Sasha Koura: Trace Evidence

This year's Hanna Nagel Prize goes to the Baden-Baden-based artist
Sasha Koura. Her paper installations convinced the jury with their clear,
conceptual approach and the poetic silence inherent in these works. Sasha
Koura works with everyday, used paper objects, including old books and maps.
old books and maps, on which the traces of transience are unmistakably visible.
become conspicuous. Assembled into surprising assemblages, the artist brings out these
the artist raises these overlooked, carelessly discarded found objects into our consciousness
and gives them a new presence between familiarity and alienation.
Born in London in 1970, Sasha Koura completed her art studies at Chelsea College
of Art in London and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford. A
she earned a Master of Research in Cultural Studies at the University of London.
London University. She has lived in Germany since 2010.