Charmaine Poh: Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take
Deutsche Bank "Artist of the Year" 2025
Scenography(Installation design)
2025
PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank
Installation view: left: Charmaine Poh, Twin, 2025; right: Charmaine Poh, Dreamstate, Youth is Wasted on the Young (Self-portrait), 2017
© Charmaine Poh, Photo: Mathias Schormann
Exhibition: September 11, 2025 – February 23, 2026
Deutsche Bank has named Charmaine Poh its “Artist of the Year” for 2025. To mark the occasion, the PalaisPopulaire in Berlin is presenting the first institutional solo exhibition of the Singaporean-Chinese artist and filmmaker, born in 1990.
Poh, who lives in Berlin and Singapore, works with video, installation, and performance. Her multimedia narratives center on identity and power structures, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia. In her work, multiple perspectives and perceptions—past and future—overlap like a flowing stream of consciousness.
In Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take, she also investigates time travel, ecology, responsible conduct, and resistance. The landscapes in her films reflect the intertwined facets of Singapore: from the financial district, symbolizing global trade, to the mangrove forests on the city’s fringes, threatened by the metropolis’s ever-growing demand for water and land reclamation.
source:
https://palaispopulaire.db.com/exhibitions/current-exhibition/charmaine-poh#show-content-of-information-about-deutsche-bank-artist-of-the-year (1.Nov.2025)
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Curator Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture, Deutsche Bank