Kathrin Longhurst

Kathrin Longhurst’s visual language is entwined with her own journey as a child. Growing up in East Germany during the cold-war era, Kathrin experienced what life was like living with the iron-curtain. The contrast between war-propaganda imagery and promises of glamour ‘on the other side of the wall’ have long been the inspirations of her works. A classically trained figurative painter, Kathrin began attending life drawing classes at the age of fourteen before relocating with her family to Sweden. Throughout her painting career, Kathrin has challenged the traditional war propaganda aestheti