PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025. The exhibition will be on view from to February 23, 2026.
The exhibition showcases Poh’s multimedia practice, encompassing video, installation, and performance. Her work addresses themes of identity, power structures, feminism, and queerness in Southeast Asia, while weaving together personal and collective narratives.
According to Stephanie Rosenthal, director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, who nominated Poh for the award, “in her work, Charmaine Poh often explores intimate, self-chosen relationships that go beyond traditional family ties (…) She is also guided by concepts such as Édouard Glissant’s notion of opacity—the claim to remain opaque, ambiguous, and complex.”
Key works include The Moon is Wet (2025), created especially for the exhibition, which reflects different facets of Singapore, from the financial district as a global hub of trade to the endangered mangrove forests on the city’s outskirts. Other films revisit Poh’s traumatic childhood as a television star through the use of AI and deepfake technologies, as well as her explorations of queer love and alternative family structures.
Curated by Britta Färber, the exhibition offers an in-depth look at Poh’s practice and her critical engagement with contemporary social and cultural issues.
On the cover: Charmaine Poh, The Moon is Wet, 2025
Videostill © Charmaine Poh
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