Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇

is an artist working across film, photography, media, text and performance to peel apart, re-examine, and hold ideas about how the body survives and repairs across technologies, migration, cosmologies, 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 was recently announced as a finalist of the 7th VH Award.

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.

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Sep 2026

Solo, Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, MUDEC Milan
Open studios, Things are still thirsty, Villa Romana, Florence
Editorial contribution, Terra, ISSUE art journal
Finalist, 7th VH Award
Exhibition, Spectral Kinship, a.i. gallery, London

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
Screening, The Coup, Singapore

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

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