Vulnerability. Intimacy. Confrontation.
These are not merely themes, but tensions and subtle currents that animate the work of Karlotta Susanna Pöschko.
Born in Fürth (Germany) in 2001, and currently studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Pöschko navigates the space between inner experience and outward perception. Her portraits do not seek to define the subject; they reveal presences that flicker between recognition and withdrawal. Each image is a membrane haunted by the feeling.
In her practice, the portrait is no longer a depiction but an encounter: contemplative yet electric, composed yet barely held together. She works with oil, charcoal, gauze, and steel; materials that do not illustrate memory, but carry its residue. A bruise. A tooth. A stitched wound. The body is never whole but evoked, threaded into absence. It appears in fragments and textures that resist the clean-cut of narrative.
These works speak through texture and silence. The viewer is implicated and drawn into a space where looking becomes exposure and presence becomes vulnerability.
This is not an exhibition that explains. It listens.
It invites you to dwell in what is fragile, unspoken, unresolved.
To inhabit the in-between
between skin and surface,
between seeing and being seen,
between what disappears and what insists on remaining.
Text by Elene Giorgadze.
