Rimbun dahan hijjas kasturi building

About

Rimbun Dahan is the home of architect Hijjas Kasturi and his wife Angela. Set on fourteen acres outside Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the compound of Rimbun Dahan is a centre for developing traditional and contemporary art forms.

Residencies

Rimbun Dahan hosts a range of artists’ residencies to encourage visual artists, choreographers and other creative individuals to explore and develop their artistic work. We also run a residency for environmental conservation researchers.

Venue Rental

Various venues at Rimbun Dahan are available for short-term rental for television commercial or film shoots, and personal photography. Please contact us to organise a recce visit, and to discuss date availability.

• Call for Applications for SEA Choreolab 2025

  Emerging contemporary dance choreographers from Southeast Asia are invited to apply to attend a facilitated international choreographic laboratory embedded at the private arts centre of Rimbun Dahan from 4 to 13 July 2025.Read More »

• BOLD: Hijjas Kasturi at 88

  An exhibition of new abstract artworks by Hijjas Kasturi, created since his first solo exhibition 'Renewal' in 2022, and launched in conjunction with his 88th birthday. Come visit to view the artworks in the Undergrou

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  Visiting Rimbun Dahan, Malaysia

  Art In A Tropical Garden

  by W. Ruth Kozak

  Tucked away on an small acreage just outside of Kuala Lumpur, a Malaysian architect, Hijjas Kasturi and his Australian wife, Angela, have developed a lush garden paradise retreat for artists and writers.

  The Centre for Contemporary and Traditional Art at Rimbun Dahan, (the name means “laden branch” because it was once a fruit orchard) includes a botanical garden planted with indigenous South East Asian species of trees and plants, four studios and accommodation for artists, a large dance studio, an underground gallery, and a restored village house

  At the entrance to the grounds I am warmly greeted by Hijjas Kasturi’s gracious Australian wife, Angela (photo at right). Before we set off on our walk around the compound, she explains the objectives of Rimbun Dahan which supports the development and conservation of both traditional and contemporary art forms, from visual art to theatre, dance and music.

  “We accept mainly artists from Malaysia and Australia, for the year-long residency, although foreign artists, mainly those from Southeast Asia, are accepted for short-term residencies,” she says. “It also provides residencies for visual artists, students of architecture and ecology, authors, musician

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