Reflekt RESIDENCY

We are honoered to welcome Zelin Seah to Berlin for a 3-months stay within the REFLEKT residency programme by Goethe-Institut Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines together with SAVVY Contemporary for artists and cultural practitioners from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Timor-Leste. 

Zelin Seah is a Malaysian visual artist and lecturer in Fine Arts whose practice moves through the entanglements of land, memory, and material trace. Rooted in long-term research, his work investigates how extractive economies and postcolonial regimes leave their mark—on bodies, maps, and landscapes. He works across installation, fiber art, and cartographic interventions, often using natural materials like rattan or oil palm waste to unearth the silent histories they carry. From altered land titles to forgotten grasses, his recent projects examine how nature is framed through systems of value, and how ecological residue holds the ghosts of erased knowledge. He has undertaken residencies at basis Frankfurt e.V. and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, and in 2025 presented a solo exhibition, This Land is ( ) Land, at Richard Koh Fine Art in Singapore. His work is held in the collections of the Singapore Art Museum and the National Art Gallery Malaysia.