Jil Lahr

Jil Lahr 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. 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.

Jil’s residence is the result of the crossed residency partnership between Est-Nord-Est and Casino Display.

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.