charmaine poh 傅秀璇
is an artist working across film, photography, media and performance to peel apart, re-examine, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. 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 is a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale - Foreigners Everywhere and was awarded Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year prize for 2025.
She is currently in production for two films: A is for Andra and The Moon is Wet.
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︎psxcharmaine@gmail.com
︎@psxcharmaine
so, to all the little girls: may we all win.⋆⁺₊⋆ ☀︎ ⋆⁺₊⋆
may 2025
exhibition, What’s softest..., Studiengalerie 1.357, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
apr 2025
screening, What’s softest..., e-flux Screening Room, NYC talk, Virtual Influencers in the Asia Pacific, IERLab, Curtin University, Perth
exhibition, GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, Attention Is All I Need, Virtual HEK Basel
mar 2025
exhibition, What’s softest... & performance, in the shadow of the cosmic, Art Central HKThe Young Body Talks Back—Healing, Agency, and Community Building in the Art of Charmaine Poh, by Nora Wölfing, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art
talk, THE YOUNG BODY UNIVERSE, OnCurating Academy Berlin
streaming platform, What’s softest..., Cinelogue
feb 2025
screening, GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, Avatars, Proxies, and Digital Twins, Tate Modern, Londonjan 2025
opening, What’s softest..., Disobedient Bodies: Reclaiming Her, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, SGscreening, Pixel Flesh, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
screening, What’s softest..., Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
screening, What’s softest..., Youth Co-Learning Film Journey, Eaton HK
screening, GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, Bangkok Experimental Film Festival
dec 2024
acquisition, GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, KADIST collectionprofile, Grazia Singapore
nov 2024
announcement, Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year 2025open studios, Singapore Art Museum residency
Young Birds from Strange Mountains, Schwules Museum, Berlin
VISIO - Programme for Artists’ Moving Images, Florence
screening, World Film Festival Bangkok
oct 2024
screening, Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taipeiopening, Shadow Self, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Queering AI: Jetsam, metaLAB FU Berlin
sep 2024
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, REDCAT, LADMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Gyeonggi-do
Cafe Society Cinema, Jogja
aug 2024
ARTnews, 25 Essential AI ArtworksARKIPEL Experimental and Documentary Film Festival, Jakarta
Future Ancestors: MMCA curators’ residency presentation panel with Jo-Lene Ong and Im Young Zoo, Seoul
jul 2024
Play & Loop VI, Blindspot Gallery, HK jun 2024
acquisition, “What’s softest...”, Sunpride Foundation collection
may 2024
Sad Captions: Everything Has Been Washed Away; I Can Only Write 'Sad'..., SeMA Bunker, Seoulprofile, New Currents, ArtAsiaPacific May/June issue, print
apr 2024
opening, Biennale Arte - Foreigners Everywhere, Venice
acquisition, “What’s softest...” , Vega Foundation collection
profile, Former Child Star Charmaine Poh Uses AI To Confront the Tension Between Visibility and Privacy, Art in America
Kin screening, Queer East festival, London
Cosmic Dialogues on Fiction-Writing, as part of AFSAR, A Home for Something Unknown, NBK, Berlin