AIR 2010

Esther Horn

Residency Duration: 4 Jan – 25 Feb 2010

Esther Horn (b. Bensberg, Germany) is a German contemporary artist who did a residency program with the Lost Generation Art Space in 2010 with the support of the Goethe-Institut Malaysia. 

During the residency, she worked on a nocturnal and light based series of paintings. Photographs, sketches and also movie stills were starting points for the construction of her nightly imagery: Petrol-stations, landscapes at night, scarcely illuminated scenarios, which established ambiguous situations between urban no man’s land, town and desert. The situations became unreal, similar to dreams, memories, a video-still from a security camera or a “film-noir-sceneries”.

Over the years, Esther remains very active in producing and exhibiting her new works either in solo or group exhibitions all over Germany and Europe. Early this year (2020) before the pandemic spread in Europe, her work entitled #roomwithaview was exhibited in Barcelona and Budapest.

She will also participate in a new exhibition scheduled for 14 Nov – 20 December 2020 in Kuenstverein Neukoeln in Berlin but due to the lockdown in Germany, the show will be postponed.

A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia

photo credits to Esther Horn

Astrid Köppe

Residency Duration: 30 July to 30 September 2010

Astrid Köppe is a German visual artist who explores the beauty of unknown and mysterious shapes through her detailed drawings of abstract forms. Astrid produces a cognitive dissonance in her viewers by complicating both the identification of the object as well as the aesthetic aspects of the work. She enjoys playing with the boundary of the beautiful and exploring the concept of the distasteful. Her drawings often depict shapes that are impossible to classify or name. Plant, animal, mineral, or some strange hybridized combination of these, each work defies classification.

Astrid is no stranger to the Malaysian art scene. Not only did she collaborate regularly at the Lost Generation Art Space, she also did two residencies both in 2010 and 2012. In the coming years, she would continue to return to Malaysia, escaping the cold winter back home, and make deeper meaningful engagement with the local art community. During her residencies, she has conducted many drawing workshops with various art spaces in Klang Valley and participated in many exhibitions such as Drawing Exhibition (21 – 26 Feb 2012, Annexe Gallery, KL), KL Triennial: Barricade (16 Feb – 02 March 2013, Publika, KL) and Extending Ideas (23 Jan – 07 Feb 2015, Feeka Gallery, KL) with the support of the Goethe-Institut Malaysia.

Astrid’s latest solo exhibition is ongoing at the Gallery Sekiryu in Japan where in the following months, her works will be exhibited at the Sakura City Museum from 26 January 2021.

A German Artist Residency Project collaboration with Goethe-Institut Malaysia

Portrait © Markus Bachmann