Lyndal Walker – Venus & Saturn Book Launch & Artist Talk

Lyndal Walker – Venus & Saturn Book Launch & Artist Talk —

SomoS is proud to present the German launch of Lyndal Walker: Venus & Saturn, a limited-edition monograph celebrating three decades of the Australian artist’s uncompromising and genre-defying creative journey. To mark the occasion, Lyndal Walker will appear in person for an artist talk moderated by Berlin-based cultural researcher Daisy Nikoloska. Published by Art Ink in a hand-numbered edition of 600 copies, Venus & Saturn traces Walker’s thirty-year oeuvre through a comprehensive visual and textual exploration. The 320-page volume includes critical essays by Diana d’Arenberg, Charlotte Day, and Brian Clark, alongside an intimate dialogue between the artist and writer Fette Sans. Walker’s diverse artistic language, spanning photography, textiles, and installation, consistently challenges and redefines conventions of gender, fashion, and temporality. Her use of mirrors, accessories, and retail tropes dissects the role of images in constructing identity and societal norms, while her engagement with astrology, shamanic practices, and ancestral knowledge speaks to a turn toward alternative epistemologies in times of crisis. The event at SomoS offers a rare opportunity to engage with Lyndal Walker’s complex, multi-decade career and the philosophical underpinnings of her work. Attendees will gain insight into her methods, inspirations, and the shifting sociocultural contexts that inform her vision. Lyndal Walker is an Australian artist whose expansive career since the 1990s has embraced photography, installation, and textile works to examine themes of gender, identity, time, and the constructed nature of the image. Known for integrating fashion, mirrors, and symbols drawn from everyday life, her work explores the boundaries between image and object, personal transformation, and cultural narrative. Her recent projects have engaged with non-Western cosmologies and environmental anxieties, notably in the 2022 series Cosmic Children. Walker’s exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), and the National Gallery of Australia. Her writing and work have appeared in Frieze, Artforum, and Art & Text, and she is a co-founder of several influential artist-run initiatives. About Daisy Nikoloska Daisy Nikoloska is a writer, curator, and cultural researcher. Originally from rural southwest England, she is currently based between Berlin and the digital sphere, where she works under the pseudonym “Hitachi Blonde”. Known for her subversive reimaginings of cyborg feminism through meme culture, Nikoloska operates in the charged space between analogue and digital media. Her irreverent approach was highlighted in her 2021 digital installation A Labour of Lists with rosy.DX GmbH, which showcased her collection of discarded shopping lists. Her poetry has appeared in The Broadsheet and Noia Magazine. She holds a first-class degree in Art History, Visual Culture, and English from the University of Exeter and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Anglophone Modernities at the University of Potsdam. 

Event Details: 

Book Launch & Artist Talk with Lyndal Walker Wednesday, 

June 25, 2025 

Doors open: 7:00 p.m.

 Artist Talk: 8:00 p.m. 

Location: SomoS Arts – Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.0G, 10967 Berlin, U8 – Schönleinstraße