Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇

is an artist working across film, photography, media, text and performance to peel apart, re-examine, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds and timelines. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity. 

Based between Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR). She was a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale - Foreigners Everywhere and was awarded Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Artist of the Year and the 2026 Villa Romana Prize. 

She graduated with a BA in international relations from Tufts University and an MA in visual and media anthropology from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is continuing at the Universität as a doctoral candidate at under Prof. Dr. Annette Jael Lehmann. 

︎Work
︎C.V.
︎psxcharmaine@gmail.com
︎@psxcharmaine

Sep 2026

• Solo, Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, MUDEC Milan
• Open studios, Villa Romana, Florence

Aug 2026

• Exhibition, Data Never Dies, IMPAKT, Utrecht
  

Jul 2026

• Solo, Devotion/Disappearance, Behncke Gallery, Munich
• Exhibition, Silver Egg. The Eros of Media Art, ZKM Karlsruhe 
• Exhibition, Creeper – das Rollbrett, Spoilerzone, Berlin
  
• Talk, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
• Conversation with Xue Tan, Behncke Gallery, Munich
• Screening, Asian Queers Reunited, CiLENS, Berlin
• Screening, Love Residues and Glitch Dreams, Knot Collective, London
• Screening, XPOSED summer open air edition, Berlin

Jun 2026

• Screening, Insistent Focus, SOAS London
• Screening, QAMERAD, Seken, Bali

May 2026

• Screening, Myths We Call Bodies, MC2 x Queereast, ICA London
• Screening, Ties That Bind, Queereast, Genesis Cinema, London
• Screening, XPosed Queer Film Fest, Berlin
• Presentation, In Ensemble: A Rehearsal, Villa Romana Fellows x NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Apr 2026

• Fair, Art Düsseldorf
• Screening, PiLi PaTa, Berlin

Mar 2026

• Group exhibition, Threads of Kinship, KADIST x He Art Musuem, Shunde
• Group introduction exhibition, Villa Romana Prize, Florence
• Screening and publication launch, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, REDCAT LA and East of Borneo, Now Instant, LA 
  
• Feature, CNTRFLD

Feb 2026

• Performance, Godmother, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
• Group exhibition, Thresholds of Becoming, esea contemporary, Manchester
• Talk, Behncke Gallery, Munich
• Essay, The Moon is Wet: Threading Desire Lines Across History, National Gallery Singapore
• Feature, Godmother performance score, Artforum China
  
  

Jan 2026

• Group exhibition, Ground Loops, School for Poetic Computation x Feelers, Singapore
• Talk, Heavy is the root of light, metaLAB FU Berlin x Harvard

Dec 2025

• Review, Plural Art Mag
• Review, Artomity

Nov 2025

• Group exhibition, Mysterious Travels, Behncke Gallery, Munich
• Group exhibition, Believe in a River, Hengqin Cultural and Art Center
  
• Lecture-performance with AFSAR, Women-led communities, PalaisPopulaire and virtual, Berlin
• Discussion, Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves, The New Social Evironment #1293, The Brooklyn Rail
• Screening and discussion, What’s softest..., Deutsche Bank Singapore HQ
• Screening, What’s softest..., Beijing Queer Film Festival
• Review, Technology and Tenderness, Berlin Art Link 
• Interview, Women suffer most from deepfake abuses..., Channel News Asia

Oct 2025

• Group exhibition, Being a Girl*!?, From Panel Painting to Social Media, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
  
• Group exhibition, Notes from the Underground part 2, Wet Snow, SAC Bucharest
• Feature, CURA. 45: Blackout 
• Feature, The Berliner 

Sep 2025

• Solo, Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
  
• Two-person exhibition with Li-Ming Hu, Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves, Goethe-Institut New York 
• Lecture-performance, in the shadow of the cosmic, Somewhere between Asian and British, Centre for Performance Research, NY
  
• Screening & talk, May All The Little Girls Win, Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art, DC 
• Feature, Monopol  
• Feature, Missy Magazine