josef and Anni Albers in the show in homage to their legacy
10 April – 8 September 2024
Karshan’s performance drawings, on paper or in space, happen in a state of exceptional presence.
They are guided by her ‘inner choreography’ and aspire to conditions of near-zero gravity.
When she discovered the gridded pattern of the swimming pool at Villa Empain,
she instinctively felt ‘it had to be swum’, with the same urge as the Chapter Room of the Abbey, with its
perfect proportions, needed ‘to be walked’ during her exhibition at San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, in 2018.
Five drawings selected by Linda
In co-operation with Stefanos Geroulanos, Director of the Remarque Institute, NYU
On long term loan, in appreciation of his work
Group Exhibition
Josef and Anni Albers, Iconic couple of modernism
Linda’s works will be displayed alongside other artists drawing inspiration directly or indirectly from the Alberses.
10 April – 8 September 2024
The Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels
Film Screening and Award at Montecatini Terme International Short Film Exhibition 2023
HOMAGE TO ITALO CALVINO
October 19, 2023
Palazzo Loredan, Venice
Film Premiere
LINDA KARSHAN : TWO FEET WALKING
November 21, 2022
Courtauld Institute of Art
The Universe on Paper
The Art of Linda Karshan
Pisa, Domus Comeliana and Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
13-16 October 2022
Conference and Exhibition
Inaugural conference and launch of the exhibition, in partnership with the
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance.
Organized by curator Dr. Giulia Martina Weston
The Universe on Paper. The Art of Linda Karshan
Pisa, Domus Comeliana
13-16 October 2022
These events will take place at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (Conference Registration at 10.00) and the Domus Comeliana (Exhibition Launch at 15.30) on Thursday 13th October.
LINDA KARSHAN AT BAD+ BORDEAUX
Across the weekend of the 9th and 10th July 2022 a selection of work by artist Linda Karshan was presented at BAD+ Bordeaux. The works spanned from the early 1990s through to the present day. In addition to the drawings, a collection of etchings and two beautiful loose folio artist’s books were available to view along with a selection of publications about the artist and her work.
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LINDA KARSHAN RECEIVES HONORARY FELLOWSHIP AT THE COURTAULD
On the 6th July 2022 Linda Karshan was awarded an honorary fellowship at The Courtauld. In 2021 Linda Karshan and family gifted 24 important modern and post-war drawings to The Courtauld in memory of Linda’s late husband, Howard.
Linda gave a speech to the graduates in which she talked about her own life in relation to humanism, art and culture. She also addressed the orientation in her family legacy and culture to philanthropy, and to her values and passion for education and research in the arts, including the legacy of The Courtauld specifically. Her speech ended with the following remarks:
“My family and I value The Courtauld for being a teaching institution as well as a museum. Howard was not only a collector of art but of art books, and he loved learning about art as, of course, do I. I go on to say--and this is my charge to you, graduates-- we know that art comes alive when it is studied. My family and I want these drawings to be fully alive, to be studied, and to be made available for future generations.”
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FILM AWARDS
LINDA KARSHAN COVID-19 CONVERSATION Receives Accolades from 7 International 2021 Film Festivals
FICOCC
Selected by the Five Continents International Festival, Venezuela
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NAWADA
Selected for Best Covid-19 Film by Nawada International Festival, India
Selected for Best Documentary Film by Nawada International Festival, India
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ARFF
Shortlisted for the Best Short Documentary Awards by ARFF Berlin International Award
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SWEDEN FILM AWARDS
Finalist for the Best Short Documentary Awards by Sweden Film Awards
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HOLLYWOOD BLVD FILM FESTIVAL
Selected for the Best Short Documentary Award by Hollywood BLVD Film Festival
FLORENCE FILM AWARDS
Selected for the Best Short Documentary Award by Florence Film Awards
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LULEA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Won the Best Covid-19 Special Film March Season Award at Lulea International Film Festival
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CINALFAMA INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS
Nominated for Best Medium or Feature Length Film by Cinalfama International Film Awards, Lisbon
FILM
Covid-19 Conversation with Linda Karshan
Ishmael Annobil, Stonedog Productions
August 2020
While under Covid-19 lockdown, Linda Karshan recalled her father’s polio affliction in the 1952 epidemic, and his gallant battle against it. This inspired her to produce her most prolific body of work to date: “…because I can stand up, and he could not.”
This film throws light on the pioneering artist’s Inner and outer impulses, and the influential role played by her agent and muse, Jill Silverman Van Coenegrachts, during her "channelling of the works.”
Director/Editor: ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
Cinematography/Sound: MAX MALLEN
Associate Producer: JILL SILVERMAN VAN COENEGRACHTS
Audio Post-Production: NICK KULUKUNDIS
Still Photography: ROGER KARSHAN, NANA YAA ANNOBIL, ALLISON WUCHER, ISHMAEL ANNOBIL
Production House: STONEDOG PRODUCTIONS
©Stonedog Productions 2020
Film website: CovidConversation.info
To learn more about Karshan’s father and the philanthropy he inspired, please visit The Roger E. Joseph Prize website.
Realised by The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 2020 MA Curating the Art Museum programme, this first fully digital exhibition has emerged in the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruption to education and arts institutions globally.
DRAW ART FAIR LONDON
MAY 17 - 19, 2019
SAATCHI GALLERY
FILM STILL FROM BLACKBIRD SONG / A COLLABORATION BETWEEN FILMMAKER ISHMAEL ANNOBIL AND LINDA KARSHAN
The Redfern Gallery presents Blackbird Song, a ‘walked drawing’ performance on the Saatchi Gallery stairs performed daily during DRAW ART FAIR 2019. Film Still © Ishmael Annobil
FIVE PROJECTS
RETROSPECTIVE DRAWING EXHIBITION 1992-2019 / REDFERN GALLERY
DAILY PERFORMANCES OF BLACKBIRD SONG / A COLLABORATION BETWEEN FILMMAKER ISHMAEL ANNOBIL AND LINDA KARSHAN
FILM VIEWING OF BLACKBIRD SONG & FOUND OBJECT : EN MARCHE / A COLLABORATION BETWEEN FILMMAKER ISHMAEL ANNOBIL AND LINDA KARSHAN
DRAW FORUM PANEL DISCUSSION /EQUILIBRIO - WITH LINDA KARSHAN AND RICHARD DAVEY
CATALOGUE LAUNCH /EQUILIBRIO (2018) & THE LIBRARY FOR L’AQUILA (2019)
DAILY PERFORMANCES OF BLACKBIRD SONG / A COLLABORATION BETWEEN FILMMAKER ISHMAEL ANNOBIL AND LINDA KARSHAN
The Redfern Gallery presents Blackbird Song, a ‘walked drawing’ performance on the Saatchi Gallery stairs performed daily during DRAW ART FAIR 2019. © Ishmael Annobil
Permanent Installation
THE LIBRARY FOR L’AQUILA BY LINDA KARSHAN
NINE ARTISTS FOR RECONSTRUCTION | NOVE ARTISTI PER LA RICOSTRUZIONE
Installed on FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 13:30
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