Jil Lahr, winner of the ENE x Casino Display crossed residency

Following the announcement of the crossed residency between Est-Nord-Est and Casino Display, we are pleased to announce that the Luxembourg-based artist Jil Lahr has been selected for a two-month research residency at our centre in spring 2026.

Driven by notions of process and exploration, our two institutions place particular emphasis on art in the making—on progression, creation, and experimentation. These residencies will offer artists the opportunity to explore new avenues of reflection and to be immersed in stimulating, unfamiliar contexts over the coming year.

This crossed residency program is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Gouvernment duQuébec, in partnership with Casino Luxembourg – Forum of Contemporary Art, Kultur | lx – Arts Council Luxembourg, and the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg.

Jil Lahr (born 1991, Luxembourg) works and lives in Hamburg. An interdisciplinary artist, she works with various media, including painting, sculpture, and installation. Recurring motifs and objects in her installations are everyday objects such as naturalia, packaging, vessels, curiosities, and souvenirs. Collecting and combining form the core of her artistic work. Through accumulation, subtraction, and sacralization of the supposedly familiar, she asks viewers to sharpen their eyes to find the extraordinary hidden within. The process of assembling, collecting, and presenting reflects cultural, social, and historical contexts by bringing diverse elements into a dialogical space. Referring by analogy to Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, she develops topographies that explore the resemblance, symbolism, ambiguity, and ideological core of objects through seriality by offering viewers a space for images, associations, and narratives.